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15 Best 90s Movies of All Time, Ranked

15 Best 90s Movies of All Time, Ranked

What are your favorite 90s movies? If you like to watch movies, you must have seen these 90s movies which are very classic and here is the 90s movies list.

15 Best 90s Movies of All Time, Ranked

Table of Contents


1.Titanic (1997) 

2.Fight Club (1999)

3.The Matrix (1999) 

4.Pulp Fiction (1994)

5.Bad Boys (1995)

6.Rush Hour (1998)

7.Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

8.Toy Story (1995)

9.Hocus Pocus (1993)

10.Léon: The Professional (1994)

11.The Sixth Sense (1999)

12.Starship Troopers (1997)

13.American History X (1998) 

14.Jumanji (1996) 

15.Matilda (1996)


1.Titanic (1997)

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic


Titanic, one of the best 90s movies, tells that on April 10, 1912, the luxury passenger ship Titanic, known as the wonder of the world's industrial history, begins its maiden voyage, sailing from Southampton, England, to New York, USA. Rose, a rich girl, sits in first class with her mother and fiancé Carl; on the other hand, Jack, a debauched teenage painter, also wins a ticket to the lower class in a gamble at the pier. Tired of the hypocritical life of high society, Rose is unwilling to marry Carl and intends to throw herself overboard, but is rescued by Jack. The beautiful and lively Rose soon falls in love with the handsome and cheerful Jack, who takes Rose to a ball in the lower cabin and paints her portrait, and their relationship gradually heats up. The Titanic hits an iceberg and the unsinkable Titanic faces the fate of sinking, and the budding love between Rose and Jack will also experience the test of life and death.


2.Fight Club (1999)

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club


Fight Club, one of the 90s action movies, tells that Jack is an employee of a large automobile company, suffering from severe insomnia, full of crisis and hatred for everything around him. By chance, Jack meets Tyler, a soap salesman, a rebellious, cruel and violent gangster hero, and lives in Tyler's dilapidated home because of a fire in his apartment. The two men become good friends and create Fight Club, an underground organization that allows people to fight unarmed without pads, with the aim of letting off steam. The club attracted more and more people and grew into a national underground organization, with Taylor's personal charisma attracting blind devotees. The members of the club got into fights and wreaked havoc, and Tyler's own behavior became increasingly insane. Jack becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the current state of the Fight Club and Tyler's behavior, and has an argument with Tyler, who leaves him. However, Jack finds that he can't get rid of Tyler's shadow everywhere he goes, and he starts to think: Who am I?


3.The Matrix (1999)

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix


The story is that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, there was a major breakthrough in the technology of artificial intelligence, and the computer was able to learn on its own and do many things instead of humans, but the computer developed self-awareness and did not want to obey humans anymore. Humans attempted to turn off the power to end the computer's self-awareness, but the computer preempted the fate of humans and cultivated them as the source of electricity. From birth, every human being is placed in a battery tank, and his whole body is filled with tubes. The computer constructs a huge system called Matrix, which generates virtual reality signals and deceives the human brain into thinking that he is living in the society of the late 20th century. Only a few rebels are not enslaved by the computer, they play hackers (Hakers), constantly hacking into the Matrix, trying to save the enslaved people. After being freed, the main character, Neil (Neo), leaves the battery tank and goes to the hacker's spaceship. In order for him to understand what is called Matrix, he re-entered the virtual reality. In the virtual reality, Neo touches the high-backed chair and asks, Is this not real? Morpheus, the leader of the Resistance, replied, What is real? How do you define reality? If you mean touch, smell, taste and sight, they are all electronic signals received by the brain. What you think is the real world is actually the virtual world of interaction - what we call the Matrix. You've been living in a dream world, Neil!


4.Pulp Fiction (1994)

Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction


Lowlifeconsists of three stories: Vincent and Marsellus' Wife,The Gold Watchand Bonnie's Situation,as well as a prologue and an epilogue at the beginning and end of the film. Seemingly independent small stories, but there are interlocking people and events. The thief’s Pumpkinand Bunnyare robbing the breakfast store, but they encounter a big problem - the triad members Jules and Vincent are dining in the store, so there is a world outside. Will the duo spare the two petty thieves? And Vincent is the underworld boss Marsellus Wallace's men, Marsellus gave orders for him to accompany his wife for one night, knowing that if there is a thunderbolt will certainly die, but the face of Marsellus wife beautiful temptation, Vincent should do. Vincent's story is not over yet, the boxer Butch will appear to make his life changed from now on. Butch has an ancestral gold watch, and it is because of this gold watch that he and Marsellus share a shameful secret.


5.Bad Boys (1995)

Tchéky Karyo in Bad Boys (1995)


Bad Boys, is one of the 90s black movies and one of the 90s comedy movies tells that Mike and Max are two bad boys in the Miami Police Department. This pair of partners have very different temperaments: one is a suave playboy, one is a good husband; a rich asset, only for the ideal of the police, a family, have to earn a salary for the wife and children. The two have the most tacit understanding in common is that verbally they will fight for every inch of land, and at all times they are entangled - even when the criminals are pointing guns at their temples, they do not forget to fight. While investigating a massive drug theft, the two are forced to swap identities to protect a witness who is being hunted - the only way to gain her trust. Time is running out, clues are slim; the boss is quick-tempered, more entangled than the two of them; the witness has a sudden change of temperament, more than the two of them are also keen to chase the bandits; the ending is naturally unsuspecting, but the process is tense and exciting, full of laughs, really is a veritable wonderful extraordinary.


6.Rush Hour (1998)

Jackie Chan in Rush Hour


Rush Hour is one of the classic 90s movies. Ambassador Han (Tzi Ma), who led a smuggling bust of the Naktao crime syndicate before he was posted to the U.S., is hated by his enemies. In the U.S., Chung Tao instructs his men to kidnap Ambassador Han's daughter So-young (Julia Hsu) and extort a ransom of $50 million from her, and the FBI launches a full-scale investigation. In order to obstruct Lee from solving the case first, the FBI sends a problematic detective from the Los Angeles Police Department, Carter (Chris Tucker), as Lee's partner. Carter's style is flamboyant and high-profile, while Lee is uncommonly skilled, low-key and cautious, and this temporary combination of things partner a lot of misunderstandings and jokes. But as each crisis occurs, the two gradually develop a tacit understanding. Their rescue operation can finally succeed?


7.Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker's Dracula


Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the popular 90s movies. This is an eerie vampire legend, but also a poignant and sentimental love story. In 1462 A.D., the Turks invaded Constantinople and threatened the whole of Christianity. The Romanian general Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) is ordered to fight them, but just as he is winning, rumors swirl around the city that he has died in battle. His wife, Elizabeth (Winona Ryder), is so distraught that she throws herself into the river, and Dracula returns to see only her dead body. As a result, he became angry with God, thus incarnated into the forces of evil, to continue life by sucking blood, and became an immortal blood-sucking zombie. Four hundred years later, the story turns to London in 1897, the young lawyer Jon Nason was appointed to the Romanian Transylvanian possessions of the Dracula family castle to handle the descendants of the nobleman in London property procedures. To do so, he will be separated from his fiancée - the beautiful Mena.


8.Toy Story (1995)

The characters in Toy Story


Toy Story, is one of the 90s Disney movies tells that the young master's family is rich and has a house full of toys. Among them, his favorite is the cowboy doll Hootie, Hootie therefore became the boss of all the toys. When the young master is away, a house of toys to form their own world, living their own lives. One day, the little master brought home a new thing: Buzz Lightyear, the space marine police. Buzz Lightyear looks new, advanced features, so that the little master loved, threatening the position of Huddy. Huddy do everything possible to drive away Buzz, accidentally the two fell out of the room together outside the window, the neighbor's vicious dog barking, the neighbor's child is a toy sadist, Huddy Buzz cannot turn enemies into friends, to eliminate the disaster?


9.Hocus Pocus (1993)

Bett Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus


Hocus Pocus is one of the 90s teen movies. The story takes place on Halloween night, the boy Max in the misunderstanding in the light of the evil candle, will be in three hundred years ago already dead three witches Winifred, Sarah and Mari from hell summoned back to earth. Long ago, the three witches were sentenced to death for feeding on the essence of a child, and now, back in the afterlife, they have decided to repeat the same mistake. Knowing of the witches' plot, Max decides not to sit idly by. He finds his sister Danny and his best friend Alison to act together, planning to destroy the witches' actions. There is little time left for the children.


10.Léon: The Professional (1994)

Jean Reno in Léon: The Professional


Léon: The Professional, is one of the 90s movies on Netflix tells that Lyon is a lonely professional killer for hire. One day, a young neighbor girl, Matilda, knocks on his door and asks to stay with him for a while to avoid the killing. It turns out that the owner of the neighbor's house is an eye of the police narcotics unit, only because of embezzlement of a small packet of drugs and the punishment of the evil police murdered his family. Matilda is saved by Leon, who stays with her and saves her. Leon teaches the girl to use a gun, she teaches Leon French, and the two grow close and get along well. The girl thinks of revenge, but she is caught instead, and Leon arrives in time to save the girl. The battle between good and evil, mixed with grievances and feuds, escalates and a bigger conflict is inevitable ......


11.The Sixth Sense (1999)

Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense


The Sixth Sense, is one of the 90s horror movies tells that Mike is a famous child psychologist, but also has a patient who has never been cured, and was even shot as a result, and the teenager subsequently drank himself to death. After a year, he found another boy, Cole, who had symptoms similar to his patient's, and patiently became his doctor. Cole is not easy to approach, but Mike slowly wins his trust and learns Cole's secret. It turns out that Cole has a psychic sixth sense and can see ghosts. Although this is unbelievable, but Mike in the confirmation of the truth of the matter or help Cole accept the fact.


12.Starship Troopers (1997)

Dina Meyer in Starship Troopers


Starship Troopers, one of 90s movies tells that After graduating from high school, Rico, at the urging of his girlfriend Carmen, defies his father's will and joins the Mechanized Infantry Academy, and Carmen also joins the Naval Academy. Shortly after their training, Earth is attacked by insects from an alien planet. All of Rico's relatives are killed, and Carmen transmits the images she has captured to Rico. Grief and anger, Rico led his men into the battle against the alien insects.


13.American History X (1998)

Edward Norton in American History X


American History X, one of 90s movies tells that Derek's father was shot dead by a black drug dealer when he was very young, from then on to his young mind planted the seeds of hatred. The original Derek is very good at school, is a good student in the eyes of the teacher. But since his father was killed, he will be all heart on the top of the fight against the colored people. He actively organized a group of young white gangsters, everywhere and colored people against each other. Once, he shot two black people and was imprisoned for it. After his imprisonment, Drake joined a group of white neo-Nazis. Later, he became close friends with a black man because of his work, and he began to reflect on his past. When he tries to break away from the neo-Nazi group in prison, he is punched and kicked. After his release from prison, Derek is determined to disassociate himself from his former gang and take his brother away to start a new life.


14.Jumanji (1996)

Bonnie Hunt and Robin Williams in Jumanji the 1996 movie


Jumanji, one of 90s movies tells that 12-year-old Aaron and his best friend Sara just started playing Jumanji , they were scared out of their wits by the bats flying out of the board and rushed into the magical world of Jumanji, and failed to continue playing, so they were trapped in another world.


15.Matilda(1996)

图片注释:Mara Wilson and Embeth Davidtz in Matilda


Matilda, is one of the 90s kids movies tells that Harry and Zinnia, a couple, a businessman and a gambler, never thought that the child of their love, little Matilda, would be a rare genius in the world. At Matilda's request, her parents, who had completely neglected her education, sent her to Elementary School, and a new journey unfolded in front of Matilda. As the principal of Elementary School, Miss Trazibul likes obedient and docile children, and as a shot putter, her only way to solve problems is by force. The complete opposite of the violent Miss Trazibur is the first-grade teacher, Miss Honey, whose gentleness and patience make Matilda feel at home. The wise Matilda discovers that Miss Honey seems to have some unending but unspeakable difficulties, and she decides to use her power to help Miss Honey. This movie is suit for family to watch and is regard as one of the popular 90s family movies in 1990s.


There are also many types of movies such as romance movies, animation movies and 90s porn movies. If you want to watch them, you can search them on the Internet. After watching this introduction and 90s movie posters, do you remember the plot you watched before?

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