Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

Metropolitan

1990

English

7.3

♡ 12

93%

manhattan, new york city

Whit Stillman Director

Carolyn Farina as Audrey Rouget

Taylor Nichols as Charlie Black

Isabel Gillies as Cynthia McLean

Chris Eigeman as Nick Smith

A radical student is adopted by a group of young New Yorkers, serves as a catalyst to alter his and their lives. Gathering in a Manhattan apartment, the group of friends meet to discuss social mobility, Fourier's socialism and play bridge in their cocoon of upper-class society - until they are joined by a man with a critical view of their way of life.

Mermaids

1990

English

6.7

♡ 35

71%

kennedy assassination

new year's eve

roman catholic church

Romance

swimming

Richard Benjamin Director

Winona Ryder as Charlotte Flax

Christina Ricci as Kate Flax Cher

Cher as Mrs. Flax

John Kennedy Jr. as Self

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.

Taking Care of Business

1990

English

6.4

♡ 19

33%

Arthur Hiller Director

Anne De Salvo as Debbie

Brian J. Williams as Gang Member

Ken Foree as J.B.

Jimmy Ortega as Thief

An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.

Korczak

1990

Polish

7.4

♡ 11

85%

Biography

Drama

War

Andrzej Wajda Director

Aleksander Bardini as Adam Czerniaków

Ewa Telega as Byla wychowanka Korczaka

Agnieszka Krukówna as Ewka

Robert Atzorn as German Doctor

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Presumed Innocent

1990

English

6.9

♡ 39

86%

67%

Action

based on novel or book

Alan J. Pakula Director

John Spencer as Detective Dan Lipranzer

Christine Estabrook as Lydia 'Mac' MacDougall

Harrison Ford as Rusty Sabich

Raul Julia as Sandy Stern

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

The Reflecting Skin

1990

English

6.7

♡ 13

81%

Philip Ridley Director

Viggo Mortensen as Cameron Dove

Lindsay Duncan as Dolphin Blue

Sheila Moore as Ruth Dove

Jacqueline Robbins as Twin

In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

Funny About Love

1990

English

4.8

♡ 9

Leonard Nimoy Director

Susan Ruttan as Claire

Al Cerullo as Helicopter Pilot

Stephen Tobolowsky as Hugo

Regis Philbin as Regis Philbin

As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.

Havana

1990

English

6.1

♡ 18

28%

Sydney Pollack Director

Raul Julia as Arturo Duran

Lena Olin as Bobby Duran

Carmine Caridi as Captain Potts

Robert Redford as Jack Weil

During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wife of a Communist revolutionary.

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

1990

English

5.4

♡ 12

Dirk Campbell Director

Michael Elphick as Cleaver

Scott Adkins as Jim

David Haydn-Jones as Plainclothes

David Daker as Sergeant

When a motorbike gang kills an occultist, the evil spirit he was summoning inhabits a damaged bike. The bike is then bought and restored, but reveals its true nature when it tries to exact vengance on the gang, and anyone else who gets in its way.

The Garden

1990

English

6.3

♡ 10

100%

Derek Jarman Director

Vernon Dobtcheff as

Dawn Archibald as

Tilda Swinton as Madonna

Jack Birkett as Pontius

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.

IT

1990

English

6.8

♡ 97

67%

Tommy Lee Wallace Director

Tim Curry as Pennywise 2 episodes, 1990

Harry Anderson as Richie Tozier 2 episodes, 1990

Seth Green as Richie Tozier - Age 12 2 episodes, 1990

Helena Yea as Rose 1 episode, 1990

In 1960, a group of social outcasts who are bullied by a gang of greasers led by Henry Bowers are also tormented by an evil demon who can shape-shift into a clown and feed on children's fears and kill them. After defeating the demonic clown as kids, it resurfaces thirty years later and they must finish it off as adults once again.—Blake

Sibling Rivalry

1990

English

5.4

♡ 12

25%

Carl Reiner Director

Sam Elliott as Charles Turner Jr.

John Randolph as Charles Turner Sr.

Ron Orbach as Don, the Desk Clerk

Bill Pullman as Nicholas Meany

Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour has a fatal heart attack, and turns out to be less of a stranger than she could have thought...

Opportunity Knocks

1990

English

6.0

♡ 8

11%

Donald Petrie Director

John Cothran as Building Commissioner

Jed Mills as Club MC

Lorna Raver as Eddie's Secretary

Milo O'Shea as Max

Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990

English

5.6

♡ 25

15%

Brian De Palma Director

Kirsten Dunst as Campbell McCoy

Morgan Freeman as Judge Leonard White

Bruce Willis as Peter Fallow

Tom Hanks as Sherman McCoy

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

Night Killer

1990

English

4.3

♡ 11

Bruno Mattei Director

Peter Hooten as Axel

Tara Buckman as Melanie Beck

Claudio Fragasso as Reporter with baseball cap

Bruno Mattei as Reporter with yellow scarf

Melanie Beck is the only surviving victim of a killer-rapist who wears a Freddy Krueger-esque mask and claw. Despite having seen the killer's face, Beck has blocked it from her memory. Becoming suicidal, she tries to kill herself on the beach but is saved by Axel, another rapist sleazeball who keeps her locked in his hotel room. All this builds to a mind blowing conclusion.

Graffiti Bridge

1990

English

4.7

♡ 8

18%

Prince Director

Kimberly Arland as Glam Slam Dancer

Mavis Staples as Melody Cool Prince

Prince as The Kid

Jesse Johnson as The Time

It's got that Purple Rain feeling through and though. And it's got The Kid, too! For the first time since Purple Rain, Prince is back as The Kid. And where he goes , there's music! With Thieves in the Temple, New Power Generation, Elephants and Flowers and more red-hot Prince tunes from the Platinum-selling Graffiti Bridge soundtrack. What time is it? Party time! Morris Day and the Time play Release It, Shake! and more. And you'll also see and hear George Clinton, Tevin Campbell, Robin Power, Mavis Staples and other hot performers, too. Graffiti Bridge is where the movie meets the music. Cross over on it now.

Solar Crisis

1990

English

4.1

♡ 7

17%

Action

artificial intelligence

artificial intelligence (a.i.)

Richard C. Sarafian Director

Roy Jenson as Bartender

Jerry Hauck as Cpl. Flynn

Corin Nemec as Mike Kelso

Tim Matheson as Steve Kelso

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.

The King of the Kickboxers

1990

English

5.9

♡ 18

58%

Lucas Lowe Director

Don Stroud as Anderson

William Long Jr. as Big Boss

Mark King as Policeman

Vincent Lyn as Warehouse Fighter #2

Jake, a New York policeman poses as an actor to expose the making of martial-arts death movies in Thailand.

Vice Academy Part 2

1990

English

4.2

♡ 10

6%

Rick Sloane Director

Toni Alessandrini as Aphrodite

Teagan Clive as BimboCop

Linnea Quigley as Didi

Melissa Moore as Glaze

When a criminal female named Spanish Fly threatens to contaminate the city water with aphrodisiacs, it is up to a duo of attractive female police officers to stop her.

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IT

Sibling Rivalry

Opportunity Knocks

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Night Killer

Graffiti Bridge

Solar Crisis

The King of the Kickboxers

Vice Academy Part 2