Best movies of 1996

Titles indexed: 145

Scream

Rating: 7.4

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies...

Independence Day

Rating: 6.9

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events u...

Doctor Who

Rating: 6.2

The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master....

Matilda

Rating: 7.2

Matilda Wormwood is an exquisite and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, don’t agree. As time passes, she...

Fargo

Rating: 7.8

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap...

Alien Avengers

Rating: 6.8

Charlie and Rhonda are a sweet and comfortable married couple on vacation with their lovely daughter Daphne. They find a rundown boarding ho...

Cedie

Rating: 8.0

An Earl disowns his son James for marrying Annie, a middle-class woman. The couple leaves England to start a life in New York with their son...

Femalien

Rating: 4.9

In the pursuit of perfection, an alien civilization has evolved to become beings of pure light energy, unbound by the limitations of the mor...

Big Bully

Rating: 4.6

A writer returns to his hometown where he faces the childhood nemesis whose life he ultimately ruined, only the bully wants to relive their ...

Castle Freak

Rating: 6.1

John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature....

The Dentist

Rating: 5.5

Dr. Alan Feinstone has everything: a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry. However, when he discovers his wife's affair, he r...

Trainspotting

Rating: 8.0

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. H...

Thesis

Rating: 7.5

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she...

Twister

Rating: 6.5

An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a gr...

Striptease

Rating: 5.6

Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must con...

Fear

Rating: 6.5

Nicole Walker always dreamed of being swept away by someone special — someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than an...

The Rock

Rating: 7.1

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapo...

Romeo + Juliet

Rating: 6.8

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing f...

Shall We Dance?

Rating: 7.4

A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near he...

Boyfriends

Rating: 4.6

Paul, Matt, and Will (in their 30s) have been friends for years. They converge at the seaside for the weekend, each with a boyfriend in tow....

Happy Gilmore

Rating: 6.7

Failed hockey player-turned-golf whiz Happy Gilmore — whose unconventional approach and antics on the green courts the ire of rival Shooter ...

DragonHeart

Rating: 6.5

In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with th...

Primal Fear

Rating: 7.7

Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an alt...

Emma

Rating: 6.6

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and wome...

Uncle Sam

Rating: 4.8

It's Fourth of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic....

Spy Hard

Rating: 5.4

The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor n...

A Time to Kill

Rating: 7.4

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK....

Mars Attacks!

Rating: 6.4

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as ...

Extreme Measures

Rating: 6.0

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his eme...

Jack

Rating: 6.3

Born with a rare condition that makes him age four times faster than normal, ten-year-old Jack Powell looks like a forty-year-old man. After...

Thinner

Rating: 5.9

An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in org...

Jerry Maguire

Rating: 7.0

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his cl...

101 Dalmatians

Rating: 5.9

An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant...

Moll Flanders

Rating: 6.1

The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive...

Fled

Rating: 5.6

During a routine prison work detail, convict Piper is chained to Dodge, a cyberhacker, when gunfire breaks out. Apparently, the attack is re...

Bio-Dome

Rating: 4.5

Moronic best friends get themselves locked inside the Bio-Dome, a science experiment, along with a group of environmental scientists for one...

Eddie

Rating: 5.5

Eddie is a New York limo driver and a fanatical follower of the New York Knicks professional basketball team. The team is struggling with a ...

Bound

Rating: 7.2

Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a parano...

Eraser

Rating: 6.1

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons....

True Crime

Rating: 5.7

Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has an addiction to mystery novels and detective maga...

Broken Arrow

Rating: 6.1

When rogue stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with two stolen nucl...

Phenomenon

Rating: 6.5

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis....

Patikim ng Pinya

Rating: 5.0

A pretty pineapple plantation owner is very strict with her younger sister when it comes to men. One days she finds a good-looking man suffe...

Down Periscope

Rating: 6.4

Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a ...

Evita

Rating: 6.1

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón...

Blood and Wine

Rating: 5.7

A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his...

Ebola Syndrome

Rating: 6.4

A violent fugitive on the run from the law makes his way from Hong Kong to South Africa, where he discovers that he's immune to the Ebola vi...

Freeway

Rating: 6.4

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is give...

Sex and Zen II

Rating: 6.0

Wealthy Sai Moon-Kin works hard to please as many women as he possibly can. When marrying off his mentally handicapped son, he finds himself...

The Quest

Rating: 6.2

Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats...

Trees Lounge

Rating: 6.9

Tommy has lost his job, his love and his life. He lives in a small apartment above the Trees Lounge, a bar which he frequents along with a f...

Hamlet

Rating: 7.3

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is...

Shiloh

Rating: 5.7

An abused beagle runs away from his owner. On the road, he meets young Marty Preston and follows him home. The boy immediately forms a bond ...

Alaska

Rating: 5.8

Jake Barnes and his two kids, Sean and Jessie, have moved to Alaska after his wife died. He is a former airline pilot now delivering toilet ...

The Grave

Rating: 4.9

Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire....

Sgt. Bilko

Rating: 5.9

The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Sergeant Ernie Bilko is the leader ...

A Summer's Tale

Rating: 7.3

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women...

Harald & Harald

Rating: 5.2

This short television work stages two performers reading excerpts from the Swedish Government’s Cultural Commission report (SOU 1995:84). Us...

Fly Away Home

Rating: 6.9

Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows....

Wish Upon a Star

Rating: 6.5

A younger sister wishes to switch places with her popular older sister and the two bickering siblings awaken to find the wish has come true....

Bloodsport II

Rating: 5.4

After thief Alex Cardo gets caught while stealing an ancient katana in East Asia, he soon finds himself imprisoned and beaten up by the crow...

Flipper

Rating: 5.5

Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dis...

Bloodsport III

Rating: 5.5

Bloodsport III brings us back to the world of Alex Cardo. This time he must battle in a fight to end all fights - The Kumite, the most vicio...

Carried Away

Rating: 5.5

Based on Jim Harrison's book, "Farmer". 47-year-old Joseph Svenden lives on the family farm with his dying mother and teaches at a two room ...

Inside

Rating: 4.3

A South African political prisoner is tortured to obtain information on apartheid conspirators. Ten years later, the head officer in charge ...

Ed

Rating: 4.1

Jack Cooper could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he'...

Solo

Rating: 4.8

An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their ...

Killer Tongue

Rating: 5.5

A bank robber seeks refuge in a desert gas station run by nuns, awaiting her boyfriend's release. An alien meteorite transforms her into a f...

Indian

Rating: 6.9

Senapathy, an ex-freedom fighter, is angry. He is angry against the rampant corruption at every level of the bureaucracy. He will clean it u...

The Evening Star

Rating: 6.0

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, ...

Tornado!

Rating: 5.7

An accountant sent to produce an evaluation of a tornado research project, and the scientist running the project pursue tornadoes and each o...

Fatal Frames

Rating: 3.7

Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella. He soon encounters a mysterious killer...

Little Witches

Rating: 3.9

When an ancient book of spells transforms 6 naughty Catholic school girls into a sexy coven of witches, all hell breaks loose. Witness the e...

Unforgivable

Rating: 6.9

Paul Hegstrom is a so-called family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leavin...

If Lucy Fell

Rating: 5.3

Joe and Lucy are roommates and best friends. Lucy, whose love life is embarrassingly dull, convinces Joe, who is infatuated with a neighbor ...

Fake

Rating: 4.8

Meet Dee Laytner and his half-Japanese partner, Ryo McLane, a pair of detectives from New York. Not only are these two always chasing down c...

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