100 Greatest Movies of the 90s
91100 Greatest Movies of the 90s
1-- The Shawshank Redemption (Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins)
2 -- Pulp Fiction (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Harvey Keitel)
3 -- Goodfellas (Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino)
4 -- The Silence of the Lambs (Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn)
5 -- Dances With Wolves (Starring & Directed by Kevin Costner)
6 -- The Fisher King (Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl)
7 -- JFK (Oliver Stone's epic starring Kevin Costner & Donald Sutherland)
8 -- Glengarry Glen Ross (Al Pacino, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris)
9 -- Reservoir Dogs (Tim Roth, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn)
10 - Groundhog Day (Bill Murray, Andie McDowell, Chris Elliott)
11 - The Usual Suspects (Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Keyser Soze)
12 - Election (Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Chris Klein)
13 - American Beauty (Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Chris Cooper)
14 - The Big Lebowski (Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi)
15 - True Romance (Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper)
16 - Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater's ensemble collage of 1976)
17 - In the Name of the Father (Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson)
18 - What About Bob? (Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Haggerty)
19 - Searching for Bobby Fischer (Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne)
20 - Leon aka The Professional (Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman)
21 - Bullets Over Broadway (John Cusack, Chazz Palmintieri, Dianne Wiest)
22 - Fargo (William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi)
23 - The Matrix (Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Joe Pantaliano)
24 - Boogie Nights (Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly,Phillip Seymour Hoffman)
25 - To Die For (Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix)
26 - Natural Born Killers (Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr.)
27 - Office Space (Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole)
28 - Being John Malkovich (John Cusack, Catherine Keener, Cameron Diaz)
29 - Pi (Darren Aronofsky's black & white psychological thriller)
30 - The Birdcage (Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Hank Azaria)
31 - The Edge (Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Harold Perrineau)
32 - Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni's look at the war in a child's eye)
33 - Schindler's List (Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes)
34 - L.A. Confidential (Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, Kim Bassinger)
35 - The Fifth Element (Bruce Willis, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, Chris Tucker)
36 - Fight Club (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter)
37 - Misery (Kathy Bates, James Caan, Richard Farnsworth)
38 - 12 Monkeys (Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe, David Morse)
39 - Ed Wood (Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones)
40 - Fresh (Sean Nelson, Samuel L Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito)
41 - Big Night (Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub, Minnie Driver)
42 - Waiting For Guffman (Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Parker Posey)
43 - Rushmore (Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Seymour Cassel)
44 - The Doors (Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kevin Dillon, Kyle McLachlan)
45 - El Mariachi (Robert Rodriguez's mexican shoot 'em up indie smash)
46 - The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton's genius holiday film)
47 - Six Degrees of Separation (Stockard Channing, Will Smith)
48 - Devil in a Blue Dress (Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Beals)
49 - Braveheart (Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan)
50 - Toy Story (Voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles)
51 - Trainspotting (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller)
52 - Primal Fear (Richard Gere, Edward Norton, Laura Linney)
53 - Good Will Hunting (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams)
54 - Welcome to the Dollhouse (Heather Matarazzo, Brendon Sexton III)
55 - Wag The Dog (Dustin Hoffman, Robert Deniro, Anne Heche)
56 - The Straight Story (Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, H.D. Stanton)
57 - Run Lola Run (Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu)
58 - Nobody's Fool (Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith)
59 - Kids (Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Leo Fitzpatrick)
60 - Falling Down (Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey)
61 - New Jack City (Wesley Snipe, Ice-T, Chris Rock, Judd Nelson)
62 - State of Grace (Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright)
63 - Face/Off (John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon)
64 - Liar Liar (Jim Carrey, Maura Tierney, Cary Elwes, Swoozie kurtz)
65 - The Hudsucker Proxy (Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman)
66 - Clueless (Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy, Paul Rudd, Dan Hedaya)
67 - Secrets & Lies (Brenda Blethyn, Marianne Jean-Baptiste)
68 - Kolya (Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-1997)
69 - The Basketball Diaries (Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Wahlberg)
70 - Dumb and Dumber (Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Lauryn Holly)
71 - Hoop Dreams (Basketball Youth in the Best Documentary this decade)
72 - Ciao Professore! (The Best Foreign Language Film of 1992)
73 - Slacker (Richard Linklater, the amazing town of Austin, Texas)
74 - Defending Your Life (Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn)
75 - Boyz N The Hood (Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube)
76 - Crooklyn (Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, Zelda Harris, Spike Lee)
77 - The Ref (Denis Leary, Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis, Glynis Johns)
78 - Prelude to a Kiss (Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Ned Beatty, Kathy Bates)
79 - American Heart (Jeff Bridges, Edward Furlong)
80 - South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Trey Parker, Matt Stone)
81 - Clerks (Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith)
82 - Crumb (Terry Zwigoff's documentary about cartoonist Robert Crumb)
83 - As Good As It Gets (Jack Nicholson, Greg Kinnear, Helen Hunt)
84 - Frankie & Johnny (Michelle Pfeiffer, Al Pacino, Nathan Lane)
85 - A Bronx Tale (Chazz Palmintieri, Robert Deniro, Lillo Brancato)
86 - American History X (Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Ethan Suplee)
87 - Thelma & Louise (Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel)
88 - The Sixth Sense (Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette)
89 - Swimming With Sharks (Kevin Spacey, Frank Whaley, Benicio Del Toro)
90 - Short Cuts (Robert Altman's incredible ensemble cast of 20 actors)
91 - What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (Johnny Depp, Leonardo Dicaprio)
92 - A Few Good Men (Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson)
93 - Fried Green Tomatoes (Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, M.S. Masterson)
94 - Ghost (Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn)
95 - Pump Up the Volume (Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Ellen Greene)
96 - Romeo Is Bleeding (Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Juliette Lewis)
97 - Leaving Las Vegas (Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Shue)
98 - The Truman Show (Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris)
99 - Magnolia (Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Aimee Mann's music)
100 Henry Fool (Parker Posey in Hal Hartley's masterpiece of Indie Films)
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some are not too great, I think maybe 25 great movies were made in the 1990's The bar is pretty low for most of those. Great movies are 1 in 200, 10 years means theere were ten made each year, sorry to tell you sometimes a year or two passes before a great movie is made. Check out GreedQuest
Good top five, except why is Schindler's list down at 33?
Saving Private Ryan is not on this list. THE GREATEST WORLD WAR 2 MOVIE IS NOT ON THIS. SCHINDLER'S LIST NEEDS TO BE MOVED UP!!
Indeed. Agree about top 5 and Saving Private Ryan. How did Ghost get above Swingers which doesn't seem to feature at all. Four Weddings?










PCaholicDotCom says:
2 years ago
Nice list! I think Dumb and Dumber need to be bumped up as well as, A Few Good Men... other than that your top 5 is solid in my book :-)
~ Peter :-)