Lifestyle • 1d ago
The Best '90s Movies
The best 90s movies epitomize a golden era for movie-watching. Before streaming cannibalized the way we consume pop culture, a trip to the multiplex (remember the multiplex?) was the pinnacle of the cultural experience. Every summer, we saw yet another multimillion-dollar behemoth enter the ring, ready to stake its claim as that year's biggest hit. From the pre-millennial techno-paranoia of Fight Club and The Matrix to bloody crime classics like True Romance and Reservoir Dogs, the decade brought us banger after banger.
Picking the best ‘90s movies is a near-impossible task, but we've attempted to narrow down the long list of ‘90s classics to the inarguable essentials. Here, then, are 21 of the best ’90s movies, from Pulp Fiction to 10 Things I Hate About You, as well as where you can watch them today.
Before Sunrise (1995)
Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star in this romantic drama, in which an American backpacker encounters a French traveller while on a train in Austria. With time to kill before he catches a plane the next morning, the two take a late-night stroll through the cobbled streets of Vienna, gradually falling for one another across their extended meet-cute. It is simply one of the most headily romantic movies of all time, but the beauty lies in its emotional quietude: there is no grand melodrama, nor does anything much of consequence actually happen; they simply talk until the sun rises, lost in a moment that will last a lifetime. You can rent Before Sunrise on Amazon.
The Fugitive (1993)