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- Highest-grossing films
- Events
- Awards
- 1991 Wide-release films January–March April–June July–September October–December
- Notable films released in 1991 A–D E–K L–Q R–Y
- Births
- Notable deaths
- Film debuts
- References
{{Year nav topic5|1991|film|home video|television}}{{Yearsinfilm}}The year 1991 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films{{see also|List of 1991 box office number-one films in the United States}}The top ten films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 1991[1]Rank | Title | Distributor | Worldwide Gross |
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1. | Judgment Day | TriStar | $519,843,345[2] | 2. | Prince of Thieves | Warner Bros. | $390,493,908 | 3. | Beauty and the Beast | Disney | ${{formatnum:{{#expr:377350553-25487190-5546156}}}}[3] | 4. | Hook | TriStar | $300,854,823 | 5. | The Silence of the Lambs | Orion | $272,742,922 | 6. | JFK | Warner Bros. | $205,405,498 | 7. | The Addams Family | Paramount / Orion | $191,502,426 | 8. | Cape Fear | Universal | $182,291,969 | 9. | Hot Shots! | 20th Century Fox | $181,096,164 | 10. | City Slickers | Columbia | $179,033,791 | |
Events- April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York
- July 3 - Judgment Day became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.
- Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed, acquiring Columbia Pictures Industries. As a result of this new formation, Tri-Star Pictures drops the hyphen from its name and becomes TriStar Pictures, while RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video becomes Columbia-TriStar Home Video.
- October - Mark Canton replaces Frank Price as chairman of Columbia Pictures.
- November 22 - Walt Disney Pictures releases Beauty and the Beast, based on the original fairy tale and Jean Cocteau's 1946 film of the same name, the film became one of the most prestigious and greatest animated and romantic films in cinema history. It went on to become the first animated film ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Awards Academy Awards Golden Globe AwardsPalme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): Barton Fink, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, United States Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival): Close To Eden (Urga), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, France / USSR Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): La Casa del sorriso (The House of Smiles), directed by Marco Ferreri, Italy Category/Organization | 49th Golden Globe Awards January 18, 1992 | 45th BAFTA Awards February 21, 1992 | 64th Academy Awards March 30, 1992 |
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Drama | Musical or Comedy |
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Best Film | Bugsy | Beauty and the Beast | The Commitments | The Silence of the Lambs | Best Director | Oliver Stone JFK | Alan Parker The Commitments | Jonathan Demme The Silence of the Lambs | Best Actor | Nick Nolte The Prince of Tides | Robin Williams The Fisher King | Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs | Best Actress | Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs | Bette Midler For the Boys | Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs | Best Supporting Actor | Jack Palance City Slickers | Alan Rickman Prince of Thieves | Jack Palance City Slickers | Best Supporting Actress | Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King | Kate Nelligan Frankie and Johnny | Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King | Best Screenplay, Adapted | Thelma & Louise Callie Khouri | The Commitments Dick Clement | The Silence of the Lambs Ted Tally | Best Screenplay, Original | Truly Madly Deeply Anthony Minghella | Thelma & Louise Callie Khouri | Best Score | Beauty and the Beast Alan Menken | Cyrano de Bergerac Jean-Claude Petit | Beauty and the Beast Alan Menken | Best Song | "Beauty and the Beast" Beauty and the Beast |
| "Beauty and the Beast" Beauty and the Beast | Best Foreign Language Film | Europa Europa (Hitlerjunge Salomon) | Nasty Girls | Mediterraneo
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1991 Wide-release filmsJanuary–MarchOpening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium | J A N U A R Y | 11 | Lionheart | Universal Pictures | Sheldon Lettich (director); S.N. Warren, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sheldon Lettich (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Harrison Page, Deborah Rennard, Brian Thompson, Lisa Pelikan, Ashley Johnson, Ash Adams, Michel Qissi, Abdul Qissi | Action | Live action |
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Not Without My Daughter | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Brian Gilbert (director); Sally Field, Alfred Molina | Drama | Live action | Ski School | Moviestore Entertainment | Damian Lee (director); David Mitchell (screenplay); Dean Cameron, Tom Breznahan, Stuart Fratkin, Darlene Vogel, Ava Fabian, Patrick Labyorteaux, Mark Thomas Miller, Spencer Rochfort, John Pyper-Ferguson | Sports, Comedy | Live action | 18 | Flight of the Intruder | Paramount Pictures | John Milius (director); Robert Dillon, David Shaber (screenplay); Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson, Rosanna Arquette, Tom Sizemore | Action, Drama | Live action | Men of Respect | Columbia Pictures | William Reilly (director/screenplay); John Turturro, Rod Steiger, Katherine Borowitz, Stanley Tucci, Peter Boyle, Dennis Farina | Crime, Drama | Live action | White Fang | Walt Disney Pictures | Randal Kleiser (director); Jeanne Rosenberg, Nick Thiel, David Fallon (screenplay); Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Seymour Cassel | Adventure | Live action | 25 | Too Much Sun | CineTel Films | Robert Downey Sr. (director/screenplay); Laura Ernst, Al Schwartz (screenplay); Allan Arbus, Robert Downey Jr., Howard Duff | Comedy | Live action | F E B R U A R Y | 8 | The Annihilation | Cannon Group | Cedric Sundstrom (director); David Geeves (screenplay); Michael Dudikoff, David Bradley, James Booth, Dwayne Alexandre, Ken Gampu, Robin Stille, Franz Dobrowsky, Ron Smerczak, Kely McClung, Jody Abrahams | Action, Martial Arts | Live action |
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L.A. Story | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | Mick Jackson (director); Steve Martin (screenplay); Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker | Romance, Comedy | Live action | The Next Chapter | Warner Bros. Pictures | George T. Miller (director); Karin Howard (screenplay); Jonathan Brandis, Kenny Morrison, Clarissa Burt, John Wesley Shipp, Alexandra Johnes, Thomas Hill | Fantasy, Adventure | Live action | Sleeping with the Enemy | 20th Century Fox | Joseph Ruben (director); Ronald Bass (screenplay); Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson | Drama, Thriller | Live action | 14 | The Silence of the Lambs | Orion Pictures | Jonathan Demme (director); Ted Tally (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine | Mystery, Thriller, Horror | Live action | 15 | King Ralph | Universal Pictures | David S. Ward (director); John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt | Comedy | Live action | Nothing but Trouble | Warner Bros. Pictures | Dan Aykroyd (director/screenplay); Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Demi Moore | Horror, Comedy | Live action | 22 | He Said, She Said | Paramount Pictures | Ken Kwapis, Marisa Silver (director); Brian Hohlfeld (screenplay); Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Nathan Lane, Sharon Stone, George Martin | Romance, Comedy | Live action | M A R C H | 1 | The Doors | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); J. Randall Johnson (screenplay); Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kevin Dillon, Kathleen Quinlan, Billy Idol, Josh Evans | Biography | Live action |
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My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | Stuart Rosenberg (director); Joel Don Humphreys (screenplay); Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Gary Busey, Tess Harper, Balthazar Getty, Mickey Rooney, Clarence Williams III, Bill Clymer, Dub Taylor | Drama, Western | Live action | 8 | The Hard Way | Universal Pictures | John Badham (director); Michael J. Fox, James Woods, Stephen Lang, Annabella Sciorra, Delroy Lindo, LL Cool J, Luis Guzman, Penny Marshall | Action, Comedy | Live action | New Jack City | Warner Bros. Pictures | Mario Van Peebles (director); Thomas Lee Wright, Barry Michael Cooper (screenplay); Wesley Snipes, Ice T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson | Crime, Drama | Live action | 15 | Class Action | 20th Century Fox | Michael Apted (director); Carolyn Shelby, Christopher Ames, Samantha Shad (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Courtroom Drama | Live action | Guilty by Suspicion | Warner Bros. Pictures | Irwin Winkler (director/screenplay); Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Sam Wanamaker, Martin Scorsese | Thriller | Live action | If Looks Could Kill | Warner Bros. Pictures | William Dear (director); Darren Star (screenplay); Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, Gabrielle Anwar, Roger Daltrey | Action, Comedy | Live action | True Colors | Paramount Pictures | Herbert Ross (director); Kevin Wade (screenplay); James Spader, John Cusack, Richard Widmark, Mandy Patinkin, Paul Guilfoyle | Drama | Live action | 22 | Defending Your Life | Warner Bros. Pictures | Albert Brooks (director/screenplay); Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry | Romance, Comedy, Fantasy | Live action | The Secret of the Ooze | New Line Cinema | Michael Pressman (director); Todd W. Langen (screenplay); Paige Turco, David Warner, Ernie Reyes, Jr., François Chau, Kevin Nash, Toshishiro Obata, Vanilla Ice, Adam Carl, Kevin Clash, Laurie Faso, David McCharen, Michael McConnohie, Robbie Rist, Brian Tochi, Frank Welker | Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Martial Arts | Live action | 29 | Career Opportunities | Universal Pictures / Hughes Entertainment | Bryan Gordon (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Frank Whaley, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney, John M. Jackson, Jenny O'Hara, Noble Willingham, William Forsythe, John Candy, Barry Corbin | Romance, Comedy | Live action | The Five Heartbeats | 20th Century Fox | Robert Townsend (director); Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans (screenplay); Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells, Diahann Carroll | Musical, Drama | Live action |
April–JuneOpening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium |
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A P R I L | 5 | The Marrying Man | Hollywood Pictures | Jerry Rees (director); Neil Simon (screenplay); Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Robert Loggia, Elisabeth Shue, Paul Reiser, Fisher Stevens, Peter Dobson, Armand Assante | Romance, Comedy | Live action |
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12 | Out for Justice | Warner Bros. Pictures | John Flynn (director); David Lee Henry (screenplay); Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach, Jo Champa | Action | Live action | 19 | Drop Dead Fred | New Line Cinema | Ate de Jong (director); Carlos Davis, Anthony Fingleton (screenplay); Rik Mayall, Phoebe Cates, Marsha Mason, Tim Matheson, Carrie Fisher, Daniel Gerroll, Ron Eldard | Comedy, Fantasy | Live action | Mortal Thoughts | Columbia Pictures | Alan Rudolph (director); William Reilly, Claude Kerven (screenplay); Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, John Pankow, Harvey Keitel, Billie Neal, Frank Vincent | Mystery, Thriller | Live action | 26 | A Kiss Before Dying | Universal Pictures | James Dearden (director/screenplay); Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, Diane Ladd, James Russo | Thriller | Live action | Oscar | Touchstone Pictures | John Landis (director); Michael Barrie, Jim Mulholland (screenplay); Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Ornella Muti, Tim Curry, Chazz Palminteri | Comedy | Live action | Talent for the Game | Paramount Pictures | Robert M. Young (director); David Himmelstein, Thomas Michael Donnelly, Larry Ferguson (screenplay); Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco | Drama | Live action | Toy Soldiers | TriStar Pictures | Daniel Petrie Jr. (director); David Koepp, Daniel Petrie Jr. (screenplay); Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Keith Coogan, Andrew Divoff, Mason Adams, Denholm Elliott, Louis Gossett Jr. | Action, Drama | Live action | M A Y | 3 | One Good Cop | Hollywood Pictures | Heywood Gould (director/screenplay); Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia, Benjamin Bratt | Drama, Thriller | Live action |
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A Rage in Harlem | Miramax Films | Bill Duke (director); Bobby Crawford (screenplay); Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Zakes Mokae, Danny Glover | Crime | Live action | 10 | F/X2 | Orion Pictures | Richard Franklin (director); Bill Condon (screenplay); Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Joanna Gleason, Philip Bosco | Action, Thriller | Live action | Truth or Dare | Miramax Films | Alek Keshishian (director); Madonna | Documentary | Live action | Sweet Talker | New Line Cinema | Michael Jenkins (director) | Live action | Switch | HBO / Warner Bros. Pictures | Blake Edwards (director); Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco | Comedy | Live action | 17 | What About Bob? | Touchstone Pictures | Frank Oz (director); Tom Schulman (screenplay); Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty | Comedy | Live action | 24 | Backdraft | Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Ron Howard (director); Gregory Widen (screenplay); Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro | Action, Thriller | Live action | Hudson Hawk | TriStar Pictures | Michael Lehmann (director); Steven E. de Souza, Daniel Waters (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant | Action, Comedy | Live action | Only the Lonely | 20th Century Fox / Hughes Entertainment | Chris Columbus (director/screenplay); John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Quinn, Kevin Dunn, James Belushi | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live action | Thelma & Louise | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Ridley Scott (director); Callie Khouri (screenplay); Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis | Adventure, Thriller | Live action | Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken | Walt Disney Pictures | Steve Miner (director); Matt Williams, Oley Sassone (screenplay); Gabrielle Anwar, Michael Schoeffling, Cliff Robertson | Drama | Live action | 31 | Soapdish | Paramount Pictures | Michael Hoffman (director); Robert Harling, Andrew Bergman (screenplay); Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Shue, Teri Hatcher | Comedy | Live action | J U N E | 7 | City Slickers | Columbia Pictures / Castle Rock Entertainment | Ron Underwood (director); Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel (screenplay); Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater, Noble Willingham, Jack Palance | Western, Comedy | Live action |
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead | Warner Bros. Pictures | Stephen Herek (director), Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, Josh Charles, David Duchovny | Comedy | Live action | Jungle Fever | Universal Pictures / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks | Spike Lee (director/screenplay); Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, Lonette McKee, John Turturro, Frank Vincent, Anthony Quinn | Romance, Drama | Live action | 14 | Prince of Thieves | Warner Bros. Pictures / Morgan Creek Productions | Kevin Reynolds (director); Pen Densham, John Watson (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Action, Adventure | Live action | 21 | Dying Young | 20th Century Fox | Joel Schumacher (director); Marti Leimbach, Richard Friedenberg (screenplay); Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D'Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, David Selby | Romance, Drama | Live action | The Rocketeer | Walt Disney Pictures | Joe Johnston (director); Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo (screenplay); Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino, Tiny Ron Taylor | Action, Period | Live action | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Fine Line Features | Charles Sturridge (director/screenplay); Tim Sullivan, Derek Granger (screenplay); Rupert Graves, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Helen Mirren, Barbara Jefford | Period, Drama | Live action | 28 | The Smell of Fear | Paramount Pictures | David Zucker (director/screenplay); Pat Proft (screenplay); Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O. J. Simpson | Comedy, Spoof | Live action |
July–SeptemberOpening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium |
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J U L Y | 3 | Problem Child 2 | Universal Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Brian Levant (director); Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski (screenplay); John Ritter, Michael Oliver, Jack Warden, Laraine Newman, Amy Yasbeck, Ivyann Schwan | Comedy | Live action |
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Judgment Day | TriStar Pictures / Carolco Pictures | James Cameron (director); James Cameron, William Wisher Jr. (screenplay); Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong | Action, Sci-Fi | Live action | 12 | 101 Dalmatians (re-release) | Walt Disney Pictures | Wolfgang Reitherman, Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske (director); Bill Peet (screenplay); Rod Taylor, Cate Bauer, Betty Lou Gerson | Family | Animation | Boyz n the Hood | Columbia Pictures | John Singleton (director/screenplay); Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Angela Bassett | Drama | Live action | Point Break | 20th Century Fox / Largo Entertainment | Kathryn Bigelow (director); W. Peter Iliff (screenplay); Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley, James LeGros | Action | Live action | Regarding Henry | Paramount Pictures | Mike Nichols (director); J. J. Abrams (screenplay); Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Bill Nunn, Donald Moffat, Bruce Altman | Drama | Live action | 19 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Orion Pictures / Nelson Entertainment | Pete Hewitt (director); Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon (screenplay); Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler, Joss Ackland, George Carlin | Sci-Fi, Comedy | Live action | Dutch | 20th Century Fox / Hughes Entertainment | Peter Faiman (director); John Hughes (screenplay); Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, JoBeth Williams, Christopher McDonald, E.G. Daily | Comedy, Drama | Live action | 24 | The Doctor | Touchstone Pictures | Randa Haines (director); Robert Caswell (screenplay); William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Elizabeth Perkins | Drama | Live action | 26 | Another You | TriStar Pictures | Maurice Phillips (director); Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Stephen Lang, Mercedes Ruehl, Vanessa Williams | Comedy | Live action | Life Stinks | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Mel Brooks (director/screenplay); Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Steve Haberman (screenplay); Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor | Comedy, Drama | Live action | Mobsters | Universal Pictures | Michael Karbelnikoff (director); Michael Mahern, Nicholas Kazan (screenplay); Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor, Michael Gambon, Anthony Quinn, Lara Flynn Boyle, F. Murray Abraham | Crime, Drama | Live action | V.I. Warshawski | Hollywood Pictures | Jeff Kanew (director); Kathleen Turner, Jay O. Sanders, Charles Durning | Action, Comedy | Live action | 27 | A Brighter Summer Day | Cine Qua Non Films | Edward Yang (director/screenplay); Hung Hung, Lai Mingtang, Alex Yang (screenplay); Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Chang Kuo-Chu, Elaine Jin | Drama | Live action | 31 | Hot Shots! | 20th Century Fox | Jim Abrahams (director/screenplay); Pat Proft (screenplay); Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges, Jon Cryer, Kevin Dunn, Kristy Swanson, Bill Irwin | Comedy, Spoof | Live action | A U G U S T | 2 | Doc Hollywood | Warner Bros. Pictures | Michael Caton-Jones (director); Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Daniel Pyne (screenplay); Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson | Romance, Comedy | Live action |
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Rover Dangerfield | Warner Bros. Pictures | James L. George, Bob Seeley (director); Rodney Dangerfield (screenplay); Rodney Dangerfield, Ronnie Schell, Shawn Southwick, Sal Landi, Ned Luke, Bert Kramer, Robert Pine | Comedy, Musical | Animation | Rock-a-Doodle | Goldcrest Films / Sullivan Bluth Studios | Don Bluth (director); David N. Weiss (screenplay); Toby Scott Ganger, Glen Campbell, Sorrell Booke, Christopher Plummer, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ellen Greene, Sandy Duncan, Eddie Deezen, Phil Harris, Will Ryan | Musical, Fantasy, Adventure | Animation Live Action | Return to the Blue Lagoon | Columbia Pictures | William A. Graham (director); Leslie Stevens (screenplay); Milla Jovovich, Brian Krause | Adventure, Romance | Live action | 9 | Bingo | TriStar Pictures | Matthew Robbins (director); Jim Strain (screenplay); Cindy Williams, David Rasche, Robert J. Steinmiller Jr. | Family, Comedy | Live action | Delirious | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Tom Mankiewicz (director); Fred Freeman, Lawrence J. Cohen (screenplay); John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, David Rasche, Raymond Burr | Romance, Comedy | Live action | Double Impact | Columbia Pictures/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sheldon Lettich (director/screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme (screenplay); Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alan Scarfe, Philip Chan, Bolo Yeung, Corrina Everson, Alonna Shaw | Action | Live action | Pure Luck | Universal Pictures | Nadia Tass (director); Francis Veber, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris (screenplay); Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelly, Scott Wilson, Harry Shearer | Comedy | Live action | 14 | The Commitments | 20th Century Fox / Beacon Pictures | Alan Parker (director); Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Roddy Doyle (screenplay); Robert Arkins, Colm Meaney, Andrew Strong, Maria Doyle | Comedy, Drama | Live action | 16 | Mystery Date | Orion Pictures | Jonathan Wacks (director); Parker Bennett, Terry Runte (screenplay); Ethan Hawke, Teri Polo, Brian McNamara, Fisher Stevens, Don S. Davis, BD Wong | Comedy | Live action | 22 | Barton Fink | 20th Century Fox | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (director/screenplay); John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Tony Shalhoub, Steve Buscemi | Period | Live action | 23 | Dead Again | Paramount Pictures | Kenneth Branagh (director); Scott Frank (screenplay); Kenneth Branagh, Andy García, Emma Thompson, Lois Hall, Richard Easton, Jo Anderson, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams | Thriller | Live action | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Simon Wincer (director); Don Michael Paul (screenplay); Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Tia Carrere, Vanessa Williams, Tom Sizemore | Action | Live action | High Heels | El Deseo | Pedro Almodóvar (director/screenplay); Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Miguel Bosé | Drama | Live action | 30 | Child's Play 3 | Universal Pictures | Jack Bender (director); Don Mancini (screenplay); Justin Whalin, Perrey Reeves, Jeremy Sylvers, Brad Dourif | Horror, Comedy | Live action | S E P T E M B E R | 6 | Company Business | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Nicholas Meyer (director/screenplay); Gene Hackman, Mikhail Baryshnikov | Action | Live action |
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13 | Dogfight | Warner Bros. Pictures | Nancy Savoca (director); Bob Comfort (screenplay); River Phoenix, Lili Taylor | Drama | Live action | 18 | Mississippi Masala | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Mira Nair (director); Sooni Taraporevala (screenplay); Denzel Washington, Roshan Seth, Sarita Choudhury | Romance, Drama | Live action | Paradise | Touchstone Pictures | Mary Agnes Donoghue (director); Mary Agnes Donoghue (screenplay); Melanie Griffith, Don Johnson, Elijah Wood | Drama | Live action | 20 | The Fisher King | TriStar Pictures | Terry Gilliam (director); Richard LaGravenese (screenplay); Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, Mercedes Ruehl | Comedy, Drama | Live action | The Indian Runner | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Sean Penn (director/screenplay); David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Jordan Rhodes, Dennis Hopper | Crime, Drama | Live action | Rambling Rose | Carolco Pictures | Martha Coolidge (director); Calder Willingham (screenplay); Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard | Drama | Live action | 27 | Deceived | Touchstone Pictures | Damian Harris (director); Mary Agnes Donoghue, Bruce Joel Rubin (screenplay); Goldie Hawn, John Heard | Thriller | Live action | Necessary Roughness | Paramount Pictures | Stan Dragoti (director); Rick Natkin, David Fuller (screenplay); Scott Bakula, Héctor Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak | Sports, Comedy | Live action |
October–DecemberOpening | Title | Studio | Cast and crew | Genre | Medium |
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O C T O B E R | 4 | The Man in the Moon | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Robert Mulligan (director); Jenny Wingfield (screenplay); Reese Witherspoon, Jason London, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper, Gail Strickland, Emily Warfield | Romance, Drama | Live action |
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Ricochet | Warner Bros. Pictures / Silver Pictures | Russell Mulcahy (director); Fred Dekker, Menno Meyjes, Steven E. de Souza (screenplay); Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T, Kevin Pollak, Lindsay Wagner | Crime | Live action | The Super | 20th Century Fox / Largo Entertainment | Rod Daniel (director); Sam Simon (screenplay); Joe Pesci, Vincent Gardenia, Rubén Blades, Madolyn Smith, Stacey Travis, Carole Shelley, Kenny Blank, Steven Rodriguez | Comedy | Live action | 11 | City of Hope | The Samuel Goldwyn Company | John Sayles (director/screenplay); Vincent Spano, Stephen Mendillo, Chris Cooper, Angela Bassett, Joe Morton, Tony Lo Bianco | Drama | Live action | Ernest Scared Stupid | Touchstone Pictures | John Cherry (director); Coke Sams, Charlie Gale (screenplay); Jim Varney, Austin Nagler, Shay Astar, Nick Victory, Bill Byrge, John Cadenhead, Richard Woolf, Eartha Kitt | Comedy | Live action | Frankie and Johnny | Paramount Pictures | Garry Marshall (director); Terrence McNally (screenplay); Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Héctor Elizondo, Nathan Lane, Kate Nelligan | Romance | Live action | Shattered | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Wolfgang Petersen (director/screenplay); Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen | Thriller | Live action | Stepping Out | Paramount Pictures | Lewis Gilbert (director); Richard Harris (screenplay); Liza Minnelli, Shelley Winters, Julie Walters, Robyn Stevan, Bill Irwin, Ellen Greene, Jane Krakowski, Sheila McCarthy, Andrea Martin, Nora Dunn, Eugene Robert Glazer, Carol Woods | Musical, Comedy | Live action | 18 | Cool as Ice | Universal Pictures | David Kellogg (director); David Stenn (screenplay); Vanilla Ice, Kristin Minter, John Haymes Newton, Michael Gross, Candy Clark | Romance, Musical | Live action | Little Man Tate | Orion Pictures | Jodie Foster (director); Scott Frank (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, Harry Connick Jr. | Drama | Live action | My Own Private Idaho | Fine Line Features | Gus Van Sant (director/screenplay); River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves | Drama | Live action | Other People's Money | Warner Bros. Pictures | Norman Jewison (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie, Dean Jones | Romance, Comedy, Drama | Live action | 25 | The Butcher's Wife | Paramount Pictures | Terry Hughes (director); Ezra Litwak, Marjorie Schwartz (screenplay); Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza, Frances McDormand, Mary Steenburgen | Romance, Comedy | Live action | Curly Sue | Warner Bros. Pictures / Hughes Entertainment | John Hughes (director/screenplay); Jim Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alisan Porter, John Getz, Fred Dalton Thompson | Comedy, Drama, Family | Live action | The Hitman | The Cannon Group, Inc. | Aaron Norris (director); Don Carmody, Robert Geoffrion, Galen Thompson (screenplay); Chuck Norris | Action, Crime | Live action | Two Evil Eyes | Taurus Entertainment Company | Dario Argento, George A. Romero (directors/screenplay); Franco Ferrini (screenplay); Adrienne Barbeau, E. G. Marshall, Harvey Keitel, Madeleine Potter, Martin Balsam, Barbara Bryne, Tom Atkins | Horror | Live action | N O V E M B E R | 1 | 29th Street | 20th Century Fox / Largo Entertainment | George Gallo (director/screenplay); Frank Pesce (screenplay); Danny Aiello, Anthony LaPaglia | Comedy, Drama | Live action |
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Billy Bathgate | Touchstone Pictures | Robert Benton (director); Tom Stoppard (screenplay); Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Steven Hill, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis | Crime, Drama | Live action | The Quickening | Entertainment Film Distributors | Russell Mulcahy (director); Peter Bellwood (screenplay); Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside | Sci-Fi, Action | Live action | The People Under the Stairs | Universal Pictures | Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Brandon Adams, Everett McGill, Wendy Robie, A. J. Langer, Ving Rhames, Sean Whalen | Comedy, Horror | Live action | Year of the Gun | Triumph Films | John Frankenheimer (director); David Ambrose (screenplay); Andrew McCarthy, Sharon Stone, Valeria Golino | Thriller | Live action | 8 | All I Want for Christmas | Paramount Pictures | Robert Lieberman (director); Thom Eberhardt, Richard Kramer (screenplay); Thora Birch, Ethan Randall, Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Lauren Bacall, Leslie Nielsen | Romance, Comedy | Live action | Strictly Business | Warner Bros. Pictures | Kevin Hooks (director); Pam Gibson, Nelson George (screenplay); Tommy Davidson, Joseph C. Phillips, Halle Berry, Anne-Marie Johnson, David Marshall Grant | Comedy | Live action | 13 | Cape Fear | Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment | Martin Scorsese (director); Wesley Strick (screenplay); Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Joe Don Baker, Illeana Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck | Thriller | Live action | 15 | Kafka | Miramax Films | Steven Soderbergh (director); Lem Dobbs (screenplay); Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Alec Guinness | Mystery, Thriller | Live action | 22 | The Addams Family | Paramount Pictures | Barry Sonnenfeld (director); Caroline Thompson, Larry Wilson (screenplay); Anjelica Huston, Raúl Juliá, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Hedaya, Elizabeth Wilson, Christina Ricci, Paul Benedict, Jimmy Workman, Judith Malina, Carel Struycken, Dana Ivey, John Franklin, Mercedes McNab | Comedy | Live action | Fievel Goes West | Universal Pictures / Amblimation | Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells (director); Flint Dille (screenplay); Phillip Glasser, James Stewart, Erica Yohn, Cathy Cavadini, Nehemiah Persoff, Dom DeLuise, Amy Irving, John Cleese, Jon Lovitz | Comedy, Western | Animation | Beauty and the Beast | Walt Disney Pictures | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise (director); Linda Woolverton (screenplay); Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Bradley Pierce, Rex Everhart, Jesse Corti | Fantasy, Romance, Musical | Animation | For the Boys | 20th Century Fox | Mark Rydell (director); Marshall Brickman, Neal Jimenez, Lindy Laub (screenplay); Bette Midler, James Caan, Arye Gross, George Segal | Biography, Drama | Live action | 27 | My Girl | Columbia Pictures / Imagine Entertainment | Howard Zieff (director); Laurice Elehwany (screenplay); Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Griffin Dunne, Richard Masur, Peter Michael Goetz | Drama | Live action | D E C E M B E R | 6 | At Play in the Fields of the Lord | Universal Pictures | Héctor Babenco (director); Jean-Claude Carrière, Vincent Patrick (screenplay); Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Kathy Bates, Daryl Hannah, John Lithgow, Tom Waits | Drama, Period | Live action |
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The Undiscovered Country | Paramount Pictures | Nicholas Meyer (director/screenplay); Denny Martin Flinn (screenplay); William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Kim Cattrall, Christopher Plummer | Sci-Fi | Live action | 11 | Hook | TriStar Pictures / Amblin Entertainment | Steven Spielberg (director); James V. Hart, Malia Scotch Marmo (screenplay); Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Charlie Korsmo | Fantasy, Adventure | Live action | 13 | The Last Boy Scout | Warner Bros. Pictures / Silver Pictures | Tony Scott (director); Shane Black (screenplay); Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron, Danielle Harris, Halle Berry | Action | Live action | 20 | Bugsy | TriStar Pictures | Barry Levinson (director); James Toback (screenplay); Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Joe Mantegna, Bebe Neuwirth, Bill Graham | Crime, Drama | Live action | Father of the Bride | Touchstone Pictures | Charles Shyer (director); Nancy Meyers, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett (screenplay); Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams, Martin Short | Comedy | Live action | JFK | Warner Bros. Pictures | Oliver Stone (director/screenplay); Zachary Sklar (screenplay); Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Oldman, Michael Rooker, Jay O. Sanders, Sissy Spacek, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Donald Sutherland, John Candy, Joe Pesci | Thriller | Live action | 22 | Rush | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / The Zanuck Company | Lili Fini Zanuck (director); Pete Dexter (screenplay); Jason Patric, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Sam Elliott | Crime, Drama | Live action | 25 | The Prince of Tides | Columbia Pictures | Barbra Streisand (director); Nick Nolte, Blythe Danner, Jason Gould, Melinda Dillon, Kate Nelligan, George Carlin | Romance, Drama | Live action | 27 | Fried Green Tomatoes | Universal Pictures | Jon Avnet (director); Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski (screenplay); Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker | Comedy, Drama | Live action |
Notable films released in 1991U.S.A. unless stated #- 29th Street, starring Danny Aiello and Anthony LaPaglia
A–DA- Across the Tracks, starring Ricky Schroder and Brad Pitt
- The Addams Family, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Raúl Juliá, Anjelica Huston, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci
- The Adjuster, directed by Atom Egoyan, starring Elias Koteas - (Canada)
- Afraid of the Dark (aka Double Vue), starring James Fox and Fanny Ardant - (U.K./France)
- All I Want for Christmas, starring Thora Birch and Lauren Bacall
- Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (aka The Lovers on the Bridge), starring Juliette Binoche - (France)
- Anna Karamazoff, starring Jeanne Moreau - (U.S.S.R.)
- Fievel Goes West
- Another You, starring Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Mercedes Ruehl
- And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
- Operation Condor (Fei ying gai wak), starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
- The Assassin of the Tsar (Tsareubiytsa) - (U.S.S.R.)
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord, starring Tom Berenger, Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, John Lithgow, Tom Waits, Kathy Bates
B- Backdraft, directed by Ron Howard, starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh
- The Ballad of the Sad Café, directed by Simon Callow, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Keith Carradine - (U.K.)
- Barton Fink, directed by The Coen brothers, starring John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, John Mahoney, Michael Lerner - Palme d'Or award
- Beauty and the Beast
- La Belle Noiseuse (The Beautiful Troublemaker), directed by Jacques Rivette, starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin and Emmanuelle Béart - (France)
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter
- Billy Bathgate, directed by Robert Benton, starring Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Steven Hill, Bruce Willis
- Bingo, starring Cindy Williams
- Black Robe, directed by Bruce Beresford - (Canada/Australia)
- Blue Desert, starring Courteney Cox
- Body Parts, starring Jeff Fahey and Kim Delaney
- The Borrower, directed by John McNaughton, starring Rae Dawn Chong and Don Gordon
- Boyz n the Hood, directed by John Singleton, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne
- A Brighter Summer Day (Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian), directed by Edward Yang - (Taiwan)
- Brother Future
- Bugsy, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Joe Mantegna - Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Drama)
- The Butcher's Wife, starring Demi Moore and Jeff Daniels
- By the Sword, starring Eric Roberts and F. Murray Abraham
C- Cabeza de Vaca - (Mexico)
- Cape Fear, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis, Illeana Douglas, Joe Don Baker
- Cast A Deadly Spell, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner, Clancy Brown
- Chains of Gold, starring John Travolta, Héctor Elizondo, Benjamin Bratt
- Child's Play 3, directed by Jack Bender, starring Justin Whalin
- City of Hope, directed by John Sayles, starring Chris Cooper, Joe Morton, Vincent Spano, Angela Bassett
- City Slickers, directed by Ron Underwood, starring Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Helen Slater, Jack Palance
- Class Action, directed by Michael Apted, starring Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
- Close My Eyes, starring Alan Rickman and Clive Owen - (U.K.)
- Close To Eden (Urga) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Closet Land, starring Madeleine Stowe and Alan Rickman
- Cold Heaven, starring Theresa Russell and Mark Harmon
- Cold Moon (Lune Froide) - (France)
- The Commitments, directed by Alan Parker, starring Robert Arkins, Colm Meaney, Andrew Strong - (Ireland/U.S.A./U.K.)
- Company Business, starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Confesión a Laura (Confessing to Laura) - (Colombia)
- Controlled Conversations (Rozmowy kontrolowane) - (Poland)
- Cool As Ice, starring Vanilla Ice and Kristin Minter
- Cup Final (גמר גביע, gmar gavi'a) - (Israel)
- Curly Sue, starring James Belushi, Kelly Lynch and Alisan Porter
D- The Dark Backward, starring Judd Nelson, James Caan, Wayne Newton
- The Dark Wind, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Ward
- Dead Again, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Emma Thompson, Andy García, Robin Williams
- Deceived, starring Goldie Hawn and John Heard
- December Bride, starring Saskia Reeves, Donal McCann, Ciarán Hinds - (Ireland)
- Defending Your Life, directed by and starring Albert Brooks, with Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant
- Defenseless, starring Barbara Hershey and Sam Shepard
- Delicatessen, directed by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet - (France)
- Delirious, starring John Candy and Mariel Hemingway
- Dingo, starring Colin Friels - (Australia)
- Doc Hollywood, starring Michael J. Fox, Julie Warner, Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda
- The Doctor, starring William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Elizabeth Perkins
- Dogfight, starring River Phoenix
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, starring Christina Applegate
- The Doors, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan, Frank Whaley, Kathleen Quinlan
- Double Impact, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
- The Double Life of Véronique (La double vie de Véronique) or (Podwójne życie Weroniki) - (France/Poland)
- Drop Dead Fred, starring Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall
- Dutch, starring Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry
- Dying Young, starring Julia Roberts and Campbell Scott
E–KE- Edge of Honor, starring Corey Feldman
- Edward II, directed by Derek Jarman - (U.K.)
- The Elementary School (Obecná škola) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Ernest Scared Stupid, starring Jim Varney and Eartha Kitt
- Europa, directed by Lars von Trier - (Denmark/Germany/Sweden)
- Eve Of Destruction, starring Gregory Hines and Renée Soutendijk
- Eyes of an Angel, starring John Travolta
F- F/X2, starring Bryan Brown and Brian Dennehy
- Father of the Bride, directed by Charles Shyer, starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short, Kimberly Williams, George Newbern
- Fight Back to School (Tao xue wei long), directed by Gordon Chan - (Hong Kong)
- Final Approach, starring Héctor Elizondo
- Fire! (Ta Dona) - (Mali)
- The Fisher King, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer
- The Five Heartbeats, directed by Robert Townsend, starring Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon Robinson
- Flight of the Intruder, starring Danny Glover and Willem Dafoe
- Flirting, starring Noah Taylor, Thandie Newton and Nicole Kidman - (Australia)
- For The Boys, directed by Mark Rydell, starring Bette Midler, James Caan, Arye Gross, Arliss Howard, George Segal
- Frankie and Johnny, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kate Nelligan, Héctor Elizondo
- The Final Nightmare
- Fried Green Tomatoes, directed by Jon Avnet, starring Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker
- The Frontier (La Frontera) - (Chile)
- Fast Getaway
G- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (Gojira tai Kingu Gidora) - (Japan)
- Going Under
- Grand Canyon, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, starring Danny Glover, Steve Martin, Alfre Woodard, Kevin Kline
- The Grass Arena, starring Mark Rylance and Pete Postlethwaite - (U.K.)
- Guilty by Suspicion, directed by Irwin Winkler, starring Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, Patricia Wettig, George Wendt
H- Happy Days (Schastlivye dni) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Hard Promises, starring Sissy Spacek and William Petersen
- The Hard Way, directed by John Badham, starring Michael J. Fox and James Woods
- Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson
- Hear My Song, starring Adrian Dunbar, David McCallum, Ned Beatty - (U.K.)
- He Said, She Said, starring Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins
- High Heels (Tacones lejanos), directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Marisa Paredes - (Spain)
- The Quickening, starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen and Michael Ironside
- Highway 61 - (Canada)
- The Hitman, starring Chuck Norris
- Hook, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins
- Hot Shots!, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino, Lloyd Bridges
- The Hours and Times
- The House of Smiles (La casa del sorriso), starring Ingrid Thulin - (Italy)
- Hudson Hawk, starring Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn
- Hum (Us) - (India)
I- I Don't Kiss (J'embrasse pas), directed by André Téchiné, starring Manuel Blanc, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart - (France)
- If Looks Could Kill, starring Richard Grieco
- Impromptu, starring Judy Davis and Hugh Grant - (U.K./France)
- The Indian Runner, directed by Sean Penn, starring Viggo Mortensen and David Morse
- The Inner Circle, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky - (U.S.A./Italy/U.S.S.R.)
J- JFK, directed by Oliver Stone, starring Kevin Costner, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Laurie Metcalf, Sissy Spacek, Kevin Bacon, John Candy
- Jacquot de Nantes, directed by Agnès Varda - (France)
- Johnny Stecchino, directed by and starring Roberto Benigni - (Italy)
- Johnny Suede, starring Brad Pitt
- Jungle Fever, directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra and John Turturro
K- K2, directed by Franc Roddam - (U.K./Japan/U.S.A.)
- Kafka, directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Ian Holm
- King Ralph, starring John Goodman and Peter O'Toole
- A Kiss Before Dying, starring Matt Dillon and Sean Young
L–QL- L.A. Story, directed by Mick Jackson, starring Steve Martin, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant, Marilu Henner, Sarah Jessica Parker
- Lamhe (Moments), starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi - (India)
- The Last Boy Scout, directed by Tony Scott, starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans
- Lee Rock (Wu yi tan zhang), starring Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
- Let Him Have It, starring Christopher Eccleston - (U.K.)
- Life, and Nothing More... (Zendegi va digar hich), directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran)
- Life is Sweet, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent and Jane Horrocks - (U.K.)
- Life on a String (Bian zou bian chang), directed by Chen Kaige - (China)
- Life Stinks, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Howard Morris
- The Linguini Incident, starring Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie
- The Little Engine That Could
- Little Man Tate, directed by and starring Jodie Foster, with Dianne Wiest, Harry Connick, Jr., Adam Hann-Byrd
- Love Hurts, directed by Bud Yorkin, starring Jeff Daniels, John Mahoney, Judith Ivey
- Love in the Time of Hysteria (Sólo Con Tu Pareja) - (Mexico)
- Lovers (Amantes) - (Spain)
M- Madame Bovary, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Isabelle Huppert - (France)
- The Man in the Moon, starring Reese Witherspoon, Jason London, Sam Waterston, Tess Harper
- On the Move
- The Marrying Man, starring Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Elisabeth Shue, Robert Loggia, Fisher Stevens, Paul Reiser
- Mayrig, directed by Henri Verneuil, starring Richard Berry, Claudia Cardinale, Omar Sharif - (France)
- McBain, starring Christopher Walken
- Mediterraneo - (Italy)
- Meet the Applegates, starring Ed Begley, Jr. and Stockard Channing
- The Miracle, directed by Neil Jordan, starring Beverly D'Angelo
- Mississippi Masala, directed by Mira Nair, starring Denzel Washington
- Mobsters, starring Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor
- Mortal Thoughts, starring Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, John Pankow, Harvey Keitel
- My Best Friend, General Vasili, Son of Joseph Stalin (Moy luchshiy drug, general Vasiliy, syn Iosifa) - (U.S.S.R.)
- My Girl, starring Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis
- My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, starring Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Gary Busey, Tess Harper, Balthazar Getty, Mickey Rooney
- My Own Private Idaho, directed by Gus Van Sant, starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves
- My Sons (musuko) - Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year - (Japan)
- Mystery Date, starring Ethan Hawke - (U.S.A./Canada)
N- The Smell of Fear, directed by David Zucker, starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Robert Goulet
- Naked Lunch, directed by David Cronenberg, starring Peter Weller and Judy Davis - (Canada/U.K./Japan)
- Necessary Roughness, starring Scott Bakula, Héctor Elizondo, Harley Jane Kozak, Kathy Ireland
- New Jack City, starring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson
- Night on Earth, starring Gena Rowlands and Winona Ryder
- Njan Gandharvan (I, Celestial Lover) - (India)
- Not Without My Daughter, starring Sally Field and Alfred Molina
- Nothing but Trouble, starring Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy
O- The Object of Beauty, starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell
- Once A Thief (Zong heng si hai), directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat and Leslie Cheung - (Hong Kong)
- Once Around, starring Holly Hunter, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Aiello, Gena Rowlands
- Once Upon a Time in China (Wong Fei Hung), starring Jet Li - (Hong Kong)
- One Good Cop, starring Michael Keaton and Rene Russo
- Only The Lonely, directed by Chris Columbus, starring John Candy, Ally Sheedy, Maureen O'Hara, James Belushi, Anthony Quinn
- Oscar, directed by John Landis, starring Sylvester Stallone, Marisa Tomei, Vincent Spano, Peter Riegert, Linda Gray, Tim Curry
- Other People's Money, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Piper Laurie, Penelope Ann Miller, Dean Jones
- Out for Justice, starring Steven Seagal
- Out of Life (Hors la vie), directed by Maroun Bagdadi, starring Hippolyte Girardot - (France)
- The Ox (Oxen), directed by Sven Nykvist, starring Stellan Skarsgård - (Sweden)
P–Q- Pappa Ante Portas - (Germany)
- Paradise, starring Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson
- Paris Trout, starring Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey and Ed Harris
- Pastime, starring William Russ, Glenn Plummer, Jeffrey Tambor
- Paths of Death and Angels (Halálutak és angyalok) - (Hungary)
- The People Under the Stairs, directed by Wes Craven, starring Brandon Adams and Ving Rhames
- The Perfect Weapon, starring Jeff Speakman
- Point Break, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey
- Poison
- The Prince of Tides, directed by and starring Barbra Streisand, with Nick Nolte, Blythe Danner, Melinda Dillon, Jason Gould, George Carlin
- Proof, starring Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe - (Australia)
- Prospero's Books, directed by Peter Greenaway, starring John Gielgud - (U.K./France)
- Pure Luck, starring Danny Glover and Martin Short
- Queens Logic, starring Kevin Bacon, Joe Mantegna, John Malkovich, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Fiorentino, Chloe Webb
- Quiet Days in August (Isyhes meres tou Avgoustou) - (Greece)
R–YR- A Rage in Harlem, directed by Bill Duke, starring Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens
- Raise the Red Lantern (Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà), directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Gong Li - (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan)
- Rambling Rose, directed by Martha Coolidge, starring Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas
- The Rapture, directed by Michael Tolkin, starring Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Will Patton
- Regarding Henry, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Harrison Ford and Annette Bening
- Requiem pro panenku (Requiem for a Maiden) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Return to the Blue Lagoon, starring Milla Jovovich and Brian Krause
- Rhapsody in August (Hachigatsu no rapusodī), directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Richard Gere - (Japan)
- Ricochet, starring Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Lindsay Wagner, Ice-T
- The Story of Ricky (Lik Wong) - (Hong Kong)
- Prince of Thieves, starring Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alan Rickman, Christian Slater
- The Rocketeer, starring Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton, Alan Arkin, Paul Sorvino
- Rover Dangerfield, an animated film starring Rodney Dangerfield
- Run, starring Patrick Dempsey
- Rush, starring Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh
S- Saajan, starring Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan - (India)
- Sadak, starring Sanjay Dutt and Pooja Bhatt - (India)
- The New Order
- A Scene at the Sea (Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi), directed by Takeshi Kitano - (Japan)
- Scenes from a Mall, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Woody Allen and Bette Midler
- Scorchers, starring Faye Dunaway and James Earl Jones
- The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, starring Lily Tomlin
- First Mission (Beertje Sebastiaan: De Geheime Opdracht) - (Netherlands)
- Shadows and Fog, directed by and starring Woody Allen with Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Madonna
- Shattered, directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins
- Showdown in Little Tokyo, starring Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee
- The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Diane Baker
- Silver Stallion (Eunma neun oji anhneunda) - (South Korea)
- Slacker, directed by and starring Richard Linklater
- Sleeping with the Enemy starring Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson
- Soapdish, directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg
- The Undiscovered Country, starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Christopher Plummer, Kim Cattrall, Brock Peters, Iman
- Stepping Out, starring Liza Minnelli, Julie Walters, Jane Krakowski, Andrea Martin, Bill Irwin, Shelley Winters
- Stone Cold, starring Brian Bosworth
- Strictly Business, starring Tommy Davidson and Halle Berry
- Suburban Commando, starring Hulk Hogan, Christopher Lloyd, Shelley Duvall
- The Super, starring Joe Pesci
- The Suspended Step of the Stork (To meteoro vima tou pelargou), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau - (Greece)
- Switch, directed by Blake Edwards, starring Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, Lorraine Bracco
- Swordsmen in Double Flag Town (Shuang-Qi-Zhen daoke) - (China)
T- Talent for the Game, starring Edward James Olmos, Lorraine Bracco, Terry Kinney
- The Taking of Beverly Hills, starring Ken Wahl and Harley Jane Kozak
- The Secret of the Ooze
- Judgment Day, directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong
- Thelma & Louise, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Brad Pitt
- Together Alone
- Toto the Hero (Toto le Héros) - (Belgium)
- Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World), starring Jean-Pierre Marielle and Gérard Depardieu - (France)
- Towards Evening (Verso sera), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sandrine Bonnaire - (Italy)
- Toy Soldiers, starring Sean Astin, Wil Wheaton, Louis Gossett Jr., Denholm Elliott
- Tricky Brains (Jing gu jyun ga), starring Andy Lau - (Hong Kong)
- True Colors, starring John Cusack and James Spader
- Truth or Dare, a documentary on Madonna
U-V- Ultra, directed by Ricky Tognazzi - (Italy)
- Under Suspicion, starring Liam Neeson and Laura San Giacomo
- Until the End of the World (Bis ans Ende der Welt), directed by Wim Wenders, starring William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill - (Germany/France/Australia)
- Van Gogh, directed by Maurice Pialat - (France)
- Victim of Love, starring Pierce Brosnan, Virginia Madsen, JoBeth Williams
- V.I. Warshawski, starring Kathleen Turner
- Voyager, starring Sam Shepard and Julie Delpy - (Germany)
W- What About Bob?, directed by Frank Oz, starring Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe
- Where Angels Fear to Tread, starring Helena Bonham Carter, Rupert Graves, Judy Davis - (U.K.)
- White Fang, starring Ethan Hawke and Klaus Maria Brandauer
- Whore, starring Theresa Russell
- Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, starring Gabrielle Anwar
- Woman of the Port (La mujer del puerto) - (Mexico)
- A Woman's Tale - (Australia)
Y- Year of the Gun, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone
- The Yes Man (Il Portaborse) - (Italy)
- Yumeji, directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
Births- January 18 - Britt McKillip, Canadian actress, singer
- January 19 - Erin Sanders, American actress
- January 21 - Brittany Tiplady, Canadian actress
- January 28 - Calum Worthy, Canadian actor, musician
- February 10 - Emma Roberts, American actress
- February 17 - Bonnie Wright, English actress
- February 18 - Malese Jow, American actress
- February 28 - Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
- March 6 - Tyler, The Creator, American rapper
- March 8 - Devon Werkheiser, American actor
- March 9 - Domo Genesis, American rapper
- March 17 - Kristjan Lüüs, Estonian actor
- March 19 - Garrett Clayton, American actor
- March 25 - Seychelle Gabriel, American actress
- March 28 - Amy Bruckner, American actress
- April 4 - Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress
- April 10
- AJ Michalka, American singer and actress
- Sergiusz Żymełka, Polish actor
- May 21 - Sarah Ramos, American actress
- June 18 - Willa Holland, American actress
- June 29 - Addison Timlin, American actress
- July 5 - Jason Dolley, American actor
- July 6 - Victoire Thivisol, French actress
- July 9 - Mitchel Musso, American actor
- July 12 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor
- July 16 - Alexandra Shipp, American actress
- August 12 - Lakeith Stanfield, American actor
- August 16 - Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
- August 17 - Austin Butler, American actor
- August 26 - Dylan O'Brien, American actor
- August 28 - Kyle Massey, American actor
- September 5 - Skandar Keynes, English actor
- September 9 - Kelsey Chow, American actress
- September 20 - Spencer Locke, American actress
- October 6 - Roshon Fegan, American actor, dancer, and rapper
- October 23 - Sophie Oda, American actress
- October 27 - Bryan Craig, American actor
- October 28 - Mart Müürisepp, Estonian actor
- October 31 - Jordan-Claire Green, American actress
- November 8 - Riker Lynch, American actor, singer, musician
- November 11 - Christa B. Allen, American actress
- November 13 - Matt Bennett, American actor
- November 15 - Shailene Woodley, American actress
- December 20 - Jillian Rose Reed, American actress
Notable deaths Month | Date | Name | Age | Country | Profession | Notable films | January | 4 | Richard Maibaum | 81 | USA | Screenwriter | Goldfinger| Dr. No}} | 12 | Keye Luke | 86 | China | Actor | Gremlins| The Green Hornet}} | 14 | David Arkin | 49 | USA | Actor | All the President's Men| MASH}} | 19 | Don Beddoe | 87 | USA | Actor | The Best Years of Our Lives| The Night of the Hunter}} | 19 | Jo Eisinger | 81 | USA | Screenwriter | Gilda| Night and the City}} | 19 | John Russell | 70 | USA | Actor | Pale Rider| Rio Bravo}} | 25 | Lilian Bond | 83 | UK | Actress | The Old Dark House| The Westerner}} | 30 | John McIntire | 83 | USA | Actor | Psycho| The Asphalt Jungle}} | February | 1 | Carol Dempster | 89 | USA | Actress | Sally of the Sawdust| Dream Street}} | 1 | James MacDonald | 84 | USA | Actor, Conductor | Mary Poppins| Cinderella}} | 2 | Natalie Kingston | 85 | USA | Actress | Tarzan the Tiger| River of Romance}} | 3 | Nancy Kulp | 69 | USA | Actress | Shane| Sabrina}} | 5 | Dean Jagger | 87 | USA | Actor | White Christmas| Elmer Gantry}} | 6 | Danny Thomas | 77 | USA | Actor | The Jazz Singer| I'll See You in My Dreams}} | 24 | George Gobel | 71 | USA | Actor | I Married a Woman| The Birds and the Bees}} | 24 | Jean Rogers | 74 | USA | Actress | Flash Gordon| Backlash}} | 26 | Slim Gaillard | 75 | USA | Singer, Actor | Sweetheart of Sigma Chi| Sky Bandits}} | March | 3 | Vance Colvig | 72 | USA | Actor | UHF| Barfly}} | 5 | Ian McLellan Hunter | 71 | UK | Screenwriter | Roman Holiday| Second Chorus }} | 6 | Salvo Randone | 84 | Italy | Actor | Fellini Satyricon| Hands Over the City}} | 7 | Morton S. Fine | 74 | USA | Screenwriter | The Pawnbroker| The Greek Tycoon}} | 10 | Lee Quigley | 14 | UK | Actor | Superman | 14 | Howard Ashman | 40 | USA | Composer, Lyricist | The Little Mermaid| Beauty and the Beast}} | 15 | George Sherman | 78 | USA | Director | Big Jake| Larceny}} | 18 | Vilma Bánky | 90 | Hungary | Actress | The Winning of Barbara Worth| Two Lovers }} | 18 | Narda Onyx | 59 | Germany | Actress | Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter| Hitler }} | 22 | Gloria Holden | 82 | UK | Actress | The Life of Emile Zola| Dracula's Daughter}} | 23 | Mona Maris | 87 | Argentina | Actress | Romance of the Rio Grande| The Falcon in Mexico}} | 27 | Aldo Ray | 45 | USA | Actor | We're No Angels| Battle Cry}} | 28 | Carlos Montalbán | 87 | Mexico | Actor | Bananas| The Out-of-Towners }} | April | 3 | Graham Greene | 86 | UK | Writer | The Third Man| Our Man in Havana}} | 10 | Kevin Peter Hall | 35 | USA | Actor | Predator| Harry and the Hendersons}} | 10 | Natalie Schafer | 90 | USA | Actress | Anastasia| The Snake Pit}} | 12 | Tom Rosqui | 62 | USA | Actor | The Godfather Part II| The Thomas Crown Affair}} | 16 | David Lean | 83 | UK | Director | Lawrence of Arabia| Doctor Zhivago}} | 20 | Don Siegel | 78 | USA | Director | Dirty Harry| The Shootist}} | 23 | William Dozier | 83 | USA | Producer | Batman| American Gigolo}} | 26 | Carmine Coppola | 80 | USA | Composer | Apocalypse Now| The Godfather Part III}} | 26 | A. B. Guthrie Jr. | 90 | USA | Screenwriter | Shane| The Kentuckian}} | 28 | Ken Curtis | 74 | USA | Actor | The Searchers| The Alamo}} | May | 1 | Richard Thorpe | 95 | USA | Director | Jailhouse Rock| Ivanhoe}} | 2 | Jerzy Kosiński | 57 | Poland | Screenwriter, Actor | Being There| Reds }} | 6 | Wilfrid Hyde-White | 87 | UK | Actor | My Fair Lady| The Third Man}} | 8 | Ronnie Brody | 72 | UK | Actor | Superman III| A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum}} | 11 | Dino Diluca | 88 | Italy | Actor | The Cardinal| La Cieca di Sorrento}} | 15 | Ronald Lacey | 55 | UK | Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark| Flesh & Blood}} | 18 | Edwina Booth | 86 | US | Actress | The Midnight Patrol| The Vanishing Legion}} | 18 | Muriel Box | 85 | UK | Director, Writer | The Truth About Women| The Seventh Veil}} | 23 | Fletcher Markle | 70 | Canada | Director | The Man with a Cloak| Jigsaw}} | 26 | Eugène Lourié | 88 | Ukraine | Art Director | Limelight| Bronco Billy}} | 29 | Coral Browne | 77 | Australia | Actress | Auntie Mame| The Killing of Sister George}} | 31 | Manolo Gómez Bur | 74 | Spain | Cinematographer, Director, Producer | Amor a la española| Una chica casi decente}} | June | 3 | Eva Le Gallienne | 92 | UK | Actress | Resurrection| The Devil's Disciple}} | 8 | Heidi Bruhl | 49 | Germany | Actress | Captain Sindbad| The Eiger Sanction}} | 12 | Peggy Ashcroft | 83 | UK | Actress | A Passage to India| When the Wind Blows}} | 12 | Bernard Miles | 83 | UK | Actor | The Man Who Knew Too Much| Great Expectations}} | 15 | Barry Kelley | 82 | USA | Actor | The Asphalt Jungle| The Manchurian Candidate}} | 16 | Joan Caulfield | 69 | USA | Actress | The Unsuspected| Blue Skies}} | 18 | Ronald Allen | 60 | UK | Actor | A Night to Remember | 19 | Jean Arthur | 90 | USA | Actress | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington| Shane}} | 21 | Ivor Salter | 65 | UK | Actor | On the Buses | 23 | Lea Padovani | 70 | Italy | Actress | Three Steps North| The Intruder}} | 27 | Milton Subotsky | 70 | UK | Producer | The Lawnmower Man| Maximum Overdrive}} | 30 | John B. Goodman | 89 | USA | Art Director | Hang 'Em High| Shadow of a Doubt}} | July | 1 | Michael Landon | 54 | USA | Actor | I Was a Teenage Werewolf| The Legend of Tom Dooley}} | 2 | Don Houghton | 61 | France | Screenwriter | Dracula A.D. 1972| The Satanic Rites of Dracula}} | 2 | Lee Remick | 55 | USA | Actress | Days of Wine and Roses| Anatomy of a Murder }} | 5 | Mildred Dunnock | 90 | USA | Actress | The Story on Page One| BUtterfield 8}} | 8 | James Franciscus | 57 | USA | Actor | Beneath the Planet of the Apes| Marooned}} | 15 | Bert Convy | 57 | USA | Actor | Semi-Tough| Weekend Warriors}} | August | 12 | Don Dubbins | 65 | USA | Actor | Tribute to a Bad Man| From the Earth to the Moon}} | 16 | Luigi Zampa | 86 | Italy | Director | The Traffic Policeman| Difficult Years}} | 21 | Richard Wilson | 75 | USA | Director | Invitation to a Gunfighter| Al Capone}} | 22 | Colleen Dewhurst | 67 | Canada | Actress | The Nun's Story| The Last Run}} | 29 | Dallas Adams | 44 | UK | Actor | The Abominable Dr. Phibes| King Ralph }} | 29 | Dixie Dunbar | 72 | USA | Actress | Educating Father| Sing and Be Happy}} | 30 | Alan Wheatley | 84 | UK | Actor | Brighton Rock| The Rake's Progress}} | September | 3 | Frank Capra | 94 | USA | Director | It Happened One Night| Mr. Smith Goes To Washington}} | 4 | Tom Tryon | 65 | USA | Actor | The Cardinal| In Harm's Way}} | 7 | Ben Piazza | 58 | USA | Actor | The Bad News Bears| The Hanging Tree}} | 8 | Brad Davis | 41 | USA | Actor | Midnight Express| Chariots of Fire}} | 8 | Alex North | 80 | UK | Composer | Viva Zapata!| The Shoes of the Fisherman}} | 13 | Joe Pasternak | 89 | USA | Producer | The Great Caruso| The Courtship of Eddie's Father}} | 14 | Julie Bovasso | 61 | USA | Actress | Saturday Night Fever| Moonstruck}} | 15 | John Hoyt | 85 | USA | Actor | Blackboard Jungle| Attack of the Puppet People}} | 16 | Carol White | 48 | UK | Actress | Daddy's Gone A-Hunting| Something Big}} | 21 | Angelo Rossitto | 83 | USA | Actor | Freaks| Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome}} | 23 | Chuck Vincent | 51 | USA | Director, producer, writer | Preppies| Hollywood Hot Tubs}} | 24 | Mary Lawrence | 73 | USA | Actress | County Fair| The Stratton Story}} | 25 | Viviane Romance | 79 | France | Actress | Liliom| La Bandera}} | 27 | Floyd Huddleston | 79 | USA | Songwriter | The Aristocats| Robin Hood}} | October | 9 | Thalmus Rasulala | 51 | USA | Actor | Cool Breeze| Mr. Ricco}} | 11 | Redd Foxx | 68 | USA | Actor, Comedian | Cotton Comes to Harlem| Harlem Nights }} | 12 | Sheila Florance | 75 | Australia | Actress | Mad Max| A Woman's Tale}} | 12 | Diana Gibson | 76 | USA | Actress | Adventure's End| Behind the Headlines}} | 12 | Aline MacMahon | 92 | USA | Actress | The Man from Laramie| Diamond Head}} | 12 | Regis Toomey | 93 | USA | Actor | His Girl Friday| Meet John Doe}} | 13 | Donald Houston | 67 | UK | Actor | The Blue Lagoon| Where Eagles Dare}} | 14 | Gene Roddenberry | 70 | USA | Producer | The Motion Picture| The Final Frontier}} | 17 | J. G. Devlin | 84 | UK | Actor | Darby O'Gill and the Little People| The Miracle}} | 22 | Judy Kelly | 77 | Australia | Actress | Dead of Night| Premiere}} | 28 | Sylvia Fine | 78 | USA | Lyricist, composer, producer | The Court Jester| The Five Pennies}} | 25 | John Stratton | 65 | UK | Actor | The Cruel Sea| Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell}} | November | 2 | Irwin Allen | 75 | USA | Producer | The Poseidon Adventure| The Towering Inferno}} | 5 | Fred MacMurray | 83 | USA | Actor | Double Indemnity| The Caine Mutiny}} | 6 | Gene Tierney | 70 | USA | Actress | Leave Her to Heaven| Laura}} | 11 | Tutte Lemkow | 73 | UK | Actor, Choreographer | A Shot in the Dark| Inspector Clouseau}} | 11 | Morton Stevens | 62 | USA | Composer | Wild and Wonderful| Hardly Working}} | 12 | Diane Brewster | 60 | USA | Actress | Torpedo Run| The Young Philadelphians}} | 12 | Gabriele Tinti | 59 | Italy | Actor | Son of Django| Emanuelle in America}} | 13 | Yves Montand | 70 | France | Actor, Singer | The Wages of Fear| On a Clear Day You Can See Forever}} | 14 | Tony Richardson | 63 | UK | Director | Tom Jones| Hamlet}} | 19 | Reggie Nalder | 84 | Austria | Actor | The Man Who Knew Too Much| Mark of the Devil}} | 20 | Daniel Mann | 89 | USA | Director | Come Back, Little Sheba| The Rose Tattoo}} | 21 | Robert Kaufman | 60 | USA | Screenwriter | Divorce American Style| Love at First Bite}} | 22 | Tadashi Imai | 79 | Japan | Director | Jun'ai Monogatari| Bushido, Samurai Saga}} | 23 | Klaus Kinski | 65 | Germany | Actor | Aguirre, the Wrath of God| Nosferatu the Vampyre}} | 24 | Anton Furst | 47 | USA | Production designer | Full Metal Jacket| Batman}} | 24 | Freddie Mercury | 45 | UK | Singer, Songwriter | Flash Gordon| Highlander}} | 25 | Eleanor Audley | 86 | USA | Actress | Cinderella| Sleeping Beauty}} | 27 | Ralph Bellamy | 87 | USA | Actor | Trading Places| His Girl Friday}} | 27 | George Edwards | 67 | USA | Producer | Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet| Harper Valley PTA}} | 28 | Mel Dinelli | 79 | USA | Writer | The Spiral Staircase| Beware, My Lovely}} | December | 5 | Robert Karvelas | 70 | USA | Actor | Freaky Friday| The Nude Bomb}} | 7 | Herb Jaffe | 70 | USA | Producer | The Wind and the Lion| Demon Seed}} | 11 | Robert Q. Lewis | 70 | USA | Actor | Ski Party| An Affair to Remember}} | 11 | Pat Walshe | 91 | USA | Actor | The Wizard of Oz | 12 | Eleanor Boardman | 93 | USA | Actress | Vanity Fair| Souls For Sale}} | 13 | Judy Moorcroft | 58 | UK | Costume designer | The Europeans| A Passage to India}} | 19 | Paul Maxwell | 70 | UK | Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade| Aliens}} | 28 | Cassandra Harris | 43 | Australia | Actress | The Greek Tycoon| Rough Cut}} |
Film debuts - Tom Arnold - The Final Nightmare
- Halle Berry - Jungle Fever
- Steve Carell - Curly Sue
- James Caviezel - My Own Private Idaho
- Morris Chestnut - Boyz n the Hood
- Clifton Collins, Jr. - Grand Canyon
- Ice Cube - Boyz n the Hood
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Critters 3
- Brendan Fraser - Dogfight
- Edward Furlong - Judgment Day
- Toby Scott Ganger - Rock-a-Doodle
- Janeane Garofalo - Late for Dinner
- Paul Giamatti - Past Midnight
- Jake Gyllenhaal - City Slickers
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole
- Joshua Jackson - Crooked Hearts
- Regina King - Boyz n the Hood
- Queen Latifah - Jungle Fever
- Denis Leary - Strictly Business
- Heath Ledger - Clowning Around
- Téa Leoni - Switch
- Leslie Mann - Virgin High
- Julianna Margulies - Out for Justice
- Breckin Meyer - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
- Kathy Najimy - The Hard Way
- James Nesbitt - Hear My Song
- Thandie Newton - Flirting
- Sophie Okonedo - Young Soul Rebels
- Gwyneth Paltrow - Shout
- David Schwimmer - Flight of the Intruder
- Tupac Shakur - Nothing but Trouble
- Marley Shelton - Grand Canyon
- Jeremy Sisto - Grand Canyon
- Isaiah Washington - The Color of Love
- Kimberly Williams - Father of the Bride
- Reese Witherspoon - The Man in the Moon
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=1991&p=.htm|title=1991 Worldwide Grosses|work=Box Office Mojo|accessdate=May 1, 2014}} 2. ^{{cite web |title=Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |work=Box Office Mojo |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170626051349/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=terminator2.htm |archivedate=June 26, 2017 |quote=$519,843,345}} 3. ^Beauty and the Beast box-office* Total prior to 2012 reissue: {{cite web |title=Beauty and the Beast (1991) |work=Box Office Mojo |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beautyandthebeast.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112082904/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=beautyandthebeast.htm |archivedate=January 12, 2012 |quote=$377,350,553}}* 2002 IMAX release: {{cite web |title=Beauty and the Beast (IMAX) |work=Box Office Mojo |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=beautybeastimax.htm |accessdate=December 25, 2017 |quote=Domestic Total Gross: $25,487,190; Foreign: $5,546,156}}
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