movies from the 90s you should see

Cafe Society
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here is my best of the 90s list :smiley: Some of them are better than other, but I think this is titles all should see

what do you think of it? Does the list mostly contains poor movies or mostly good ones

I cronologic order:

Bird on a wire (1990) Mel Gibson & Goldie Hawn
Godfellas (1990) Robert de Niro
Arachophobia (1990)
Tremors (1990)
Lionhart (1990) Van Damme
Misery (1990) James Caan
Silence of the lamb (1991)
Terimnator 2 (1991)
Cape Fear (1991) Rober de Niro, Nick Nolte
Decieved (1991) Goldie Hawn
The Super (1991) Joe Pesci
Basic Instinct (1992)
The Fugetive (1993)
Cliffhanger (1993)
Judgement Night (1993) Emilio Ezteves
Demolition Man (1993)
Jurrasic Park (1993)
A Bronx tale (1993)
Army of Darkness (1993)
Speed (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Shallow Grave (1994)
Nattevagten (1994) Danish thriller
Outbreak (1995) Dustin Hoffman
Tommyknockers (1993) (Tv-movie)
Misstenkt (The McMartin Trial) (1995) (TV-movie)
Heat (1995)
Seven (1995)
Rob Roy (1995)
Dolores Clairborne (1995)
Die Hard in NY (1995)
The gost and the darkness (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Bravehart (1996)
From dusk til dawn (1996)
Twister (1996)
Scream (1996)
Strange Days (1996)
Extreme Measures (1996) Hugh Grant
Titanic (1997) :smiley:
Armageddon (1998)
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Mimic (1997)
Murder at 1600 (1997) )
The Edge (1997)
Metro (1997) Eddie Murphy
Brakdown (1997)
Lethal weapon 4 (1998)
Saving private Ryan (1998)
Enemy of the State (1998)
American History X (1998)
Star Wars 1: the phantom menace (1999) (mostly because it’s a Star Wars movie)
Matrix (1999)
Eyes Wide shut (1999)
Arlington Road (1999)
Fight Club (1999)

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Here are my '90s favorites, in no specific order:

Fight Club
Goodfellas
True Romance
L.A. Confidential
Pulp Fiction
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Swingers
Clerks
Last Man Standing
The Matrix
The Mummy
Army of Darkness
Twelve Monkeys
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Hard Boiled
Silence of the Lambs
Tombstone
Reservoir Dogs
Trainspotting
Get Shorty
Face/Off
Primal Fear

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Here are my favorites (it took me a while but I ranked them as best I could)

Fargo
The Insider
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Sense and Sensibility
Unforgiven
Schindler’s List
The Silence of the Lambs
LA Confidential
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Quiz Show
Millers Crossing
Tombstone
The Usual Suspects
The Remains of the Day
Casino
Out of Sight
The Truman Show
Beauty and the Beast
The Last of the Mohicans
In the Name of the Father
Boyz n the Hood
My Cousin Vinny
Aladdin
City Slickers

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Beauty and the Beast (1991, U.S., dir. Gary Trousdale)
Before Sunrise (1995, U.S./Austria/Switzerland, dir. Richard Linklater
Being John Malkovich (1999, U.S., dir. Spike Jonze)
Chungking Express (1994, Hong Kong, dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, U.K., dir. Mike Newell)
Groundhog Day (1993, U.S., dir. Harold Ramis)
Menace II Society (1993, U.S., dir. Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes)
The Player (1992, U.S., dir. Robert Altman)
Pulp Fiction (1994, U.S., dir. Quentin Tarantino)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991, U.S., dir. Jonathan Demme)
Slacker (1991, U.S., dir. Richard Linklater)
The Usual Suspects (1995, U.S., dir. Bryan Singer)

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Contact.
Being John Malcovich.
Saving Private Ryan.
The Game.
Cube.

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Not yet mentioned:

Lone Star
Sling Blade

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Pulp Fiction and The Silence of the Lambs are good ones. Being John Malkovich was far too weird for me. I hated “Four Weddings and a Funeral” and didn’t like Groundhog Day. Don’t think I’ve seen the others

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It wasn’t a bad decade for movies, was it? Here are the ones that came to mind, there are probably more, especially Brit films of which there were a few, but not Four Weddings, please!

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Strictly Ballroom
Muriel’s Wedding
Once were Warriors
Il Postino
Tacones Lejanos/High Heels
Belle epoque
Groundhog Day
Central do Brasil
The Remains of the Day
Shallow Grave
Sixth Sense
The Player
Eat Drink Man Woman
Carla’s Song

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I agree with many already listed but must add:

Jim Jarmusch’s masterpiece *Dead Man * (1995).
*Nightmare Before Christmas * (1993)
*Ponette * (1996) – French language film, if you haven’t see it, see it!

I’m sure I’ll think of more as soon as I post this.

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We all saw it. We all regretted it. And we all had to see the next two. So it goes.

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I don’t see *Clueless *anywhere in this thread.

That was a very influential 1990s movie.

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The Crying Game

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Monkeyshines, #1 (1890)

Le Clown et ses Chiens (1892)

The Blacksmith Scene (1893)

Buffalo Dance (1894)

Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)

Train Coming Out of Station (1896)

Roosevelt’s Rough Riders (1898)

:smiley:

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I would add two of my all-time favorites: A River Runs Through It and Glengarry Glen Ross, both from 1992.

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I forgot a few.

In the Line of Fire
Men In Black
Independence Day
Unforgiven

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Life Is Beautiful
The Thin Red Line

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Zero Effect

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A few more:

American Beauty
Cop Land
Pi
eXistenZ
The Sweet Hereafter
The Big Lebowski
Heat

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Pulling from my IMDB voting history:
Empire Records
10 Things I Hate About You
Bye Bye Love
Clerks
eXistenZ
If Lucy Fell
The Professional
Little Boy Blue
Phantoms
The Santa Clause
Suicide Kings
The Wedding Singer
The Boondock Saints
The Crow
Eve’s Bayou
Drive Me Crazy
Scream
Playing By Heart
The Quiet Room
The Last Super
Office Space
Jurassic Park
Go
Nowhere (sequel to Doom Generation)

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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) - Just because it’s comedy doesn’t mean it isn’t brilliant. Shut up! It is brilliant!