1990 in film

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The year 1990 in film involved many significant events as shown below. Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990.

Highest-grossing films

The top ten films released in 1990 by worldwide gross are as follows:

Highest-grossing films of 1990^[1]

Rank	Title	Studio	Worldwide gross
1.	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	$505,702,588
2.	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	$476,684,675
3.	Pretty Woman	Touchstone Pictures	$463,406,268
4.	Dances with Wolves	Orion Pictures	$424,208,848
5.	Total Recall	TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures	$261,336,002
6.	Back to the Future Part III	Universal Pictures	$244,527,583
7.	Die Hard 2	20th Century Fox / Silver Pictures	$240,031,094
8.	Presumed Innocent	Warner Bros.	$221,303,188
9.	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	New Line Cinema	$201,965,915
10	Kindergarten Cop	Universal Pictures	$201,957,688

Events

• February 4 - Actor Tom Cruise and actress Mimi Rogers divorce.
• March 30 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is released to massive box office success. Becoming the highest grossing independent film of all time.
• December 24 - Tom Cruise and actress Nicole Kidman marry.
• CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall (1990).
• The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2.
• The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in RoboCop 2.
• Future movie stars Chris Rock and Adam Sandler join SNL.
• Buchwald v. Paramount decided, a leading case on the financial rewards due to writers of film treatments.

Awards

Category/Organization	48th Golden Globe Awards January 19, 1991		63rd Academy Awards March 25, 1991	44th BAFTA Awards March 17, 1991
	Drama	Musical or Comedy
Best Film	Dances with Wolves	Green Card	Dances with Wolves	Goodfellas
Best Director	Kevin Costner Dances with Wolves			Martin Scorsese Goodfellas
Best Actor	Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune	Gérard Depardieu Green Card	Jeremy Irons Reversal of Fortune	Philippe Noiret Cinema Paradiso
Best Actress	Kathy Bates Misery	Julia Roberts Pretty Woman	Kathy Bates Misery	Jessica Tandy Driving Miss Daisy
Best Supporting Actor	Bruce Davison Longtime Companion		Joe Pesci Goodfellas	Salvatore Cascio Cinema Paradiso
Best Supporting Actress	Whoopi Goldberg Ghost
Best Screenplay, Adapted	Michael Blake Dances With Wolves		Michael Blake Dances With Wolves	Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi Goodfellas
Best Screenplay, Original			Bruce Joel Rubin Ghost	Giuseppe Tornatore Cinema Paradiso
Best Original Score	The Sheltering Sky Ryuichi Sakamoto and Richard Horowitz		Dances With Wolves John Barry	Cinema Paradiso Ennio Morricone and Andrea Morricone
Best Original Song	"Blaze of Glory" Young Guns II		"Sooner or Later" Dick Tracy	N/A
Best Foreign Language Film	Cyrano de Bergerac		Journey of Hope	Cinema Paradiso

1990 Wide-release movies

January–March

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J A N U A R Y	12	Downtown	20th Century Fox	Richard Benjamin (director); Nat Mauldin (screenplay); Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Internal Affairs	Paramount Pictures	Mike Figgis (director); Henry Bean (screenplay); Richard Gere, Andy García, Nancy Travis, Laurie Metcalf, William Baldwin	Crime, Thriller	Live Action
		Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III	New Line Cinema	Jeff Burr (director); David J. Schow (screenplay); Kate Hodge, Viggo Mortensen, William Butler, Ken Foree, Joe Unger, Tom Everett, Toni Hudson, Miriam Byrd-Nethery, R. A. Mihailoff	Horror	Live Action
		Ski Patrol	Epic Productions	Richard Correll (director); Steven Long Mitchell, Craig W. Van Sickle, Wink Roberts (screenplay); Roger Rose, Yvette Nipar, T. K. Carter, Leslie Jordan, Paul Feig, George Lopez, Corbin Timbrook, Ray Walston, Martin Mull, Dante Hen	Comedy	Live Action
	19	Brain Dead	Concorde	Adam Simon (director); Charles Beaumont, Adam Simon (screenplay); Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton, Bud Cort, George Kennedy	Horror, Thriller	Live Action
		Everybody Wins	Orion Pictures	Karel Reisz (director); Arthur Miller (screenplay); Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton, Jack Warden	Drama	Live Action
		Tremors	Universal Studios	Ron Underwood (director); Brent Maddock, S. S. Wilson (screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire		Live Action
F E B R U A R Y	2	Flashback	Paramount Pictures	Franco Amurri (director); David Loughery (screenplay); Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Heart Condition	New Line Cinema	James D. Parriott (director/screenplay); Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb	Fantasy, Comedy	Live Action
		Stella	Touchstone Pictures / The Samuel Goldwyn Company	John Erman (director); Robert Getchell (screenplay); Bette Midler, John Goodman, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Collins, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan	Drama	Live Action
	9	Hard to Kill	Warner Bros.	Bruce Malmuth (director); Steven McKay (screenplay); Steven Seagal, Kelly Le Brock, Frederick Coffin, William Sadler	Action	Live Action
		Loose Cannons	TriStar Pictures	Bob Clark (director/screenplay); Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd	Comedy	Live Action
		Stanley & Iris	Metro Goldwyn Mayer	Martin Ritt (director); Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton	Romance, Drama	Live Action
	16	Courage Mountain	Triumph Films	Christopher Leitch (director); Fred Brogger, Mark Brogger, Weaver Webb (screenplay); Charlie Sheen, Juliette Caton	Drama	Live Action
		Madhouse	Orion Pictures	Tom Ropelewski (director/screenplay); John Larroquette, Kirstie Alley, Alison LaPlaca, John Diehl, Jessica Lundy, Bradley Gregg, Dennis Miller, Robert Ginty	Comedy	Live Action
	23	Mountains of the Moon	TriStar Pictures	Bob Rafelson (director/screenplay); William Harrison (screenplay); Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen	Adventure, Drama	Live Action
		Nightbreed	20th Century Fox	Clive Barker (director/screenplay); Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg, Charles Haid	Fantasy, Horror	Live Action
		Revenge	Columbia Pictures	Tony Scott (director); Jeffrey Alan Fiskin (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn, Madeleine Stowe, Miguel Ferrer, John Leguizamo	Crime, Drama, Thriller	Live Action
		Where the Heart Is	Touchstone Pictures	John Boorman (director/screenplay); Telsche Boorman (screenplay); Dabney Coleman, Suzy Amis, Uma Thurman, Crispin Glover, Joanna Cassidy, Christopher Plummer, David Hewlett	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
M A R C H	2	The Hunt for Red October	Paramount Pictures	John McTiernan (director); Larry Ferguson, Donald E. Stewart (screenplay); Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, James Earl Jones, Sam Neill, Tim Curry	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	9	Bad Influence	Triumph Releasing Corporation	Curtis Hanson (director); David Koepp (screenplay); Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane	Drama	Live Action
		Coupe de Ville	Universal Studios	Joe Roth (director); Mike Binder (screenplay); Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Alan Arkin	Comedy, Horror	Live Action
		The Handmaid's Tale	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Volker Schlöndorff (director); Harold Pinter (screenplay); Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern	Drama	Live Action
		House Party	New Line Cinema	Reginald Hudlin (director/screenplay); Christopher "Kid" Reid, Robin Harris, Christopher "Play" Martin	Comedy	Live Action
		Joe Versus the Volcano	Warner Bros.	John Patrick Shanley (director/screenplay); Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		Love at Large	Orion Pictures	Alan Rudolph (director/screenplay); Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw, Annette O'Toole, Ted Levine, Ann Magnuson	Romance, Mystery	Live Action
	16	The Forbidden Dance	Columbia Pictures	Greydon Clark (director); Roy Langsdon, John Platt (screenplay); Laura Harring, Jeff James, Angela Moya, Sid Haig, Shannon Farnon, Linden Chiles, Pilar Del Rey, Ruben Moreno, Barbra Brighton, Richard Lynch, Kid Creole	Drama	Live Action
		Lambada	Cannon Films	Joel Silberg (director/screenplay); Sheldon Renan (screenplay); J. Eddie Peck, Melora Hardin, Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quinones, Leticia Vasquez, Dennis Burkley, Rita Bland, Ricky Paull Goldin, Kristina Starman, Matt Feemster, Kayla Blake, Keene Curtis, Lauren Gale, Basil Hofman	Drama	Live Action
		Lord of the Flies	Columbia Pictures	Harry Hook (director); Jay Presson Allen (screenplay); Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly	Thriller	Live Action
		Nuns on the Run	20th Century Fox	Jonathan Lynn (director/screenplay); Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri, Janet Suzman, Doris Hare	Comedy	Live Action
	23	Pretty Woman	Touchstone Pictures	Garry Marshall (director); J. F. Lawton (screenplay); Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo, Jason Alexander, Laura San Giacomo, Ralph Bellamy	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		A Shock to the System	Corsair Pictures	Jan Egleson (director); Andrew Klavan (screenplay); Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Swoosie Kurtz	Crime, Thriller	Live Action
	30	Opportunity Knocks	Universal Studios	Donald Petrie (director); Mitchel Katlin, Nat Bernstein (screenplay); Dana Carvey, Robert Loggia, Todd Graff, Julia Campbell, James Tolkan	Comedy	Live Action
		Side Out	TriStar Pictures	Peter Israelson (director); David Thoreau (screenplay); C. Thomas Howell, Peter Horton, Courtney Thorne-Smith	Sports	Live Action
		Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	New Line Cinema	Steve Barron (director); Todd W. Langen, Bobby Herbeck (screenplay); Judith Hoag, Elias Koteas, Josh Pais, Robbie Rist, Corey Feldman, Brian Tochi, Kevin Clash	Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, Fantasy	Live Action
	31	The Ambulance	Triumph Releasing Corporation	Larry Cohen (director/screenplay); Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Red Buttons, Megan Gallagher	Thriller	Live Action

April–June

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
A P R I L	3	Catchfire	Vestron Pictures	Dennis Hopper (director); Rachel Kronstadt Mann, Ann Louise Bardach, Alex Cox, Tod Davies (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Dennis Hopper, Fred Ward	Action, Thriller, Drama	Live Action
	6	Cry-Baby	Universal Studios	John Waters (director/screenplay); Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Polly Bergen, Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords	Romance, Comedy, Musical	Live Action
		Ernest Goes to Jail	Touchstone Pictures	John R. Cherry III (director); Charlie Cohen (screenplay); Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge	Comedy	Live Action
		The First Power	Orion Pictures	Robert Resnikoff (director/screenplay); Lou Diamond Phillips, Jeff Kober, Mykelti Williamson, Tracy Griffith, Dennis Lipscomb, Carmen Argenziano, Clayton Landey	Horror	Live Action
		I Love You to Death	TriStar Pictures	Lawrence Kasdan (director); John Kostmayer (screenplay); Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves	Comedy	Live Action
	13	Crazy People	Paramount Pictures	Tony Bill (director); Mitch Markowitz (screenplay); Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah, Paul Reiser, J. T. Walsh, Danton Stone	Comedy	Live Action
	20	Lisa	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / United Artists	Gary Sherman (director/screenplay); Karen Clark (screenplay); Cheryl Ladd	Drama, Thriller	Live Action
		Miami Blues	Orion Pictures	George Armitage (director/screenplay); Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh	Action, Crime, Thriller	Live Action
	27	The Guardian	Universal Studios	William Friedkin (director/screenplay); Stephen Volk, Dan Greenburg (screenplay); Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell	Horror	Live Action
		Q&A	TriStar Pictures	Sidney Lumet (director/screenplay); Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton, Armand Assante, Luis Guzmán	Crime	Live Action
		Spaced Invaders	Touchstone Pictures	Patrick Read Johnson| (director/screenplay); Scott Lawrence Alexander (screenplay); Douglas Barr, Ariana Richards, Royal Dano, Gregg Berger, Wayne Alexander	Sci-Fi, Comedy	Live Action
M A Y	4	Short Time	20th Century Fox	Gregg Champion (director); John Blumenthal, Michael Berry (screenplay); Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr	Action, Comedy, Crime	Live Action
		Tales from the Darkside: The Movie	Paramount Pictures	John Harrison (director); Michael McDowell, George A. Romero (screenplay); Deborah Harry, Christian Slater, David Johansen, William Hickey, James Remar, Rae Dawn Chong	Horror	Live Action
	11	Class of 1999	Lightning Pictures	Mark L. Lester (director); C. Courtney Joyner, Bradley Gregg (screenplay); Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell, Stacy Keach, Patrick Kilpatrick, Pam Grier, John P. Ryan, Darren E. Burrows, Joshua John Miller	Sci-Fi	Live Action
		Far Out Man	New Line Cinema	Tommy Chong (director/screenplay); Tommy Chong, C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Shelby Chong, Paris Chong, Martin Mull, Judd Nelson, Michael Winslow, Cheech Marin, Paul Bartel	Comedy	Live Action
		A Show of Force	Paramount Pictures	Bruno Barreto (director); Evan Jones, John Strong (screenplay); Amy Irving, Andy García, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall, Erik Estrada	Thriller	Live Action
	18	Cadillac Man	Orion Pictures	Roger Donaldson (director); Ken Friedman (screenplay); Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Lauren Tom	Comedy	Live Action
		Bird on a Wire	Universal Studios	John Badham (director); Louis Venosta, David Seltzer (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Bill Duke, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joan Severance	Action, Comedy	Live Action
	22	The Swordsman	Film Workshop	King Hu (director); Kwan Man-leung (screenplay); Sam Hui, Cecilia Yip, Jacky Cheung, Sharla Cheung, Fennie Yuen	Action	Live Action
	25	Back to the Future Part III	Universal Studios	Robert Zemeckis (director); Bob Gale (screenplay); Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, Lea Thompson	Sci-Fi, Comedy, Western	Live Action
		Fire Birds	Touchstone Pictures	David Green (director); Nick Thiel, Paul F. Edwards (screenplay); Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones, Sean Young	Action, Thriller	Live Action
J U N E	1	Frankenhooker	Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment	Frank Henenlotter (director/screenplay); Robert "Bob" Martin (screenplay); Patty Mullen, Louise Lasser, James Lorinz	Comedy, Horror	Live Action
		Total Recall	TriStar Pictures	Paul Verhoeven (director); Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Gary Goldman (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Michael Ironside, Ronny Cox	Sci-Fi, Action	Live Action
	6	Another 48 Hrs.	Paramount Pictures	Walter Hill (director); John Fasano, Jeb Stuart, Larry Gross (screenplay); Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte	Action, Crime, Comedy	Live Action
	15	Dick Tracy	Touchstone Pictures	Warren Beatty (director); Jim Cash, Jack Epps, Jr. (screenplay); Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Dick Van Dyke, Charles Durning, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, William Forsythe, Ed O'Ross, R. G. Armstrong	Action	Live Action
		Gremlins 2: The New Batch	Warner Bros.	Joe Dante (director); Charles S. Haas (screenplay); Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, Christopher Lee	Comedy, Horror	Live Action
	22	Betsy's Wedding	Touchstone Pictures	Alan Alda (director/screenplay); Alan Alda, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Madeline Kahn, Joe Pesci, Joey Bishop, Anthony LaPaglia, Burt Young, Catherine O'Hara	Comedy	Live Action
		RoboCop 2	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer \ Live Entertainment \ Orion Pictures	Irvin Kershner (director); Frank Miller, Walon Green (screenplay); Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan, Gabriel Damon	Sci-Fi, Action	Live Action
	27	Days of Thunder	Paramount Pictures	Tony Scott (director); Robert Towne (screenplay); Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Nicole Kidman, Cary Elwes	Sports	Live Action
	29	Ghost Dad	Universal Studios	Sidney Poitier (director); Brent Maddock, S. S. Wilson, Chris Reese| (screenplay); Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Salim Grant, Denise Nicholas, Ian Bannen, Christine Ebersole, Barry Corbin	Comedy, Fantasy	Live Action

July–September

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
J U L Y	1	A Cry in the Wild	Concorde Pictures	Mark Griffiths (director); Gary Paulsen, Catherine Cyran (screenplay); Jared Rushton, Pamela Sue Martin, Stephen Meadows, Ned Beatty	Drama	Live Action
	4	Die Hard 2	20th Century Fox	Renny Harlin (director); Steven E. de Souza, Doug Richardson (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Franco Nero, William Sadler, John Amos	Action, Thriller	Live Action
	6	Jetsons: The Movie	Universal Studios	William Hanna, Joseph Barbera (director); Dennis Marks (screenplay); George O'Hanlon, Penny Singleton, Tiffany, Patric Zimmerman, Don Messick, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc	Comedy, Family	Animation
	11	The Adventures of Ford Fairlane	20th Century Fox	Renny Harlin (director); Daniel Waters, James Cappe, David Arnott (screenplay); Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley, Lauren Holly, Maddie Corman, David Patrick Kelly, Morris Day, Ed O'Neill, Robert Englund	Action, Comedy	Live Action
	13	Ghost	Paramount Pictures	Jerry Zucker (director); Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles, Vincent Schiavelli, Gail Boggs, Armelia McQueen	Romance, Fantasy, Thriller	Live Action
		The Invisible Maniac	Republic Pictures	Adam Rifkin (director/screenplay); Noel Peters	Drama	Live Action
		Quick Change	Warner Bros.	Howard Franklin, Bill Murray (director); Howard Franklin (screenplay); Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards	Comedy	Live Action
	18	Arachnophobia	Hollywood Pictures	Frank Marshall (director); Don Jakoby, Wesley Strick (screenplay); Jeff Daniels, Julian Sands, Harley Jane Kozak, John Goodman	Comedy, Horror	Live Action
	20	The Freshman	TriStar Pictures	Andrew Bergman (director/screenplay); Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller	Crime, Comedy	Live Action
		Navy SEALs	Orion Pictures	Lewis Teague (director); Chuck Pfarrer, Gary Goldman (screenplay); Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Rick Rossovich, Cyril O'Reilly, Bill Paxton, Dennis Haysbert	Action	Live Action
	26	Blood Oath	Roadshow Entertainment	Stephen Wallace (director); Denis Whitburn, Brian A. Williams (screenplay); Bryan Brown, George Takei, Terry O'Quinn, John Bach, John Clarke, Deborah Kara Unger, John Polson, Nicholas Eadie, David Argue, Ray Barrett	Drama	Live Action
	27	Presumed Innocent	Warner Bros.	Alan J. Pakula (director/screenplay); Frank Pierson (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield, Greta Scacchi	Thriller	Live Action
		Problem Child	Universal Studios	Dennis Dugan (director); Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski (screenplay); John Ritter, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver (actor), Gilbert Gottfried, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards	Comedy	Live Action
A U G U S T	1	Young Guns II	20th Century Fox	Geoff Murphy (director); John Fusco (screenplay); Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, James Coburn, Alan Ruck, Balthazar Getty	Western	Live Action
	3	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp	Walt Disney Pictures	Bob Hathcock (director); Alan Burnett (screenplay); Alan Young, Rip Taylor, Christopher Lloyd, Russi Taylor, Terrence McGovern	Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy	Animation
		Metropolitan	New Line Cinema	Whit Stillman (director/screenplay); Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Allison Parisi, Dylan Hundley	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
		Mo' Better Blues	Universal Studios	Spike Lee (director/screenplay); Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Joie Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Dick Anthony Williams, Cynda Williams	Drama	Live Action
	10	Air America	TriStar Pictures	Roger Spottiswoode (director); Christopher Robbins, John Eskow, Richard Rush (screenplay); Mel Gibson, Robert Downey, Jr., Nancy Travis, David Marshall Grant, Michael Dudikoff, Lane Smith	Action, Comedy	Live Action
		Flatliners	Columbia Pictures	Joel Schumacher (director); Peter Filardi (screenplay); Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon	Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller	Live Action
		The Two Jakes	Paramount Pictures	Jack Nicholson (director); Robert Towne (screenplay); Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe	Mystery, Thriller	Live Action
	17	The Exorcist III	20th Century Fox	William Peter Blatty (director/screenplay); George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson, Brad Dourif	Horror	Live Action
		My Blue Heaven	Warner Bros.	Herbert Ross (director); Nora Ephron (screenplay); Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Carol Kane, William Irwin	Comedy	Live Action
		Taking Care of Business	Hollywood Pictures	Arthur Hiller (director); Jill Mazursky, J. J. Abrams (screenplay); James Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne De Salvo, Loryn Locklin, Stephen Elliott, Héctor Elizondo, Veronica Hamel, Mako, Gates McFadden, John de Lancie	Comedy	Live Action
		Wild at Heart	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	David Lynch (director/screenplay); Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe, Crispin Glover, Diane Ladd, Isabella Rossellini, Harry Dean Stanton	Crime, Thriller	Live Action
	22	Pump Up the Volume	New Line Cinema	Allan Moyle (director/screenplay); Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Mimi Kennedy, Scott Paulin, Cheryl Pollak, Annie Ross, Ahmet Zappa, Billy Morrissette, Seth Green, Robert Schenkkan, Ellen Greene, Andy Romano, Anthony Lucero, Lala Sloatman, James Hampton	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	24	After Dark, My Sweet	Avenue Pictures	James Foley (director/screenplay); Robert Redlin (screenplay); Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern	Thriller	Live Action
		Darkman	Universal Studios	Sam Raimi (director/screenplay); Chuck Pfarrer, Ivan Raimi, Daniel Goldin, Joshua Goldin (screenplay); Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake	Action, Thriller	Live Action
		Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection	Cannon Films	Aaron Norris (director); Lee Reynolds (screenplay); Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, John P. Ryan, Richard Jaeckel, Paul Perri, Mark Margolis	Action	Live Action
		Dreams	Warner Bros.	Ishirō Honda (director); Akira Kurosawa (director/screenplay); Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Mitsunori Isaki, Chishū Ryū, Mieko Harada	Drama	Live Action
		Men at Work	Triumph Films	Emilio Estevez (director/screenplay); Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Leslie Hope, Keith David, Dean Cameron, John Getz	Comedy	Live Action
		The Witches	Warner Bros.	Nicolas Roeg (director); Allan Scott (screenplay); Jasen Fisher, Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson	Comedy, Fantasy	Live Action
S E P T E M B E R	12	Postcards from the Edge	Columbia Pictures	Mike Nichols (director); Carrie Fisher (screenplay); Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Rob Reiner	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	14	Death Warrant	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Deran Sarafian (director); David S. Goyer (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Robert Guillaume, Cynthia Gibb, George Dickerson, Art LaFleur, Patrick Kilpatrick, Joshua John Miller, Hank Stone, Conrad Dunn, Jack Bannon, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Armin Shimerman	Action	Live Action
		Hardware	Palace Pictures / Miramax Films	Richard Stanley (director); Steve MacManus, Kevin O'Neill, Richard Stanley (screenplay); Dylan McDermott, Stacey Travis, John Lynch, Iggy Pop, Carl McCoy	Sci-Fi, Horror	Live Action
		Repossessed	Seven Arts Pictures	Bob Logan (director); Bob Logan (screenplay); Leslie Nielsen, Linda Blair, Ned Beatty, Anthony Starke	Comedy	Live Action
		State of Grace	Orion Pictures	Phil Joanou (director); Dennis McIntyre (screenplay); Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright, John Turturro, John C. Reilly	Thriller	Live Action
		White Hunter Black Heart	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood (director); Peter Viertel, James Bridges, Burt Kennedy (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson	Thriller	Live Action
	19	Goodfellas	Warner Bros.	Martin Scorsese (director/screenplay); Nicholas Pileggi (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino	Crime	Live Action
	21	Don't Tell Her It's Me	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Malcolm Mowbray (director); Sarah Bird (screenplay); Steve Guttenberg, Jami Gertz, Shelley Long, Kyle MacLachlan	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		Funny About Love	Paramount Pictures	Leonard Nimoy (director); Norman Steinberg, David Frankel (screenplay); Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson	Romance, Comedy	Live Action
		Narrow Margin	TriStar Pictures	Peter Hyams (director/screenplay); Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, J. T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh	Thriller	Live Action
	28	I Come in Peace	Triumph Releasing Corporation	Craig R. Baxley (director); Jonathan Tydor, Leonard Maas, Jr., David Koepp, John Kamps (screenplay); Dolph Lundgren, Brian Benben, Betsy Brantley, Matthias Hues, Jay Bilas, Jim Haynie, David Ackroyd, Sam Anderson	Action, Sci-Fi	Live Action
		King of New York	Seven Arts Pictures	Abel Ferrara (director); Nicholas St. John (screenplay); Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso, Wesley Snipes	Crime, Drama	Live Action
		Pacific Heights	20th Century Fox	John Schlesinger (director); Daniel Pyne (screenplay); Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Michael Keaton, Laurie Metcalf, Mako, Carl Lumbly, Dorian Harewood	Thriller	Live Action
		Texasville	Columbia Pictures	Peter Bogdanovich (director/screenplay); Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd, Cloris Leachman, Randy Quaid, Annie Potts, William McNamara	Drama	Live Action

October–December

Opening		Title	Studio	Cast and crew	Genre	Medium
O C T O B E R	5	Avalon	Tristar Pictures	Barry Levinson (director/screenplay); Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elizabeth Perkins, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn	Drama	Live Action
		Desperate Hours	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Michael Cimino (director); Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal (screenplay); Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse, Kelly Lynch, David Morse, Elias Koteas, Shawnee Smith	Crime, Drama	Live Action
		Henry & June	Universal Studios	Philip Kaufman (director/screenplay); Rose Kaufman (screenplay); Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Maria de Medeiros, Kevin Spacey	Biography, Drama	Live Action
		Marked for Death	20th Century Fox	Dwight H. Little (director); Michael Grais, Mark Victor (screenplay); Steven Seagal, Basil Wallace, Keith David, Tom Wright, Joanna Pacuła, Elizabeth Gracen, Bette Ford	Action	Live Action
		Miller's Crossing	20th Century Fox	Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (director/screenplay); Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J. E. Freeman, Albert Finney	Crime	Live Action
		Shakma	Castle Hill Productions / Quest Entertainment	Hugh Parks, Tom Logan (director); Roger Engle (screenplay); Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers, Roddy McDowall	Horror	Live Action
	12	Memphis Belle	Warner Bros.	Michael Caton-Jones (director); Monte Merrick (screenplay); Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D. B. Sweeney, Billy Zane, Sean Astin, Harry Connick, Jr., Reed Diamond, Courtney Gains, Neil Giuntoli, David Strathairn, John Lithgow, Jane Horrocks, Mac McDonald	Action, Drama	Live Action
		Mr. Destiny	Touchstone Pictures	James Orr (director/screenplay); Jim Cruickshank (screenplay); James Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Hart Bochner, Rene Russo, Michael Caine	Comedy	Live Action
		To Sleep with Anger	The Samuel Goldwyn Company	Charles Burnett (director/screenplay); Danny Glover, Richard Brooks, Paul Butler, Mary Alice	Drama	Live Action
		Troll 2	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Claudio Fragasso (director/screenplay); Michael Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey, Connie McFarland, Deborah Reed, Jason F. Wright, Darren Ewing, Jason Steadman, Ethan Sarphie	Horror, Fantasy	Live Action
		Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael	Paramount Pictures	Jim Abrahams (director); Karen Leigh Hopkins (screenplay); Winona Ryder, Jeff Daniels	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	19	Night of the Living Dead	Columbia Pictures	Tom Savini (director); George A. Romero (screenplay); Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman	Horror	Live Action
		Quigley Down Under	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Simon Wincer (director); John Hill (screenplay); Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman	Western	Live Action
		White Palace	Universal Studios	Luis Mandoki (director); Ted Tally, Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Eileen Brennan, Steven Hill, Rachel Chagall, Corey Parker, Renée Taylor, Jonathan Penner, Barbara Howard, Kim Myers, Mitzi McCall	Romance, Drama	Live Action
	26	Graveyard Shift	Paramount Pictures	Ralph S. Singleton (director); John Esposito (screenplay); David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif	Horror	Live Action
		The Hot Spot	Orion Pictures	Dennis Hopper (director); Nona Tyson (screenplay); Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly	Thriller	Live Action
		Sibling Rivalry	Columbia Pictures	Carl Reiner (director); Martha Goldhirsh (screenplay); Kirstie Alley, Sam Elliott, Jami Gertz, Bill Pullman, Carrie Fisher, Scott Bakula, Ed O'Neill	Comedy	Live Action
		Soultaker	AIP Home Video	Michael Rissi (director); Vivian Schilling (screenplay); Joe Estevez, Vivian Schilling, Gregg Thomsen, Chuck Williams, Robert Z'Dar, David "Shark" Fralick, Jean Reiner	Fantasy, Horror	Live Action
N O V E M B E R	2	China Cry	Parakletus	James F. Collier (director/screenplay); Julia Nickson, France Nuyen, James Shigeta	Biography	Live Action
		Frankenstein Unbound	20th Century Fox	Roger Corman (director/screenplay); F.X. Feeney (screenplay); John Hurt, Raúl Juliá, Nick Brimble, Bridget Fonda, Catherine Rabett, Jason Patric, Michael Hutchence	Horror	Live Action
		Graffiti Bridge	Warner Bros.	Prince (director/screenplay); Prince, Ingrid Chavez, Morris Day, Jerome Benton, George Clinton, Tevin Campbell, Mavis Staples	Musical, Drama	Live Action
		Jacob's Ladder	Carolco Pictures	Adrian Lyne (director); Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay); Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven	Horror	Live Action
	9	Child's Play 2	Universal Studios	John Lafia (director); Don Mancini (screenplay); Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Grace Zabriskie, Brad Dourif	Horror, Comedy	Live Action
		Guns	Malibu Bay Films	Andy Sidaris (director/screenplay); Erik Estrada, Dona Speir, Devin DeVasquez, Danny Trejo, Cynthia Brimhall	Action	Live Action
		The Krays	Rank Film Distributors	Peter Medak (director); Philip Ridley (screenplay); Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Billie Whitelaw, Tom Bell	Drama	Live Action
	16	Home Alone	20th Century Fox	Chris Columbus (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara, Roberts Blossom	Comedy, Family	Live Action
		The Rescuers Down Under	Walt Disney Pictures	Hendel Butoy, Mike Gabriel (director); Jim Cox, Karey Kirkpatrick, Byron Simpson, Joe Ranft (screenplay); Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy, Tristan Rogers, Adam Ryen, George C. Scott, Frank Welker, Wayne Robson, Russi Taylor, Bernard Fox, Douglas Seale	Adventure	Animation
		Rocky V	United Artists	John G. Avildsen (director); Sylvester Stallone (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone, Tommy Morrison, Burgess Meredith	Sports, Drama	Live Action
	21	Dances with Wolves	Orion Pictures	Kevin Costner (director); Michael Blake (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant	Western	Live Action
		The Nutcracker Prince	Lacewood Productions	Paul Schibli (director); Patricia Watson (screenplay); Kiefer Sutherland, Megan Follows	Romance, Fantasy	Animation
		Predator 2	20th Century Fox	Stephen Hopkins (director); Jim Thomas, John Thomas (screenplay); Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, María Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, Robert Davi	Action, Sci-Fi	Live Action
		Robot Jox	Empire Pictures	Stuart Gordon (director); Joe Haldeman (screenplay); Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson, Paul Koslo	Sci-Fi	Live Action
		Three Men and a Little Lady	Touchstone Pictures	Emile Ardolino (director); Charlie Peters (screenplay); Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis, Christopher Cazenove, Robin Weisman, Fiona Shaw	Comedy	Live Action
	30	Misery	Columbia Pictures	Rob Reiner (director); William Goldman (screenplay); James Caan, Kathy Bates, Lauren Bacall, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen	Horror	Live Action
D E C E M B E R	1	Cyrano de Bergerac	Orion Classics	Jean-Paul Rappeneau (director/screenplay); Jean-Claude Carrière, Edmond Rostand (screenplay); Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	7	The Rookie	Warner Bros.	Clint Eastwood (director); Scott Spiegel, Boaz Yakin (screenplay); Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Lara Flynn Boyle	Action	Live Action
	12	Havana	Universal Studios	Sydney Pollack (director); Judith Rascoe, David Rayfiel (screenplay); Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raúl Juliá, Alan Arkin	Drama	Live Action
		The Sheltering Sky	Warner Bros.	Bernardo Bertolucci (director/screenplay); Mark Peploe (screenplay); Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott	Drama	Live Action
	14	Edward Scissorhands	20th Century Fox	Tim Burton (director); Caroline Thompson (screenplay); Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, Alan Arkin	Fantasy, Romance	Live Action
		Look Who's Talking Too	TriStar Pictures	Amy Heckerling (director/screenplay); Neal Israel (screenplay); John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, Elias Koteas, Bruce Willis, Roseanne Barr, Damon Wayans	Comedy	Live Action
		Mermaids	Orion Pictures	Richard Benjamin (director); June Roberts (screenplay); Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, Christina Ricci	Comedy, Drama	Live Action
	19	Almost an Angel	Paramount Pictures	John Cornell (director); Paul Hogan (screenplay); Paul Hogan, Elias Koteas, Linda Kozlowski	Crime	Live Action
		The Russia House	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer	Fred Schepisi (director); Tom Stoppard (screenplay); Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, J. T. Walsh, Klaus Maria Brandauer	Action	Live Action
	20	Awakenings	Columbia Pictures	Penny Marshall (director); Steven Zaillian (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, John Heard, Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann Miller, Max Von Sydow	Drama	Live Action
	21	The Bonfire of the Vanities	Warner Bros.	Brian De Palma (director); Michael Cristofer (screenplay); Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman	Drama, Comedy	Live Action
		Kindergarten Cop	Universal Studios	Ivan Reitman (director); Murray Salem, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed, Linda Hunt, Carroll Baker	Comedy, Thriller	Live Action
	25	The Godfather Part III	Paramount Pictures	Francis Ford Coppola (director/screenplay); Mario Puzo (screenplay); Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, George Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Sofia Coppola	Crime, Drama	Live Action

Notable films released in 1990

U.S.A. unless stated

A-D

A

• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, starring Andrew Dice Clay
• After Dark, My Sweet, starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern
• Air America, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr.
• Alice, directed by Woody Allen, starring Mia Farrow
• The Ambulance, starring Eric Roberts
• American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
• Angel Town
• Another 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte
• Arachnophobia, starring Jeff Daniels
• Avalon, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Kevin Pollak
• Awakenings, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro

B

• Back to the Future Part III, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
• Bad Influence, starring James Spader and Rob Lowe
• Betsy's Wedding, directed by and starring Alan Alda, with Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Madeline Kahn
• The Big Man aka Crossing the Line, starring Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley and Billy Connolly
• Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
• Blind Fury, starring Rutger Hauer
• Blue Steel, starring Jamie Lee Curtis
• Boiling Point, directed by Takeshi Kitano, starring Beat Takeshi
• The Bonfire of the Vanities, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith
• Bride of Re-Animator

C

• Cadence, starring Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen
• Cadillac Man, starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins
• Captain America, starring Matt Salinger
• Childhood Days - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
• Child's Play 2, starring Jenny Agutter
• China Cry
• City Hunter: Bay City Wars
• Class of 1999, starring Malcolm McDowell and Pam Grier
• Close-Up - (Iran)
• Coins in the Fountain, starring Loni Anderson
• Come See the Paradise, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita
• The Comfort of Strangers, starring Natasha Richardson and Helen Mirren
• Crash and Burn
• Cry-Baby, directed by John Waters, starring Johnny Depp
• Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Gérard Depardieu - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film

D

• Dances with Wolves, directed by and starring Kevin Costner - Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
• Darkman, starring Liam Neeson
• Days of Being Wild, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Andy Lau
• Days of Thunder, starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman
• Death Warrant, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Dei tau lung (Dragon Fighter)
• Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection, starring Chuck Norris
• Denial
• Desperate Hours, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke
• Dick Tracy, directed by and starring Warren Beatty, with Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino
• Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis
• Downtown, starring Anthony Edwards and Forest Whitaker
• Dreams, directed by Akira Kurosawa
• DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp

E-K

E

• Edward Scissorhands, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
• The End of Innocence, directed by and starring Dyan Cannon
• Ernest Goes to Jail, starring Jim Varney
• Europa Europa - Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
• The Exorcist III, starring George C. Scott

F

• Fantasia (restored version)
• La Femme Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
• The Field, starring Richard Harris
• Fire Birds, starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones
• The First Power, starring Lou Diamond Phillips
• Flashback, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper
• Flatliners, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
• The Fourth War, starring Roy Schneider and Jürgen Prochnow
• Frankenstein Unbound, starring John Hurt
• The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick
• Funny About Love, directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Gene Wilder and Christine Lahti

G

• Ghost, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
• The Godfather Part III, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Joe Mantegna, Sofia Coppola
• Goodfellas, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
• Graffiti Bridge, directed by and starring Prince
• Green Card, starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• The Grifters, starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
• The Guardian, directed by William Friedkin
• The Guyver

H

• Hamlet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Helena Bonham Carter
• The Handmaid's Tale, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
• Hard to Kill, starring Steven Seagal
• Havana, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raúl Juliá
• Heart Condition, starring Bob Hoskins, and Denzel Washington
• Heaven and Earth
• Henry & June, starring Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros and Uma Thurman
• Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
• Hidden Agenda, directed by Ken Loach, starring Frances McDormand
• Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
• The Hot Spot, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, Virginia Madsen
• House Party
• The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, directed by John McTiernan

I

• I Come in Peace, starring Dolph Lundgren
• I Love You to Death, starring Kevin Kline and Tracey Ullman
• Internal Affairs, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Richard Gere and Andy García

J

• Jacob's Ladder, starring Tim Robbins, directed by Adrian Lyne
• Jetsons: The Movie
• Joe Versus the Volcano, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
• John & Brandy
• Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
• Ju Dou, directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, starring Gong Li

K

• Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
• King of New York, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes, Laurence Fishburne
• The Krays, directed by Peter Medak, starring Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Billie Whitelaw

L-Q

L

• Larks on a String (Skrivánci na niti) - Golden Bear award
• Last of the Finest
• Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III
• The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton
• Life Is Sweet, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent
• Lionheart, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Longtime Companion, starring Bruce Davison
• The Long Walk Home, starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg
• Look Who's Talking Too, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
• Loose Cannons, starring Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd
• Lord of the Flies, starring Balthazar Getty
• Love at Large, starring Tom Berenger

M

• Mack the Knife, starring Raúl Juliá and Richard Harris
• A Man Called Sarge, starring Gary Kroeger and Marc Singer
• Marked for Death, starring Steven Seagal
• The Match Factory Girl, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Kati Outinen
• Memories of a River
• Memphis Belle, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, John Lithgow
• Men at Work, starring Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen
• Mermaids, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci
• Metropolitan
• Miami Blues, starring Fred Ward and Alec Baldwin
• Midnight Ride, starring Mark Hamill
• Miller's Crossing, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
• Milou in May
• Misery, directed by Rob Reiner, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates
• Mo' Better Blues, directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson
• Mountains of the Moon, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Patrick Bergin
• Movie... In Your Face
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
• Mr. Destiny, starring James Belushi
• My Blue Heaven, starring Steve Martin and Rick Moranis
• My Mother's Castle (Le Château de ma mère), directed by Yves Robert, Golden Space Needle award (for 1991) - see novel Le Château de ma mère

N

• Narrow Margin, starring Gene Hackman and Anne Archer
• The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
• Navy SEALs, starring Charlie Sheen
• The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter
• Nightbreed, starring Craig Sheffer
• Nuns on the Run, starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane
• The Nutcracker Prince

P

• Pacific Heights, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine
• Piece of Cake, directed by Jay Sandrich, starring T. K. Carter, Cleavant Derricks, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Tonya Lee Williams
• Postcards from the Edge, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid
• Predator 2, starring Danny Glover
• Presumed Innocent, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Harrison Ford
• Pretty Woman, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
• Problem Child, starring John Ritter
• Pump Up the Volume, directed by Allan Moyle, starring Christian Slater - Golden Space Needle award

Q

• Q&A, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Nick Nolte and Timothy Hutton
• Quick Change, starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid
• Quigley Down Under, starring Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman

R-Z

R

• The Reflecting Skin
• Repossessed, a parody of The Exorcist, starring Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair
• The Rescuers Down Under
• Revenge, starring Kevin Costner and Anthony Quinn
• Reversal of Fortune, starring Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
• RoboCop 2, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
• Robot Jox
• Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever, starring Corey Feldman
• Rockula
• Rocky V, starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Tommy Morrison
• Romeo.Juliet
• The Rookie, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Tim Roth - Golden Lion award
• The Russia House, starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer

S

• The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich
• Shipwrecked, starring Gabriel Byrne
• Short Time, starring Dabney Coleman
• A Show of Force, starring Amy Irving
• Shreck
• Sibling Rivalry, starring Kirstie Alley
• Side Out, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and C. Thomas Howell
• Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation
• Silent Scream, starring Robert Carlyle
• Singapore Sling
• Spaced Invaders, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards, J. J. Anderson
• Stanley & Iris, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda
• State of Grace, starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman
• Stella, starring Bette Midler

T

• Taking Care of Business, starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin
• Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
• Tatie Danielle, starring Tsilla Chelton
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, directed by Steve Barron
• Tekken
• Texasville, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd
• Three Men and a Little Lady, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson
• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas
• Tilaï
• Too Much Sun, directed by Robert Downey, Sr., starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Eric Idle
• Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone
• Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston and Christian Bale
• Tremors, starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
• Truly, Madly, Deeply, directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson
• The Two Jakes, directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, with Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Eli Wallach

U

• Uchū no hōsoku
• Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

V

• Vincent & Theo, starring Tim Roth
• Vincent and Me

W

• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, starring Winona Ryder
• Where the Heart Is, starring Dabney Coleman
• White Hunter Black Heart, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
• White Palace, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader
• Wild at Heart, directed by David Lynch, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd
• Wild Orchid, starring Mickey Rourke
• The Witches, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston

Y

• Young Guns II, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen

Births

• January 13 - Liam Hemsworth, actor
• March 1 - Harry Eden, British actor
• March 24 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, actress
• April 9 - Kristen Stewart, actress
• April 10 - Alex Pettyfer, actor, model
• April 15 - Emma Watson, actress, model
• April 16 - Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
• May 14 - Sasha Spielberg, actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
• June 13 - Aaron Taylor-Johnson, actor
• July 2 - Margot Robbie, actress
• July 6 - Jeremy Suarez, actor and voice actor
• July 16 - James Maslow, actor
• July 24 - Daveigh Chase, actress
• August 10 - Lucas Till, actor
• August 15 - Jennifer Lawrence, actress
• October 22 - Jonathan Lipnicki, actor
• November 2 - Kendall Schmidt, actor
• December 20 - JoJo, Americans singer-songwriter and actress

Notable deaths

Month	Date	Name	Age	Country	Profession	Notable films
January	2	Alan Hale, Jr.	68	USA	Actor	Hang 'Em High Johnny Dangerously
	5	Arthur Kennedy	75	USA	Actor	Lawrence of Arabia They Died with Their Boots On
	6	Ian Charleson	40	UK	Actor	Chariots of Fire Gandhi
	8	Terry-Thomas	78	UK	Actor	The Mouse on the Moon It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
	10	Lyle R. Wheeler	84	USA	Art Director	Gone with the Wind The Day the Earth Stood Still
	14	John Witty	74	UK	Actor	The Frightened City The Vault of Horror
	15	Gordon Jackson	66	UK	Actor	The Great Escape The Ipcress File
	18	Rusty Hamer	42	USA	Actor	Dance with Me, Henry
	20	John Maxim	64	UK	Actor	The Frightened City Dracula: Prince of Darkness
	20	Barbara Stanwyck	82	USA	Actress	Double Indemnity Stella Dallas
	25	Ava Gardner	67	USA	Actress	The Barefoot Contessa The Killers
	26	Dodo Abashidze	66	Soviet Union	Director	The Legend of Suram Fortress Ashik Kerib
February	13	Ken Lynch	79	USA	Actor	North by Northwest Bad Charleston Charlie
	14	Jean Wallace	66	USA	Actress	Lancelot and Guinevere No Blade of Grass
	15	Henry Brandon	77	Germany	Actor	The War of the Worlds The Searchers
	16	Joshua Shelley	70	USA	Actor	All the President's Men Funny Lady
	19	Michael Powell	84	UK	Director	Black Narcissus A Matter of Life and Death
	28	Fabia Drake	86	UK	Actress	A Room with a View Year of the Dragon
March	5	Gary Merrill	74	USA	Actor	All About Eve Twelve O'Clock High
	17	Capucine	62	Switzerland	Actress	The Pink Panther Fellini Satyricon
April	2	Aldo Fabrizi	84	Italy	Actor	Open City Cops and Robbers
	8	Ernest Steward	79	UK	Cinematographer	Carry On... Up the Khyber Carry On Camping
	11	Vanda Godsell	67	UK	Actress	The Pink Panther Strikes Again A Shot in the Dark
	15	Greta Garbo	84	Sweden	Actress	Grand Hotel Ninotchka
	20	Alex McCrindle	78	UK	Actor, Producer	Star Wars Eye of the Needle
	22	Albert Salmi	62	USA	Actor	The Brothers Karamazov The Bravados
	23	Paulette Goddard	79	USA	Actress	So Proudly We Hail! Modern Times
	25	Dexter Gordon	67	USA	Actor	Round Midnight Awakenings
May	2	David Rappaport	38	USA	Actor	Time Bandits Turkish Delight
	10	Susan Oliver	58	USA	Actress	The Disorderly Orderly Your Cheatin' Heart
	14	Franklyn Seales	37	West Indies	Actor	The Onion Field Southern Comfort
	16	Sammy Davis, Jr.	64	USA	Actor, Singer, Soundtrack	Ocean's 11 Robin and the 7 Hoods
	16	Jim Henson	53	USA	Actor, Writer, Producer	The Dark Crystal The Muppet Movie
	18	Jill Ireland	54	UK	Actress	Hard Times Breakheart Pass
	22	Max Wall	82	UK	Actor, Writer	Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jabberwocky
June	1	Eric Barker	78	UK	Actor, Writer	Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines There's a Girl in My Soup
	2	Jack Gilford	81	USA	Actor, Writer, Soundtrack	Cocoon Catch-22
	2	Rex Harrison	82	UK	Actor	My Fair Lady Doctor Dolittle
	3	Tom Brown	70	USA	Actor	Duke of Chicago I Killed Wild Bill Hickok
	15	Leonard Sachs	80	UK	Actor	Thunderball
	20	Ina Balin	52	USA	Actress	From the Terrace The Patsy
	23	Frank Gatliff	62	UK	Actor	The Ipcress File Operation Daybreak
July	8	Howard Duff	76	USA	Actor	Kramer vs. Kramer No Way Out
	15	Margaret Lockwood	73	UK	Actress	The Lady Vanishes Night Train to Munich
	20	Sergei Parajanov	66	Soviet Union	Director	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors The Color of Pomegranates
August	2	Edwin Richfield	68	UK	Actor, Writer	Ben-Hur The Dam Busters
	17	Pearl Bailey	72	USA	Actress	Carmen Jones St. Louis Blues
	27	Raymond St. Jacques	60	USA	Actor	Cotton Comes to Harlem The Green Berets
September	4	Irene Dunne	91	USA	Actress	The Awful Truth Cimarron
October	4	Jill Bennett	58	UK	Actress, Writer	For Your Eyes Only The Sheltering Sky
	20	Joel McCrea	84	USA	Actor	Sullivan's Travels Foreign Correspondent
	27	Ugo Tognazzi	68	Italy	Actor	La Cage aux Folles The Conjugal Bed
November	3	Mary Martin	76	USA	Actress	Peter Pan (television) Kiss the Boys Goodbye
	3	Valerie French	62	UK	Actress	Jubal Decision at Sundown
	10	Maura McGiveney	51	USA	Actress	North by Northwest Do Not Disturb
	12	Eve Arden	82	USA	Actress	Mildred Pierce Anatomy of a Murder
	13	Don Chaffey	73	New Zealand	Director	Jason and the Argonauts Pete's Dragon
	23	Roald Dahl	74	UK	Writer	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Fantastic Mr. Fox
	24	Dodie Smith	94	UK	Writer, Actress	One Hundred and One Dalmatians
December	1	Sergio Corbucci	63	Italy	Director, Screenwriter	Django Navajo Joe
	2	Robert Cummings	80	USA	Actor, Director	Dial M for Murder Saboteur
	4	Edward Binns	79	USA	Actor	12 Angry Men Fail-Safe
	7	Joan Bennett	80	USA	Actress, Soundtrack	Father of the Bride Scarlet Street
	8	Martin Ritt	76	USA	Director, Producer, Actor	Hud The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
	9	Mike Mazurki	82	USA	Actor, Technical Advisor	Some Like It Hot Dick Tracy

Debuts

• Hank Azaria - Pretty Woman
• Benjamin Bratt - Bright Angel
• Julie Benz - Two Evil Eyes
• Robert Carlyle - Silent Scream
• Harry Connick, Jr. - Memphis Belle
• Kevin Connolly - Rocky V
• Russell Crowe - Blood Oath
• Balthazar Getty - Lord of the Flies
• Brendan Gleeson - The Field
• Djimon Hounsou - Without You I'm Nothing
• Charlie Korsmo - Men Don't Leave
• Brad Garret - Jetsons: The Movie
• Reba McEntire - Tremors
• Julianne Moore - Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
• Chris O'Donnell - Men Don't Leave
• Robert Patrick - Die Hard 2
• Christina Ricci - Mermaids
• Catherine Zeta-Jones - Les 1001 Nuits

References

1. "1990 Worldwide Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 1, 2014.