201. Liberty Heights
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, David Krumholtz
Plot: Baltimore 1954-55 - the world is changing and a family is changing with the times. Ben, a high school senior, strikes up a friendship with black student Sylvia; his older brother Van parties in with the WASP crowd and becomes involved with a debutante and their father loses big in the numbers game but finds a way back in with Little Melvin.
202. 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.
203. Before the Rain
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Milcho Manchevski
Actors: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Labina Mitevska, Jay Villiers, Silvija Stojanovska
204. The Ice Storm
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ang Lee
Actors: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, Henry Czerny, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood
Plot: Change is coming to a 1973 suburban Connecticut neighborhood. Drugs, alcohol and casual sex begin to affect the lives of several middle-class familites.
205. Buffalo '66
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vincent Gallo
Actors: Vincent Gallo, Christina Ricci, Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke, Rosanna Arquette, Anjelica Huston
Plot: After serving five year in prison, Billy Brown faces an even more dire place: going home to his parents. Not wanting to face them alone, he kidnaps a teen girl and forces her to go along with his plan presenting her as his future wife.
206. 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.
207. Hard Eight
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, F. William Parker, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Plot: A tale of love, revenge and redemption, set against the seedy casinos of Reno, Nevada.
208. Mission: Impossible
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Henry Czerny
Plot: A super American spy agent must uncover the mystery why he was set up and what parties were involved with his team of spies.
209. Dumb and Dumber
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Farrelly
Actors: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauren Holly, Mike Starr, Victoria Rowell, Karen Duffy
Plot: Harry and Lloyd have good intentions, no brains and a briefcase they have to get to Aspen, Colorado.
210. When We Were Kings
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Leon Gast
Actors: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Spike Lee
Plot: A documentary detailing the "rumble in the jungle" between Ali and Foreman.