Top Movies of 1990s


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91. Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp, Larry Bryggman
Plot: McClane is back trying to stop terrorists, only this time he has to play games as a bomb squad with an unwanting friend (Jackson) around NYC.

92. Glengarry Glen Ross

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Foley
Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey
Plot: Deals behind the scenes at a rather ruthless Chicago real estate office. Only closers are wanted here and Blake has the ultimate test - a sales contest where the winner gets a car, the runner-up some steak knives and third place - gets fired. The incentives are high - high enough to break the law in pursuit of perfection.

93. Ghost in the Shell ( Kôkaku kidôtai )

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Actors: Mimi Woods, Richard Epcar (as George Richard), William Knight (as William Frederick), Tom Wyner (as Abe Lasser), Phil Williams, Christopher Joyce
Plot: In the year 2029 the world has become completely information oriented and the world's worst criminals are hackers. Section 9 is formed is formed to combat these criminals, made up of cyborgs with the ability to access any network. When a rogue virtual agent, The Puppet Master, is released it must be destroyed before it gets out into the real world.

94. The Game

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, Carroll Baker, James Rebhorn, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Plot: A man who has everything is given an odd gift by his spoiled brother - a game that is supposed to involve his life. But, when real bullets start flying he suspects it is more than just a game

95. Philadelphia

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas, Bradley Whitford, Joanne Woodward
Plot: A man with AIDS seeks a lawyer to help him sue his old employer (who happens to be a lawyer) when he knows they fired him just because he has aids.

96. Secrets & Lies

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Berrington
Plot: Adopted as a child, the now-grown up and successful Hortense thinks it is time to track down her birth mother. It leads to a the rather lonely, isolated working-class Cynthia - who does everything she can to deny the lineage even as it exposes secrets long buried.

97. The Straight Story

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: G
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Joseph A. Carpenter, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter, Donald Wiegert
Plot: An old man takes a trek across the country on a lawn mower to visit his dying brother.

98. Celebration, The ( Festen )

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Actors: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen, Birthe Neumann, Trine Dyrholm
Plot: It is Helge's 60th birthday party, and his rather large family has gathered for the celebration. But amidst this gathering a shadow hands over the preceding, as a recent suicide by his daughters hangs heavy. Asking his son to say a few words, he is given a choice between to cards - he chooses the Speech of Truth - and the truth may be too much for the family to bear.

99. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
Actors: Marlon Brando, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, George Lucas
Plot: The making of Apocalypse Now is nearly as big of drama as the film turned out to be. With a huge script and struggles all over, from budge to casting to nature itself - the film may now be iconic, but it ended up nearly destroyed Francis Ford Coppola.

100. Friday

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: F. Gary Gray
Actors: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, John Witherspoon, Anna Maria Horsford
Plot: Follows the hilarious events of a typical Friday of two friends.

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