A Stranger Among Us (1992)

Melanie Griffith goes undercover with a bunch of Hasidic Jews to crack some kind of case and falls in love with one of them, who explains that killing someone is ending an entire universe and then later kills somebody to save her. I might have this movie confused with the one where Melanie Griffith goes undercover with a bunch of Nazis and Michael Douglas has to come save her.*

Did not remember that Sloane is in this!

* Shining Through, turns out. Also 1992! Are these two movies available on two sides of the same special DVD on a rack at Rite Aid?

Cool World (1992)

I think the idea of this movie was that it was supposed to be a more adult version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? with an emphasis on the Jessica Rabbit angle, so Kim Basinger played this hot cartoon woman and, I don't know, Bill Pullman or somebody was a detective who got sucked into her cartoon world. I remember seriously nothing about this movie except being disappointed by it. Maybe they jump back and forth between worlds a lot and it gets confusing? I don't fucking know.

Holy cow, Gabriel Byrne?

Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)

Somebody who isn't Matthew Broderick (but later turns into Matthew Broderick in Biloxi Blues) talks to the camera and either has or covets a picture of a naked girl and lives— Wow, I actually was about to say "lives on Coney Island or something," but odds are it's Brighton Beach, right? It's the '40s or the late '30s, and he's into sex but he's a virgin, and eventually he sees a girl with her top off (or maybe with her bottom off?) and says, "Onwards and upwards!" and that's the end of the movie.

Goes on to desecrate a corpse in a tony East Coast beach community.

House of Mirth (2000)

Gillian Anderson falls on hard times and is forced to live in a New York City apartment far bigger than any apartment I've ever seen in New York City. Now that I think of it, I think the apartment looks out on a park, too. She is disgraced! Maybe she has to work in a hat factory. I did not like this movie.

Not sure whether she made this hat herself.

Sliver (1993)

In this (as I remember it) pretty unabashedly baldfaced Basic Instinct cash-in, Sharon Stone lives in (or runs) a building that some Baldwin runs (or lives in), and there are cameras everywhere that are used for sexual voyeurism—either that or the trailers falsely advertised such: "I like to watch." Sharon Stone masturbates in the bathtub, and presumably someone is murdered.

This is what all the Google Image results look like,
and yet I seem to remember not nearly enough sex.

Movies I've Seen Only Parts Of: The Black Hole (1979)

A robot on wheels goes down a curving hallway on a spaceship. It's possible that I actually haven't seen this movie at all (especially since I think I might just be describing R2D2 in the first moments of Star Wars).

Yeah, I think maybe I just wanted to see this.
(Still do, turns out. This guy is awesome!)

Top Gun (1986)

Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer both fly fighter planes and hate each other. Tom Cruise has sex with some woman in a bed while music plays, and later he flies his plane upside down. I think there's a bar fight, and I assume Tom Cruise gets "grounded" but then ends up saving the day in some kind of combat situation and thereby redeeming himself, although to be honest I really might just be remembering the plot of the 1991 parody film Hot Shots! Oh, and Tom Cruise has a cool nickname like "Topper." (No, wait, that is from Hot Shots! What's his nickname, then? "Tucker"? "Tiger"? "Tugboat"? Something with a T.*)

This movie's a bit of a sausage fest, as I recall.

* "Maverick." I was close.