Fierce Creatures (
1997) | IMDb:
6.4
Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.
Starring:
John Cleese
,
Jamie Lee Curtis
,
Kevin Kline
,
Michael Palin
,
Robert Lindsay
,
Ronnie Corbett
I.Q. (
1994) | IMDb:
6.2
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.
Directed by:
Fred Schepisi
Six Degrees of Separation (
1993) | IMDb:
6.8
The story of a young, gay, black, con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Starring:
Stockard Channing
,
Will Smith
,
Donald Sutherland
,
Ian McKellen
,
Mary Beth Hurt
,
Bruce Davison
The Russia House (
1990) | IMDb:
6.1
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.
Starring:
Sean Connery
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Roy Scheider
,
James Fox
,
John Mahoney
,
Michael Kitchen
Evil Angels (
1988) | IMDb:
6.9
Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
Roxanne (
1987) | IMDb:
6.6
In this modern take on Edmond Rostand's classic play "Cyrano de Bergerac," C. D. Bales is the witty, intelligent, and brave fire chief of a small Pacific Northwest town who, due to the size of his enormous nose, declines to pursue the girl of his dreams, lovely Roxanne Kowalski. Instead, when his shy underling Chris McConnell becomes smitten with Roxanne, C.D. feeds the handsome young man the words of love to win her heart.
Starring:
Steve Martin
,
Daryl Hannah
,
Rick Rossovich
,
Shelley Duvall
,
John Kapelos
,
Fred Willard
Plenty (
1985) | IMDb:
6
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.