Best Films of The 90s (V2) [Poll][Dead]

[PurpleHazel]

1. Goodfellas
2. A Brighter Summer Day
3. Fargo
4. Satantango
5. Groundhog Day
6. Rosetta (Dardenne Brothers, 1999)
7. Pulp Fiction
8. Being John Malkovich
9. Rushmore
10. Taste of Cherry
11. Hana-bi
12. Crumb
13. Before Sunrise
14. Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)
15. Three Colors: Blue
16. The Match Factory Girl
17. Fucking Amal (Lukas Moodysson, 1998)
18. Drunken Master II aka The Legend of Drunken Master (Jackie Chan, Lau Kar-leung, 1994)
19. Boogie Nights
20. Naked
21. Thelma and Louise
22. Deep Cover (Bill Duke, 1992)
23. Princess Mononoke
24. A Moment of Innocence
25. Funny Games
26. A Perfect World (Clint Eastwood, 1993)
27. The Wind Will Carry Us
28. Red Rock West (John Dahl, 1993)
29. Silence of the Lambs
30. Cure (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997)
31. Reservoir Dogs
32. Heat
33. To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990)
34. Chungking Express
35. L.A. Confidential
36. Three Colors: Red
37. The Long Day Closes
38. The Ice Storm
39. La Ceremonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
40. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley, 1992)
41. In the Company of Men (Neil LaBute, 1997)
42. The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan, 1998)
43. Raise the Red Lantern
44. La Belle Noiseuse
45. A Simple Plan (Sam Raimi, 1998)
46. Hard Boiled (John Woo, 1992)
47. Unforgiven
48. Lone Star (John Sayles, 1996)
49. Fight Club
50. The Rapture (Michael Tolkin, 1991)
51. Magnolia
52. Audition
53. Schindler’s List
54. One False Move (Carl Franklin, 1992)
55. Election
56. Malcolm X
57. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
58. Casino
59. The Usual Suspects
60. After Life
61. The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet, 1997)
62. Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993)
63. JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)
64. Hard Eight (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1998)
65. Close-Up
66. Se7en
67. Naked Lunch
68. Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen, 1992)
69. Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara, 1992)
70. Delicatessen
71. Breaking the Waves
72. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991)
73. Puppetmaster (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 1993)
74. Lost Highway
75. La Promesse (Dardennes, 1996)
76. Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997)
77. Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998)
78. Bullets Over Broadway (Allen, 1994)
79. Dick (Andrew Fleming, 1999)
80. Toy Story
81. La Femme Nikita (Luc Bresson, 1990)
82. L’humanite (Bruno Dumont, 1999)
83. 12 Monkeys
84. True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993)
85. Ed Wood
86. Three Kings
87. The Last Seduction (John Dahl, 1994)
88. The Age of Innocence
89. The General (John Boorman, 1998)
90. Leaving Las Vegas
91. The Player
92. The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, 1991)
93. Through the Olive Trees
94. Dark City (Alex Proyas, 1998)
95. Barton Fink
96. Jacob’s Ladder (Adrian Lyne, 1990)
97. Eyes Wide Shut
98. Following
99. Days of Being Wild
100. City of Hope (John Sayles, 1991)


This was the most fun I've had making a film list (I'd made a Top 50 before, so I guess the fun was expanding it to 100). The 90s aren't my favorite decade (though I like them better than subsequent decades), but I've seen more films from this decade than any other. Was my first full decade as an adult, therefore it was the first I could go see any movie in the theater I wanted. Video rentals, premium cable and IFC (before they had commercials and original series) helped. Saw most of the American movies on my list in the theater when they first ran, including Reservoir Dogs. Feels like the list that most reflects my personality, but that's just because I have more movies to choose from.

[Hayden]

[Spyglass]

Whatever I decide on, Jacob's Ladder's going to be very high, maybe top ten. That film feels like it was built for me. It's a psychological horror with surrealist elements and war movie moments. I'll even say that it's Tim Robbins' best movie (which means IMO it's better than The Shawshank Redemption). I think my number 1 will be Terminator 2.
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[CA Dreamin]

Just want to say great lists so far

[Tha1ChiefRocka]

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This movie is batshit insane. I'm still shook after watching it.

[cestuneblague]

I remember Blockbuster (and Rain City video) as well as the old dollar theaters, useful when having to wait 6 months for a VHS release. Hell, I remember going to Home Alone in it's first run, Wayne's World too. And being snuck in by a friend's degenerate cousin to see Starship Troopers at age 11 (and discovering cinemax after 9 at my uncle's house a year earlier). What a time to be alive. But really, it's interesting to look back at the 90s childhood and the last golden age of live-action kids films, not only ninjas everywhere in the early 90s and all the gang-of-misfits-team-up-for-peewee-sports flicks (ahh, Little Giants) and everything pretty much mentioned in Rocka's list, but also remarkable how dark some of these films could get (Kindergarten Cop was marketed as a kid's movie, not to mention films like Radio Flyer, Jack the Bear and Into the West (now a criterion release!) and also how many have really stood the test of time as terrific films like all the ones mostly mentioned here (Searching for Bobby Fisher, Fly Away Home, A little princess even though at 10 I only liked it because of Cauron , Babe oh Babe and ofc Jungle 2 Jungle). Anybody remember Free Willy? Also remember in the pre Toy Story days when Disney animated films were like the biggest event of the year, mainly because there were so few on the schedule (and the non-disney ones were usually pretty low-budget), the hand-drawn days that are long gone, oh well.

Anyhoo, can't wait to dig deeper back in the 90s, for the most part I prefer it to the 21st century espcially as the last few years of the 90s had this incredible, worldwide run of really ambitious and envelope-pushing works that have only come in spurts these past couple of decades... then again they had much less competition considering premium cable original programming and streaming haven't really matured at this point. But should come up with a list of stupid comedies I still love from the era, the last gasp of the old hong kong studio flicks beyond Wong-Kar, an especially strong slate of french movies and I expect Kevin Costner may make it in somewhere, next to Cox-Harlin duo the greatest bill-burner filmmaker of the decade, but not the one you may expect. Fun decade, stronger studio flicks also great how many top-notch films could be made over such a simple premise, easier-to-enjoy, less-meta days.

[Hayden]

Just got around to In The Heat of The Sun (Jiang Wen, 1994). Going on my list for sure. Fantastic coming-of-age film. Really captures that dug-from-the-back-of-your-memory dream vibe.

[mickilennial]

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[Hayden]

[mickilennial]

I had to build this list from scratch after compiling my ratings, but I decided to be more honest with certain blockbusters/action films here. Much like the 00s, the 90s is quite hard to be selective to just 100.