20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 1990s
Criteria: The movies are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.
20 Greatest Movies of 1999 |
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#. Movie Title - (Directors Name) 1. The Matrix - (Lana & Lilly Wachowski) 2. Fight Club - (David Fincher) 3. American Beauty - (Sam Mendes) 4. The Sixth Sense - (M. Night Shyamalan) 5. Magnolia - (Paul Thomas Anderson) 6. All About My Mother - (Pedro Almodóvar) 7. Being John Malkovich - (Spike Jonze) 8. The Insider - (Michael Mann) 9. The Blair Witch Project - (Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez) 10. The Green Mile - (Frank Darabont) 11. Toy Story 2 - (John Lasseter, Ash Brannon & Lee Unkrich) 12. Eyes Wide Shut - (Stanley Kubrick) 13. The Iron Giant - (Brad Bird) 14. The Straight Story - (David Lynch) 15. Rosetta - (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) 16. Three Kings - (David O. Russell) 17. Beau travail - (Claire Denis) 18. Audition - (Takashi Miike) 19. Topsy-Turvy - (Mike Leigh) 20. Election - (Alexander Payne) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1998 |
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1. Saving Private Ryan - (Steven Spielberg) 2. The Truman Show - (Peter Weir) 3. The Big Lebowski - (Joel & Ethan Coen) 4. The Thin Red Line - (Terrence Malick) 5. The Celebration - (Thomas Vinterberg) 6. Rushmore - (Wes Anderson) 7. American History X - (Tony Kaye) 8. Elizabeth - (Shekhar Kapur) 9. Central Station - (Walter Salles) 10. Shakespeare in Love - (John Madden) 11. Happiness - (Todd Solondz) 12. Run Lola Run - (Tom Tykwer) 13. Ring - (Hideo Nakata) 14. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - (Guy Ritchie) 15. There's Something About Mary - (Bobby & Peter Farrelly) 16. After Life - (Hirokazu Koreeda) 17. A Bug's Life - (John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton) 18. The Idiots - (Lars von Trier) 19. Buffalo '66 - (Vincent Gallo) 20. Show Me Love - (Lukas Moodysson) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1997 |
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1. Titanic - (James Cameron) 2. L.A. Confidential - (Curtis Hanson) 3. Life Is Beautiful - (Roberto Benigni) 4. Boogie Nights - (Paul Thomas Anderson) 5. Princess Mononoke - (Hayao Miyazaki) 6. Good Will Hunting - (Gus Van Sant) 7. As Good as It Gets - (James L. Brooks) 8. Taste of Cherry - (Abbas Kiarostami) 9. Hana-bi - (Takeshi Kitano) 10. Funny Games - (Michael Haneke) 11. The Sweet Hereafter - (Atom Egoyan) 12. Gattaca - (Andrew Niccol) 13. Donnie Brasco - (Mike Newell) 14. Children of Heaven - (Majid Majidi) 15. Happy Together - (Wong Kar-wai) 16. Starship Troopers - (Paul Verhoeven) 17. The Fifth Element - (Luc Besson) 18. Jackie Brown - (Quentin Tarantino) 19. Men in Black - (Barry Sonnenfeld) 20. Lost Highway - (David Lynch) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1996 |
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1. Fargo - (Joel & Ethan Coen) 2. Trainspotting - (Danny Boyle) 3. Breaking the Waves - (Lars von Trier) 4. Secrets & Lies - (Mike Leigh) 5. The English Patient - (Anthony Minghella) 6. Jerry Maguire - (Cameron Crowe) 7. Independence Day - (Roland Emmerich) 8. Shine - (Scott Hicks) 9. Sling Blade - (Billy Bob Thornton) 10. Lone Star - (John Sayles) 11. Scream - (Wes Craven) 12. When We Were Kings - (Leon Gast) 13. Romeo + Juliet - (Baz Luhrmann) 14. The People vs. Larry Flynt - (Miloš Forman) 15. Mission: Impossible - (Brian De Palma) 16. A Moment of Innocence - (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) 17. Hamlet - (Kenneth Branagh) 18. From Dusk till Dawn - (Robert Rodríguez) 19. Primal Fear - (Gregory Hoblit) 20. Bound - (Lana & Lilly Wachowski) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1995 |
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1. Toy Story - (John Lasseter) 2. The Usual Suspects - (Bryan Singer) 3. Se7en - (David Fincher) 4. Heat - (Michael Mann) 5. Braveheart - (Mel Gibson) 6. Casino - (Martin Scorsese) 7. Before Sunrise - (Richard Linklater) 8. 12 Monkeys - (Terry Gilliam) 9. La haine - (Mathieu Kassovitz) 10. Apollo 13 - (Ron Howard) 11. Ghost in the Shell - (Mamoru Oshii) 12. Underground - (Emir Kusturica) 13. Dead Man - (Jim Jarmusch) 14. Babe - (Chris Noonan) 15. Sense and Sensibility - (Ang Lee) 16. Safe - (Todd Haynes) 17. Clueless - (Amy Heckerling) 18. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge - (Aditya Chopra) 19. The Bridges of Madison County - (Clint Eastwood) 20. Leaving Las Vegas - (Mike Figgis) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1994 |
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1. Pulp Fiction - (Quentin Tarantino) 2. The Shawshank Redemption - (Frank Darabont) 3. Forrest Gump - (Robert Zemeckis) 4. The Lion King - (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff) 5. Three Colours: Red - (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 6. Hoop Dreams - (Steve James) 7. Sátántangó - (Béla Tarr) 8. Léon: The Professional - (Luc Besson) 9. Chungking Express - (Wong Kar-wai) 10. Clerks - (Kevin Smith) 11. Four Weddings and a Funeral - (Mike Newell) 12. Ed Wood - (Tim Burton) 13. Crumb - (Terry Zwigoff) 14. To Live - (Zhang Yimou) 15. Three Colours: White - (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 16. Dumb and Dumber - (Bobby & Peter Farrelly) 17. Quiz Show - (Robert Redford) 18. Speed - (Jan de Bont) 19. Natural Born Killers - (Oliver Stone) 20. Heavenly Creatures - (Peter Jackson) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1993 |
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1. Schindler's List - (Steven Spielberg) 2. Jurassic Park - (Steven Spielberg) 3. Groundhog Day - (Harold Ramis) 4. Three Colours: Blue - (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 5. The Piano - (Jane Campion) 6. Farewell My Concubine - (Chen Kaige) 7. The Nightmare Before Christmas - (Henry Selick) 8. Dazed and Confused - (Richard Linklater) 9. Naked - (Mike Leigh) 10. Short Cuts - (Robert Altman) 11. The Remains of the Day - (James Ivory) 12. The Fugitive - (Andrew Davis) 13. In the Name of the Father - (Jim Sheridan) 14. Carlito's Way - (Brian De Palma) 15. Philadelphia - (Jonathan Demme) 16. True Romance - (Tony Scott) 17. The Age of Innocence - (Martin Scorsese) 18. What's Eating Gilbert Grape - (Lasse Hallström) 19. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers - (Nick Park) 20. Sonatine - (Takeshi Kitano) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1992 |
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1. Unforgiven - (Clint Eastwood) 2. Reservoir Dogs - (Quentin Tarantino) 3. Aladdin - (Ron Clements & John Musker) 4. Malcolm X - (Spike Lee) 5. The Player - (Robert Altman) 6. The Crying Game - (Neil Jordan) 7. Glengarry Glen Ross - (James Foley) 8. Hard Boiled - (John Woo) 9. Howards End - (James Ivory) 10. The Last of the Mohicans - (Michael Mann) 11. Scent of a Woman - (Martin Brest) 12. A Few Good Men - (Rob Reiner) 13. Braindead - (Peter Jackson) 14. Basic Instinct - (Paul Verhoeven) 15. Husbands and Wives - (Woody Allen) 16. Man Bites Dog - (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel & Benoît Poelvoorde) 17. The Quince Tree Sun - (Víctor Erice) 18. Bram Stoker's Dracula - (Francis Ford Coppola) 19. The Story of Qiu Ju - (Zhang Yimou) 20. El Mariachi - (Robert Rodríguez) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1991 |
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1. The Silence of the Lambs - (Jonathan Demme) 2. Terminator 2: Judgment Day - (James Cameron) 3. Beauty and the Beast - (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise) 4. Raise the Red Lantern - (Zhang Yimou) 5. Boyz n the Hood - (John Singleton) 6. Thelma & Louise - (Ridley Scott) 7. JFK - (Oliver Stone) 8. Barton Fink - (Joel & Ethan Coen) 9. A Brighter Summer Day - (Edward Yang) 10. My Own Private Idaho - (Gus Van Sant) 11. The Double Life of Veronique - (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 12. Delicatessen - (Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet) 13. Les amants du Pont-Neuf - (Leos Carax) 14. Once upon a Time in China - (Tsui Hark) 15. The Commitments - (Alan Parker) 16. La belle noiseuse - (Jacques Rivette) 17. Point Break - (Kathryn Bigelow) 18. The Fisher King - (Terry Gilliam) 19. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola) 20. Cape Fear - (Martin Scorsese) |
20 Greatest Movies of 1990 |
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1. GoodFellas - (Martin Scorsese) 2. Edward Scissorhands - (Tim Burton) 3. Dances with Wolves - (Kevin Costner) 4. Close-Up - (Abbas Kiarostami) 5. Miller's Crossing - (Joel & Ethan Coen) 6. Days of Being Wild - (Wong Kar-wai) 7. Misery - (Rob Reiner) 8. Home Alone - (Chris Columbus) 9. Paris Is Burning - (Jennie Livingston) 10. Cyrano de Bergerac - (Jean-Paul Rappeneau) 11. Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - (Akira Kurosawa) 12. Total Recall - (Paul Verhoeven) 13. Ju Dou - (Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang) 14. Awakenings - (Penny Marshall) 15. The Godfather Part III - (Francis Ford Coppola) 16. Pretty Woman - (Garry Marshall) 17. Slacker - (Richard Linklater) 18. Europa Europa - (Agnieszka Holland) 19. An Angel at My Table - (Jane Campion) 20. Ghost - (Jerry Zucker) |
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Edited By: Tim, pauldrach, Bruno, Luuk, ManPerson
Last Updated: 2021-11-02