Movies In 1996
Director: Mira Nair
Stars: Naveen Andrews, Sarita Choudhury, Indira Varma
Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes habits and hobbies are the same. Years later the two have matured but have maintained their friendship. Tara gets married to the local prince Raj Singh who soon succeeds the throne as the sole heir. After the marriage Raj gets bored of Tara and starts seeking another female to satisfy his sexual needs. He notices Maya and is...
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda
Stars: Kei Marimura, Makiko Watanabe, Ren Ohsugi
A beautiful policewoman is entangled in a dangerous trap at the scene of an S&M crime. Caught between the sadist and his beguilling victim she doesnt know where to turn when the game turns deadly. Now all our heroine has left are her wits her gun and her passion for justice. Shell need them all to escape this seductive den of...
Director: Mitsunori Hattori
Stars: Ryôka Yuzuki, Shizuko Azuma, Keiji Hamaguchi
After unleashing its fury against the Seika College campers the Injuu a sex starved tentacle demon was seemingly defeated. But having witnessing the devastating aftermath of the Injuus appetites Father Tadokoro isnt so convinced this vicious demon is really dead. Determined not to let another innocent young woman become a victim of the demons beastly desires he sets off to Showa Central...
Director: Jan de Bont
Stars: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Sean Whalen, Scott Thomson
Storyline: TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife Jo to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several...
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Stars: Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Bernard Hill, Brian McCardie, Emily Mortimer, Henry Cele, Kurt Egelhof
Storyline: Set in 1898 this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 35 people over a nine month period while a bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter tried to kill...
Director: Henry Selick
Stars: Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes, Pete Postlethwaite, Susan Sarandon, Paul Terry
Storyline: James happy life at the English seaside is rudely ended when his parents are killed by a rhinoceros and he goes to live with his two horrid aunts. Daringly saving the life of a spider he comes into possession of magic boiled crocodile tongues after which an enormous peach starts to grow in the garden. Venturing inside he meets not only the spider but a number of new friends including...
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Stars: Damon Wayans, Adam Sandler, James Caan, Jeep Swenson, James Farentino, Kristen Wilson, Larry McCoy, Allen Covert, Bill Nunn, Mark Roberts, Mark Casella, Andrew Shaifer, Monica Potter, Jonathan Loughran, Steve White
Storyline: An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop his real name is Jack Carter and he is working undercover with the LAPD to bust Moses and Colton at a sting operation the LAPD has set...
Director: Norberto Barba
Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Barry Corbin, William Sadler, Jaime Gomez, Demián Bichir, Seidy Lopez, Abraham Verduzco, JoaquÃn Garrido, William Wallace, Adrien Brody, Brent Schaeffer, Lucas Dudley, Christopher Michael, Rafael Velasco, Abel Woolrich
Storyline: Mario Van Peebles stars as an android killing weapon designed by the military and utilized to enter into a Latin American war to destroy the rebels - natives fighting simply to maintain their freedom. Contrary to his programming he develops an affinity for the villagers and decides to help them fight back. This lets his creators bring him back and ultimately leads to one of them being...
Director: Kevin Yagher, Alan Smithee
Stars: Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, Doug Bradley, Charlotte Chatton, Adam Scott, Kim Myers, Mickey Cottrell, Louis Turenne, Courtland Mead, Louis Mustillo, Jody St. Michael, Paul Perri, Pat Skipper, Christine Harnos, Wren T. Brown
Storyline: Its the year 2127. Pinhead the evil cenobite of the series has found himself on board a space station in outer space run by scientist Dr.Merchant. Dr. Merchants mission is to close the gates to hell forever. Because his ancestor a toymaker in the 18th century built the evil puzzlebox that opens the gates to hell. And through the generations the family of the bloodline has tried...
Director: Gilbert Adler
Stars: John Kassir, Dennis Miller, Erika Eleniak, Angie Everhart, Chris Sarandon, Corey Feldman, Aubrey Morris, Phil Fondacaro, William Sadler, Kiara Hunter, Leslie Ann Phillips, Juliet Reagh, Eli Gabay, Matt Hill, Eric Keenleyside
Storyline: The old bag of bones Cryptkeeper returns for his second full length feature flick about a funeral home thats a front for a whorehouse run by...
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, Jake Busey, Chi McBride, Jim Fyfe, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Angela Bloomfield, Desmond Kelly
Storyline: After a car accident in which his wife Debra was killed and he was injured Frank Bannister develops psychic abilities allowing him to see hear and communicate with ghosts. After losing his wife he then gave up his job as an architect letting his unfinished dream house sit incomplete for years and put these skills to use by befriending a few ghosts and getting them to haunt...
Director: Andrew Fleming
Stars: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich, Christine Taylor, Breckin Meyer, Nathaniel Marston, Cliff De Young, Assumpta Serna, Helen Shaver, Jeanine Jackson, Brenda Strong, Elizabeth Guber, Jennifer Greenhut
Storyline: A new girl moves to a new city with her family to start a new life. She meets up with the girls who are very interested in the occult and together the four of them have a seemingly unstopable power. They can do anything from getting thier dream guys to like them to... the possibilities are...
Director: John Frankenheimer
Stars: Marlon Brando, Val Kilmer, David Thewlis, Fairuza Balk, Daniel Rigney, Temuera Morrison, Nelson de la Rosa, Peter Elliott, Mark Dacascos, Ron Perlman, Marco Hofschneider
Storyline: This remake of the 1977 film stars Marlon Brando Val Kilmer and Dragonhearts David Thewlis. Set in the year 2010 Dr. Moreau Brando has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. Well as usual something goes wrong and David Thewlis must try to stop it before it is too late. Originally rated R but cut by Frankenheimer to allow a wider...
Director: Tom Holland
Stars: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Lucinda Jenney, Michael Constantine, Kari Wuhrer, Bethany Joy Lenz, Time Winters, Howard Erskine, Terrence Garmey, Randy Jurgensen, Jeff Ware, Antonette Schwartzberg
Storyline: A fat Lawyer finds himself growing Thinner when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death and grows ever...
Director: Wes Craven
Stars: Drew Barrymore, Roger Jackson, Kevin Patrick Walls, David Booth, Carla Hatley, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Lawrence Hecht, Courteney Cox, W. Earl Brown, Rose McGowan, Matthew Lillard
Storyline: One year after the death of Sidney Prescotts Campbell mother two students turn up gutted. When a serial killer appears Sidney begins to suspect whether her mothers death and the two new deaths are related. No one is safe as the killer begins to pick everyone off one by one. Everyones a suspect in this...
Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr, Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jerry O'Connell, Jay Mohr, Bonnie Hunt, Regina King, Jonathan Lipnicki, Todd Louiso, Mark Pellington, Jeremy Suarez, Jared Jussim, Benjamin Kimball Smith, Ingrid Beer
Storyline: Jerry Maguire Tom Cruise is a successful sports agent. The biggest clients the respect a beautiful fiancée he has it all. Until one night he questions his purpose. His place in the world and finally comes to terms with whats wrong with his career and life. Recording all his thoughts in a mission statement Jerry feels he has a new lease on life. Unfortunately his opinions...
Director: Tom Shadyac
Stars: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett Smith, James Coburn, Larry Miller, Dave Chappelle, John Ales, Patricia Wilson, Jamal Mixon, Nichole McAuley, Hamilton von Watts, Chao Li Chi, Tony Carlin, Quinn Duffy, Montell Jordan, Doug Williams
Storyline: Sherman Klump is an incredibly fat and good-hearted man. He is a college professor on the verge of a breakthrough in DNA restructuring when he meets an admirer of his named Carla who is a teacher new to Klumps college. He is enamored of her but is frustrated by his tremendous bulk. He then decides to test a formula on which hes been working on himself. He is then transformed into...
Director: Joe Pytka
Stars: Michael Jordan, Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle, Manner Washington, Eric Gordon, Penny Bae Bridges, Brandon Hammond, Larry Bird, Bill Murray, Thom Barry, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing
Storyline: Swackhammer owner of the amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate get new attractions and he decides that the Looney Tune characters would be perfect. He sends his diminutive underlings to get them to him whether Bugs Bunny & Co. want to go or not. Well armed for their size Bugs Bunny is forced to trick them into agreeing to a competition to determine their freedom....
Director: Tom Hanks
Stars: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron, Obba Babatundé, Giovanni Ribisi, Chris Ellis, Alex Rocco, Bill Cobbs, Peter Scolari
Storyline: Recounts a fable of a pop rock band formed a year after the Beatles took America by storm in early 1964. Jazz aficionado Guy Patterson unhappily toiling in the family appliance store is recruited into the band the Oneders later renamed the Wonders after regular drummer Chad breaks his arm. After Guy injects a four/four rock beat into lead singer Jimmys ballad the songs...
Director: Renny Harlin
Stars: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko, Tom Amandes, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, David Morse, Joseph McKenna, Melina Kanakaredes, Dan Warry-Smith, Kristen Bone, Jennifer Pisana, Rex Linn, Alan North
Storyline: Samantha Caine suburban homemaker is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale PA has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists...
Director: David Twohy
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Shane, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Phyllis Applegate, Alan Coates, Leon Rippy, Buddy Joe Hooker, Javier Morga, Tony T. Johnson, Catalina Botello, Georg Lillitsch, David Villalpando
Storyline: Zane Charlie Sheen a young mild-mannered astronomer discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal. After being fired from his organization for reporting this to his superior he takes a chance on discovering the truth: that his workplace is not quite what it seems to be and a sinister conspiracy is at work. The aliens are keeping a deadly secret and will stop at nothing to prevent...
Director: Mark Herman
Stars: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson, Peter Martin, Sue Johnston, Mary Healey, Melanie Hill, Lill Roughley, Peter Gunn, Stephen Moore, Kenneth Colley, Olga Grahame
Storyline: In existence for a hundred years Grimley Colliery Brass band is as old as the mine. But the miners are now deciding whether to fight to keep the pit open and the future for town and band looks bleak. Although the arrival of flugelhorn player Gloria injects some life into the players and bandleader Danny continues to exhort them to continue in the national competition frictions and...
Director: Jim Mallon
Stars: Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, John Brady
Storyline: The mad and evil scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first things first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to watch called This Island Earth. He is convinced that this movie will drive them insane. And since the guys cannot control when the...
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Jim Brown, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Pam Grier, Lisa Marie
Storyline: It is a normal day for everyone until the President of the USA announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged but not everything goes to plan and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do they really want to destroy all of humanity?...
Director: Scott Hicks
Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz, Gordon Poole, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Nicholas Bell, Danielle Cox, Rebecca Gooden, Marta Kaczmarek, John Cousins, Noah Taylor, Paul Linkson, Randall Berger
Storyline: Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott this delightful movie charts the traumatic early years through adulthood. Telling the story in flashback we see David as a child prodigy and as he grows up while his patriarchal father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally...
Director: Julian Grant
Stars: Shannon Tweed, Joe Tabb, Sten Eirik, Katie Griffin, Lara Daans, Dyanne DiMarco, Ed Sahely, Rob Wilson, Daniel Levinson, Louise Martin, Ronn Sarosiak, Todd Schroeder
Storyline: Billionaire named Roach desperately seeks for the secret serum which could turn an ordinary human into a superbeing. The serum is hidden in the body of young Billy Duncan. The serum can be transmitted via sexual intercourse and that turns to be the basis of Roachs evil...
Director: Jan Sverák
Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Andrei Chalimon, Libuse Safránková, Ondrej Vetchý, Stella Zázvorková, Ladislav Smoljak, Irina Bezrukova, Silvia Suvadova, Liliyan Malkina, René Pribil,
Storyline: Franta Louka is a concert cellist in Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia a confirmed bachelor and a ladys man. Having lost his place in the state orchestra he must make ends meet by playing at funerals and painting tombstones. But he has run up a large debt and when his friend the grave-digger Mr. Broz suggests a scheme for making a lot of money by marrying a Russian woman so that she...
Director: Brian Henson
Stars: Tim Curry, Kevin Bishop, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Kevin Clash, Bill Barretta, John Henson, Danny Blackner, Peter Geeves, Harry Jones, David Nicholls
Storyline: The muppets are back into action in another movie based on a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kermit the Frog and his colleagues go on a warfare against ruthless pirates. They also share their problem-solving journey on sea to rescue a...
Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Valeria Golino, Stacy Keach, Pam Grier, Bruce Campbell, Georges Corraface, Michelle Forbes, Ina Romeo, Peter Jason
Storyline: The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time its L.A. which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. But something has gone wrong in this new moral order because the Presidents daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to...
Director: Ringo Lam
Stars: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Zach Grenier, Paul Ben-Victor, Frank Senger, Stefanos Miltsakakis, Frank Van Keeken, David Hemblen
Storyline: A policeman takes his twin brothers place and inherits his problems and a beautiful girlfriend. He is forced to kickbox his way from France to the U.S. and back while playing footsie with the FBI and Russian mafia. Not just muscles with a badge the policeman must find the answers to some tough questions none harder than what the heck is an accordian player doing in a...