pre-2000s movies
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Watched
Notting Hill
Notting Hill
London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.
The Breakfast Club
John Hughes · 1985
Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Elia Kazan · 1951
Blanche DuBois, una mujer frágil y en decadencia, se traslada a Nueva Orleans para vivir con su hermana Stella y su brutal esposo Stanley. La tensión entre Blanche y Stanley aumenta, revelando secretos oscuros y desencadenando una lucha por el poder y la supervivencia.
Matilda
Danny DeVito · 1996
Matilda est une petite fille très éveillée, ce qui laisse néanmoins ses parents totalement indifférents, notamment son père qui s'enrichit en revendant des carcasses d'automobiles trafiquées. À l'âge de 6 ans et demi, Matilda est enfin envoyée à l'école. Mais la directrice, une ancienne championne olympique, n'apprécie guère la marmaille. Rapidement, la grande intelligence de Matilda se développe de façon constante : un mystérieux pouvoir apparaît en elle. Ce pouvoir, la télékinésie, lui permet alors d'élaborer un plan pour se débarrasser de la directrice afin que l'école soit plus tranquille.
Bound
Lana Wachowski · 1996
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Gremlins
Joe Dante · 1984
Rand es un viajante que un día regala a su hijo Billy una tierna y extraña criatura, un mogwai. El inocente regalo, sin embargo, será el origen de toda una ola de gamberradas y fechorías en un pequeño pueblo de Estados Unidos. Todo empieza cuando son infringidas, una tras otra, las tres reglas básicas que deben seguirse para cuidar a un mogwai: no darle de comer después de medianoche, no mojarlo y evitar que le dé la luz del Sol.
Back to the Future Part III
Robert Zemeckis · 1990
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Back to the Future Part II
Robert Zemeckis · 1989
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
Back to the Future
Robert Zemeckis · 1985
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.
Home Alone 3
Raja Gosnell · 1997
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Chris Columbus · 1992
Après Paris, c'est à Miami que la tribu McCallister décide de passer les fêtes de Noël. À l'aube du jour J, toute la famille est sur le pied de guerre et file a l'aéroport en prenant bien garde de ne pas oublier Kevin. Mais celui-ci s'éclipse pour acheter des piles pour son walkman, il ne retrouve plus les siens et s'embarque par mégarde pour New York...
Home Alone
Chris Columbus · 1990
Kevin McAllister es un niño de ocho años, miembro de una familia numerosa, que accidentalmente se queda abandonado en su casa cuando toda la familia se marcha a pasar las vacaciones a Francia. Kevin aprende a valerse por sí mismo e incluso a protegerse de Harry y Marv, dos bribones que se proponen asaltar todas las casas cerradas de su vecindario. Cuando su madre Kate lo hecha en falta, realiza un pintoresco viaje de vuelta contra reloj a Chicago para recuperar a su hijo.
Dennis the Menace
Nick Castle · 1993
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Meet Joe Black
Martin Brest · 1998
William Parrish es un poderoso y meticuloso magnate cuya vida se ve alterada por la llegada de un enigmático joven llamado Joe Black que se enamora de su hija. Se trata, en realidad, de la personificación de la muerte, con una misión que cumplir en dicho hogar. Versión del filme de 1934 "La muerte de vacaciones".
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino · 1994
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Beetlejuice
Tim Burton · 1988
Una pareja de fantasmas contratan a un "bio-exorcista" a sueldo para asustar a los intrusos que usurparon su hogar en Nueva Inglaterra.
Mary Poppins
Robert Stevenson · 1964
Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
The Breakfast Club
John Hughes · 1985
Cinco estudiantes de distinta educación, formación y gustos son castigados a pasar un sábado en el instituto en el que estudian. Pronto las desavenencias entre ellos aparecen, especialmente cuando el director que les vigila se ausenta del aula.
The Truman Show
Peter Weir · 1998
Truman Burbank é um pacato vendedor de seguros que leva um vida simples com sua esposa Meryl Burbank. Porém algumas coisas ao seu redor fazem com que ele passe a estranhar sua cidade, seus supostos amigos e até sua mulher. Após conhecer a misteriosa Lauren, ele fica intrigado e acaba descobrindo que toda sua vida foi monitorada por câmeras e transmitida em rede nacional.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
En un elitista y estricto colegio privado de Nueva Inglaterra, un grupo de alumnos descubrirá la poesía, el significado de "Carpe Diem" -aprovechar el momento- y la importancia de perseguir los sueños, gracias a un excéntrico profesor que despierta sus mentes por medio de métodos poco convencionales.
Addams Family Values
Barry Sonnenfeld · 1993
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
The Addams Family
Barry Sonnenfeld · 1991
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Bill Duke · 1993
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Sister Act
Emile Ardolino · 1992
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
The Parent Trap
Nancy Meyers · 1998
Hallie y Annie, dos gemelas que se parecen como dos gotas de agua, fueron separadas poco después de nacer, a causa del divorcio de sus padres. Hallie vive en Napa Valley con su padre, que es viticultor. Por su parte, Annie vive en Londres con su madre, una famosa diseñadora de trajes de novia. Ninguna de las dos conoce la existencia de la otra, pero el destino hace que se encuentren por casualidad en Maine, en un campamento de verano. Antes de volver a casa, las niñas urden un plan para conseguir reunir a sus padres, pero hay un inconveniente con el que no contaban: su padre proyecta casarse con otra mujer.
The Parent Trap
David Swift · 1961
Two identical twin sisters, separated at birth by their parents' divorce, are reunited years later at a summer camp, where they scheme to bring their parents back together. The girls, one of whom has been living with their mother and the other with their father, switch places after camp and go to work on their plan, the first objective being to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father.
The Birdcage
Mike Nichols · 1996
Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. By Val's request, Armand pretends to be straight, not Jewish and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert, in order to please Barbara's father, controversial right-wing Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley.
The Sound of Music
Robert Wise · 1965
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
To Watch
Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman
While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a prostitute, Vivian, while asking for directions; after, Edward hires Vivian to stay with him for the weekend to accompany him to a few social events, and the two get closer only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds.
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Victor/Victoria
Victor/Victoria
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Blake Edwards · 1961
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
James Signorelli · 1988
Arriving in the small town of Fallwell, Massachusetts to claim her inheritance, horror hostess Elvira receives a less than enthusiastic reception from the conservative locals -- amongst them, her sinister uncle Vincent, who, unbeknownst to her, is an evil warlock.
Death Becomes Her
Robert Zemeckis · 1992
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen''s fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
