Top Movies of the '90s

Cafe Society
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Inspired by this thread, what would be your Top 5-10 movies of the 1990’s? I have to agree with the OP in that thread about Pulp Fiction - it is my favorite movie of all-time and definitely one of - if not the - top movie(s) of the '90s. My list?

  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. Natural Born Killers
  3. The Crow
  4. Forrest Gump
  5. Schindler’s List

I only did a list of five, but that’s because most of the movies I saw in the 1990’s weren’t all that good. Numbers two and three might be seen by some as bad choices, but that movie really impressed me for some reason - a dark love story with a great soundtrack and a stand-out performance by the late Brandon Lee. NBK was gritty, gory, and vulgar - but there was a love story wrapped up in that killing spree. As sick and twisted as they were, Mickey and Mallory loved each other, and they were together in the end. Plus, I saw NBK as the movie where Woody Harrelson broke through and made a name for himself as a major movie actor.

So what about you? Rank your favorite five or 10 movies of the 1990’s.

-Dirty

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Here goes, in no particular order:

  1. Fargo (96)
  2. Clerks (94)
  3. Truman Show (98)
  4. Welcome to Sarajevo (97)
  5. Chasing Amy (97)
  6. The Sweet Hereafter (97)
  7. The Usual Suspects (95)
3

Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
L.A. Confidential
The Matrix
Unforgiven
Terminator 2
Good Will Hunting
Reservoir Dogs
Almost Famous
Searching For Bobby Fischer

(in no particular order)

4

Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
L.A. Confidential
The Matrix
Unforgiven
Terminator 2
Good Will Hunting
Reservoir Dogs
Apollo 13
Searching For Bobby Fischer

(in no particular order)

5

sorry, I realized that Almost Famous was from 2000 and tried to stop the post, but I was too late.

6

The Matrix
The Usual Suspects
Contact
The English Patient
Apollo 13

7

In chronological order, a baker’s dozen:

The Double Life of Veronique
La Belle Noiseuse
Simple Men
The Last of the Mohicans
The Wrong Trousers
The City of Lost Children
Underground
Smoke
Dead Man
Lone Star
The Sweet Hereafter
Topsy-Turvy
The Straight Story
*

8

A whole bunch from 1999 alone deserve mention:

Three Kings
Fight Club
Being John Malkovich

and, the best movie of the decade:

THE IRON GIANT

9
  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. Fargo
  3. The Usual Suspects
  4. 3 Kings
  5. Shakespeare in Love
10

Braveheart
Shawshank Redemption
American Beauty
American History X
Silence of the Lambs

-as a hijack:

“Dirty Earthworm, Dirty Earthworm,
measuring the marigolds,
you and your arithmetic
will probably go far.
Dirty Earthworm, Dirty Earthworm,
measuring the marigolds,
seems to me you’d stop and see
how beautiful they are!”

Thank yeeeeeewwwww, Thank yew very much!

:wink:

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American History X
Braveheart
Clerks
Contact
Fight Club
Léon (aka The Professional)
Le Violin Rouge (aka The Red Violin)
Being John Malkovich
The Silence of the Lambs

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  1. Pulp Fiction
  2. The Usual Suspects
  3. Shawshank Redemption
  4. Schindler’s List
  5. Reservoir Dogs
  6. Fargo
  7. Silence of the Lambs
  8. Being John Malkovich
  9. Unforgiven
  10. Fight Club
13

Clerks
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
Unforgiven
Fight Club
The Matrix
:cool:

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  1. Schindler’s List (93)
  2. GoodFellas (90)
  3. Fargo (96)
  4. Hoop Dreams (94)
  5. Pulp Fiction (94)
  6. The Shawshank Redemption (94)
  7. Three Colors: Red (94)
  8. Unforgiven (92)
  9. Happiness (98)
  10. Being John Malkovich (99)
15
  1. Barton Fink
  2. Schindler’s List
  3. Silence of the Lambs
  4. Go (1999)
  5. American Beauty
16

Clerks
Braveheart
Goodfellas
Dogma
Shawshank Redemption

dead0man

17

Most of the ones I wanted to mentioned have been said already, but I’ll add Seven and Sling Blade

18

I forgot to add The Basketball Diaries - the only Leo DiCraprio movie I can actually sit through. It didn’t make my Top Five, but it’s definitely in the top ten.

-Dirty

19

Without thinking too much, I’d have to say…

  1. Pulp Fiction

The rest, in no order:
American Beauty
Fargo
L.A. Confidential
The Silence of the Lambs
The Usual Suspects
Being John Malkovich
Shakespeare in Love
Life Is Beautiful
Fight Club

I haven’t seen Goodfellas all the way through, but it will probably replace Fight Club when I do.

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I second The Truman Show.

Why that movie never reached “movie classic” status is beyond me. It’s a spectacular movie.