Not mentioned yet but I would rather see any of these again than most of what is currently showing:
A Few Good Men
A Simple Plan
American Movie
Babe
Big Night
Brassed Off
Dark City
Ed Wood
Grosse Point Blank
Heavenly Creatures
Into the West
Jacob’s Ladder
Lorenzo’s Oil
Metropolitan
October Sky
Pleasantville
Proof
Pump Up the Volume
Ronin
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Rounders
Rudy
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Shakespeare in Love
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
The Full Monty
The Iron Giant
Three Colors: Red
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Waking Ned Devine
Wild At Heart
> 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
Do you intend to comment on everyone’s selections or was there some special reason only to comment on mine?
No offense to the OP, but after seeing your first film listed was Bird on the Wire (about as horrible a movie as can possibly be imagined), I kinda ignored the rest of your post…
My two dozen favorite films from the 90s (in alphabetical order)
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Belfast, Maine
La Belle Noiseuse
The City of Lost Children
Dead Man
The Double Life of Veronique
Groundhog Day
The Last of the Mohicans
Lone Star
Magnolia
A Moment of Innocence
Out of Sight
The Piano
Se7en
Show Me Love
Simple Men
Smoke
A Summer’s Tale
The Sweet Hereafter
Topsy-Turvy
Underground
Vacas
When We Were Kings
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
The Wrong Trousers
Only a partial list. A list of my favorites would include many of these and some others, but these are ones I think you “should see”*:
Army of Darkness
Boogie Nights
Chasing Amy
Chungking Express
Ed Wood
Grosse Pointe Blank
The Hudsucker Proxy
The Insider
Jackie Brown
L.A. Confidential
Out of Sight
The Player
Pulp Fiction
The Straight Story
Three Kings
Toy Story
Unforgiven
Zero Effect
I left off a bunch of obvious ones that are being mentioned repeatedly, like Se7en. It’s good. See that too.
*Nobody ever “should” see Bird on a Wire. It’s not worth dying to avoid it, but almost.
Limiting myself to just documntaries, I’d have to say “When We Were Kings” (1996), “American Movie” (1999), “Mr. Death” (1999), and “Hoop Dreams” (1994) would have to be on a '90s must-see list.
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Boyz n the Hood (1991) Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Fargo (1996)
Goodfellas (1990)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Toy Story (1995)
Unforgiven (1992)