Best Movies List of 1990s
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Schindler's List (1993)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $96.07M Lead Role: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, | Director: Steven Spielberg, In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans. |
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $216.12M Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, | Director: Steven Spielberg, Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. |
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Goodfellas (1990)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 89 | Earnings: $46.84M Lead Role: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, | Director: Martin Scorsese, The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate. |
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)| Imdb: 9 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $28.34M Lead Role: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, | Director: Frank Darabont, Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. |
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $130.73M Lead Role: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, | Director: Jonathan Demme, A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. |
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Trainspotting (1996)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $16.50M Lead Role: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, | Director: Danny Boyle, Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. |
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Pulp Fiction (1994)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: $107.93M Lead Role: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, | Director: Quentin Tarantino, The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. |
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $2.81M Lead Role: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, | Director: Quentin Tarantino, After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. |
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Fargo (1996)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $25.88M Lead Role: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, | Director: Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. |
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Fight Club (1999)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $37.02M Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier, | Director: David Fincher, An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more. |
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Titanic (1997)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $658.67M Lead Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, | Director: James Cameron, A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. |
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Gladiator (2000)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $187.67M Lead Role: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, | Director: Ridley Scott, When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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Se7en (1995)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $100.13M Lead Role: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker, | Director: David Fincher, Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. |
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Memento (2000)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $25.53M Lead Role: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, | Director: Christopher Nolan, A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. |
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The Matrix (1999)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $171.38M Lead Role: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, | Director: A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. |
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The Truman Show (1998)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $125.60M Lead Role: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, | Director: Peter Weir, An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show. |
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Forrest Gump (1994)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $329.69M Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, | Director: Robert Zemeckis, JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75. |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $204.84M Lead Role: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick, | Director: James Cameron, A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg. |
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Toy Story (1995)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 95 | Earnings: $191.80M Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, | Director: John Lasseter, A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. |
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American History X (1998)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $6.71M Lead Role: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien, | Director: Tony Kaye, A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. |
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