We already have this email. This is a list of some of the best, highest grossing, well known movies of the the 90s. Because the film isn't – and was never meant to be – particularly shocking. One of the best movies of the ’90s, and the one that introduced indie up-and-comers Joel and Ethan Coen to the world. When he comes to the rescue of a British general’s daughter Cora (Madeleine Stowe), an epic romance unfolds – alongside some thrilling and bloody action from ‘Heat’ director Michael Mann. After a woman leaves a briefcase at the airport terminal, a dumb limo driver and his dumber friend set out on a hilarious cross-country road trip to Aspen to return it. Still, it’s not Scott’s fault, and only a little bit Tarantino’s – and ‘True Romance’ is still giddily, uproariously wonderful. One of the least known films on our list, 'One False Move' is also one of the simplest: the straight story of a drug heist gone violently wrong, and a small-town Sheriff left to pick up the pieces. An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company. Partly it's the performances: Paxton aches with disappointment as the hillbilly cop with ambitions he'll never get to fulfil; Williams toys gently with everyone around her, never as helpless as they think she is; and Thornton and Michael Beach are flat-out terrifying as a pair of psycho crooks.
The T-Rex chase, for instance, has barely aged a day – it can still leave you shaking like a glass of water on a Jeep dashboard. Taking four of the most clichéd storylines from the ‘pulp fiction’ crime tales of mid-twentieth-century America, hacking them apart and churning them back together to create something entirely new, ‘Pulp Fiction’ is an intoxicating, thrilling ride, as trashy as it is refined, delighting and disgusting. Top 200 Movies of The 90's. Lieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy. A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president. 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. A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. Get us in your inbox Madison January 20, 2016. We already have this email. ‘The Matrix’ became the first movie to sell 1 million copies on DVD – just one reason to argue the case for it being the most iconic movie of the ’90s. In fact, in retrospect, it’s clear that the 1990s had it down when it came to movies. Erik the Viking and his men travel across the sea to find Valhalla to ask the gods to end the Age of Ragnarok. Back in 1992, everyone was still obsessed with Day-Lewis’s method acting.