Top 1991 Movies

55 Titles
The Silence of the Lambs Poster

The Silence of the Lambs

F.B.I. trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) works hard to advance her career, while trying to hide or put behind her West Virginia roots, of which if some knew, would automatically classify her as being backward or white trash. After graduation, she aspires to work in the agency's Behavioral Science Unit under the leadership of Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn). While she is still a trainee, Crawford asks her to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a psychiatrist imprisoned, thus far, for eight years in maximum security isolation for being a serial killer who cannibalized his victims. Clarice is able to figure out the assignment is to pick Lecter's brains to help them solve another serial murder case, that of someone coined by the media as "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who has so far killed five victims, all located in the eastern U.S., all young women, who are slightly overweight (especially around the hips), all who were drowned in natural bodies of water, and all who were stripped of large swaths of skin. She also figures that Crawford chose her, as a woman, to be able to trigger some emotional response from Lecter. After speaking to Lecter for the first time, she realizes that everything with him will be a psychological game, with her often having to read between the very cryptic lines he provides. She has to decide how much she will play along, as his request in return for talking to him is to expose herself emotionally to him. The case takes a more dire turn when a sixth victim is discovered, this one from who they are able to retrieve a key piece of evidence, if Lecter is being forthright as to its meaning. A potential seventh victim is high profile Catherine Martin (Brooke Smith), the daughter of Senator Ruth Martin (Diane Baker), which places greater scrutiny on the case as they search for a hopefully still alive Catherine. Who may factor into what happens is Dr. Frederick Chilton (Anthony Heald), the warden at the prison, an opportunist who sees the higher profile with Catherine, meaning a higher profile for himself if he can insert himself successfully into the proceedings.

1.6M votes
6. 8 imdb
% 86 metacritic
% 95 tomato meter
Night on Earth Poster

Night on Earth

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

69,212 votes
7. 7 imdb
% 68 metacritic
% 77 tomato meter
Hook Poster

Hook

When Captain James Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

284K votes
8. 6 imdb
% 52 metacritic
% 29 tomato meter
Ernest Scared Stupid Poster

Ernest Scared Stupid

Ernest accidentally unleashes an ugly troll that plots to transform children into wooden dolls in the town of Briarville, Missouri.

11,618 votes
7. 5 imdb
% 38 metacritic
% 17 tomato meter
Hot Shots! Poster

Hot Shots!

A parody of Top Gun (1986) in which a talented but unstable fighter pilot must overcome the ghosts of his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers.

121K votes
7. 6 imdb
% 61 metacritic
% 82 tomato meter
Child's Play 3 Poster

Child's Play 3

Chucky returns for revenge against Andy, the young boy who defeated him, and now a teenager living in a military academy.

40,904 votes
1. 5 imdb
% 27 metacritic
% 21 tomato meter
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear Poster

The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

Lieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.

130K votes
9. 6 imdb
% 65 metacritic
% 58 tomato meter
The Fisher King Poster

The Fisher King

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.

85,197 votes
5. 7 imdb
% 61 metacritic
% 0 tomato meter
Only Yesterday Poster

Only Yesterday

A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.

40,668 votes
6. 7 imdb
% 90 metacritic
% 100 tomato meter
Showdown in Little Tokyo Poster

Showdown in Little Tokyo

Detective Chris Kenner was orphaned as a child as his father was in the service and was killed and lived in Japan. Now he is on the trail of ruthless Yakuza leader named Yoshido, who helped establish a small Japanese area in Los Angeles and is now running a drug ring disguised as a brewery. However, Kenner must team up with a Japanese-American detective named Johnny Murata, and he also must protect a witness named Minako who would testify against Yoshido. But what Kenner will soon discover that he will be in a lot more than what he bargained for.

21,823 votes
1. 6 imdb
% metacritic
% 33 tomato meter
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