Top Movies of 1991


The top movies of 1991 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

11. Delicatessen

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Dominique Pinon, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Karin Viard, Ticky Holgado, Anne-Marie Pisani
Plot: In a post-apocalyptic world, food has become the new currency and a vicious landlord / butcher serves up troublesome people as food for his quirky tenants.

12. Double Life of Veronique, The ( double vie de Véronique, La )

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Kalina Jedrusik, Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Philippe Volter, Claude Duneton
Plot: The story of two Veroniques who live in different places at the same time where one dies and the other chooses a different path at what seems like the same time as the others death.

13. Ju Dou

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Fengliang Yang, Yimou Zhang
Actors: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Wei Li, Zhang Yi, Ji-an Zheng, Xingli Niu
Plot: A woman contends with her brutal, infertile husband - owner of a local dye mill in rural China. When she conceives a male child by her husband's nephew, she is forced to raise the boy and convince her husband it is his while keeping the real parentage a secret.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. The Fisher King

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, David Hyde Pierce, Lara Harris, Kathy Najimy, Mercedes Ruehl
Plot: A popular radio dj debates taking his own life when he finds pleasure (which he denies) from helping a homeless man figure out his past and point him towards the future.

17. Into the Woods

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Lapine
Actors: Bernadette Peters, Tom Aldredge, Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Chip Zien, Joanna Gleason
Plot: A baker and his wife journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a pair of golden slippers and some magic beans to lift a curse that has kept them childless. Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason and the rest of the original Broadway cast weave their magic spell over you in Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece, directed by James Lapine, a seamless fusion of fairy tale characters and what happens after "happily ever after."

18. Point Break

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley, James LeGros
Plot: A stream of bank robberies by a gang called the ex-presidents has the FBI on alert. Believing the robbers to also be surfers, they send in young agent Johnny Utah to infiltrate the group.

19. Pin

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sandor Stern
Actors: David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn, Bronwen Mantel, John Pyper-Ferguson, Helene Udy
Plot: Leon and Ursula are brought up by a distant father and cold mother - their only friend is Pin, an anatomy dummy their father uses in his office and brings to life with ventriloquism. When their parents die suddenly, they are left alone in their expansive house and Leon becomes very protective of his sister, and soon brings Pin to move in with them...

20. What About Bob?

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Frank Oz
Actors: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe, Tom Aldredge
Plot: An insecure patient with the uncanny ability to cling to his therapists is recommended to Dr. Leo Marvin. He takes an immediate liking to him, but is thrown into despair when her learns the doctor is leaving with his family on summer vacation. He manages to track the good doctor down, and even though his family finds him sweet, the good doctor finds him insufferable.

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