Top Movies of 1992


The top movies of 1992 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

21. The Crying Game

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Stephen Rea, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Jim Broadbent, Adrian Dunbar
Plot: A British soldier is held capture by the IRA where he makes friends with one of them. After he escapes, he is sent by his new friend to meet his lover.

22. Wayne's World

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Actors: Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, Tia Carrere, Rob Lowe, Lara Flynn Boyle, Brian Doyle-Murray
Plot: A guy who lives with his parents promotes his hit basement show to network TV where he tries to get used to "the big bucks" and relationships surrounding it.

23. Batman Returns

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer, Vincent Schiavelli, Paul Reubens
Plot: Batman must find a way to clear his name of terrible crimes while putting an end to Pengiun and the corrupt business man Max Shreck. A new masked outsider appears in a leather suit. Could it be Catwoman?

24. American Me

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward James Olmos
Actors: Sal Lopez, Vira Montes, Roberto Martín Márquez, Dyana Ortelli, Edward James Olmos, William Forsythe
Plot: A gangster is released from prison and tries to make sense of his life.

25. Patriot Games

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, Samuel L. Jackson
Plot: Jack Ryan is enjoying a vacation in England with his family when his CIA training kicks in and he foils an IRA assassination targeting a member of the royal family. Yet this intervention puts him and his family in the sights of the IRA - who now seek revenge.

26. Dead Alive ( Braindead )

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Jackson
Actors: Timothy Balme, Diana Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall, Stuart Devenie
Plot: An overbearing mother to one quiet Lionel Cosgrove, gets bitten by the rare Sumatran rat monkey and slowly transforms into a zombie - and soon is infecting everyone in sight leaving Lionel to take control of the situation.

27. Europa

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Sukowa, Udo Kier, Max von Sydow, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Erik Mørk
Plot: A young American arrives to post-war Germany in order to do some good. In the frame of radical difference between the new world he is coming from and the old world where he came to help, the protagonist follows the path of love and death.

28. Bad Lieutenant

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Paul Hipp, Brian McElroy, Frankie Acciarito, Vincent Laresca
Plot: A corrupt New York cop, deep into drugs, gambling and sex - seeks to find redemption as he investigates a young nun's rape.

29. Passion Fish

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Sayles
Actors: Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks, David Strathairn, Leo Burmester, Angela Bassett

30. A River Runs Through It

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Redford
Actors: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Edie McClurg
Plot: Two sons of a Presbyterian minister - one who rebels against his father and one who keeps things grounded - still find time to bond over their love of fly fishing.

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