50 Best Feature Films of the 1990's

[Michael Corleone]

You don't have too make a list to 50, 10 or 15 or 20 or 25 would be fine. Here's mine (with a LOT of honorable mentions):

01. Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
02. The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
03. GoodFellas (Martin Scorsese)
04. Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
05. The Insider (Michael Mann)
06. Ed Wood (Tim Burton)
07. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
08. The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
09. Casino (Martin Scorsese)
10. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami)
11. The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
12. JFK (Oliver Stone)
13. Shakespeare In Love (John Madden)
14. The Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese)
15. Se7en (David Fincher)
16. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella)
17. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
18. Titanic (James Cameron)
19. Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
20. Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
21. Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
22. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
23. Gods and Monsters (Bill Condon)
24. Legends of the Fall (Edward Zwick)
25. Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton)
26. Braveheart (Mel Gibson)
27. The Remains of the Day (James Ivory)
28. Hamlet (1990) (Franco Zeffirelli)
29. Heavenly Creatures (Peter Jackson)
30. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
31. Quiz Show (Robert Redford)
32. The People vs. Larry Flynt (Milos Forman)
33. Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
34. Fargo (Joel Coen)
35. The Godfather, Part III (Franciss Ford Coppola)
36. A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)
37. Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
38. Three Kings (David O. Russell)
39. Affliction (Paul Schrader)
40. Fight Club (David Fincher)
41. Apollo 13 (Ron Howard)
42. Barton Fink (Joel Coen)
43. Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
44. As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks)
45. Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann)
46. Bullets Over Broadway (Woody Allen)
47. Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant)
48. Philadelphia (Jonathan Demme)
49. Beauty and The Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise)
50. Wag the Dog (Barry Levinson)


Honorable Mentions (mostly great films that I regretfully left off)

- The Basketball Diaries
- In the Line of Fire
- Bringing Out the Dead
- All About My Mother
- Leon
- Abraham’s Valley
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Out of Sight
- The Limey
- Magnolia (not a huge fan of this one, but I understand the praise)
- Boogie Nights (see Magnolia)
- The Player
- The Ice Storm
- Lost Highway
- Flowers of Shanghai
- Eat Drink Man Woman
- The Sixth Sense
- Boys Don’t Cry
- Secrets and Lies
- Raise the Red Lantern
- Romper Stomper
- Jerry Maguire
- The Piano
- Naked Lunch
- Goodbye South, Goodbye
- Sense and Sensibility
- Safe
- Fallen Angels
- Short Cuts
- The Crying Game
- Wild at Heart
- Miller's Crossing
- Crash
- Election
- Velvet Goldmine
- The Sweet Hereafter
- Shanghai Triad
- Central Station



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[urbanlegend23]

1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (1994, Frank Darabont)
2. AMERICAN BEAUTY (1999, Sam Mendes)
3. AMERICAN HISTORY X (1998, Tony Kaye)
4. THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991, Jonathan Demme)
5. FIGHT CLUB (1999, David Fincher)
6. WALLACE ANG GROMIT: THE WRONG TROUSERS (1993, Nick Park)
7. WALLACE AND GROMIT: A CLOSE SHAVE (1995, Nick Park)
8. PULP FICTION (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
9. BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
10. TITANIC (1997, James Cameron)
11. BREAKING THE WAVES (1996, Lars von Trier)
12. FORREST GUMP (1994, Robert Zemeckis)
13. UNFORGIVEN (1992, Clint Eastwood)
14. THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998, Peter Weir)
15. FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (1994, Mike Newell)
16. TOY STORY 2 (1999, John Lasseter)
17. ELECTION (1999, Alexander Payne)
18. THE ICE STORM (1997, Ang Lee)
19. SCREAM (1996, Wes Craven)
20. PLEASANTVILLE (1998, Gary Ross)
21. SCENT OF A WOMAN (1992, Martin Brest)
22. SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT (1999, Trey Parker)
23. THE MATRIX (1999, Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski)
24. L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997, Curtis Hanson)
25. THE GREEN MILE (1999, Frank Darabont)26. 26. THE CRYING GAME (1992, Neil Jordan)
27. GOOD WILL HUNTING (1997, Gus Van Sant)
28. THE PIANO (1993, Jane Campion)
29. THIS BOY’S LIFE (1993, Michael Caton-Jones)
30. HEAVENLY CREATURES (1994, Peter Jackson)
31. THE BASKETBALL DIARIES (1995, Scott Kalvert)
32. BABE (1995, Chris Noonan)
33. THE SIXTH SENSE (1999, M. Night Shyamalan)
34. THELMA & LOUISE (1991, Ridley Scott)
35. ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999, Pedro Almodovar)
36. ELIZABETH (1998, Shekar Kupar)
37. ONCE WERE WARRIORS (1994, Lee Tamahori)
38. BOYS DON’T CRY (1999, Kimberley Pierce)
39. SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999, Tim Burton)
40. WALLACE AND GROMIT: A GRAND DAY OUT (1992, Nick Park)
41. THE THIN RED LINE (1998, Terrence Malick)
42. MAGNOLIA (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson)
43. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995, Ang Lee)
44. BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (1999, Spike Jonze)
45. SPEED (1994, Jan de Bont)
46. AS GOOD AS IT GETS (1997, James L. Brooks)
47. RUN LOLA RUN (1998, Tom Tykwer)
48. ARLINGTON ROAD (1999, Mark Pellington)
49. EYES WIDE SHUT (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
50. BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999, Martin Scorsese)

[Puck Bond]

Top 50 films of the 90's

1. The Shawshank Redemption(1994)
2. Saving Private Ryan(1998)
3. Pulp Fiction(1994)
4. Goodfellas(1990)
5. Being John Malkovich(1999)
6. Braveheart(1995)
7. The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
8. Good Will Hunting(1997)
9. The Usual Suspects(1995)
10. Schindler's List(1993)
11. Swingers(1996)
12. The Hunt for Red October(1990)
13. The Sixth Sense(1999)
14. The Rock(1996)
15. Unforgiven(1992)
16. American Beauty(1999)
17. Dances with Wolves(1990)
18. JFK(1991)
19. Life Is Beautiful(1998)
20. Fargo(1996)
21. Dark City(1998)
22. The Fugitive(1993)
23. L.A. Confidential(1997)
24. Se7en(1995)
25. Three Kings(1999)
26. The Fifth Element(1997)
27. The Thin Red Line(1998)
28. The Green Mile(1999)
29. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves(1991)
30. Fight Club(1999)
31. The Player(1992)
32. The Insider(1999)
33. Casno(1995)
34. The Truman Show(1998)
35. True Romance(1993)
36. Scent of a Woman(1992)
37. Forrest Gump(1994)
38. Magnolia(1999)
39. Jackie Brown(1997)
40. 12 Monkeys(1995)
41. Pump Up the Volume(1990)
42. Reservoir Dogs(1992)
43. Dead Man Walking(1995)
44. Quiz Show(1994)
45. Boogie Nights(1997)
46. The Talented Mr. Ripley(1999)
47. La Femme Nikita(1991)
48. American History X(198)
49. Bound(1996)
50. Philadelphia(1993)

[bskutle]

1. Schindler's List (1993)- Steven Spielberg
2. Pulp Fiction (1994)- Quentin Tarantino
3. Braveheart (1995)- Mel Gibson
4. Saving Private Ryan (1998)- Steven Spielberg
5. Face/Off (1997)- John Woo
6. A Few Good Men (1992)- Rob Reiner
7. GoodFellas (1990)- Martin Scorsese
8. Dark City (1998)- Alex Proyas
9. Fargo (1996)- Joel Coen
10. The Sweet Hereafter (1997)- Atom Egoyan
11. L.A. Confidential (1997)- Curtis Hanson
12. The Usual Suspects (1995)- Bryan Singer
13. Toy Story (1995)- John Lasseter
14. Ghost in the Shell (1996)- Mamoru Oshii
15. The Crow (1994)- Alex Proyas
16. American Beauty (1999)- Sam Mendes
17. Pleasantville (1998)- Gary Ross
18. Princess Mononoke (1997)- Hayao Miyazaki
19. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)- Jonathan Demme
20. Ed Wood (1994)- Tim Burton
21. Speed (1994)- Jan De Bont
22. King of the Hill (1993)- Steven Soderbergh
23. Miller's Crossing (1990)- Joel Coen
24. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)- Stanley Kubrick
25. Lolita (1997)- Adrian Lyne

[syxxpac]

Here's a list of 25. Too lazy to do 50.

1. T2: Judgment Day
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Jurassic Park
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. The Matrix
6. True Romance
7. Braveheart
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. True Lies
10. Se7en
11. L.A. Confidential
12. Titanic
13. Scream
14. American History X
15. There's Something About Mary
16. The Green Mile
17. Goldeneye
18. The Sixth Sense
19. Silence of the Lambs
20. Independence Day
21. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
22. Face/Off
23. Jerry Maguire
24. The Rock
25. Speed

Note that I haven't seen Schindler's List or American Beauty yet. The list may change if I saw these two.

[Michael Corleone]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by urbanlegend23:
31. THE BASKETBALL DIARIES (1995, Scott Kalvert)</font>

Good choice! I totally forgot about this one while making my list, I'll have too replace Saving Private Ryan with this one now.

[ColinM]

This 50 list is really more of a favorites list (or my combo of best/favorite) than a Best list. Maybe I'll come back later and put an actual 50 Best list together.

1) The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
2) Saving Private Ryan (1998)
3) American Beauty (1999)
4) Se7en (1995)
5) As Good As It Gets (1997)
6) The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
7) Schindler's List (1993)
8) Heat (1995)
9) Pulp Fiction (1994)
10) L.A. Confidential (1997)
11) Reservoir Dogs (1992)
12) Titanic (1997)
13) Twelve Monkeys (1995)
14) Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
15) Green Mile, The (1999)
16) Braveheart (1995)
17) Jurassic Park (1993)
18) Life is Beautiful (1998)
19) Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
20) Fight Club (1999)
21) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
22) The Game (1997)
23) American President (1995)
24) Shakespeare in Love (1998)
25) The Insider (1999)
26) Unforgiven (1992)
27) Forrest Gump (1994)
28) Babe (1995)
29) I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
30) Toy Story (1995)
31) The Matrix (1999)
32) The Lion King (1994)
33) Clerks (1994)
34) Goodfellas (1990)
35) Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
36) Jerry Maguire (1996)
37) Magnolia (1999)
38) The Truman Show (1998)
39) Toy Story 2 (1999)
40) To Die for (1995)
41) The Sixth Sense (1999)
42) Ghost (1990)
43) Beauty and the Beast (1991)
44) The Fugitive (1993)
45) Dances with Wolves (1990)
46) Three Kings (1999)
47) Sleepy Hollow (1999)
48) The Hurricane (1999)
49) Election (1999)
50) October Sky (1999)

I just whipped this up, so it's probably not complete...

[robk]

In no particular order:

1. Schindler's List
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Unforgiven
4. Boyz N the Hood
5. Goodfellas
6. The Silence of the Lambs
7. JFK
8. Beauty & the Beast
9. Sleepy Hollow
10. Ed Wood
11. Jurassic Park
12. In the Line of Fire
13. The Bridges of Madison County
14. Amistad
15. The Last of the Mohicans
16. In the Name of the Father
17. Smoke Signals
18. The Fugitive
19. Jerry Maguire
20. Stargate
21. Braveheart
22. Apollo 13
23. A Few Good Men
24. My Cousin Vinny
25. Clueless
26. Goldeneye
27. White Hunter, Black Heart
28. Se7en
29. The Matrix
30. Speed
31. Reversal of Fortune
32. Misery
33. City Slickers
34. The Fisher King
35. Good Will Hunting
36. Mighty Aphrodite
37. Scream
38. Howards End
39. The Remains of the Day
40. Titanic
41. American Beauty
42. Malcolm X
43. Maverick
44. Toy Story
45. Babe
46. Mrs. Doubtfire
47. Dead Man Walking
48. Pulp Fiction
49. Face Off
50. Galaxy Quest

[Grebdron]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Michael Corleone:
The Basketball Diaries. Good choice! I totally forgot about this one while making my list, I'll have too replace Saving Private Ryan with this one now.

</font>

Please tell me you're kidding. I haven't seen it, but replacing SPR as one of the top 50? There's nothing else you could replace?

Or are you just being facetious?

[movielover-9]

Top 50 of the 1990's
1. The Shawshank Redemption[1994]-Frank
Darabont
2. Schindler's List[1993]-Steven Spielberg
3. Saving Pirvate Ryan[1998]-Steven Spielberg
4. Pulp Fiction[1994]-Quentin Tarantino
5. The Silence Of The Lambs[1991]-Johnathan Demme
6. Unforgiven[1992]-Clint Eastwood
7. The Thin Red Line[1998]-Terrence Malick
8. Casino[1995]-Martin Scorsese
9. Heat[1995]-Michael Mann
10. Se7en[1995]-David Fincher
11. L.A. Confidential[1997]-Curtis Hanson
12. Goodfellas[1990]-Martin Scorsese
13. The Sixth Sense[1999]-M. Night Shymalan
14. American Beauty[1999]-Sam Mendes
15. Fight Club[1999]-David Fincher
16. The Insider[1999]-Michael Mann
17. Quiz Show[1994]-Robert Redford
18. Braveheart[1995]-Mel Gibson
19. Forrest Gump[1994]-Robert Zemeckis
20. Good Will Hunting[1997]-Gus van Sant
21. Ed Wood[1994]-Tim Burton
22. The Usual Suspects[1995]-Bryan Singer
23. Fargo[1996]-Joel Coen
24. Out of Sight[1998]-Steven Soderbergh
25. The English Patient[1996]-Anthony Minghella
26. JFK[1991]-Olvier Stone
27. In The Line Of Fire[1993]-Wolfgang Peterson
28. Election[1999]-Alexander Payne
29. Toy Story[1995]-John Lasetter
30. Boyz N The Hood[1991]-John Singleton
31. Thelma and Louise[1991]-Ridley Scott
32. Dances With Wolves[1990]-Kevin Costner
33. Ghost[1990]-Jerry Zucker
34. Speed[1994]-Jan de Bont
35. Boogie Nights[1997]-Paul Thomas Anderson
36. As Good As It Gets[1997]-James L. Brooks
37. Scream[1996]-Wes Craven
38. Jerry Maguire[1996]-Cameron Crowe
39. Being John Malkovich[1999]-Spike Jonze
40. Reservoir Dogs[1992]-Quentin Tarantino
41. Babe[1995]-Chris Noonan
42. Jurassic Park[1993]-Steven Spielberg
43. The Piano[1993]-Jane Champion
44. Boys Don't Cry[1999]-Kimberly Pierce
45. Titanic[1997]-James Cameron
46. Pretty Woman[1990]-Garry Marshall
47. My Cousin Vinny[1992]-Johnthan Lynn
48. Dead Man Walking[1995]-Tim Robbins
49. Four Weddings And A Funeral[1994]-Mike Newell
50. Philadelphia[1993]-Johnthan Demme

[Michael Corleone]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Grebdron:
Please tell me you're kidding. I haven't seen it, but replacing SPR as one of the top 50? There's nothing else you could replace?

Or are you just being facetious?

</font>

Nothing facetious about it. I didn't much like Saving Private Ryan and I enjoyed The Basketball Diaries. The only reason SPR was there in the first place is because I loved the opening battle and the closing battle, those two scenes alone were better then some of the films released in the 90's. What I'm getting at is that I enjoyed all of The Basketball Diaries and basically only those two battle scenes of SPR and, possibly, a couple others.

EDIT: Though, as I said, I enjoyed all of BD, I put one of my many "honorable mentions" in its place at number 50 and put BD under HM. This after plenty of thinking.




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[adidas12185]

top 50 overall films of the 90's (in no real order):

Silence of the Lambs- Demme
Mimic- Del Toro
Predator 2- Hopkins
the Ghost and the Darkness- Hopkins
Candyman- Barker
Halloween: H20- Miner
Lake Placid- Miner
New Nightmare- Craven
Scream- Craven
Blade- Norrington
T2: Judgment Day- Cameron
True Lies- Cameron
Deep Blue Sea- Harlin
Total Recall- Veerhoeven
Alien 3- Fincher
Seven- Fincher
Fight Club- Fincher
the Relic- Hyams
Sudden Death- Hyams
Saving Private Ryan- Spielberg
Three Kings- O. Russell
U:571- Mostow
Crimson Tide- Scott
Navy SEALs- Teague
Enemy of the State- Scott
Independence Day- Emmerich
the Patriot- Emmerich
the Rock- Bay
Armageddon- Bay
Bad Boys- Bay
Speed- Bont
Murder at 1600- Little
the Glimmerman- Gray
Patriot Games- Noyce
Clear and Present Danger- Noyce
the Hunt for Red October- McTiernan
Die Hard: With a Vengeance- McTiernan
Under Siege- Davis
the Fugitive- Davis
U.S. Marshals- Baird
the Matrix- Wachowski brothers
the Green Mile- Darabont
Air Force One- Petersen
the Perfect Storm- Petersen
A Simple Plan- Raimi
Fire Down Below- Enriquez Alcala
the Big Lebowski- Coen brothers
Tales From the Hood- Cundieff
Pulp Fiction- Tarantino
Desperado- Tarantino

[bluegopher]

My top 25 in no particular order because I couldn't decide where to put some of the films on the list.

1.American Beauty-Mendes
2.Mission:Impossible-De Palma
3.Jurassic Park-Spielberg
4.Arlington Road-Pellington
5.True Crime-Eastwood
6.Analyze This-Ramis
7.Terminator 2:Judgement Day-Cameron
8.Titanic-Cameron
9.The Sixth Sense-Shyamalan
10.Arachnophobia-Marshall
11.The Silence of the Lambs-Demme
12.What About Bob?-Oz
13.Groundhog Day-Ramis
14.The Fugitive-Davis
15.A Perfect Murder-Davis
16.Mrs. Doubtfire-Columbus
17.Grumpy Old Men-Petrie
18.Speed-De Bont
19.Forrest Gump-Zemeckis
20.The Shawshank Redemption-Darabont
21.Dumb and Dumber-Farrelly Bros.
22.Outbreak-Peterson
23.Mallrats-Smith
24.Copycat-Amiel
25.Primal Fear-Hoblit


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[EBastard]

TOP 30:

1.Pulp Fiction,1994
2.Strange Days,1995
3.The Usual Suspects,1995
4.American Beauty,1999
5.Heat,1995
6.Braveheart,1995
7.Terminator 2:Judgement Day,1991
8.L.A. Confidential,1997
9.Fight Club,1999
10.The Matrix,1999

11.Unforgiven,1992
12.Schindler's List,1993
13.Titanic,1997
14.The Silence Of The Lambs,1991
15.Forest Gump,1995
16.Basic Instinct,1992
17.Casino,1995
18.Goodfellas,1990
19.Amistad,1997
20.Jurassic Park,1993(Two HUGE films in one year...there's not a damn thing Spielberg can't do.)

21.He Got Game,1998
22.Fargo,1996
23.The Shawshank Redemption,1994
24.State Of Grace,1990
25.GoldenEye,1995(The resurrection of Bond.)
26.Saving Private Ryan,1998
27.The Professional,1994
28.Face/Off,1997
29.Scream,1996
30.True Lies,1994

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