Top 100 Movies of the Decade (1990-1999)
after a few months focusing on 90s movies and still does, finally i make this list. there are still 90s movies that i have to watch so i will add some 90s movies that i will watch and add to the list if it deserve to be in it and rid some so the list will still filled with 100 movies. in order of preferance.
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- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsLiam NeesonRalph FiennesBen KingsleyIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.the highest notch and best cinematic vision a person can ever imagine. spielberg succeed on managing his heart and his head with a seriousness and willingness and full of dedication spielberg has given to make this film. something like this will be there and here forever.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJohn TravoltaUma ThurmanSamuel L. JacksonThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.you won't see everthing you have seen in another movies and you will see everything in another movies in this movie, this is a film that breaks the glass between the screen and your real life, you can see from the character's dialogs that this movie speaks up Tarantino's brain, made a new style and rules, and stamped it on the history of filmmaking, unintentionally. an intertainment that beyond brilliant.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe PesciThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.it is the improvements and perfection of Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese is a mad director that really good with his characteristical violence scenes, everything in this movie was so flawless, the writing, the superb performance, the editing, the style, all of those elements are really supporting the story of a person who wants to be a part in mafia.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEmily WatsonStellan SkarsgårdKatrin CartlidgeOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.one of the most frustating, most disturbing and one of the best movie i've ever seen, Emily Watson giving one of the best performance ever, Bess probably the same person as Forrest Gump in a bad luck but great things always happened everyday or will happen one day around the people with a golden heart.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Fargo is one of the most brilliant film i've ever seen. it's dark, funny, filled with great characters and played by the most right actors, and made the Coen brothers one of the most promising director and writer of our time
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsIrène JacobJean-Louis TrintignantFrédérique FederA model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy.the best of trilogy. to understand this film is to live an ordinary life surrounded by general people and connected by a simple and unnecessary coincidences. this film made me feel grateful for whatever i've been through and what will happen next.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsKevin CostnerGary OldmanJack LemmonNew Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.helped by a very good performances by the cast and a great editing and haunting music, the mad and brilliant director Oliver Stone made one of the most controversial film ever made. this film raise a question not anyone dare to asked
- DirectorMichael TolkinStarsMimi RogersDavid DuchovnyDarwyn CarsonA telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.it's a film about how a woman that has spent her whole entire life suffering of something that she can't really describe, finally decided to learn to love god. not out of fear, but out of her longing for something to grab. but her common sense will interfere, just like the rest of us.
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.a very sweet, innocent, magical and well-made film, everybody love Forrest Gump not because he is stupid nor because he was so lucky but because with all that he doesn't have on his head he got plenty on his heart and follow it like a good dog.
- DirectorJean-Claude LauzonStarsMaxime CollinGinette RenoGilbert SicotteThe story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination.it's a film that can't be classified in anything, i have never seen anything like it. it's heartbreaking, very honest, brutal, yet fascinating at the same time.
- DirectorMike FiggisStarsNicolas CageElisabeth ShueJulian SandsBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.first time seeing the poster, knowing the casts, reading the title and the summary, i was kinda sure that this is a kind of film that use the "It Happened One Night" and/or "The Graduate" formula. boy! i was wrong. it was totally diferent.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom HanksMatt DamonTom SizemoreFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.spielberg at his prime. it is visually stupendous and the first half hour of the movie become a standard of many nowaday movies, but all the effects and tricks and guts are not for showing off, the gut point lies on the portrait of the humanity level inside the war and the brotherhood relationship between the soldiers that become the foundation and the soil where loyalty, dignity, and love grows.
- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerMary McDonnellGraham GreeneLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose.one of the best western for a long long time. the story is so simple yet so powerful and directed so wonderfully by Kevin Costner, he knows what he doing, he keep his faith in his vision, and he done it perfectly
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsJodie FosterMatthew McConaugheyTom SkerrittDr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence, sending plans for a mysterious machine.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsMichel PiccoliJane BirkinEmmanuelle BéartThe former famous painter Frenhofer revisits an abandoned project using the girlfriend of a young visiting artist. Questions about truth, life, and artistic limits are explored.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsHolly HunterHarvey KeitelSam NeillIn the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.to understand Ada McGrath you should walk in a woman shoes and you should experienced her past. Holly Hunter is the one and only actress who could play the uncertain, moody, and can't-be-understood Ada McGrath
- DirectorMohsen MakhmalbafStarsMirhadi TayebiMohsen MakhmalbafAli BakhsiA semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTim RobbinsMorgan FreemanBob GuntonOver the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.this movie's basic word is ambitious, even Stephen King wrote it so ambitiously effective for telling a story about a person who have this vision and keep it patiently and steady and work it with discipline and faith for his goal, for his redemption. and Frank Darabont serve the story with a passion and a great job of directing
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonAngela BassettDelroy LindoBiographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his eventual assassination.
- DirectorSpike JonzeStarsJohn CusackCameron DiazCatherine KeenerA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.to watch Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal was one of the scariest and one of the most brilliant cast in movie history, he really possesed the character like he was Hannibal all the time. one of the most effective thriller movie ever.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsTimothy SpallBrenda BlethynPhyllis LoganFollowing the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.
- 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."
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsCharlotte VéryFrédéric van den DriesscheMichel VolettiFive years after losing touch with a summer fling, a woman has difficulty choosing between her two suitors.
- 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.the movie was brilliant in depicting Los Angeles in the 50s with all of the unforgetable characters that supporting the realization of the situation of the 50s Los Angeles. done with a great directing by Curtis Hanson and writing by Brian Helgeland