41. Metropolitan
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Whit Stillman
Actors: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Allison Parisi, Dylan Hundley
Plot: A group of four upper-class Manhattanites meet nearly every night to play bridge and discuss the current social climate and philosophy. When Tom, an outsider with a decidedly more simple upbringing, joins them, he brings a new, critical dynamic to the group.
42. Kid
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Mark Robinson
Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Sarah Trigger, Brian Austin Green, R. Lee Ermey, Dale Dye, Michael Bowen
43. Pump Up the Volume
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Allan Moyle
Actors: Christian Slater, Annie Ross, Andy Romano, Scott Paulin, Mimi Kennedy, Anthony Lucero
Plot: An anonymous teenager has an underground radio station for other teenagers encouraging them to be themselves until they cause havoc and chaos.
44. The Witches
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Actors: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Jane Horrocks, Rowan Atkinson, Anne Lambton
Plot: An orphaned boy and his grandmother travel to England where, at a hotel, they stumble across a coven of witches who have a plan to turn all children into mice.
45. Flatliners
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Kimberly Scott
Plot: A group of medical students try to solve the mystery of the afterlife by medically killing one another and bringing them back from the dead.
46. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds
Plot: A violent restaurant owner named Albert mistreats his wife. Georgina becomes close with a guest at a restaurant and is aided by their head chef. Romance, crime, revenge and power collide in brutal fashion.
47. Seventh Continent, The ( siebente Kontinent, Der )
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Dieter Berner, Birgit Doll, Leni Tanzer, Silvia Fenz, Udo Samel, Robert Dietl
Plot: An upper middle class Austrian family, realizing how unbearably monotonous its life has become, decides to take drastic measures to rectify the situation.
48. Quigley Down Under
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Simon Wincer
Actors: Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood, Ron Haddrick, Tony Bonner
Plot: A sharpshooter from Montana, Matt Quigley, is hired by an Australian. But,
when he arrives in Australia, there is something very wrong.
49. Hamlet
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Actors: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham Carter
Plot: Hamlet returns home to find his father dead and his mother now married to his uncle, Claudius. While they urge him to marry his beloved Ophelia, he is visited by his father's ghost who claims Claudius murdered him. Hamlet now has to decide what course his vengeance will take.
50. Arachnophobia
Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Frank Marshall
Actors: Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Julian Sands, Harley Jane Kozak, Stuart Pankin, Brain McNamara
Plot: A new, lethal South American spider is accidentaly shipped to California with a body and begins to breed.
