1990s
1990
Goodfellas (1990)
Pretty Woman (1990)
1991
The Doors (1991)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
The Fisher King (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Slacker (1991)
1992
A League of Their Own (1992)
Army of Darkness (1992)
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Wayne’s World (1992)
1993
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Schindler’s List (1993)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
1994
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Speed (1994)
1995
Se7en (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
1996
The Birdcage (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
1997
Boogie Nights (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Titanic (1997)
1998
American History X (1998)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Pi (1998)
Rushmore (1998)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
1999
American Beauty (1999)
Being John Malkovich (1999)
The Boondock Saints (1999)
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
Magnolia (1999)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Goodfellas (1990)
- Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Pretty Woman (1990)
- A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.
1991
The Doors (1991)
- The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band 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.
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
- Weronika lives in Poland. Véronique lives in Paris. They don't know each other. Weronika gets a place in a music school, works hard, but collapses and dies on her first performance. At this point, Véronique's life seems to take a turn and she decides not to be a singer...
The Fisher King (1991)
- A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- 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.
Slacker (1991)
- Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, move seamlessly from one scene to the next, randomly coming and going into one another's lives. Highlights include a UFO buff who adamantly insists that the U.S. has been on the moon since the 1950s, a woman who produces a glass slide purportedly of Madonna's pap smear, and an old anarchist who sympathetically shares his philosophy of life with a robber.
1992
A League of Their Own (1992)
- Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry.
Army of Darkness (1992)
- A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
- A movie about how life used to be in Mexico as well as a simple love story.
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
- Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Wayne’s World (1992)
- Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
1993
Dazed and Confused (1993)
- The adventures of incoming high school and junior high students on the last day of school, in May of 1976.
Schindler’s List (1993)
- In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
- Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
1994
Pulp Fiction (1994)
- 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.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Speed (1994)
- A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
1995
Se7en (1995)
- Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his modus operandi.
The Usual Suspects (1995)
- A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.
1996
The Birdcage (1996)
- A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
Trainspotting (1996)
- 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.
1997
Boogie Nights (1997)
- The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
- A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
Titanic (1997)
- A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
1998
American History X (1998)
- A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
Pi (1998)
- A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.
Rushmore (1998)
- The king of Rushmore prep school is put on academic probation.
What Dreams May Come (1998)
- After dying in a car crash a man searches the afterlife for his wife.
1999
American Beauty (1999)
- Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
- A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich.
The Boondock Saints (1999)
- Fraternal twins set out to rid Boston of the evil men operating there while being tracked down by an FBI agent.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
- A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
Fight Club (1999)
- An insomniac office worker looking for a way to change his life crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker and they form an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more...
Magnolia (1999)
- An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
- A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.