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1990s Directorial Debut Movies

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The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

R
| 2h 22min | Drama, Crime
4.4/5 (with 12,480 votes)

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Directed by Frank Darabont - With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, James Whitmore, Clancy Brown, ...
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Toy Story(1995)

G
| 1h 21min | Animation, Adventure, Kids & Family, Comedy
4.0/5 (with 8,657 votes)

Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.

Directed by John Lasseter
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The Lion King(1994)

G
| 1h 29min | Kids & Family, Animation, Drama
4.1/5 (with 8,259 votes)

A young lion prince is cast out of his pride by his cruel uncle, who claims he killed his father. While the uncle rules with an iron paw, the prince grows up beyond the Savannah, living by a philosophy: No worries for the rest of your days. But when his past comes to haunt him, the young prince must decide his fate: Will he remain an outcast or face his demons and become what he needs to be?

Directed by Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers
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Mulan(1998)

G
| 1h 28min | Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure
4.0/5 (with 4,340 votes)

To save her father from certain death in the army, a young woman secretly enlists in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.

Directed by Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
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Friday(1995)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 735 votes)

Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

Directed by F. Gary Gray - With Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Bernie Mac, Tommy Lister Jr., John Witherspoon, F. Gary Gray, ...
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Con Air(1997)

R
| 1h 56min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.4/5 (with 1,790 votes)

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.

Directed by Simon West - With Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, Colm Meaney, ...
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas(1997)

G
| 1h 12min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 442 votes)

Astonished to find the Beast has a deep-seeded hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter.

Directed by Andy Knight
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Beauty and the Beast(1991)

G
| 1h 24min | Romance / Love, Kids & Family, Animation, Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 4,504 votes)

Follow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted staff, Belle soon learns the most important lesson of all -- that true beauty comes from within.

Directed by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
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The Parent Trap(1998)

PG
| 2h 7min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 1,836 votes)

Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. Unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other to switch places.

Directed by Nancy Meyers - With Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter, Simon Kunz, ...
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Perfect Blue(1998)

R
| 1h 21min | Animation, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 1,110 votes)

Pop singer Mima Kirigow looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima’s life begins to fall apart.

Directed by Satoshi Kon
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Bad Boys(1995)

R
| 1h 59min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 2,775 votes)

Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.

Directed by Michael Bay - With Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Téa Leoni, Tchéky Karyo, Joe Pantoliano, Theresa Randle, ...
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Dumb and Dumber(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 2,761 votes)

Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.

Directed by Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly - With Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Victoria Rowell, Teri Garr, ...
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A Bronx Tale(1993)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 915 votes)

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

Directed by Robert De Niro - With Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Taral Hicks, Francis Capra, Kathrine Narducci, ...
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The Prince of Egypt(1998)

PG
| 1h 39min | Adventure, Animation, Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 1,742 votes)

This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses, one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them at odds, as one becomes the ruler of the most powerful empire on earth, and the other the chosen leader of his people! Their final confrontation will forever change their lives and the world.

Directed by Simon Wells, Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner - With Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, ...
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Demolition Man(1993)

R
| 1h 55min | Crime, Action, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 1,622 votes)

Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been cryogenically frozen after being wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.

Directed by Marco Brambilla - With Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne, Benjamin Bratt, Bob Gunton, ...
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Reservoir Dogs(1992)

R
| 1h 39min | Crime, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 6,401 votes)

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, ...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas(1993)

PG
| 1h 16min | Fantasy, Animation, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 4,351 votes)

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.

Directed by Henry Selick
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood(1996)

R
| 1h 29min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 537 votes)

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

Directed by Paris Barclay - With Vivica A. Fox, Lahmard Tate, Helen Martin, Chris Spencer, Suli McCullough, Tracey Cherelle Jones, ...
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American History X(1998)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 5,140 votes)

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

Directed by Tony Kaye - With Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould, Avery Brooks, Beverly D'Angelo, Edward Norton, ...
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Speed(1994)

R
| 1h 56min | Action, Adventure, Crime
3.6/5 (with 2,662 votes)

Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne, who's after major ransom money. First it's a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it's a rigged bus--if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that's still not the end.

Directed by Jan de Bont - With Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck, ...
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Bound(1996)

R
| 1h 45min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 393 votes)

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski - With Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano, Christopher Meloni, Richard C. Sarafian, Kevin Michael Richardson, ...
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The Addams Family(1991)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 1,990 votes)

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld - With Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci, Judith Malina, Dan Hedaya, ...
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Alien³(1992)

R
| 1h 54min | Science Fiction, Action, Horror
3.2/5 (with 2,482 votes)

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.

Directed by David Fincher - With Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann, ...
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Lionheart(1990)

R
| 1h 45min | Action
3.3/5 (with 453 votes)

Lyon Gaultier is a deserter in the Foreign Legion arriving in the USA entirely hard up. He finds his brother between life and death and his sister-in-law without the money needed to heal her husband and to maintain her child. To earn the money needed, Gaultier decides to take part in some very dangerous clandestine fights.

Directed by Sheldon Lettich - With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ashley Johnson, Michel Qissi, Brian Thompson, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, ...
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Zandalee(1991)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
2.1/5 (with 35 votes)

Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative and egotistical Johhny and becomes enmeshed in a sensual, passionate and destructive affair.

Directed by Sam Pillsbury - With Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson, Marisa Tomei, Joe Pantoliano, Viveca Lindfors, ...
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Tremors(1990)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Horror, Comedy, Action, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 1,388 votes)

Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.

Directed by Ron Underwood - With Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Reba McEntire, Michael Gross, Victor Wong, ...
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Pocahontas(1995)

G
| 1h 25min | Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 2,585 votes)

Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.

Directed by Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
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Child's Play 3(1991)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 678 votes)

Eight years have passed since the events of the second film. Chucky has been resurrected once again and seeks revenge on Andy, his former owner, who is now a teenager enrolled in military school.

Directed by Jack Bender - With Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Brad Dourif, Andrew Robinson, Peter Haskell, Dakin Matthews, ...
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Gattaca(1997)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 2,768 votes)

In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.

Directed by Andrew Niccol - With Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, Alan Arkin, Gore Vidal, Ernest Borgnine, ...
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge(1995)

3h 10min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
4.3/5 (with 2,028 votes)

Raj is a rich, carefree, happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh, who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be married to her childhood fiancé. Raj leaves for India with a mission at his hands, to claim his lady love under the noses of her whole family. Thus begins a saga.

Directed by Aditya Chopra - With Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Anupam Kher, Satish Shah, ...
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