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Best of the best

• American Beauty
• The American President
• Apollo 13
• As Good as It Gets
• Awakenings
• Babe
• Backdraft
• Being John Malkovich
• The Big Lebowski
• Bowfinger
• Bulworth
• Chaplin
• The City of Lost Children
• Clerks
• Con Air
• Dances with Wolves
• Dark City
• Dave
• Dead Again
• Delicatessen
• Fargo
• The Fisher King
• Forrest Gump
• The Fugitive
• The Full Monty
• Galaxy Quest
• Gattaca
• Good Will Hunting
• Grosse Point Blank
• Groundhog Day
• The Green Mile
• The Hunt for Red October
• Immortal Beloved
• Interview with the Vampire
• Jerry Maguire
• Kundun
• Last Night
• A League of Their Own
• Liar Liar
• Life is Beautiful
• The Matrix
• Maverick
• The Remains of the Day
• The Rock
• Romeo + Juliet
• Shakespeare in Love
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Six Degrees of Separation
• The Sixth Sense
• Sommersby
• Speed
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Strictly Ballroom
• The Sweet Hereafter
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• The Truman Show
• Twelve Monkeys
• The Usual Suspects
• While You Were Sleeping
• You’ve Got Mail

Runner ups

• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• The Addams Family
• Addams Family Values
• Aladdin
• Alive
• Antz
• Arlington Road
• Back to the Future Part III
• Barton Fink
• Benny & Joon
• The Birdcage
• Blast from the Past
• Bottle Rocket
• Bound
• City of Angels
• Conspiracy Theory
• Contact
• Corrina, Corrina
• Death Becomes Her
• Dogma
• Don Juan DeMarco
• Ed Wood
• Edward Scissorhands
• Ever After
• The Firm
• Following
• Girl, Interrupted
• GoldenEye
• Grumpy Old Men
• Grumpier Old Men
• Hercules
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• The Ice Storm
• In & Out
• In the Line of Fire
• Instinct
• It Could Happen to You
• James and the Giant Peach
• Johnny Stecchino
• Jurassic Park
• Leon: The Professional
• Legends of the Fall
• Lone Star
• Man on the Moon
• Men in Black
• Mission: Impossible
• The Monster
• Mr. Holland’s Opus
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mulan
• My Cousin Vinny
• My Girl
• The Negotiator
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Notting Hill
• October Sky
• The Opposite of Sex
• Out of Sight
• Passion Fish
• Playing by Heart
• Pleasantville
• Pretty Woman
• Princess Mononoke
• Quick Change
• Quiz Show
• Reality Bites
• The Red Violin
• Rush Hour
• Sabrina
• Scent of a Woman
• Sister Act
• So I Married an Axe Murderer
• Star Trek: Generations
• Stepmom
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Thelma & Louise
• Thunderheart
• Titanic
• Tremors
• U.S. Marshals
• Waking Ned Devine
• The Wedding Singer

Honourable mentions

• Air Force One
• Alien3
• Alien: Resurrection
• The Associate
• Bean
• Before Sunrise
• Bicentennial Man
• Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
• A Bug’s Life
• Chasing Amy
• Children of Heaven
• Cube
• Edtv
• eXistenZ
• Eyes Wide Shut
• The Fifth Element
• Fire in the Sky
• Free Enterprise
• The Freshman
• The Frighteners
• The Game
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• I Love You to Death
• Kafka
• King Ralph
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• Mallrats
• The Mask
• Medicine Man
• The Muppet Christmas Carol
• The Odd Couple II
• Office Space
• Patriot Games
• Porco Rosso
• Quigley Down Under
• Random Hearts
• Regarding Henry
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
• The Secret of Roan Inish
• Sliding Doors
• Smilla’s Sense of Snow
• Stargate
• The Straight Story
• Strange Days
• Tomorrow Never Dies
• Wilde
• Wolf
• The World is Not Enough
• The X Files

Worth watching once

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Island of Dr. Moreau
• Mystery Men
• Pi
• Sphere
• Waterworld

I previously listed the best movies of the 1980s.