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One of the best movies of the ’90s, and the one that introduced indie up-and-comers Joel and Ethan Coen to the world. CC. Advertising. 3. Goodfellas (1990) Film. Thrillers. Director Martin ...
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- From trainspotters to goodfellas to lion kings and beyond, these are IGN’s picks for the top 25 movies of the 1990s.
- 25. Ghost in the Shell
- 24. Boyz n the Hood
- 23. Fargo
- 22. Titanic
- 21. Independence Day
- The Top Grossing 1990s Movies
- 20. The Shawshank Redemption
- 19. The Blair Witch Project
- 18. Beauty and the Beast
By IGN Staff
Updated: Aug 4, 2023 7:32 pm
Posted: Jul 31, 2023 4:00 pm
Ah, the 1990s -- what a glorious time to be a movie fan. It was an era when Tarantino was reshaping the indie landscape, Disney animation was in the midst of a renaissance, and Spielberg was churning out classics like a legend... to name just a few of the noteworthy trends of the time.
And since this is 1990s Week at IGN, what better time to revisit that glorious decade?
It was hard to narrow down this list to just 25 entries, but our staff voted and came up with the following. We considered several factors when putting together this list of the best of the best movies of the 1990s: Did they leave an imprint on the cultural zeitgeist of the time? Did their release affect the course of filmmaking, influencing the industry as a whole? And, of course, did we just like them?
It's difficult to come up with something interesting to say about Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell that wouldn't just be walking all over thoroughly covered ground -- and for good reason. This landmark film continues to be worthy of all the praise and buzz it's accrued over the years since its 1995 release. Its bold vision of a dystopia seems like...
This 1991 coming-of-age tale earned the late John Singleton the distinction of being both the youngest person and the first African-American to ever be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director. Boyz focuses on the lifelong friendship between Tre and siblings "Doughboy" and Ricky, whose diverging yet equally tragic paths eventually force Tre ...
I’m not gonna debate you, Jerry. I’m not gonna debate! The Coen brothers’ Fargo is the perfect mix of dark comedy and thriller that the pair excel at, telling the true-but-not-really-true story of regular schmoe Jerry Lundegaard (a painfully smiley William H. Macy) who arranges to have his wife kidnapped with the hopes of solving his money problems...
The film that truly launched Leonardo DiCaprio’s career into the stratosphere (and a thousand memes about whether two grown adults could fit on a door), the cultural impact of Titanic is… well, titanic. James Cameron’s epic disaster/romance was, at the time of its release, the most expensive film ever made (with a $200 million budget), the first fi...
Director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin’s Independence Day, or ID4 if you like, was the ultimate summer blockbuster of 1996, built on the hype of an explosive marketing campaign (which included an exploding White House), the peril of a classic disaster flick (alien invasion this time out), state-of-the-art visual effects (even more explod...
1: Titanic - $2.19 billion
2: Jurassic Park - $1.03 billion
3: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace - $1.03 billion
4: The Lion King - $968.5 million
5: Independence Day - $817.4 million
6: Forrest Gump - $678.1 million
Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella, The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring tale featuring brilliant performances from Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins. Robbins' Andy Dufresne, who's forced to go to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is a character you can't help but root for, as he triumphs over unspeakable hardships brought on by prison life o...
The Blair Witch Project is a film that couldn’t make the impact today the way it did in the ’90s. Not only did it spawn a generation of found footage horror films, but it pioneered internet marketing techniques that modern studios are still learning from to this day. The whole Blair Witch Project experience extended beyond the movie and became vita...
In a decade full of genre-defining animated classics, there's a reason that Beauty and the Beast became the first animated movie considered to be such a breakthrough success that it was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. (It lost to The Silence of the Lambs.) Beauty and the Beast did take home Little Gold Men for its sweeping score a...
Jun 4, 2024 · Directed by Julie Taymor. Image via Fox Searchlight Pictures. When looking over the various films based on Shakespeare 's plays, plenty of usual suspects will emerge. For example, there are plenty ...
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Oct 3, 2022 · The ‘90s was the decade for teen movies, but Clueless stood out from the schoolyard crowd for its modern take on the Jane Austen novel Emma. Wealthy, stylish, popular Cher Horowitz (Alicia ...
