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1. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
R | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Votes: 1,546,497 | Gross: $130.74M
2. Philadelphia (1993)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama
When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Roberta Maxwell, Buzz Kilman
Votes: 257,841 | Gross: $77.32M
3. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
R | 100 min | Drama
A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 59,393 | Gross: $24.74M
4. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
-Resplendent with authentic 1980s music, fashion, and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami, Florida.
Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Olivia Brown
Votes: 30,130
5. Internal Affairs (1990)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption.
Director: Mike Figgis | Stars: Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf
Votes: 22,610 | Gross: $27.73M
6. Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret WWII project, and the first atomic bombs designed, built, and tested in Los Alamos.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack
Votes: 9,116 | Gross: $3.56M
7. King of the Hill (1993)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, History
A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen
Votes: 8,817 | Gross: $1.30M
8. The Equalizer (1985–1989)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A retired Intelligence Agent turned private detective helps various threatened clients to equalize the odds.
Stars: Edward Woodward, Keith Szarabajka, Robert Lansing, Mark Margolis
Votes: 5,915
9. Johnny Suede (1991)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A struggling young musician and devoted fan of Ricky Nelson wants to be just like his idol and become a rock star.
Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Brad Pitt, Richard Boes, Cheryl Costa, Michael Luciano
Votes: 4,442 | Gross: $0.09M
10. Twister (1989)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
Delusional and spoiled Maureen and her eccentric brother Howdy decide to track down and meet their estranged mother, all while the drama of dysfunctional relationships, disastrous weather conditions and a dark family secret ensue.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Suzy Amis, Crispin Glover, Dylan McDermott
Votes: 2,268
11. American Experience (1987– )
TV-PG | 120 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A series showcasing documentaries on American history.
Stars: David McCullough, David Ogden Stiers, Michael Murphy, Oliver Platt
Votes: 2,197
12. Born in Flames (1983)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups - minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists - are dealt with by the government.
Director: Lizzie Borden | Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy
Votes: 2,050
13. Swoon (1992)
Unrated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.
Director: Tom Kalin | Stars: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby
Votes: 1,919 | Gross: $0.34M
14.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Smuggler's Blues
(1985)
TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Someone in law enforcement is murdering drug dealers and their families in cold blood. To find the culprit, Crockett and Tubbs go undercover and travel to Colombia with a laid-back pilot to pose as dealers.
Director: Paul Michael Glaser | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 771
15. Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules (1991 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Drama
Three short stories about women and men relationship. The first about a successful boxer in New York City, whose wife only wants to return to her home town in Kansas. The second about a man... See full summary »
Directors: Walter Bernstein, Mike Figgis, Kristi Zea | Stars: Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick, Jerry Stiller, Kevin Rooney
Votes: 337
16. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary, History
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Director: Mark Rappaport | Stars: Dan Butler, Don Ameche, Johnny Arthur, Lucille Ball
Votes: 322
17. Fresh Kill (1994)
Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Young lesbian parents Shareen and Claire are raising their 5-year-old daughter Honey in a converted garage on Staten Island. Shareen salvages refuse with her pickup truck while Claire waits... See full summary »
Director: Shu Lea Cheang | Stars: Sarita Choudhury, Pedro Pietri, Ching Gonzalez, Kate Valk
Votes: 215
18. The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
111 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Director: Peter Sellars | Stars: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter
Votes: 194
19. The Debt (1993)
Unrated | 12 min | Short, Drama
A yuppie pair slides into crisis due to catastrophes which are reported to them via telephone. A salesman appears at their door ...
Director: Bruno de Almeida | Stars: Scott Renderer, Kristen Johnston, Paul Lazar, Stephen Auditore
Votes: 185
20. Sudden Death (1977)
R | 89 min | Action, Drama
When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired C.I.A. operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an ... See full summary »
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Felton Perry, John Ashley
Votes: 182
21. Plymouth (1991 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 101 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
The residents of a town displaced by an industrial accident agree to take over a failing mining base on the Moon as their new place to live and work. Their first big test comes in the form of a wave of radiation from a massive solar flare.
Director: Lee David Zlotoff | Stars: Cindy Pickett, Richard Hamilton, Perrey Reeves, Matt Brown
Votes: 148
22. Empire City (1992 TV Movie)
79 min | Drama, Thriller
Michael Paré and Mary Mara star in this thriller about two police detectives who fall into a passionate relationship as they investigate a murder among the wealthy and privileged.
Director: Mark Rosner | Stars: Michael Paré, Mary Mara, Beau Starr, Peter Frechette
Votes: 135
23. Arena Brains (1987)
35 min | Short, Drama
Short, weird film about a group of New Yorkers.
Director: Robert Longo | Stars: Ray Liotta, Richard Price, Eric Bogosian, Jessica Cardindale
Votes: 121
24. Screenplay (1986–1993)
Drama
An anthology drama series.
Stars: John Kavanagh, Tony Doyle, Michael Liebmann, Benjamin Whitrow
Votes: 94
25. Strong Medicine (1981)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.
Director: Richard Foreman | Stars: Kate Manheim, David Warrilow, Ron Vawter, Bill Raymond
Votes: 87
26. Mastergate (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Comedy
Based on a satirical play about the U.S. Senate Watergate hearings in 1973-74.
Director: Michael Engler | Stars: Tim Reid, Marcia Strassman, Buck Henry, Richard Kiley
Votes: 78
27. Empty Suitcases (1980)
49 min | Drama
An experimental film about the experience and representation of women, using different narrative methods.
Director: Bette Gordon | Stars: Rosemary Hochschild, Ron Vawter, Vivienne Dick, Nan Goldin
Votes: 63
28.
The Equalizer (1985–1989)
Episode:
Inner View
(1987)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A psychic predicts a serial killer's murders with fragmented clues.
Director: Marc Laub | Stars: Edward Woodward, Keith Szarabajka, Richard Jordan, Katherine Cortez
Votes: 63
29. Used Innocence (1989)
95 min | Documentary
Using experimental narrative structure as his vehicle, Benning recreates the sensationalized and controversial circumstances surrounding Lorencia Bembenek, aka "Bambi", former "Playboy ... See full summary »
Director: James Benning | Stars: Kevin Henderson, Michael Weber, James Benning, Dick Blau
Votes: 44
30. Postcards (1990)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short
A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the mail. Misunderstandings arise; passion ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Rappaport | Star: Ron Vawter
Votes: 42
31. Roy Cohn/Jack Smith (1994)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
From one of the seminal theatrical events of the 1990s, on Ron Vawter's stunning performance piece ROY COHN / JACK SMITH, Jill Godmilow has crafted a dramatically deft, comic and terrifying... See full summary »
Director: Jill Godmilow | Stars: Ron Vawter, Coco McPherson
Votes: 37
32. King Blank (1983)
71 min | Drama
Set in a motel room at NYC's Kennedy Airport, the film treats two days in the life of a deadbeat couple, an obsessive husband lost in a web of psychotic delusion and his immigrant wife.
Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: Rosemary Hochschild, Ron Vawter, Will Patton, Francine Berman
Votes: 21
33. Volcano Saga (1989 Video)
28 min | Short
This short film shot in Iceland and New York, which is based on a thirteenth-century Icelandic Laxdeala Saga, features Tilda Swinton as a young woman whose dreams foretell the future.
Director: Joan Jonas | Stars: Joan Jonas, Ruth Maleczech, Tilda Swinton, Ron Vawter
Votes: 20
34.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Insanity on Trial
(1990)
TV-PG | Documentary, Biography, History
The assassination of President James Garfield in 1880 by Charles Guiteau, who believed his actions were ordained by God, resulted in a trial where the plea "innocent by reason of insanity" was used for the first time.
Director: Rocky Collins | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Ron Vawter, Bart Whiteman, Robert Fields
Votes: 17
35. Made in Hollywood (1990 TV Movie)
A parable of the Hollywood image-making industry told through a pastiche of narrative cliches.
Director: Norman Yonemoto | Stars: Patricia Arquette, Michael Lerner, Ron Vawter, Mary Woronov
Votes: 9
36. Minus Zero (1979)
50 min | Thriller
Director: Michael Oblowitz | Stars: Allan Tannenbaum, Rosemary Hochschild, Eric Mitchell, Will Patton
Votes: 8
37. Atalanta Strategy (1984)
Short, Music
Director: Robert Ashley | Stars: Robert Ashley, Jacqueline Humbert, Jeffrey Jones, Anna Köhler
38. The Communists Are Comfortable (1985)
Documentary
Director: Ken Kobland | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Spalding Gray, Lushe Sacker, Peyton Smith
39.
Screenplay (1986–1993)
Episode:
Buying a Landslide
(1992)
Drama
Republican senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne, ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Curtis | Stars: Mason Adams, Lisa Arrindell, Christine Baranski, Griffin Dunne