1996

A Time to Kill 1996

In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately after Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, Pete and Billy Ray are found at a roadside bar, where they had been bragging about what they did to Tonya. Tonya's understandably distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, remembers a case from a year ago, when four white men raped an African-American girl in a nearby town, and got acquitted. Carl is determined to not let that happen in this case. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl emerges from the building's basement with an assault rifle, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house by African-American sheriff Ozzie Walls, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local African-American leaders to persuade Carl to choose some of their high-powered attorneys, Carl wants to be represented by his friend Jake Tyler Brigance, who has a wife named Carla and a daughter named Hannah. Presiding over the trial is white judge Omar Noose, and the prosecution attorney is Rufus Buckley, who would like nothing more than to win the case and swim in the publicity that a win would generate, because Rufus realizes that a murder conviction could help him gain higher office. Helping Jake on the case are his former law professor Lucien Wilbanks, fellow attorney Harry Rex Vonner, and law student Ellen Roark. Ellen has had experience with death penalty cases, and that's exactly what Rufus may be seeking. To start things off, Noose denies bail and denies Jake's petition for a change of venue. Carl has also been fired from his job. Billy Ray Cobb's brother Freddie Lee Cobb wants revenge on Carl, so Freddy gets the help of the Mississippi branch of the KKK, led by Mississippi grand dragon Stump Sisson. Carl's wife Gwen tells Carl that a doctor has said that because of Pete and Billy Ray, Tonya's reproductive organs are damaged enough to where she won't be able to have kids when she grows up. That night, a KKK member is found trying to plant a bomb under Jake's porch. Jake's secretary Ethel Twitty and her husband Bud are also attacked by the KKK. Still, Jake, Harry, Lucien, and Ellen continue to help Carl. On the day the trial begins, there is a riot outside the court building between the KKK and the area's African-American residents, and Stump Sisson is killed by a molotov cocktail that was dropped from a roof by one of Carl's sons, who was not seen dropping it. Freddy and the KKK start burning crosses throughout Canton, and one of the crosses burns Jake's house down while Jake and his family are not home. As a result, the National Guard is called to Canton to keep the peace during the trial. But Freddy is not about to let that stop him. While Freddy continues his efforts to get revenge on Carl for Billy Ray's death, Carl's attorneys put everything they've got into Carl's defense.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Matthew McConaughey,Sandra Bullock,Samuel L. Jackson,Kevin Spacey

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,495 Views
Police story First Strike 1996

Jackie, a cop, participates in a sting operation on an international spy-ring. But when one of them (Tsui) gets away, Jackie is ordered to apprehend him. This leads Jackie all over the globe starting with Tsui's sister in Australia. The story follows him as he tries to stay alive and capture the villain.

Category: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Stars: Jackie Chan,Jackson Liu,Annie Wu,Bill Tung,Yuri Petrov,Nonna Grishaeva,John Eaves,Terry Woo,Kristopher Kazmarek,Ailen Sit,Man-Ching Chan,Rocky Lai,Chan Wai To,Brett Arthur,Mark French

6.5 IMDB Rating 5,135 Views
Jude 1996

A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricked him into marriage and she is married to a man she does not love.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Christopher Eccleston,Kate Winslet,Liam Cunningham,Rachel Griffiths,June Whitfield,Ross Colvin Turnbull,James Daley,Berwick Kaler,Sean McKenzie,Richard Albrecht,Caitlin Bossley,Emma Turner,Lorraine Hilton,James Nesbitt,Mark Lambert

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,709 Views
Matilda 1996

A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kindly teacher from their sadistic headmistress.

Category: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Kids

Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson

6.9 IMDB Rating 10,533 Views
The Trigger Effect 1996

How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. Matthew's long-time friend, Joe, happens by on the second day and a rivalry between the two friends simmers as Annie cares for her sick baby. When rumors of looting spread through the neighborhood, the two men buy a shotgun for protection but Annie throws it in the pool. Later, that same night, Joe hears a prowler downstairs and awakens Matthew. They chase the stranger from the house and out into the street where a neighbor shoots him to death. No longer safe in their own home, they decide to drive to Annie's parents some 500 miles away. Before they reach their destination, more trouble comes their way when they stop to siphon gas from an abandoned car and discover the driver in the back seat... Is this what is meant by "man's inhumanity to man?"

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: Kyle MacLachlan,Elisabeth Shue,Dermot Mulroney,Richard T. Jones,Bill Smitrovich,Michael Rooker,Tori Kristiansen,Tyra Kristiansen,Rick Worthy,Edhem Barker,Tyrone Tann,David O'Donnell,Monica Torres,Greg Grunberg,Kerri Vickers

5.6 IMDB Rating 3,732 Views
The Portrait of a Lady 1996

Isabel Archer, an American heiress and free thinker travels to Europe to find herself. She tactfully rebuffs the advances of Caspar Goodwood, another American who has followed her to England. Her cousin, Ralph Touchett, wise but sickly becomes a soulmate of sorts for her. She makes an unfortunate alliance with the creepy Madame Merle who leads her to make an even more unfortunate alliance with Gilbert Osmond, a smooth but cold collector of Objets' de art who seduces her with an intense but unattainable sexuality. Isabel marries Osmond only to realize she's just another piece of art for his collection and that Madame Merle and Osmond are lovers who had hatched a diabolical scheme to take Isabel's fortune. Isabel's only comfort is the innocent daughter of Osmond, Pansy, but even that friendship is spoiled when Countess Gemini, Osmond's sister, reveals the child's true parentage. Isabel finally breaks free of Osmond and returns to Ralph's bedside, where, while breathing his last, they both realize how truly connected they are, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Nicole Kidman,John Malkovich,Barbara Hershey,Mary-Louise Parker,Martin Donovan,Shelley Winters,Richard E. Grant,Shelley Duvall,Christian Bale,Viggo Mortensen,Valentina Cervi,John Gielgud,Roger Ashton-Griffiths,Catherine Zago,Alessandra Vanzi

6.2 IMDB Rating 3,585 Views
The Craft 1996

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Stars: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell

6.4 IMDB Rating 7,906 Views
Romeo + Julia 1996

The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. There are obstacles on the way, like Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo's friend Mercutio, and many fights. But although it is set in modern times, it is still the same timeless story of the "star crossed lovers".

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio,Claire Danes,John Leguizamo,Harold Perrineau

6.8 IMDB Rating 13,233 Views
Forest Warrior 1996

John McKenna is a spiritual being who is able to transform into bear, wolf or eagle. He lives in the forests of Tanglewood and has dedicated his life to protect them. One day a gang of evil lumberjacks led by Travis Thorne arrive Tanglewood to chop the forest down. McKenna cannot let this happen, and together with his new friends - Lords of the Tanglewood, a band of children who love to play in the forest - he battles against Thorne and his evil gang.

Category: Action, Adventure, Comedy

Stars: Chuck Norris,Terry Kiser,Max Gail,Roscoe Lee Browne,Trenton Knight,Megan Paul,Josh Wolford,Jordan Brower,Michael Friedman,William Sanderson,Dennis Paladino,John Dennis Johnston,Elya Baskin,Loretta Swit,Michael Beck

5,164 Views
Bio-Dome 1996

Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment, but the two friends could care less about saving the Earth. One day, when a group of scientists begin a mission to live inside a "Bio-Dome" for a year without outside contact, Bud and Doyle mistakingly become part of the project themselves. The two must then learn how to protect the Earth and help the scientists complete their mission.

Category: Comedy

Stars: William Atherton,Denise Dowse,Dara Tomanovich,Kevin West,Kylie Minogue,Pauly Shore,Stephen Baldwin,Joey Lauren Adams,Teresa Hill,Patricia Hearst,Robbie Thibaut Jr.,Adam Weisman,Henry Gibson,Brian Hayes Currie,Courtney Mizel

4.3 IMDB Rating 3,908 Views
Monopol 1996

A middle-aged simple man, Egil, becomes the victim of a candid-camera in Hacke Häger's television show 'Långa näsan'. But to Häger's surprise, Egil refuses to give them his permission to broadcast it. Häger is under pressure to ma...

Category: Comedy

Stars: Knut Agnred, Kerstin Granlund, Peter Rangmar

5.9 IMDB Rating 4,138 Views
The Frighteners 1996

After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.

Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Stars: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,849 Views
Carlas Song 1996

1987, love in time of war. A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow. Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed; she's suicidal. George takes her to Nicaragua to find out what has happened to them and to help her face her past. Once home, Carla's nightmarish memories take over, and Carla and George are thrown into the thick of the US war against the Sandinistas. A mystery develops over where Carla's boyfriend is, and the key to his whereabouts may be Carla's friend Bradley, a bitter American aid worker. She finds her family, the Contras attack, and she and the Scot face their choices.

Category: Drama, Romantic, War

Stars: Robert Carlyle,Oyanka Cabezas,Scott Glenn,Salvador Espinoza,Louise Goodall,Richard Loza,Gary Lewis,Subash Singh Pall,Stewart Preston,Margaret McAdam,Pamela Turner,Greg Friel,Anne Marie Timoney,Andy Townsley,Alicia Devine

6.9 IMDB Rating 3,544 Views
Bulletproof 1996

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 up.

Category: Action, Comedy, Crime

Stars: Damon Wayans,Adam Sandler,James Caan,Jeep Swenson

5.8 IMDB Rating 6,295 Views
Stålmannen – Kryptons siste son 1996

Shunned by Krypton's leaders for his theories of planetary destruction, scientist Jor-El rockets his infant son Kal-El to safety on Earth. There Kal is raised as Clark Kent and develops unusual abilities, moves to a shining Metropolis and meets a fiesty female reporter with a knack for trouble.

Category: Action, Adventure, Animation, Kids

Stars: Tim Daly,Dana Delany,Clancy Brown,Malcolm McDowell,Christopher McDonald,Finola Hughes,Mike Farrell,Shelley Fabares,Tony Jay,Corey Burton,George Dzundza,David Kaufman,Lauren Tom,Jesse Batten,Brad Garrett

7.7 IMDB Rating 4,717 Views
Children of the Corn: The Gathering 1996

All the kids in a town over night become feverish and have convulsions. The next day they start to become evil, change their names for those of kids killed long ago, and then start killing ...

Category: Thriller

Stars: Naomi Watts, Jamie Renée Smith, Karen Black, Mark Salling

4.2 IMDB Rating 3,245 Views
Lilla Jönssonligan Och Cornflakeskuppen 1996

The young Jönssonligan's plan to steal "millions of filmisar" faces problem after problem before uncovering something much greater.

Category: Comedy, Family, Kids

Stars: Kalle Eriksson, Jonathan Flumee, Fredrik Glimskär

4.8 IMDB Rating 14,138 Views
The English Patient 1996

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Category: Drama, romance, Romantic, War

Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,735 Views
Breaking the Waves 1996

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,886 Views
One Fine Day 1996

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer,George Clooney,Mae Whitman,Alex D. Linz

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,037 Views