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.

41. The Five Heartbeats

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Townsend
Actors: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Harry J. Lennix, Leon, Tico Wells, Harold Nicholas
Plot: The story of an early 1960s African-American quintet known as The Five Heartbeats. After a rocky start, the group becomes quite renowned - but the fame brings out both the best and worst as the group struggles with racism, greed and personal weakness all the while trying to stay together.

42. The Last Boy Scout

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron, Halle Berry
Plot: A down-and-out private detective is forced to team up with a disgraced pro football quarterback to uncover a conspiracy engineered by a crooked politician and a corrupt football team owner.

43. Father of the Bride

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Shyer
Actors: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern, Martin Short
Plot: A father must hold it together while he plans for his daughter's wedding.

44. Rhapsody in August ( Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku )

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Sachiko Murase, Hisashi Igawa, Narumi Kayashima, Tomoko Otakara, Richard Gere, Mitsunori Isaki

45. The Addams Family

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Wilson, Christina Ricci, Dan Hedaya
Plot: The eccentric Addams family is macabre and also very wealthy. A nefarious couple plan to con the family out of their money by producing their long lost Uncle Fester but when he adapts to his new family the plan gets complicated.

46. Slacker

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Richard Linklater, Rudy Basquez, Jean Caffeine, Jan Hockey, Stephan Hockey, Mark James
Plot: A day in the life of Austin, TX amongst a group of 20-something outcasts who interact with one another in a series of vignettes.

47. Dead Again

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Emma Thompson, Robin Williams, Lois Hall, Richard Easton
Plot: A husband and wife find out that the wife has been reincarnated after the wife has been having very vivid dreams about her past. She finds out that in order to save herself in her future, she has to find out exactly what happened to her in her past so she doesn't repeat the same mistake.

48. Dogfight

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nancy Savoca
Actors: River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, Elizabeth Daily, Richard Panebianco, Anthony Clark, Mitchell Whitfield

49. The Indian Runner

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Penn
Actors: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson, Dennis Hopper

50. Shattered

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen, Debi A. Monahan
Plot: A wife tries to convince her husband, who has amnesia from a car accident, that he is her husband and everything is normal... until he starts to remember the truth.

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