21. Naked
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell, Claire Skinner, Ewen Bremner
Plot: In this dark tale of early 90s London, nihilistic Johnny is fleeing Manchester for London after he rapes a girl and her family comes after him - while in town he reconnects with an old girlfriend rants and interacts with people just like him.
22. Vive L'Amour ( Ai qing wan sui )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ming-liang Tsai
Actors: Chao-jung Chen, Kang-sheng Lee, Kuei-Mei Yang
Plot: A look into the lives of three people who share (partially unknowingly) the same apartment: Mei, the real estate agent who uses the room for her trysts, her current lover Ah-jung and Hsiao-ang, who takes a key and uses the place as his own retreat.
23. 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.
24. Eat Drink Man Woman ( Yin shi nan nu )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ang Lee
Actors: Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao
Plot: The revolves around a Master Chef Chef Chu (Sihung Lung) and her daughters
Jia-Jen, the oldest one (Kuei-Mei Yang), a bitter Christian school
teacher, Jia-Chien, the middle child who is career oriented (Chien-lien
Wu), and Jia-Ning, the youngest (Yu-Wen Wang). Each one is concerned
about their hard working father who hasn't remarried after their mother
passed away for many years.
25. Little Women
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Actors: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes
Plot: Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott - the March sisters and
their mother grow up while their father is away in the Civil War. Through
good times and tragedy - the family bond holds strong, even when the girls
begin attracting men.
26. The Boys of St. Vincent
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John N. Smith
Actors: Henry Czerny, Johnny Morina, Brian Dooley, Philip Dinn, Brian Dodd, Ashley Billard
Plot: A film about pedophilia in a Catholic boarding school.
27. Natural Born Killers
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones
Plot: A serial killing pair who were victimized sexually as children fall in love, go on a rampage, and kill a lot of people as they run from police.
28. Ghoulies IV
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Wynorski
Actors: Peter Liapis, Barbara Alyn Woods, Stacie Randall, Raquel Krelle, Tony Cox, Bobby Di Cicco
Plot: Butt-kicking mental patient Alexandra busts out of an asylum to retrieve a magical amulet from her ex-boyfriend. Along the way, her magic spells accidentally transport the impish, jive-talking Ghoulies to Los Angeles.
29. Nobody's Fool
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Benton
Actors: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Walsh
Plot: Paul Newman plays 'Sully' Sullivan, a 60 year-old construction worker with a bum knee, a bitter ex-wife and an estranged son in this slice-of-life comedy-drama from Robert Benton. When his son separates from his own wife and moves back to town with Sully's grandson in tow, he realizes how little he has accomplished in his life. Sully must also contend with the husband and wife owners of the construction company, his landlord's banker son who would love to see him evicted and other assorted characters that populate his small town.
30. Crooklyn
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Zelda Harris
