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Jurassic park
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Starring: Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Laura Dern, Bob Peck
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times ...
What's Love Got to Do with It
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander, Angela Bassett, Virginia Capers, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Dororthy Thorton, Demetrice Cheathon
Directors: Brian Gibson
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: Hi Def
Anna Mae always had a special voice. Soon after arriving in St. Louis to live with the mother who had walked out when she was small, the now teenage Anna soon attracts the attention of pop group leader Ike Turner. She becomes the band's singer, his wife, and mother to his children - not all hers. In love with Ike and determined not to leave in the way her mother had, she finds herself the target of increasing violence from her unstable husband who can't see who is making the band such a success.
Ticks
Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi
Starring: Seth Green, Rosalind Allen, Ami Dolenz
Directors: Tony Randel
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A group of troubled teenagers are led by social workers on a California wilderness retreat, not knowing that the woods they are camping in have become infested by mutated, blood-sucking ticks.
The Joy Luck Club
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Victor Wong, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Lauren Tom, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita, Tsai Chin
Directors: Wayne Wang
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
Schindler's List
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Norbert Weisser, Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz, Jonathan Sagall
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The true story of Oscar Schindler, a German businessman who owns a factory. He witnesses the horrifying visions of the Holocaust and the toll it takes on the Jewish people. Eventually, he creates a list of over 1100 Jews whom he saves from death.
Ninja Scroll
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Starring: Toshihiko Seki, Kôichi Yamadera, Daisuke Gôri, Takeshi Aono, Emi Shinohara, Shûichirô Moriyama
Directors: Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kevin Seymour
Country: Japan
Year: 1993
A Journeyman ninja by name of Jubei stumbles upon a plague, an evil clan of demons, a national crisis, and a beautiful ninja girl.
Matinee
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Drama
Starring: John Goodman, Robert Picardo, Dick Miller, Jesse White, David Clennon, Lisa Jakub, Lucinda Jenney
Directors: Joe Dante
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.
Crime Story
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Starring: Jackie Chan, Kent Cheng, Christine Ng
Directors: Kirk Wong
Country: China
Year: 1993
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
Jackie Chan stars in this hard-hitting story ripped from today's headlines! Chan plays a special agent assigned to protect a wealthy business magnate. But when the businessman is kidnapped in a daring ambush, Chan teams up with a seasoned detective to crack the case...even though he suspects the detective is the crime's true mastermind! Based on an amazing real-life story. Chan's never been tougher, as he goes all out in his attempt to rescue the hostage and finally expose the crooked cop!
Lethal Lolita
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Jon Dough, J.B., Alex Jordan, Nicole London, Tony Martino, Melanie Moore, Sierra
Directors: Frank Marino
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Lolita Fisher literally screws Senator Randy West to death "outside of his politically assigned district," and the scandalous affair becomes a media sensation. The matter is brought before "The Citizen's Court," with Judge Alex Jordan and a jury of TV viewers given the task of finding Sierra innocent or guilty as sin.
Picket Fences - Season Two
Genres: Drama
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Lauren Holly, Kathy Baker
Directors: David E. Kelley
Country: USA
Year: 1993
The series follows the lives of the residents of the small town of Rome, Wisconsin, where weird things happen, including cows giving birth to human babies and a spate of people turning up dead in freezers. Struggling to maintain order in the community is Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt). Sheriff Brock is married to the town doctor, Jill (Kathy Baker), his second wife. They attempt to raise their three children, Kimberly (Holly Marie Combs) (from Jimmy's first marriage), Matthew (Justin Shenkarow) and Zachary (Adam Wylie). Lauren Holly and Costas Mandylor played impulsive and immature sheriff's deputies Max and Kenny. Bombastic lawyer Dougla...
Mad About You - Season Two
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Helen Hunt, Paul Reiser, Maui
Directors: Danny Jacobson, Paul Reiser
Country: USA
Year: 1993
The series focused mainly on the newlyweds while they dealt with everything from humorous daily minutiae to major struggles. The show's willingness to find comedy in realistic situations and observational dialogue garnered it comparisons to Seinfeld, another NBC comedy about thirty-somethings in New York City.
Indecent Proposal
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Robert Redford, Billy Connolly, Billy Bob Thornton, Seymour Cassel, Oliver Platt, Kevin West
Directors: Adrian Lyne
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A young couple very much in love are married and have started their respective careers, she as a real estate broker, he as an architect. She finds the perfect spot to build his dream house, and they get loans to finance it. When the recession hits, they stand to lose everything they own, so they go to Vegas to have one shot at winning the money they need. After losing at the tables, they are approached by a millionaire who offers them a million dollars for a night with the wife. Though the couple agrees that this is a way out of their financial dilemma, it threatens to destroy their relationship.
The Wonder Years - Season Six
Genres: Comedy, Family, Drama
Starring: Daniel Stern, Fred Savage, Dan Lauria
Directors: Carol Black, Neal Marlens
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Just before the summer break, Winnie and her family move to a house four miles away. Although Winnie attends a new school, Lincoln Junior High, she and Kevin decide to remain together and maintain a successful long distance relationship. A beautiful new student named Madeline Adams joins Kevin's school and quickly catches Kevin's eye, but it is Winnie who breaks up with Kevin after meeting Roger, a typical jock-type at her new school. Neither relationship lasts long, but Winnie and Kevin don't reunite until she is injured in a car accident. After graduating from Junior High, Kevin and Winnie both go to McKinley High and Paul attends a prep sc...
Mrs. Doubtfire
Genres: Comedy, Family, Drama
Starring: Martin Mull, Robin Williams, Pierce Brosnan, Sally Field, Sydney Walker, Lisa Jakub, Harvey Fierstein
Directors: Chris Columbus
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Out of work father Daniel Hilliard find himself suddenly divorced without custody of his kids. To solve this problem, he disguises himself as an old Scottish nanny to get hired by his ex-wife and be closer to his kids.
True Romance
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Dennis Hopper, Christian Slater, Gary Oldman, Frank Adonis, Christopher Walken, Saul Rubinek
Directors: Tony Scott
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
This Quentin Tarantino scripted film uses the theme of 'boy meets girl.' Here, though, boy meets girl, boy kills girl's pimp, couple takes pimp's coke, and bad boys chase couple. And Elvis is their Guardian Angel....
In Living Color - Season Four
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Jim Carrey, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Kelly Coffield Park
Directors: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Country: USA
Year: 1993
In the first two seasons, the opening sequence was set in a room covered with painters' tarps, and each cast member played with paint in a different way (throwing globs of it at the camera by hand, using a roller to cover the lens, etc.). The sequence ended with a segue to a set built to resemble the rooftop of an apartment building, where the Fly Girls would dance and open a door to let Keenen Ivory Wayans greet the audience.
Home Improvement - Season Three
Genres: Comedy, Family
Starring: Tim Allen, Earl Hindman, Patricia Richardson
Directors: Matt Williams, David McFadzean, Carmen Finestra
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1991, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade. It went to #1 in the ratings during the 19931994 season; that year, Allen also had the #1 book (Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man) and movie (The Santa Clause). Midway throughout the show's run, it was competing against another highly rated sitcom, Frasier, which slightly dropped the ratings. It did, however, remain a Top 10 show (with the exception of Season 7 which was at #11, making it a top 20 show that year). The final episode aired on May 25, 1999 with a 90-m...
Coneheads
Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Starring: Adam Sandler, Eddie Griffin, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, David Spade
Directors: Steve Barron
Country: USA
Year: 1993
An alien couple known as Beldar and Prymatt with cone-shaped heads from the planet called Remulak is mistakingly ditched on earth, during a scouting mission for planet conquest. While here, they dodge the INS, have a child and discover that life on Earth is quite good. But unfortunately they are being chased by the government who knows something is not quite right with the Conehead family. After they are rescued and taken back to their planet, Belder is told to come back and destroy planet Earth!
Cronos
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Horror
Starring: Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi, Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel, Tamara Shanath, Farnesio de Bernal, Juan Carlos Colombo
Directors: Guillermo del Toro
Country: Mexico
Year: 1993
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
In 1535, an alchemist builds an extraordinary mechanism encapsulated into a small golden device. The invention, designed to convey eternal life to its owner, survives its maker until 1997 when it shows up to an antiquarian. Fascinated with the strange device, Gris (Luppi) doesn't note that there's more than one person looking for it. The promise of eternal life has become an obsession to old and sick Mr. De la Guardia (Brook). He and his nephew (Perlman) will do anything to get the "Chronos Invention".
The Little Mermaid - Season Two
Genres: Family
Starring: Samuel E. Wright, Jodi Benson, Edan Gross
Directors: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Edan Gross
Country: USA
Year: 1993
The Little Mermaid premiered in the fall of 1992 with the animated prime time special called "A Whale of a Tale," then moved to Saturday mornings. This series originally appeared on CBS, with an original run from 1992 to 1994. It was later shown in reruns on The Disney Channel until June 2010. Some of the episodes contain musical segments, featuring original songs written for the series. The opening theme to the show is a combination of the songs "Part of Your World", "Under the Sea", and "Kiss the Girl". The overture for the stage musical of The Little Mermaid is similar to this.