Am I the only one who thinks some of the best movies ever made are from the 80’s and 90’s? Movie magic is full of green screens and effects now, but back then it was all about the story line.
Challenge your inner movie buff with CNN’s list of MUST SEE movies from the 90’s!
How many of these have YOU watched? I’ve seen 116 out of the following 145…
1990
- “Goodfellas”
- “House Party”
- “To Sleep with Anger”
- “Pretty Woman”
- “The Little Mermaid”*
- “Edward Scissorhands”
- “Dances with Wolves”
- “Miller’s Crossing”
- “Awakenings”
- “Ghost”
- “Slacker”
- “Blue Steel”
- “Home Alone”
1991
- “The Silence of the Lambs”
- “Thelma and Louise”
- “L.A. Story”
- “JFK”
- “Boyz n the Hood”
- “Barton Fink”
- “New Jack City”
- “Daughters of the Dust”
- “Point Break”
- “The Prince of Tides”
- “Hangin’ with the Homeboys”
- “Trust”
- “Poison”
- “Beauty and the Beast”
- “Little Man Tate”
- “Rambling Rose”
- “Terminator 2: Judgement Day”
1992
- “Basic Instinct”
- “Malcolm X”
- “Reservoir Dogs”
- “Wayne’s World”
- “Juice”
- “Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.”
- “Gas Food Lodging”
- “A Few Good Men”
- “Boomerang”
- “Aladdin”
- “The Last of the Mohicans”
- “Unforgiven”
- “A League of Their Own”
1993
- “Philadelphia”
- “Schindler’s List”
- “Groundhog Day”
- “Mrs. Doubtfire”
- “Poetic Justice”
- “Six Degrees of Separation”
- “Sleepless in Seattle”
- “Dazed and Confused”
- “The Nightmare Before Christmas”
- “The Piano”
- “Jurassic Park”
1994
- “The Shawshank Redemption”
- “Forrest Gump”
- “Heavenly Creatures”
- “Quiz Show”
- “The Mask”
- “Dumb and Dumber”
- “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”
- “Crooklyn”
- “Four Weddings and a Funeral”
- “Clerks”
- “Fresh”
- “Pulp Fiction”
- “The Lion King”
- “Ed Wood”
- “The Hudsucker Proxy”
- “Little Women”
1995
- “The Usual Suspects”
- “Casino”
- “Apollo 13”
- “Higher Learning”
- “While You Were Sleeping”
- “Friday”
- “The Basketball Diaries”
- “Braveheart”
- “Dead Presidents”
- “Waiting to Exhale”
- “How to Make an American Quilt”
- “Bad Boys”
- “Clueless”
- “Welcome to the Dollhouse”
- “The Brothers McMullen”
- “Toy Story”
- “Heat”
- “Se7en”
1996
- “The English Patient”
- “Happy Gilmore”
- “Waiting for Guffman”
- “Set it Off”
- “Independence Day”
- “Jerry Maguire”
- “Swingers”
- “Hard Eight”
- “Fargo”
- “Grace of My Heart”
- “Walking and Talking”
- “Romeo + Juliet”
- “Trainspotting”
1997
- “L.A. Confidential”
- “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”
- “Soul Food”
- “My Best Friend’s Wedding”
- “Men in Black”
- “As Good As It Gets”
- “Boogie Nights”
- “Titanic”
- “Contact”
- “Rosewood”
1998
- “Out of Sight”
- “The Thin Red Line”
- “Saving Private Ryan”
- “Rushmore”
- “The Wedding Singer”
- “There’s Something About Mary”
- “Dr. Dolittle”
- “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”
- “The Big Lebowski”
- “You’ve Got Mail”
1999
- “The End of the Affair”
- “Office Space”
- “The Best Man”
- “Runaway Bride”
- “Notting Hill”
- “Toy Story 2”
- “Magnolia”
- “The Matrix”
- “The Sixth Sense”
- “The Talented Mr. Ripley”
- “The Blair Witch Project”
- “Man on the Moon”
- “The Cider House Rules”
- “The Hurricane”
- “American Beauty”
- “Girl, Interrupted”
- “The Insider”
- “Election”
- “Boys Don’t Cry”
- “The Virgin Suicides”
- “Three Kings”
- “Being John Malkovich”
- “Fight Club”
- “Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace”
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