Critically acclaimed movies of 1990s on amazon prime

Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



Erin Brockovich(2000)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 76

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.



Thelma & Louise(1991)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!



Mission: Impossible II(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A secret agent is sent to Sydney, to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".



Ronin(1998)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A freelancing former U.S. intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians.



The Doors(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.



Mission: Impossible(1996)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.



Dead Again(1991)

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Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An amnesiac and a private eye find they might have a past life connection.



Big Eden(2000)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Big Eden is a small, fictional northwestern Montana town.



Soapdish(1991)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.



Kindergarten Cop(1990)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars.



Apt Pupil(1998)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.



Forces of Nature(1999)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A soon-to-be-married man encounters an exciting stranger after his plane suffers an accident on takeoff.



Basic Instinct(1992)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved.



Kansas City(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held ...



The Saint(1997)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.



Rocky V(1990)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Reluctantly retired from boxing, and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him, as the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy.



Higher Learning(1995)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 49

People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.



The Relic(1997)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.



Chill Factor(1999)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A new biological chemical weapon that explodes up to temperatures over fifty degrees Fahrenheit, falls into the hands of two men who try to make sure that it doesn't get stolen by a terrorist.




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