211. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tom Stoppard
Actors: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Iain Glen, Joanna Miles, Joanna Roth
Plot: Two minor characters from Hamlet are given the run of the show - but can't deviate from their scripted lives even as they ponder fate and destiny.
212. Hard Boiled ( Lat sau san taam )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Hoi-Shan Kwan
Plot: As the mob smuggles guns into China, a daring raid leaves an ace detective without his partner. While the smugglers fight internally over territory, the detective works with an insider to bring down the entire operation.
213. Blade
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Norrington
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Udo Kier, Donal Logue, Traci Lords
Plot: Blade's mother was bit by a vampire while she was pregnant with him. In turn he doesn't have any of the weaknesses of other vampires and spends his life hunting them down.
214. Farewell My Concubine ( Ba wang bie ji )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Qi Lu, Da Ying, You Ge
Plot: Two Beijing Opera stage brothers fight over the same woman as we witness China's late-twentieth century political history in a parallel story.
215. Cape Fear
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Juliette Lewis, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck
Plot: Fourteen years ago public defender Sam Bowden his evidence from his client Max Cady, a rapist, that could have acquitted him. Now, a just-released Cady, smarter, stronger and more psychotic, is ready to take revenge against the attorney and his family.
216. The Rock
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Bay
Actors: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, John Spencer, David Morse, William Forsythe
Plot: When a group of home-grown terrorists take over Alcatraz with 15 chemical warheads it's up to a federal prisoner with intimate knowlege of the prison and a young chemical weapons expert to stop them from launching the deadly missiles.
217. Big Night
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
Actors: Marc Anthony, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini, Liev Schreiber
Plot: A pair of brothers try to keep their ailing Italian restaurant afloat - Primero is a gifted chef but finds it beneath him to create mediocre fare (the kind customers actually like to eat) while Secondo does his best to balance finances and keep things going. Their rival, Pascal has a highly successful place with tepid food but happy customers and offers them one big chance: a jazz musician friend to play for one night as a benefit. The brothers waste no time in planning the big night.
218. Cube
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Actors: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Wayne Robson, Maurice Dean Wint
Plot: A group of six strangers find themselves in a giant cube maze filled with deadly traps. Each has a unique skill and they must work together to solve the puzzle before they turn on each other.
219. Dead Man
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, John Hurt, John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne, Robert Mitchum
Plot: A timid murdering accountant is on the run into the west when he teams up with a man named Nobody to help him along his way.
220. Underground
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Serbian
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Emir Kusturica
Actors: Miki Manojlovic, Lazar Ristovski, Mirjana Jokovic, Slavko Stimac, Ernst Stötzner, Srdjan Todorovic
Plot: A surreal tale about a Belgrade weapons manufacturing plant during WWII. While smuggling weapons to the resistance, a black marketeer fails to mention that the war has ended. Many years later the workers emerge from their "shelter" and convince themselves the war is still ongoing.
