Top Movies of 1996


The top movies of 1996 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

171. Multiplicity

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Michael Keaton, Andie MacDowell, Zack Duhame, Katie Schlossberg, Eugene Levy, Harris Yulin
Plot: A construction worker spends all his time at work or with his family and finds no time alone, that is until a geneticist offers him a chance to clone himself - but finds trouble when the copies begin to take over.

172. Joyride

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quinton Peeples
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Amy Hathaway, Wilson Cruz, Adam West, Benicio Del Toro, Christina Zilber
Plot: For friends J.T. and James things turn deadly in a hurry when Tanya a sexually-charged young seductress, and Smith, a beautiful assassin, stop at their motel in sleepy small town America.

Hungry for excitement, J.T., James and Tanya steal the killer's prized convertible for the joyride of a lifetime, only to find death waiting in the trunk.

Should they get the police involved or should they risk everything by confronting the killer in a bid to keep the car for themselves?

With a plot that careens ever-closer to disaster, and a bizarre, twist-filled ending, Joyride proves that life can go from neutral to overdrive in a heartbeat.

173. 101 Dalmatians

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stephen Herek
Actors: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie, Mark Williams
Plot: In this live-action version of the beloved Disney classic, Dalmatians Pongo and Perdy and their human owners, Roger and Anita (Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson), are overjoyed by the arrival of 15 puppies. But the spotted-fur-loving Cruella De Vil (Glenn Close) dognaps the litter. To save all their new friends, Pongo and Perdy must rally all the city's animals to come to their rescue and defeat Cruella and her clumsy henchman, Jasper and Horace.

174. Someone Else's America

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Serbian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Actors: Tom Conti, Miki Manojlovic, María Casares, Zorka Manojlovic, Sergej Trifunovic, José Ramón Rosario

175. Palookaville

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Taylor
Actors: William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo, Adam Trese, Gareth Williams, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Kim Dickens

176. Hidden in America

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Bell
Actors: Beau Bridges, Bruce Davison, Shelton Dane, Jena Malone, Alice Krige, Frances McDormand
Plot: Tells the story of how a lay-off destroys the life of a widower father and his children, reducing them to dire poverty.

177. The Arrival

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David N. Twohy
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Crouse, Richard Schiff, Ron Silver, Teri Polo, Phyllis Applegate
Plot: An astronomer finds evidence of alien life and when he shares this information with his boss he is immediate fired. He becomes obsessed with finding the outer space signal and tracking down where the aliens are.

178. The Substitute

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Mandel
Actors: Tom Berenger, Raymond Cruz, William Forsythe, Luis Guzmán, Richard Brooks, Diane Venora
Plot: A mercenary, Shale, returns home to discover that his girl has been attacked in her students. Shale takes on her class as a substitute to get to the bottom of the incident and ends up teaching the children about life and cleaning up the school.

179. Tromeo & Juliet

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Actors: Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Valentine Miele, William Beckwith, Steve Gibbons, Debbie Rochon
Plot: A Troma twist on the Shakespeare classic: the story is the same, but with punk twist full of sex, violence and outrageous humor.

180. Mother Night

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Keith Gordon
Actors: Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, Bernard Behrens, Kirsten Dunst, Arye Gross

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