Best Films of The 90s [List]

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Night On Earth,
Before Sunrise,
The Long Day Closes,
Eternity And A Day—
Not One Less

Eyes Wide Shut,
The Remains of The Day,
The Dreamlife of Angels,
Following Fire,
Walk With Me—
The Wind Will Carry Us,
Through The Olive Trees,

Fireworks,
Night and Day,
After Life,
Naked Dreams,
Whisper Of The Heart,
Bound—

Open Your Eyes—
A Scene At The Sea,
Ocean Waves,
Drifting Clouds,
Raining Stones,
The Quince Tree Sun,
The Eel, The River
A Moment of Innocence,
Life,
And Nothing More…

To Live—
Only Yesterday,
A Brighter Summer Day.

Beanie baby low-rise kickflip Game Boy color AOL dial-up “computer room” Kodak instant film spice up your life with floppydisk BRICK phone plastic raincoat macarena Netscape walkman will they or won’t they Ross and Rachel ramen noodle hair OK computer pager rewind that VHS 3D glasses bowlcut TETRIS slinky it’s cool to be cool but also everything is uncool including trying to be cool best of luck that’s WHACK hit me baby one more time CD the atmosphere of harshness and backalley grit DON”T DO IT JACK! MTV aquamarine purple squiggle cup wordart RIP Biggie and Tupac what’s the deal with fava beans and a nice chianti when Weezer made good music and the untimely death of a starving Tamagotchi—

It’s the 90s.

Turnout was fantastic, just want to thank everybody who participated. A total of 739 unique films were submitted, which I think is a bit more than the V1. Despite less films being on the list that our V2 2000s list, there was a bigger overall turnout, which I was glad to see

So here it is, BestEverAlbums' top 100 films of the 1990s (v2)

Runner-ups in alphabetical order: Boyz N The Hood, Falling Down, The Hole, Jacob’s Ladder, Thelma & Louise

Actor who appeared most on the list (with 7 films)—
Steve Buscemi

Director(s) who appeared most on the list (with 4 films)—
The Coen Brothers

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100)

Wild At Heart Dir. David Lynch
Points: 327

”What's up, peanut?”

99)

The Sixth Sense Dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Points: 329

”Do you know why you're afraid when you're alone? I do.”

98)

Whisper of The Heart (耳をすませば) Dir. Yoshifumi Kondô
Points: 331

”When the afternoon air currents mix, we can even touch the stars without fear!”

97)

Gattaca Dir. Andrew Niccol
Points: 333

”I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body. You lent me your dream.”

96)

Secrets & Lies Dir. Mike Leigh
Points: 334

”I wouldn't know him if he stood up in my soup!”

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95)

Audition (オーディション) Dir. Takashi Miike
Points: 341

”Deeper."

94)

Fireworks (はなび, Hana-bi) Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Points: 343

”Next time, I’ll kill you.”

93)

The Virgin Suicides Dir. Sofia Coppola
Points: 347

”What lingered after them was not life,
but the most trivial list of mundane facts:
a clock ticking on a wall,
a room dim at noon,
and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”

92)

Days of Being Wild (阿飛正傳) Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Points: 350

“At one minute before 3pm on April the 16th, 1960, you're together with me.
Because of you, I'll remember that one minute. From now on, we're friends for one minute.
This is a fact, you can't deny. It's done.”

91)

The Sweet Hereafter Dir. Atom Egoyan
Points: 357

”That's my daughter. Or it may be the police to tell me they've found her dead. She's a drug addict.”

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90)

Dazed And Confused Dir. Richard Linklater
Points: 359

"Alright, alright, alright."

89)

Army of Darkness Dir. Sam Raimi
Points: 366

”Groovy.”

#1's: 1

88)

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Dir. Guy Ritchie
Points: 366*

”When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop.”

87)

Clerks Dir. Kevin Smith
Points: 372

”You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.”


86)

Run Lola Run Dir. Tom Tykwer
Points: 381

”What if I were in a coma, and the doc says, "One more day?””

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85)

The Player Dir. Robert Altman
Points: 382

”I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process.
If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.”


84)

Rosetta Dir. Dardenne Brothers
Points: 387

”Your name is Rosetta.
My name is Rosetta.
You found a job.
I found a job.
You've got a friend.
I've got a friend.
You have a normal life.
I have a normal life.
You won't fall in a rut.
I won't fall in a rut.
Good night. Good night.”


83)

Happiness Dir. Todd Solondz
Points: 389

”I wake up happy, feeling good... but then I get very depressed, because I'm living in reality.”

82)

Only Yesterday (おもひでぽろぽろ) Dir. Isao Takahata
Points: 397

“The king of fruit is the banana.”

81)

Election Dir. Alexander Payne
Points: 402

”If you died right now, I would throw myself into one of my Dad's cement trucks and get poured into your tomb.”

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80)

The Iron Giant Dir. Brad Bird
Points: 408

”I love you.”

79)

Office Space Dir. Mike Judge
Points: 410

“So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.”

78)

Eternity And A Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα) Dir. Theo Angelopoulos
Points: 415

”My only regret, Anna - but is it only one? - is to not have finished anything.
I left all as a draft, shattered words here and there.”

77)

Dark City Dir. Alex Proyas
Points: 416

”First there was darkness. Then came the strangers.”

76)

American History X Dir. Tony Kaye
Points: 418

“People look at me and see my brother.”

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75)

Crumb Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Points: 420

”Jesus. Fuckin' raging, epithet music comin' out of every car, every store, every person's head. They don't have noisy radios on, they got earphones; like, "motherfuckin', cocksuckin', son of a bitch. Lot of aggression. Lot of anger, lot of rage. Everybody walks around, they're walkin' advertisements. They've got advertisements on their clothes, you know? Walking around with "Adidas" written across their chests, '49'ers on their hats. Jesus. It's pathetic. It's pitiful. The whole cultures' one unified field of bought-sold-market researched everything, you know. It used to be that people fermented their own culture, you know? It took hundreds of years, and it evolved over time. And that's gone in America. People now don't even have any concept that there ever was a culture outside of this thing that's created to make money. Whatever's the biggest, latest thing, they're into it. You just get disgusted after a while with humanity for not having more, kind of like, intellectual curiosity about what's behind all this jive bullshit.”

74)

The Fugitive Dir. Andrew Davis & Stuart Baird
Points: 421

“Come on Doc...”

72) (tie)

Toy Story 2 Dir. John Lasseter
Points: 432

“Ya can't rush art.”

72) (tie)

All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Points: 432

”How could I own a real Chanel when there is so much poverty in the world?”


71)

The Straight Story Dir. David Lynch
Points: 439

*the wholehearted no-nonsense adventurism of a tractor revving*

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70)

True Romance Dir. Tony Scott
Points: 444

”If you gave me a million years to ponder, I would never have guessed that true romance and Detroit would ever go together.”

69)

The Lion King Dir. Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
Points: 449

“Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana.”

68)

Good Will Hunting Dir. Gus Van Sant
Points: 451

”Son of a bitch... He stole my line.”

#1's: 1

67)

The Piano Dir. Jane Campion
Points: 456

”—”

66)

Beau Travail Dir. Claire Denis
Points: 461

”That day, something overpowering took hold of my heart. I thought about the end. The end of me.”

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65)

Lost Highway Dir. David Lynch
Points: 483

”You were in the house, calling my name, but I couldn't find you.
Then there you were, lying in bed... but it wasn't you.
It looked like you, but it wasn’t.”

64)

The Double Life of Veronique Dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Points: 485

”Not long ago, I had a strange sensation. I felt that I was alone. All of a sudden. Yet nothing had changed.”

63)

Close-Up (کلوزآپ ، نمای نزدیک‎) Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Points: 488

”Art is the experience of what you’ve felt inside.”

62)

Underground (Подземље) Dir. Emir Kusturica
Points: 490

*tuba*

#1's: 1

61)

La Belle Noiseuse Dir. Jacques Rivette
Points: 490*

“They don’t know it’s impossible.”

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60)

After Life (ワンダフルライフ) Dir. Hirokazu Koreeda
Points: 497

”What is the one memory you would take with you?”

59)

Jurassic Park Dir. Steven Spielberg
Points: 503

”Hold onto your butts.”

58)

The Celebration (Festen) Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Points: 505

”Nice one, Dad. Good speech. Well done. But I think you'll have to go now so we can eat our breakfast.”

#1's: 1

57)

City Of Lost Children (La cité des enfants perdus) Dir. Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Points: 508

”When you're born in the gutter you end up in the port.”

56)

Edward Scissorhands Dir. Tim Burton
Points: 511

”Hold me.”