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A list of American films released in 1993.
Schindler's List won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Jurassic Park was the highest grossing film of 1993 more than doubling the earnings of the second highest earner bringing in a gross of $914,691,118.
[edit] Highest grossing
1993
Rank |
Title |
Studio |
Gross |
| 1. |
Jurassic Park |
Universal |
$914,691,118 |
| 2. |
Mrs. Doubtfire |
20th Centery Fox |
$423,200,000 |
| 3. |
The Fugitive |
Warner bros. |
$353,900,000 |
| 4. |
Schindler's List |
Universal |
$317,100,000 |
| 5. |
Indecent Proposal |
Paramount |
$266,600,000 |
| 6. |
The Firm |
Paramount |
$262,300,000 |
| 7. |
Cliffhanger |
TriStar pictures |
$255,000,000 |
| 8. |
Sleepless in Seattle |
TriStar pictures |
$227,900,000 |
| 9. |
Philadelphia |
TriStar pictures |
$201,300,000 |
| 10. |
The Pelican Brief |
Warner bros. |
$195,000,000 |
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| 1993 |
| 12:01 |
Jack Sholder |
Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater |
Thriller |
direct-to-TV |
| Actor |
Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
Akbar Abdi, Fatemeh Motamed-Aria, Mahaya Petrosian |
Drama |
|
| Addams Family Values |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
|
|
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| The Adventures of Huck Finn |
Stephen Sommers |
Elijah Wood |
Adventure, Family |
|
| The Advocate |
Leslie Megahey |
Colin Firth, Ian Holm, Donald Pleasance |
Crime, Mystery |
|
| The Age of Innocence |
Martin Scorsese |
Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder |
Drama, Romance |
|
| Airborne |
Rob Bowman |
Shane McDermott, Seth Green, Brittney Powell, Chris Conrad, Jacob Vargas, Jack Black |
Comedy drama |
|
| The Airzone Solution |
Bill Baggs |
|
Sci-Fi |
Direct-to-TV |
| Alien Intruder |
Nick Stone, Ricardo Jacques Gale |
Maxwell Caulfield, Tracy Scoggins, Billy Dee Williams |
Action/Sci-fi |
|
| Alive |
|
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|
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| Alive: 20 Years Later |
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| All's Well, Ends Well Too |
|
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|
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| American Ninja V |
Bobby Jean Leonard |
David Bradley, Lee Reyes |
Action adventure |
|
| Amityville: A New Generation |
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| Amos & Andrew |
E. Max Frye |
Nicolas Cage, Samuel L. Jackson |
Comedy |
|
| And the Band Played On |
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|
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| Another Stakeout |
John Badham |
Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell |
Action comedy |
|
| Arcade |
|
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|
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| Arizona Dream |
Emir Kusturica |
Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway |
|
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| Army of Darkness |
Sam Raimi |
|
Adventure, Comedy, Horror |
|
| Aspen Extreme |
|
Paul Gross, Peter Berg, Finola Hughes, Teri Polo |
Drama |
|
| Attack of the 50 Foot Woman |
|
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|
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| The Baby of Mâcon |
Peter Greenaway |
Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone |
Drama |
|
| Babylon 5: The Gathering |
|
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| Bad Boy Bubby |
Rolf de Heer |
Nicholas Hope |
Black comedy, Drama |
|
| The Ballad of Little Jo |
Maggie Greenwald |
Suzy Amis, Bo Hopkins |
Drama, Western |
|
| Barbarians at the Gate |
|
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| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm |
Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm |
Kevin Conroy and Dana Delany |
Action,Animated |
|
| Beethoven's 2nd |
Rod Daniel |
Charles Grodin |
Drama, Family |
|
| Being Human |
|
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| Bells from the Deep |
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| Benny & Joon |
Jeremiah S. Chechik |
Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, William H. Macy |
Romantic comedy |
|
| Best of the Best 2 |
|
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| The Beverly Hillbillies |
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|
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| Beyond Citizen Kane |
|
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|
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| The Bikini Carwash Company |
|
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|
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| Black River |
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| Blind Side (film) |
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| Blood in Blood out |
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| Bloodstone: Subspecies II |
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| Blue |
Derek Jarman |
|
|
Derek's last movie |
| Body Bags (TV Movie) |
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| Body Melt |
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| Body Snatchers |
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| Body of Evidence |
|
Madonna |
|
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| Boiling Point |
James B. Harris |
Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper |
Action |
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| Bopha! |
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| Born Yesterday |
Luis Mandoki |
Melanie Griffith, John Goodman, Don Johnson |
Comedy |
|
| Boxing Helena |
Jennifer Lynch |
Sherilyn Fenn, Julian Sands |
Romantic drama, Thriller |
|
| The Bride with White Hair |
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| Broken |
|
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| A Bronx Tale |
Robert De Niro |
Robert De Niro |
Crime |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| CB4 |
Tamra Davis |
Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Phil Hartman, Chris Elliot |
Comedy |
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| Calender Girl |
|
Jason Priestly |
|
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| Candles in the Dark |
Maximilian Schell |
Alyssa Milano, Chad Lowe |
TV film |
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| Carlito's Way |
|
Al Pacino, Sean Penn |
Crime |
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| Carnosaur |
Adam Simon |
Diane Ladd |
Horror |
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| Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story |
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|
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| Century |
Stephen Poliakoff |
Clive Owen |
|
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| City Hunter |
Wong Jing |
Jackie Chan |
Martial Arts |
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| Cliffhanger (film) |
Renny Harlin |
Sylvester Stallone |
Action, thriller |
|
| Coneheads |
Steve Barron |
Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke |
Comedy, Sci-Fi |
|
| Conflict of Interest |
Gary Davis |
Christopher McDonald |
Drama |
|
| Cool Runnings |
Jon Turteltaub |
John Candy |
Comedy |
Based on real life events of the Jamaican olympic bobsleigh team |
| Cop and a 1/2 |
|
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|
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| Crime Story |
Kirk Wong, Jackie Chan |
Jackie Chan |
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| The Crush |
Alan Shapiro |
Alicia Silverstone, Kurtwood Smith |
Thriller |
|
| Cyborg Cop |
Sam Firstenberg |
David Bradley, John Rhys-Davies, Todd Jensen |
Action, Adventure |
|
| Cyborg 2 |
Michael Schroeder |
Angelina Jolie |
Science fiction |
|
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Dangerous Game |
Abel Ferrara |
Harvey Keitel, Madonna, James Russo |
Drama |
|
| Danielle Steel's Star |
Michael Miller |
Jennie Garth, Craig Bierko |
Romantic drama |
direct-to-tv |
| The Dark Half (film) |
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| Darkness (1993 film) |
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| Dave (film) |
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| David Copperfield (1993 film) |
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| Days of Tomorrow |
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| Dazed and Confused (film) |
Richard Linklater |
Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Michelle Burke, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser |
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| The Dead Talk Back |
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| Deadfall |
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| Death Train |
David Jackson |
Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart |
Thriller |
direct-to-tv |
| Demolition Man |
Marco Brambilla |
Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes |
Sci-fi, Action |
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| Dennis the Menace (film) |
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| Dialogues with Madwomen |
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| Dirty Weekend |
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| Doppelganger |
|
Drew Barrymore, George Newbarn |
Thriller |
|
| Dorf Goes Fishing |
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| Double, Double, Toil and Trouble |
|
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| Dragon Fire (1993 film) |
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| Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story |
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| Dust Devil (1993 film) |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Happily Ever After (film) |
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| Hard Target |
John Woo |
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Arnold Vosloo, Yancy Butler |
Action |
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| The Harvest (film) |
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| The Hawk (film) |
|
Helen Mirren, Rosemary Leach, Owen Teale, Melanie Hill |
|
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| Heart and Souls |
Ron Underwood |
Robert Downey, Jr., Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard |
Comedy, Fantasy |
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| The Heartbreak Kid (1993 film) |
Michael Jenkins |
Claudia Karvan, Alex Dimitriades, Nick Lathouris, Steve Bastoni |
Comedy |
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| Heaven & Earth (1993 film) |
Oliver Stone |
Tommy Lee Jones, Joan Chen, Haing S. Ngor |
War |
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| Hercules Returns |
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| The Heroic Trio |
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| Hexed |
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| Hey Tony! What's the Story? |
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| Hocus Pocus (film) |
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| Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby |
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| A Home of Our Own (1993 film) |
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| Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey |
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| Hot Shots! Part Deux |
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| The House of the Spirits (film) |
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| Household Saints |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Jack Be Nimble (film) |
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| Jack the Bear |
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| Jamie Foxx: Straight from the Foxxhole |
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| Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday |
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| Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life |
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| Jonny's Golden Quest |
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| Josh and S.A.M. |
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| Joshua Tree |
Vic Armstrong |
Dolph Lundgren |
Road action |
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| Journey to the Land of the Traveller |
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| The Joy Luck Club (film) |
Wayne Wang |
|
Drama |
Based on a 1989 novel by the same name, written by Amy Tan |
| Judgment Night (film) |
Stephen Hopkins |
Emilio Estévez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven, Peter Greene |
Crime, Thriller |
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| The Junky's Christmas |
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| Jurassic Park |
Steven Spielberg |
Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough |
Action drama, Adventure |
Enormous success, established a movie franchise |
| Just One of the Girls |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Last Action Hero |
John McTiernan |
Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Action, Comedy |
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| Last Hero in China |
Wong Jing, Yuen Woo-ping |
Jet Li |
|
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| Legend of the Liquid Sword |
Wong Jing |
|
Action, Fantasy |
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| Leprechaun (film) |
Mark Jones |
Warwick Davis, Jennifer Aniston |
Horror |
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| Life with Mikey |
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| Lifepod |
Bruce Bryant |
Robert Loggia, CCH Pounder, Ron Silver, Kelli Williams |
Sci-Fi |
direct-to-video, rework of Alfred Hitchcock classic, "Lifeboat" |
| Like Water for Chocolate |
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| The Line, the Cross & the Curve |
Kate Bush |
Kate Bush, Miranda Richardson, Lindsay Kemp |
Musical |
was released direct-to-video, only modest success |
| Little Buddha |
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| Little Cory Gory (film) |
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| Loaded Weapon 1 |
Gene Quintano |
Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, William Shatner |
Action, Comedy, Crime |
A movie spoof on Lethal Weapon 2, Basic Instinct, Die Hard and The Silence of the Lambs |
| Lost in Yonkers |
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| Love and Human Remains |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| M. Butterfly |
David Cronenberg |
Jeremy Irons, John Lone |
Romantic drama |
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| Mad Dog and Glory |
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| Made in America |
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| Malice |
Harold Becker |
Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman |
Crime, Thriller |
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| The Man Without a Face |
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| Man's Best Friend |
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| Manhattan Murder Mystery |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda |
Comedy, Thriller |
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| Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence |
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| Map of the Human Heart |
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| Matinee |
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| Mechanic Alludu |
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| Menace II Society |
Hughes Brothers |
Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Jada Pinkett Smith |
Crime, Drama |
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| The Meteor Man |
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| Money for Nothing |
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| The Moon Warriors |
Sammo Hung |
Andy Lau, Kenny Bee |
Action |
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| Mr Karate |
|
Ahmed Zaki |
|
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| Mr. Jones |
|
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|
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| Mr. Nanny |
Michael Gottlieb |
Sherman Helmsley, Hulk Hogan |
Comedy |
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| Mrs. Doubtfire |
Chris Columbus |
Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan |
Comedy |
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| Much Ado About Nothing |
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| Murder in the Heartland |
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| The Music of Chance |
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| My Boyfriend's Back |
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| My Favorite Season |
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| My Hero 2 |
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| My Life (film) |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| Paris, France (film) |
|
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| The Pelican Brief (film) |
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| A Perfect World |
Clint Eastwood |
Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood |
Drama, Thriller |
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| Philadelphia (film) |
Jonathan Demme |
Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington |
Drama |
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| The Piano |
|
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| A Place to Be Loved |
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| Poetic Justice |
John Singleton |
Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur |
Drama, Romance |
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| Point of No Return |
|
Bridget Fonda |
Thriller |
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| The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom |
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| Posse (1993 film) |
|
Stephen Baldwin |
Western |
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| The Princess and the Goblin |
|
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| The Program |
David S. Ward |
James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson |
Drama |
|
| Public Access |
Bryan Singer |
Christopher McQuarrie, Bryan Singer |
Thriller |
|
| Puppet Master 4 |
Jeff Burr |
Gordon Currie, Chandra West |
Horror |
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| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes |
| The Sandlot |
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| Schindler's List |
Steven Spielberg |
Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall |
Biographical, Drama, History, War |
Academy Award: Best Picture |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer |
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| Seasons of the Heart |
T.C. Christensen |
Leigh Lombardi, Sam Hennings |
Historical, Evangelist, Drama |
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| The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb |
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| The Secret Garden (1993 film) |
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| The Seventh Coin |
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| The Sex of the Stars |
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| Shadowlands (film) |
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| Short Cuts |
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| Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit |
|
Whoopi Goldberg |
Comedy |
|
| Six Degrees of Separation (film) |
Fred Schepisi |
Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland |
Drama, Mystery |
|
| Skylark (1993 film) |
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|
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| Sleepless in Seattle |
|
Tom Hanks |
Romantic comedy |
|
| Sliver (film) |
|
Sharon Stone |
Erotic thriller |
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| Smoking/No Smoking |
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| Snapdragon (film) |
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| The Snapper (film) |
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| Sniper (film) |
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| So I Married an Axe Murderer |
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| Sommersby |
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| Son in Law |
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| Son of the Pink Panther |
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| Speak Up! It's So Dark |
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| Splitting Heirs |
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| Stalingrad (film) |
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| Stolen Spring (film) |
Peter Schrøder |
|
Drama |
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| Strapped (film) |
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| Striking Distance |
Rowdy Herrington |
Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker |
Action, Mystery, Thriller |
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| Super 8 1/2 |
|
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| Super Mario Bros. (film) |
Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton |
Bob Hopkins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper |
Action-adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi |
cult film, first major motion picture to be based on a video game |
| Surf Ninjas |
Neal Israel |
Ernie Reyes Jr., Ernie Reyes Sr. |
Family adventure, Comedy |
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| Suture (film) |
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| Swing Kids (film) |
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| Sword Stained with Royal Blood |
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