Movies by Release Date: 1991

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Backdraft (1991)

R 137 min - Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller - 24 May 1991
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They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.

Director:  Ron Howard
Writers:  Gregory Widen

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They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey are battling each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.


Collections: Ron Howard

Tagline: Silently behind a door, it waits.

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  English
Release Date:  24 May 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $75,000,000
Revenue:  $152,368,585

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Universal Pictures, Trilogy Entertainment Group, Imagine Films Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:  2 h 17 min
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Cape Fear (1991)

R 128 min - Crime, Thriller - 15 November 1991
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Director:  Martin Scorsese

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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.


Collections: Martin Scorsese

Tagline: There is nothing in the dark that isn't there in the light. Except fear.

Genres: Crime, Thriller

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  English
Release Date:  15 November 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $35,000,000
Revenue:  $182,300,000

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Cappa Productions, Tribeca Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:  2 h 08 min
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Child's Play 3 (1991)

R 90 min - Horror - 30 August 1991
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It's been eight years since the events in the second film, we now see that Andy is a teenager who has been enrolled in a military school. Play Pals Toy Company decides to re-release its Good Guys line, feeling that after all this time, the bad publicity has died down. As they re-used old materials, the spirit of Charles Lee Ray once again comes to life.

Director:  Jack Bender

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It's been eight years since the events in the second film, we now see that Andy is a teenager who has been enrolled in a military school. Play Pals Toy Company decides to re-release its Good Guys line, feeling that after all this time, the bad publicity has died down. As they re-used old materials, the spirit of Charles Lee Ray once again comes to life.


Collections: Jack Bender, Child's play

Tagline: Chucky has a new playmate.

Genres: Horror

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Country:   United Kingdom,   United States of America
Language:  Czech, English
Release Date:  30 August 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $13,000,000
Revenue:  $20,560,255

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 30 min
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Hudson Hawk (1991)

R 100 min - Action, Adventure, Comedy - 23 May 1991
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Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.

Director:  Michael Lehmann

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Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.


Collections: Michael Lehmann

Tagline: Danger is his middle name.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  English, Italian
Release Date:  23 May 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $65,000,000
Revenue:  $17,218,080

Company Credits

Production Companies:  TriStar Pictures, Silver Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 40 min
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Point Break (1991)

R 120 min - Action, Thriller, Crime - 31 January 1991
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In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.

Director:  Kathryn Bigelow

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In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information.


Collections: Kathryn Bigelow

Tagline: 100% Pure Adrenaline!

Genres: Action, Thriller, Crime

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  English
Release Date:  31 January 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $24,000,000
Revenue:  $83,531,958

Company Credits

Production Companies:  20th Century Fox, Largo Entertainment, JVC

Technical Specs

Runtime:  2 h 00 min
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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

PG-13 143 min - Action, Adventure, Drama - 14 June 1991
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Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.

Director:  Kevin Reynolds

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Nobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers his dead father in the ruins of his family estate, killed by the vicious sheriff of Nottingham, Robin and Azeem join forces with outlaws Little John and Will Scarlett to save the kingdom from the sheriff's villainy.


Collections: Kevin Reynolds

Tagline: For the good of all men, and the love of one woman, he fought to uphold justice by breaking the law.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  Arabic, English
Release Date:  14 June 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $48,000,000
Revenue:  $390,493,908

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Morgan Creek Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:  2 h 23 min
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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

R 99 min - Drama, Crime, Thriller - 13 January 1991
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A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Director:  Joseph Ruben

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A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.


Collections: Joseph Ruben

Tagline: She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she's ever met. Her husband.

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  English
Release Date:  13 January 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $19,000,000
Revenue:  $175,000,000

Company Credits

Production Companies:  20th Century Fox, Leonard Goldberg Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 39 min
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

R 137 min - Action, Thriller, Science Fiction - 1 July 1991
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Director:  James Cameron
Writers:  William Wisher Jr., James Cameron

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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.


Collections: James Cameron

Tagline: It's nothing personal.

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Country:   France,   United States of America
Language:  English, Spanish
Release Date:  1 July 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $100,000,000
Revenue:  $520,000,000

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Canal Plus, Lightstorm Entertainment, Pacific Western, Carolco Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:  2 h 17 min
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The Commitments (1991)

R 118 min - Comedy, Drama, Music - 14 August 1991
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Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.

Director:  Alan Parker

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Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.


Collections: Alan Parker

Tagline: They had nothing to lose, they risked it all.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

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Country:   Ireland,   United Kingdom,   United States of America
Language:  English, , Gaeilge
Release Date:  14 August 1991

Box Office

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Beacon Communications, Beacon Pictures, First Film Company, Dirty Hands Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 58 min
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)

PG-13 85 min - Comedy, Crime - 28 June 1991
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Bumbling cop Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.

Director:  David Zucker
Writers:  Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Pat Proft

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Bumbling cop Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.


Collections: David Zucker

Tagline: If you see only one movie this year...you ought to get out more often

Genres: Comedy, Crime

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  English
Release Date:  28 June 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $23,000,000
Revenue:  $86,930,411

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Paramount

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 25 min
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

R 118 min - Crime, Drama, Thriller - 14 February 1991
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FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. Unfortunately, her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to his escape, and now two deranged killers are on the loose.

Director:  Jonathan Demme

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FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. Unfortunately, her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to his escape, and now two deranged killers are on the loose.


Collections: Jonathan Demme

Tagline: To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Country:   United States of America
Language:  English
Release Date:  14 February 1991

Box Office

Budget:  $19,000,000
Revenue:  $272,742,922

Company Credits

Production Companies:  Orion Pictures, Strong Heart/Demme Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:  1 h 58 min