Best movies of 1990s

The Hunt for Red October(1990)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 59

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?



Miss Congeniality(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.



The Beach(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.



The Road to El Dorado(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.



The Cell(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.



Jacob's Ladder(1990)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death.



The Godfather: Part III(1990)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York and Italy in 1979, aging Mafia don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins while taking his nephew Vincent Mancini under his wing.



Gods and Monsters(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored.



Air Force One(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them.



Amistad(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.



Crimson Tide(1995)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny, to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles, before confirming his orders to do so.



The Bridges of Madison County(1995)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.



Bulworth(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.



True Lies(1994)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.



The Negotiator(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.



Primary Colors(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.



The Devil's Advocate(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.



The Wedding Singer(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.



Menace II Society(1993)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.



Wild Wild West(1999)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a nineteenth-century inventor-villain.




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