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Project: ALF

Genres: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi

Starring: Dell Yount, Erick Avari, Scott Michael Campbell, Miguel Ferrer, Gregory Alan Williams, Markus Redmond, Beverly Archer

Directors: Dick Lowry

Country: Germany, USA

Year: 1996

Six years ago, the space alien, ALF, was on his way back to his new home...When the Alien Task Force finally caught him. Now, the story continues to where the series ended. ALF is now protected by the Alien Task Force, but the leader wants to terminate ALF. So two officers decide to save ALF by taking ALF away from him. But the man the officers took ALF to wants to finally reveal ALF to the world. Which leads him to more danger...

 

Flirting with Disaster

Genres: Comedy

Starring: Richard Jenkins, Josh Brolin, Alan Alda, Ben Stiller, Glenn Fitzgerald, Celia Weston, George Segal

Directors: David O. Russell

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

Mel Coplin departs on a mission of discovery dragging his wife and 4 month old son behind. He and wife, Nancy, won't agree on a name for their son until adopted Mel gets in touch with his roots. He assures her that once he knows who he really is, the right name for their boy will be a snap. Enlisting the aid of student-psychologist and part-time adoption agent, Tina Kalb, they embark on a journey across the United States to find Mel's "birth" mother. "The best part," Mel tells Nancy, "is it's all free." Tina is finishing her dissertation and will film the happy reunion of mother and child as part of her research. For this privilege, she's foo...

 

Harriet the Spy

Genres: Comedy, Family, Drama

Starring: Robert Joy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Gregory Smith, Charlotte Sullivan, Dov Tiefenbach, Vanessa Lee Chester

Directors: Bronwen Hughes

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy buisness?

 

The Portrait of a Lady

Genres: Romance, Drama

Starring: Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Viggo Mortensen, John Malkovich, John Gielgud, Valentina Cervi, Barbara Hershey

Directors: Jane Campion

Country: USA, UK

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

Isabel Archer, an American heiress and free thinker travels to Europe to find herself. She tactfully rebuffs the advances of Caspar Goodwood, another American who has followed her to England. Her cousin, Ralph Touchett, wise but sickly becomes a soulmate of sorts for her. She makes an unfortunate alliance with the creepy Madame Merle who leads her to make an even more unfortunate alliance with Gilbert Osmond, a smooth but cold collector of Objets' de art who seduces her with an intense but unattainable sexuality. Isabel marries Osmond only to realize she's just another piece of art for his collection and that Madame Merle and Osmond are lover...

 

The Preacher's Wife

Genres: Comedy, Family, Romance

Starring: Denzel Washington, Paul Bates, Gregory Hines, Courtney B. Vance, Loretta Devine, Jenifer Lewis, Whitney Houston

Directors: Penny Marshall

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Rev. Biggs prays to God for help - and help arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley. However, Dudley's arrival seems to cause even more trouble...

 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Genres: Family, Musical, Romance

Starring: Mary Kay Bergman, Tom Hulce, Jim Cummings, Kevin Kline, David Ogden Stiers, Demi Moore, Corey Burton

Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. But Frollo was forced by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own. Now a young man, Quasimodo is hidden from the world by Frollo in the belltower of the cathedral. But during the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo, cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lively gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves r...

 

Space Jam

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Family

Starring: Theresa Randle, Bill Murray, Wayne Knight, Brandon Hammond, Michael Jordan, Thom Barry, Manner Washington

Directors: Joe Pytka

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Swackhammer, owner of the amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate get new attractions and he decides that the Looney Tune characters would be perfect. He sends his diminutive underlings to get them to him, whether Bugs Bunny & Co. want to go or not. Well armed for their size, Bugs Bunny is forced to trick them into agreeing to a competition to determine their freedom. Taking advantage of their puny and stubby legged foes, the gang selects basketball for the surest chance of winning. However, the Nerdlucks turn the tables and steal the talents of leading professional basketball stars to become massive basketball bruisers known as the...

 

Shine

Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography

Starring: Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Nicholas Bell, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz

Directors: Scott Hicks

Country: Australia

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod

Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing ...

 

Jerry Maguire

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Jerry O'Connell, Todd Louiso, Tom Cruise, Regina King, Kelly Preston, Jonathan Lipnicki, Bonnie Hunt

Directors: Cameron Crowe

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything The could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player. Can Jerry resurrect his career while still staying true to himself?

 

Fear

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, Andrew Airlie, Jed Rees, Alyssa Milano, William Petersen, Amy Brenneman

Directors: James Foley

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

On the surface, the Walkers were a picture perfect family. Steve had a great job as an architect and a beautiful house in Seattle overlooking a lake. His new wife, Laura, loved him very much. Toby, her young son, looked up to him like his own father. And Nicole, his 16-year old daughter, meant the world to him. As Steve would be the first to admit, it was almost the perfect life. Until one day when Nicole went to a party at a local rave club with her best friend Margo and met a young man named David.

 

Hard Men

Genres: Other

Starring: Ken Campbell, Mirella D'Angelo, Vic Tablian, Michael Riley, Finola Geraghty, Vincent Regan, George Tardios

Directors: J.K. Amalou

Country: UK, France

Year: 1996

Hard Men is a British gangster movie. A forerunner to Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, it was originally shown 28 October 1996 at the London Film Festival. It was released in cinemas in 1997.

 

Mars Attacks!

Genres: Action, Comedy, Thriller

Starring: Glenn Close, Pierce Brosnan, Annette Bening, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox

Directors: Tim Burton

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

When the USA satellites photograph many flying saucers coming to Earth, the American President James Dale has a meeting with his advisers. He is convinced by Professor Donald Kessler that Martians would be a developed culture and therefore peaceful by nature, in spite of the warnings of General Decker. The authorities, some civilians and the press prepare a welcome committee for the aliens, but they realize that Mars is actually attacking Earth.

 

Cosmic Voyage

Genres: Documentary, Short

Starring: Morgan Freeman

Directors: Bayley Silleck

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: Hi Def

IMAX Film Projects the Big Picture of our Vast Universe as Never Seen Before

 

The Drew Carey Show - Season Two

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Diedrich Bader, Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles

Directors: Bruce Helford, Drew Carey

Country: USA

Year: 1996

The show was created by Carey, who had both stand-up comedy and writing experience, and Bruce Helford, who was once a writer for Roseanne. It was the first television show to have an episode simulcast on the Internet.

 

Snowriders

Genres: Documentary

Starring: Paul Miller, Warren Miller, Travis Ramos

Directors: Kurt Miller, Peter Speek

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Gravity... It's the Same All Over the World!

 

Baywatch Nights - Season Two

Genres: Action, Drama

Starring: David Hasselhoff, Angie Harmon, Eddie Cibrian

Directors: Michael Berk, Gregory J. Bonann, Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff

Country: USA

Year: 1996

The original premise of the show was that, during a midlife crisis, Sgt. Garner Ellerbee (Gregory Alan Williams), who was the resident police officer of Baywatch since the beginning of the series, decides to quit his job as a police officer and form a detective agency. Mitch Buchannon (David Hasselhoff), his friend from Baywatch, joins to support him and they are, in turn, joined by a detective named Ryan McBride (Angie Harmon). Singer Lou Rawls, who starred in the first season, performed the series theme song, "After the Sun Goes Down". Mid-way into the first season, the show added two new cast members (Eddie Cibrian and Donna D'Errico).

 

Mad About You - Season Five

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Starring: Helen Hunt, Paul Reiser, Maui

Directors: Danny Jacobson, Paul Reiser

Country: USA

Year: 1996

In 1997, Atlantic Records released a Mad About You soundtrack. The soundtrack from and inspired by the sitcom, is composed of fun and sentimental songs and clips from the show. The tracks are organized chronologically marking the milestones of the couple's relationship. The album is bookended by the two versions of Paul Reiser's song "Final Frontier"—the first track is the classic version used in the show's opening, and the last track is Anita Baker's jazzy, full-length rendition, with Reiser on keyboard.

 

Happy Gilmore

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sport

Starring: Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, Christopher McDonald, Kevin Nealon, Dennis Dugan, Frances Bay, Carl Weathers

Directors: Dennis Dugan

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Happy Gilmore is a failed hockey player with no direction in life. His grandmother is evicted from her house for her failure to pay back taxes, and his girlfriend has left him. He makes it on to the pro golf tour with the hope of making some money to save his grandmother's house, but is challenged by the favorites on the tour (Shooter McGavin). HD 1080p PC, Mac, PS3 and XBOX 360 COMPATIBLE

 

Fargo

Genres: Thriller, Crime

Starring: Peter Stormare, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy, Harve Presnell, Frances McDormand, Steve Reevis, Kurt Schweickhardt

Directors: Joel Coen

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Jerry hires two men to kidnap his wife so he can get his rich father in law to pay the ransom of $1 million. Once the ransom is paid the kidnappers will get $40,000 and Jerry gets the rest. That's the plan, but what happens is something totally different. Blood is shed when a cop and two innocent people are killed. Marge Gunderson is the Chief who investigates the murders. While Marge investigates, Jerry gets involved in deeper problems, ranging from financial troubles, to threats from the kidnappers.

 

Freeway

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Starring: Dan Hedaya, Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Paul Perri, Bokeem Woodbine, Wolfgang Bodison, Ben Meyerson

Directors: Matthew Bright

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Little Red Riding Hood for the 1990's: After her mom and step-dad are arrested, 15-year-old Vanessa Lutz decides that instead of once again being put into a foster home, she'd rather go and search for the grandmother she's never met, and live with her. "On the way to grandma's house," (actually a trailer park) Vanessa's car breaks down, and she's picked up from the side of the road by Bob Wolverton, a counselor at a school for troubled boys. Bob slowly earns Vanessa's trust, and eventually convinces her to talk about her sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. When Vanessa realizes that Bob is enjoying what she's saying, she realizes tha...