100 Greatest Movies 1990s
This list is a list of the best films in the 1990s by critical praise and awards. Included by both movie critics and audiences mainly from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic which both give out reasons for the films' success. Excluding animated films, (have list of that,) remakes of classic films and films that have been critically negative/panned by critics and audiences. No specific ranking. Chosen for their quality, direction, script, cinematography, acting, storyline, originality and success.
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- DirectorAng LeeStarsEmma ThompsonKate WinsletJames FleetRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.*Deborah Kerr (Harriet Walter)
*Daniel Day-Lewis (Hugh Grant)
*Michael Caine (Alan Rickman)
*Judi Dench (Gemma Jones)
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- - DirectorBobby FarrellyPeter FarrellyStarsCameron DiazMatt DillonBen StillerA man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from high school, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.*Amy Adams (Cameron Diaz)
*Will Ferrell (Ben Stiller)
*Jeff Bridges (Matt Dillon) - DirectorJan de BontStarsKeanu ReevesDennis HopperSandra BullockA young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.*Tom Hanks (Keanu Reeves)
*Sigourney Weaver (Sandra Bullock)
*Gene Hackman (Jeff Daniels)
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- - DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruiseCuba Gooding Jr.Renée ZellwegerWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.*Tom Hanks (Tom Cruise)
*Denzel Washington (Cuba Gooding Jr)
*Julianne Moore (Renee Zellweger)
*Amy Adams (Kelly Preston)
*Angela Basset (Regina King)
*Robin Williams (Jerry O'Connell)
*Frances McDormand (Bonnie Hunt) - DirectorStephen FrearsStarsAnjelica HustonJohn CusackAnnette BeningA small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.*Tom Hanks (John Cusack)
*Sissy Spacek (Annette Bening)
*Sally Field (Anjelica Huston)
^ - DirectorRidley ScottStarsSusan SarandonGeena DavisHarvey KeitelTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.*Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Brad Pitt)
*Glenn Close (Geena Davis)
*Dustin Hoffman (Harvey Keitel)
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- - DirectorMartin BrestStarsAl PacinoChris O'DonnellJames RebhornA prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.*Leonardo DiCaprio (Chris O'Connell)
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^ - DirectorGus Van SantStarsRobin WilliamsMatt DamonBen AffleckWill Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.*Leonardo DiCaprio (Matt Damon)
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- - DirectorJames FoleyStarsAl PacinoJack LemmonAlec BaldwinAn examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.*Robert De Niro (Alan Arkin)
*Harrison Ford (Alec Baldwin)
*Tom Hanks (Ed Harris)
*Jeff Bridges (Kevin Spacey)
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- - DirectorCurtis HansonStarsKevin SpaceyRussell CroweGuy PearceAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.*Tom Hanks (Kevin Spacey)
*Robert De Niro (Danny Devito)
*Susan Sarandon (Kim Basinger)
*Daniel Day Lewis (Russell Crowe)
*Gene Hackman (James Cromwell)
*Jeff Bridges (Guy Pearce)
^ - DirectorJames IvoryStarsAnthony HopkinsEmma ThompsonJohn HaycraftA butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.*Daniel Day-Lewis (Christopher Reeve)
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- - DirectorTim RobbinsStarsSusan SarandonSean PennRobert ProskyA nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.*Jeff Bridges (Sean Penn)
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- - DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonOver the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.*Tom Hanks (Tim Robbins)
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^ - DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan FreemanRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."Must see
*Sidney Poitier (Morgan Freeman)
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- - DirectorAlexander PayneStarsMatthew BroderickReese WitherspoonLoren NelsonA high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.*Tom Hanks (Matthew Broderick)
*Amy Adams (Reese Witherspoon) - DirectorDavid LynchStarsRichard FarnsworthSissy SpacekJane Galloway HeitzAn old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.*Gregory Peck (Richard Farnsworth)
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- - DirectorLasse HallströmStarsTobey MaguireCharlize TheronMichael CaineA compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.*Leonardo DiCaprio (Tobey Maguire)
*Amy Adams (Charlize Theron)
*Jeff Bridges (J.K Simmons)
*Sally Field (Kathy Baker)
*Glenn Close (Jane Alexander)
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- - DirectorMike NicholsStarsJohn TravoltaEmma ThompsonKathy BatesA man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for President of the United States of America.*Tom Hanks (John Travolta)
*Sally Field (Kathy Bates)
*Jeff Bridges (Billy Bob Thornton)
*Glenn Close (Diane Ladd)
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- - DirectorCarl FranklinStarsMeryl StreepRenée ZellwegerWilliam HurtA career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.*Harrison Ford (William Hurt)
*Cate Blanchett (Renee Zellweger)
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- - DirectorPaul SchraderStarsNick NolteSissy SpacekJames CoburnA deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity.*James Garner (James Coburn)
*Jeff Bridges (Nick Nolte)
*Tom Hanks (Willem Dafoe) - - DirectorShekhar KapurStarsCate BlanchettLiz GilesRod CulbertsonThe early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.*Daniel Day-Lewis (Joseph Fiennes)
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- - DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsRalph FiennesCate BlanchettCiarán HindsIn mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.*Daniel Day-Lewis (Ralph Fiennes)
*Sean Connery (Tom Wilkinson)
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- - DirectorDouglas McGrathStarsGwyneth PaltrowJames CosmoGreta ScacchiWhile matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.*Amy Adams (Gwyneth Paltrow)
*Cate Blanchett (Toni Collette) - DirectorGregory HoblitStarsRichard GereLaura LinneyEdward NortonAn altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.*Philip Seymour Hoffman (Edward Norton)
*Tom Hanks (Richard Gere)
*Sigourney Weaver (Laura Linney) - DirectorRob ReinerStarsMichael DouglasAnnette BeningMartin SheenA widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.*Emma Thompson (Annette Bening)
*Tom Hanks (Michael J Fox)
*Gene Hackman (Richard Dreyfus)
*Robin Williams (Martin Sheen)
*Harrison Ford (Michael Douglas)
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