Two movies released during a year with very similar themes

Cafe Society
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Also Carry On Columbus

But it’s hardly surprising that there would be several films that year.

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[QUOTE=audit1]
1992 saw the release of the films

1492: Conquest of Paradise

and

Chistopher Columbus
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(Bolding mine.) The fact that there were only 2 Christopher Columbus movies that year is what’s really startling.

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three

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I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned
The Matrix (March 31, 1999) The Matrix (1999) - IMDb
and
The Thirteenth Floor (May 28, 1999) http://imdb.com/title/tt0139809/

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[QUOTE=An Gadaí]
There was a spate of Rwanda set movies in a short period of time too.
Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs and I think one or two other ones.

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There was also an HBO Films production called Sometimes in April. All three (Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs, and Sometimes in April) came out within a year of each other.

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November 2005 The Posiedon Adventure. a tv movie based on the Paul gallico novel and film. This one has a terroist bomb capsizes a cruise ship and the survivors must struggle too escape

May 2006 Poseidon. based on the Paul Gallico novel and film, a cruise ship is capsized by a tidal wave and the survivors must struggle to escape in this Wolfgang Peterson film.

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Deep Impact, 1998

Armageddon, 1998

One had a hobbit.

The other had a lot of stupid.

They both had big space rocks.

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[QUOTE=beowulff]
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned
The Matrix (March 31, 1999) http://imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
and
The Thirteenth Floor (May 28, 1999) http://imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
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Also eXistenZ

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[QUOTE=Omniscient]
Ironically Armageddon and Deep Impact differ similarly in that one is about humanity’s attempts to defend itself from an impact and the other is about us helplessly fleeing one. Obviously these are totally different movies. :dubious:
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Well, there’s also the fact that Armegeddon is a hopelessly stupid, incredibly boring movie whose director only made one good decision–i.e., not showing Arwen naked; while Deep Impact is much smarter and more engaging movie whose director made only one egregiously bad movie–i.e., not showing Tea Leoni naked.

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Dead Man’s Curve
Dead Man On Campus

Both 1998. Same plot, which goes like this: failing college students hear that if your roommate commits suicide, you get a free passing grade. So they decide to murder their roommate, and make it look like suicide.

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1991 saw two Robin Hood movies released a month apart, the Fox “Robin Hood” with Uma Thurman as Maid Marian, and Kevin Costner’s “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”. Fox blinked and downgraded their IMHO superior film to a TV release in the US. And Disney decided to cash in by rereleasing their animated version on VHS that summer.

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Bet the Disney version was the best of the lot.