Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

Crash and Burn

1990

English

5.0

♡ 13

24%

Horror

robot

Sci-Fi

Charles Band Director

Megan Ward as Arren

John Davis Chandler as Bud

Michael Shamus Wiles as Cop

Eva LaRue as Parice

Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to insure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability". When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm".

Peter in Magicland

1990

German

7.3

♡ 2

Wolfgang Urchs Director

Pascal Breuer as Eismax

Michael Habeck as Milchstraßenmann

Friedrich W. Bauschulte as Sandmann

Liza Ross as The Night Fairy

After Sumsemann the beetle loses one of his arms to a troll, he invites brother and sister Peterchen and Annaliese to join him on a journey to the moon in a quest to retrieve his lost arm.

Nightbreed

1990

English

6.5

♡ 40

56%

Clive Barker Director

John Agar as Decker's Victim

Hugh Quarshie as Detective Joyce

Hugh Ross as Narcisse

Harry Fielder as Redneck

A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.

Lionheart

1990

English

6.2

♡ 77

39%

Sheldon Lettich Director

Richard Norton as Attila Video Opponent

Don Pike as BMW Passenger #1

Jean-Claude Van Damme as Lyon

Ashley Johnson as Nicole Gaultier

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.

Pretty Woman

1990

English

7.1

♡ 181

65%

Garry Marshall Director

Alex Hyde-White as David Morse

Richard Gere as Edward Lewis

Julia Roberts as Vivian Ward

Valorie Armstrong as Woman in Lobby

While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a prostitute, Vivian, while asking for directions; after, Edward hires Vivian to stay with him for the weekend to accompany him to a few social events, and the two get closer only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds.

Love Hurts

1990

English

5.4

♡ 2

17%

Comedy

Drama

Bud Yorkin Director

Sam Stoneburner as Bob

Peter Van Norden as Frank

Dean Denton as Groomsman

Cynthia Sikes as Nancy Weaver

The story of Paul Weaver and his strained relationships with women and his family.

Desperate Hours

1990

English

5.4

♡ 17

29%

22%

Action

based on novel or book

Michael Cimino Director

Dean Norris as Maddox

Mickey Rourke as Michael Bosworth

John Christopher Jones as Neff

Anthony Hopkins as Tim Cornell

An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

Die Hard 2

1990

English

7.2

♡ 193

69%

70%

Action

airport

based on novel or book

Renny Harlin Director

John Leguizamo as Burke

Bruce Willis as Lt. John McClane

Robert Patrick as O'Reilly

Robert Costanzo as Sgt. Vito Lorenzo

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

La Femme Nikita

1990

French

7.2

♡ 54

89%

Luc Besson Director

Tchéky Karyo as Bob

Jean-Hugues Anglade as Marco

Stéphane Fey as Président tribunal

Jean Reno as Victor nettoyeur

A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.

Meridian

1990

English

5.0

♡ 11

Charles Band Director

Sherilyn Fenn as Catherine

Phil Fondacaro as Dwarf

Hilary Mason as Martha

Vernon Dobtcheff as Priest

After her father’s death, Catherine returns to her family’s gothic castle in Italy and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle.

Judgment

1990

English

6.5

♡ 6

33%

childhood sexual abuse

roman catholic church

Tom Topor Director

Jack Warden as Claude Fortier

Dylan Baker as Father Delambre

Bob Gunton as Monsignor Beauvais

Keith Carradine as Pete Guitry

Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.

Look Who's Talking Too

1990

English

4.7

♡ 20

13%

Amy Heckerling Director

Rick Avery as Burglar

John Travolta as James

Bruce Willis as Mikey

Olympia Dukakis as Rosie

Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings arises, and as well with Mollie and James when Mollie's brother Stuart moves in. Mikey is also learning how to use the toilet for the first time.

Goodfellas

1990

English

8.7

♡ 449

93%

97%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Martin Scorsese Director

Elaine Kagan as Henry's Mother

Robert De Niro as James Conway

Samuel L. Jackson as Stacks Edwards

Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

1990

English

6.8

♡ 86

46%

Steve Barron Director

Sam Rockwell as Head Thug

Kevin Clash as Splinter

James Saito as The Shredder

Skeet Ulrich as Thug

A quartet of humanoid turtles, trained by their mentor in ninjitsu, must learn to work together to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Rocky V

1990

English

5.4

♡ 117

32%

philadelphia, pennsylvania

Sport

sports

transporter

John G. Avildsen Director

G. Larry Butler as Boxing Match Attendee

Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago

Michael Pataki as Nicoli Koloff

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.

King of New York

1990

English

6.9

♡ 57

74%

Abel Ferrara Director

Christopher Walken as Frank White

Laurence Fishburne as Jimmy Jump

Victor Argo as Roy Bishop

Steve Buscemi as Test Tube

A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.

Flatliners

1990

English

6.6

♡ 87

50%

near-death experience

Sci-Fi

Thriller

Joel Schumacher Director

Kevin Bacon as David Labraccio

William Baldwin as Dr. Joe Hurley

Julia Roberts as Dr. Rachel Mannus

Kiefer Sutherland as Nelson

Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life.

Awakenings

1990

English

7.8

♡ 82

81%

89%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

Penny Marshall Director

John Christopher Jones as Dr. Sullivan

Vin Diesel as Hospital Orderly

Robert De Niro as Leonard Lowe

Peter Stormare as Neurochemist

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.