Best movies of the 1990s
Here’s an update to this list.
Best of the best
- The Addams Family
- Addams Family Values
- American Beauty
- The American President
- Apollo 13
- As Good as It Gets
- Awakenings
- Babe
- Backdraft
- Back to the Future Part III
- Being John Malkovich
- The Big Lebowski
- Bowfinger
- Bulworth
- Chaplin
- The City of Lost Children
- Clerks
- Con Air
- Dances with Wolves
- Dark City
- Dave
- 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
- Notting Hill
- Pleasantville
- Pretty Woman
- The Remains of the Day
- The Rock
- Romeo + Juliet
- Sense and Sensibility
- Shakespeare in Love
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Six Degrees of Separation
- The Sixth Sense
- Sommersby
- Speed
- 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
- Aladdin
- Alien: Resurrection
- Alive
- Antz
- Arlington Road
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
- Barton Fink
- Benny & Joon
- The Birdcage
- Blast from the Past
- Bottle Rocket
- Bound
- Canadian Bacon
- City of Angels
- Conspiracy Theory
- Contact
- Copycat
- Corrina, Corrina
- Dead Again
- Death Becomes Her
- Dogma
- Don Juan DeMarco
- Ed Wood
- Edward Scissorhands
- Ever After
- The Fifth Element
- The Firm
- Following
- Girl, Interrupted
- GoldenEye
- Grumpy Old Men
- Grumpier Old Men
- Hercules
- Home Alone
- 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
- The Mask of Zorro
- 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
- October Sky
- The Opposite of Sex
- The Other Sister
- Out of Sight
- Passion Fish
- Playing by Heart
- Princess Mononoke
- Quick Change
- Quiz Show
- Reality Bites
- The Red Violin
- RKO 281
- Rush Hour
- Sabrina
- Scent of a Woman
- Sister Act
- Slums of Beverly Hills
- So I Married an Axe Murderer
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Star Trek: Generations
- Stepmom
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Thelma & Louise
- Thunderheart
- Titanic
- Tremors
- Waking Ned Devine
- The Wedding Singer
- Wolf
Honourable mentions
- Air Force One
- Alien3
- The Associate
- Bean
- Before Sunrise
- Bicentennial Man
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
- Brave New World
- A Bug’s Life
- Chasing Amy
- Children of Heaven
- Cube
- Edtv
- eXistenZ
- Eyes Wide Shut
- 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
- Mystery Men
- 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
- U.S. Marshals
- Waterworld
- Wilde
- The X Files
Worth watching once
- Batman Returns
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Pi
- Pom Poko
- Sphere
- The World is Not Enough
I previously listed the best movies of the 1980s.