Top 100 Movies of the 1990s (1990-1999)


May 28, 2003

My husband and I began working on our "best of the 90s" lists in November 1999. I reworked it as time went on, particularly as I saw some 1999 movies on video in 2000 and 2001. I then put it aside... but finally decided I just had to make the final decisions. I could go make more changes, but at this point, I just have to let it go. And yes, I've been keeping track of films that will make my best of list for the next decade so that it doesn't take me 3 years to do the next one. Here goes, in alphabetical order:

The Top 10:
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre)
Breaking the Waves
Deconstructing Harry
Fargo
Lone Star
Magnolia
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud
Pulp Fiction
Summer of Sam
Twelve Monkeys


The other 90:
Afterglow
As Good As It Gets
Barcelona
Barton Fink
Being John Malkovich
Big Night
Bullets Over Broadway
Carlito's Way
Celebrity
Chinese Box
Un coeur en hiver (Heart in winter)
Cold Comfort Farm
The Crying Game
The Day Trippers
Death and the Maiden
Donnie Brasco
Double Happiness
Eat Drink Man Woman
Ed Wood
Emma
The English Patient
Everyone Says I Love You
Eve's Bayou
Flirting with Disaster
Flower of My Secret (La flor de mi secreto)
French Twist
Fresh
Ghost Dog
Girl on the Bridge (La fille sur le pont)
Good Will Hunting
Goodfellas
Grosse Pointe Blank
Hairdresser's Husband (Le mari de la coiffeuse)
Happiness
He Got Game
Heavy
High Heels
Husbands and Wives
The Ice Storm
Kolya
LA Confidential
Leaving Las Vegas
Live Flesh (Carne tremula)
Ma Saison Preferee (My Favorite Season)
Manhattan Murder Mystery
The Matrix
Metropolitan
Mighty Aphrodite
Mirage (Maboroshi)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Muriel's Wedding
My Own Private Idaho
Object of Beauty
Party Girl
Quiz Show
Raise the Red Lantern
The Red Violin
Remains of the Day
Secret of Roan Inish
Secrets and Lies
Sense and Sensibility
Shakespeare in Love
Shine
Silence of the Lambs
Six Degrees of Separation
Sliding Doors
Sling Blade
Smoke
Smoke Signals
The Spanish Prisoner
Spitfire Grill
Sweet and Lowdown
The Sweet Hereafter
Swingers
Thelma & Louise
Thieves (Les voleurs)
Toto le héro
Trainspotting
Trois Coleurs: Bleu
Trois Coleurs: Blanc
Trois Coleurs: Rouge
Ulee's Gold
The Usual Suspects
Vanya on 42nd Street
Les Voleurs (Thieves)
The Waterdance
The Wedding Banquet
Welcome to the Dollhouse
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
The Winslow Boy