PRETTY WOMAN (1990)

119 min - Comedy | Romance

Director: Garry Marshall

Stars: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander

OVERVIEW

Edward is a rich, ruthless businessman. He travels to Los Angeles for a business trip and decides to hire a prostitute and offers her money if she'll stay with him for an entire week and join him in business parties but they starts liking each other.

THE SAINT (1997)
116 min - Action | Adventure | Romance

Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija

OVERVIEW

Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn't even his real name. He is also known as the Saint for his use of creating false identities using the names of Catholic saints,is one of the world's most successful thieves. On his next job Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from scientist Emma Russel, however the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. 

FIRST KNIGHT (1995)
134 min - Adventure | Drama | Romance

Director: Jerry Zucker
Stars: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond

OVERVIEW

Lady Guinevere, on her way to marry King Arthur is ambushed by the evil Sir Malagant. Fortunately Lancelot is lurking nearby and he rescues his future queen. They fall in love, but Guinevere still fancies the idea of wearing a crown, so she honours her promise to Arthur. Can Lady Guinevere remain faithful, or will this Pretty Woman become a lady of the knight?

FORREST GUMP (1994)

142 min - Drama | Romance

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

OVERVIEW

A man with a low I.Q. has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes him. "Forrest Gump" is the story of a man who rose above his challenges, and who proved that determination, courage, and love are more important than ability.

DANCES WITH THE WOLVES (1990)
181 min - Adventure | Drama | Romance

Director: Kevin Costner
Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene 

OVERVIEW

Having been sent to a remote outpost in the wilderness of the Dakota territory during the American civil war, Lieutenant John Dunbar finds it deserted. He soon finds out he is not alone, but meets a wolf and a curious Indian tribe. Dunbar quickly makes friends with the tribe, and discovers a white woman who was raised by the Indians. He gradually earns the respect of these native people, and sheds his white-man's ways.

THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)

162 min - Drama | Romance | War

Director: Anthony Minghella
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe

OVERVIEW

The moving story of a Hungarian mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life. Burned horribly in a fiery plane crash while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past.

BRAVEHEART (1995)

 177 min - Action | Biography | Drama

Director: Mel Gibson
Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan

OVERVIEW

William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998)

 169 min  -  Action | Drama | War


Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

OVERVIEW

James Ryan, who has parachuted into France during the Allied invasion of Europe, has just lost three brothers in combat. A team of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller and fresh from the beaches of Normandy, is assembled to find and save Private Ryan.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

118 min  -  Crime | Drama | Thriller

Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney

OVERVIEW

Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter, who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator, has the answers to their questions and can help locate the killer. However, Clarice must first gain Lecter's confidence before the inmate will give away any information.

LIAR LIAR (1997)

86 min - Comedy | Drama | Fantasy

Director: Tom Shadyac
Stars: Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Justin Cooper

OVERVIEW

Fletcher Reede, a fast talking attorney, habitual liar, and divorced father is an incredibly successful lawyer who has built his career by lying. He has a habit of giving precedence to his job and always breaking promises to be with his favorite young son Max, but Fletcher lets Max down once too often, for missing his own son's birthday party. But until then at 8:15 Max has decided to make an honest man out of him as he wishes for one whole day his dad couldn't tell a lie. When the wish comes true all Fletcher can do is tell the truth and cannot tell one lie.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994)

142 min - Crime | Drama
Director: Frank Darabont
Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

OVERVIEW 
Andy Dufresne, a banker, is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Andy slowly forges an friendship with Red, a seasoned lifer and his gang. The ugly realities of prison life are quickly introduced to Andy: a corrupt warden (Bob Gunton), sadistic guards led by Capt. Byron Captain Hadley (prison guard) who offers him protection against the jail's rougher convicts in exchange for financial counseling. The prison warden also takes advantage of Andy's banking knowledge by exchanging privileges for creative bookkeeping. Over a twenty year period, Andy is able to maintain his sanity and dignity in prison not by physical force but by mental force.

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)

138 min - Crime | Drama | Mystery
Director: Curtis Hanson
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce

OVERVIEW

Set against the glamorous backdrop of 1950's crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early '50s, Los Angeles, Sid Hudgeons is the reporter for the tabloid "Hush-Hush". Jack Vincennes is a celebrity cop who serves as the technical advisor for a TV show called . He becomes involved in a murder investigation which will link him to a web of corruption and scandal involving fellow detectives Ed Exley and Bud White.

Heat (1995)

170 min - Action | Crime | Drama

Director: Michael Mann

Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

OVERVIEW

Neil McCauley is a professional criminal who has spent many years behind bars and is determined never to go back. Vincent Hanna is a lieutenant of detectives in LAPD's Robbery Division. When McCauley and his team rob an armored van of bearer bonds, Hanna takes over the case. McCauley and his crew are nearly impossible to identify, but Hanna's network of informants generate clues. Soon, Hanna and his detectives and McCauley and his crime partners are driven towards a collision from which only some will survive.

GOODFELLAS (1990)

146 min - Biography | Crime | Drama

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Stars:

 Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

OVERVIEW
True tale of FBI informant Henry Hill and mobster. Henry Hill and and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

CASINO (1990)

178 min - Biography | Crime | Drama
Director:  Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci

OVERVIEW

Sam "Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely by placing a bet., has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ginger McKenna, the chip-hustling vamp who charms Ace and becomes his wife. The third member of this triangle of greed and obsession is Nicky Santoro, Ace's best friend and fellow graduate of the city streets. Together, they run the perfect operation, with Ace in charge and Nicky providing the muscle. But as Nicky expands his interests and each man gains power, their lives become entangled in a story of hot tempers, obstinacy, money, love and deception.