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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996 · 150m
LegalDocumentaryCrime
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Movies of 1996
60 movies from 1996. Includes Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Fargo, and Secrets & Lies.
Common vibes here: Legal · Coming-of-Age · Parenthood & Family Bonds
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Peacock
Fargo
1996 · 98m
Neo-Noir & Film NoirHostage & KidnappingCrime
Jerry Lundegaard is a small-town Minnesota car salesman deeply in debt and willing to do almost anything to get out.
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Secrets & Lies
1996 · 142m
Drama
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother.
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Trainspotting
1996 · 94m
FriendshipAddiction & RecoveryPsychological
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy.
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Sling Blade
1996 · 135m
Drama
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover.
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Microcosmos
1996 · 80m
Nature & ScienceDocumentary
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography.
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A Summer's Tale
1996 · 114m
Coming-of-AgeHolidayComing of Age
Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the…
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Comrades, Almost a Love Story
1996 · 118m
Romantic ComedyDramaRomance
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home.
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“The Shorts” by Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo
1996 · 130m
Comedy
I Corti ("Shorts") by Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo was the first stage show of the comedy trio, with the participation of Marina Massironi.
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Shine
1996 · 105m
BiopicBased on a True StoryMusic
Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown.
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Hamlet
1996 · 242m
Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer...
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Kolya
1996 · 105m
Showbiz & Music DramaFriendshipMusic
After a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant, Cellisten Louka, a Czech man, must suddenly take responsibility for her son.
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Breaking the Waves
1996 · 159m
DramaRomance
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident.
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Prime
Welcome to the Dollhouse
1996 · 88m
Dark ComedyComing-of-AgeComing of Age
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with inattentive parents and bullies at school.
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Kids Return
1996 · 107m
Mob / MafiaComing-of-AgeSports Drama
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks.
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Big Night
1996 · 109m
Showbiz & Music DramaMusicFood & Culinary
Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save their struggling restaurant.
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Paramount+
The English Patient
1996 · 162m
War DramaPeriod & Historical DramaAmnesia & Memory
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert…
78
Paramount+
Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · 111m
Space OperaTime-Travel Sci-FiSpace
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth.
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Tubi
Lone Star
1996 · 135m
DramaMysteryWestern
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
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Shall We Dance?
1996 · 136m
Neo-Noir & Film NoirDetectiveMusic
A bored accountant spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996 · 130m
Drama
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine.
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Thesis
1996 · 125m
SlasherSerial KillerHorror
While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death.
77
Max
Irma Vep
1996 · 99m
ComedyDrama
A has-been French filmmaker wants a Hong Kong actress to be the heroine in a rendering of Les Vampires.
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Jerry Maguire
1996 · 139m
Sports DramaSportsParenthood & Family Bonds
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients,…
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Matilda
1996 · 98m
Parenthood & Family BondsSupernaturalComedy
Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl.
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The Birdcage
1996 · 119m
PoliticalComedyRomance
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's…
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That Thing You Do!
1996 · 108m
ComedyDramaMusic
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
75
Tubi
Fly Away Home
1996 · 107m
Grief & LossAviationAdventure
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed.
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Disney+
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · 79m
Epic FantasyUrban FantasyMagic
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to…
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Bound
1996 · 105m
HeistMob / MafiaNeo-Noir & Film Noir
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid…
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Tubi
Pusher
1996 · 110m
ActionCrimeDrama
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
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Swingers
1996 · 96m
Showbiz & Music DramaHollywood & ShowbizComedy
After 6 years together, Mike's girlfriend leaves him, so he travels to LA to be a star.
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Flirting with Disaster
1996 · 93m
Comedy
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country…
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Prime
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Paramount+
Scream
1996 · 112m
SlasherWhodunit & MysteryTrue Crime
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as…
73
Disney+
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996 · 91m
LegalPsychologicalDrama
Isolated in the bell tower of Notre Dame, Quasimodo longs to experience the world beyond the cathedral walls, despite the wishes of his stern…
72
Tubi
Bottle Rocket
1996 · 91m
HeistComedyCrime
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane…
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Courage Under Fire
1996 · 116m
War DramaMilitaryPolitical
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job.
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Dragon Ball: The Path to Power
1996 · 80m
Epic FantasyAnimeAI & Robots
A retelling of Dragon Ball's origin with a different take on the meeting of Goku, Bulma, and Kame-Sen'nin.
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The Eighth Day
1996 · 118m
Drama
An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.
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The Apartment
1996 · 116m
MysteryDramaRomance
Max is a former playboy who has decided to settle down by marrying his current love, Muriel.
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Paramount+
Primal Fear
1996 · 130m
Psychological ThrillerWhodunit & MysteryLegal Drama
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good.
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Emma
1996 · 121m
Period & Historical DramaRomanceComedy
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people’s affairs.
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Paramount+
Beautiful Girls
1996 · 112m
Coming-of-AgeComing of AgeComedy
During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to…
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Brassed Off
1996 · 107m
ComedyRomanceDrama
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national…
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La Belle Verte
1996 · 99m
AliensComedy
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to…
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Sleepers
1996 · 147m
Mob / MafiaRevenge ThrillerLegal Drama
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them.
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Marvin's Room
1996 · 98m
Drama
A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
70
Prime
The Crucible
1996 · 123m
Period & Historical DramaMagicSupernatural
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
70
Tubi
Michael Collins
1996 · 132m
Based on a True StoryWarDrama
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a…
70
Disney+
Muppet Treasure Island
1996 · 100m
Treasure HuntPiratesAdventure
Young Jim Hawkins and his two best friends, Gonzo and Rizzo, embark on a voyage across the high seas in search of buried treasure, but soon find…
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Independence Day
1996 · 145m
Military Sci-FiSpace OperaAlien Invasion
Strange phenomena surface around the globe.
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Prime
Everyone Says I Love You
1996 · 101m
Slapstick & ScrewballMarriage & DivorceHeist
A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.
68
Paramount+
Mission: Impossible
1996 · 111m
Spy / EspionageUndercoverEspionage
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has…
68
Hulu
Romeo + Juliet
1996 · 120m
DramaRomance
In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering…
68
A Time to Kill
1996 · 149m
Legal DramaLegalGrief & Loss
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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Paramount+
Twister
1996 · 113m
DisasterMarriage & DivorceAction
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma.
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Ransom
1996 · 121m
Hostage & KidnappingGrief & LossAction
When a rich man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then tries a unique tactic against the criminals.