Online Film Critics Society Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s
The Online Film Critics Society have compiled a few interesting lists, most especially The Top 100 Overlooked Films of the 1990s which is one of the best lists I've seen put together. Rather than just the films we have seen, this is a list of the best films we probably haven't.
Here's the source list at OFCS.
The List
| # |
Title |
Year |
Director |
IMDb |
| 1 |
Miller's Crossing |
1990 |
Joel Coen |
IMDb |
| 2 |
Safe |
1995 |
Todd Haynes |
IMDb |
| 3 |
The Sweet Hereafter |
1997 |
Atom Egoyan |
IMDb |
| 4 |
Lone Star |
1996 |
John Sayles |
IMDb |
| 5 |
Heavenly Creatures |
1994 |
Peter Jackson |
IMDb |
| 6 |
Waiting for Guffman |
1996 |
Christopher Guest |
IMDb |
| 7 |
The Hudsucker Proxy |
1994 |
Joel Coen |
IMDb |
| 8 |
Babe: Pig in the City |
1998 |
George Miller |
IMDb |
| 9 |
Dead Man |
1995 |
Jim Jarmusch |
IMDb |
| 10 |
Fearless |
1993 |
Peter Weir |
IMDb |
| 11 |
Bound |
1996 |
Andy & Larry Wachowski |
IMDb |
| 12 |
Chungking Express |
1994 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 13 |
The Straight Story |
1999 |
David Lynch |
IMDb |
| 14 |
Searching for Bobby Fischer |
1993 |
Stephen Zaillian |
IMDb |
| 15 |
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai |
1999 |
Jim Jarmusch |
IMDb |
| 16 |
That Thing You Do! |
1996 |
Tom Hanks |
IMDb |
| 17 |
Dead Again |
1991 |
Kenneth Branagh |
IMDb |
| 18 |
Sneakers |
1992 |
Phil Alden Robinson |
IMDb |
| 19 |
Zero Effect |
1998 |
Jake Kasdan |
IMDb |
| 20 |
The Butcher Boy |
1997 |
Neil Jordan |
IMDb |
| 21 |
Truly, Madly, Deeply |
1990 |
Anthony Minghella |
IMDb |
| 22 |
In the Company of Men |
1997 |
Neil LaBute |
IMDb |
| 23 |
Devil in a Blue Dress |
1995 |
Carl Franklin |
IMDb |
| 24 |
The Red Violin |
1998 |
Francois Girard |
IMDb |
| 25 |
Cemetery Man |
1994 |
Michele Soavi |
IMDb |
| 26 |
Hamlet |
1996 |
Kenneth Branagh |
IMDb |
| 27 |
Breakdown |
1997 |
Jonathan Mostow |
IMDb |
| 28 |
Welcome to the Dollhouse |
1995 |
Todd Solondz |
IMDb |
| 29 |
The Apostle |
1997 |
Robert Duvall |
IMDb |
| 30 |
Eve's Bayou |
1997 |
Kasi Lemmons |
IMDb |
| 31 |
Hard Eight |
1996 |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
IMDb |
| 32 |
Defending Your Life |
1991 |
Albert Brooks |
IMDb |
| 33 |
A Little Princess |
1995 |
Alfonso Cuaron |
IMDb |
| 34 |
Bringing Out the Dead |
1999 |
Martin Scorsese |
IMDb |
| 35 |
Hana-bi |
1997 |
Takeshi Kitano |
IMDb |
| 36 |
Jacob's Ladder |
1990 |
Adrian Lyne |
IMDb |
| 37 |
The Spanish Prisoner |
1997 |
David Mamet |
IMDb |
| 38 |
Pump Up the Volume |
1990 |
Allan Moyle |
IMDb |
| 39 |
Beautiful Girls |
1996 |
Ted Demme |
IMDb |
| 40 |
The Double Life of Veronique |
1991 |
Krzysztof Kieslowski |
IMDb |
| 41 |
Very Bad Things |
1998 |
Peter Berg |
IMDb |
| 42 |
Richard III |
1995 |
Richard Loncraine |
IMDb |
| 43 |
October Sky |
1999 |
Joe Johnston |
IMDb |
| 44 |
Strange Days |
1995 |
Kathryn Bigelow |
IMDb |
| 45 |
My Neighbor Totoro |
1998 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
IMDb |
| 46 |
LA Story |
1991 |
Mick Jackson |
IMDb |
| 47 |
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me |
1992 |
David Lynch |
IMDb |
| 48 |
A Bronx Tale |
1993 |
Robert De Niro |
IMDb |
| 49 |
The Limey |
1999 |
Steven Soderbergh |
IMDb |
| 50 |
A Perfect World |
1993 |
Clint Eastwood |
IMDb |
| 51 |
Before Sunrise |
1995 |
Richard Linklater |
IMDb |
| 52 |
Bob Roberts |
1992 |
Tim Robbins |
IMDb |
| 53 |
Dick |
1999 |
Andrew Fleming |
IMDb |
| 54 |
Raise the Red Lantern |
1991 |
Zhang Yimou |
IMDb |
| 55 |
One False Move |
1992 |
Carl Franklin |
IMDb |
| 56 |
The Ref |
1994 |
Ted Demme |
IMDb |
| 57 |
Exotica |
1994 |
Atom Egoyan |
IMDb |
| 58 |
Sonatine |
1993 |
Takeshi Kitano |
IMDb |
| 59 |
Joe Versus the Volcano |
1990 |
John Patrick Shanley |
IMDb |
| 60 |
Matinee |
1993 |
Joe Dante |
IMDb |
| 61 |
The Ice Storm |
1997 |
Ang Lee |
IMDb |
| 62 |
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
1994 |
Stephan Elliott |
IMDb |
| 63 |
Croupier |
1998 |
Mike Hodges |
IMDb |
| 64 |
The Winslow Boy |
1999 |
David Mamet |
IMDb |
| 65 |
The Girl on the Bridge |
1999 |
Patrice Leconte |
IMDb |
| 66 |
Bullet in the Head |
1990 |
John Woo |
IMDb |
| 67 |
Darkman |
1990 |
Sam Raimi |
IMDb |
| 68 |
Cannibal! The Musical |
1993 |
Trey Parker |
IMDb |
| 69 |
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control |
1997 |
Errol Morris |
IMDb |
| 70 |
Smoke |
1995 |
Wayne Wang |
IMDb |
| 71 |
The Last Days of Disco |
1998 |
Whit Stillman |
IMDb |
| 72 |
Fresh |
1994 |
Boaz Yakin |
IMDb |
| 73 |
Eye of God |
1997 |
Tim Blake Nelson |
IMDb |
| 74 |
Flirting with Disaster |
1996 |
David O. Russell |
IMDb |
| 75 |
Bottle Rocket |
1996 |
Wes Anderson |
IMDb |
| 76 |
Ashes of Time |
1994 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 77 |
Fallen Angels |
1995 |
Wong Kar Wai |
IMDb |
| 78 |
Great Expectations |
1998 |
Alfonso Cuaron |
IMDb |
| 79 |
Kundun |
1997 |
Martin Scorsese |
IMDb |
| 80 |
A Midnight Clear |
1992 |
Keith Gordon |
IMDb |
| 81 |
Deep Cover |
1992 |
Bill Duke |
IMDb |
| 82 |
Ravenous |
1999 |
Antonia Bird |
IMDb |
| 83 |
Twin Falls Idaho |
1999 |
Michael Polish |
IMDb |
| 84 |
The People vs Larry Flynt |
1996 |
Milos Forman |
IMDb |
| 85 |
Quick Change |
1990 |
Howard Franklin & Bill Murray |
IMDb |
| 86 |
The Secret of Roan Inish |
1994 |
John Sayles |
IMDb |
| 87 |
Beloved |
1998 |
Jonathan Demme |
IMDb |
| 88 |
Big Night |
1996 |
Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci |
IMDb |
| 89 |
Topsy-Turvy |
1999 |
Mike Leigh |
IMDb |
| 90 |
Living in Oblivion |
1995 |
Tom DiCillo |
IMDb |
| 91 |
Jesus' Son |
1999 |
Alison Maclean |
IMDb |
| 92 |
Glengarry Glen Ross |
1992 |
James Foley |
IMDb |
| 93 |
Chaplin |
1992 |
Richard Attenborough |
IMDb |
| 94 |
Dead Alive |
1992 |
Peter Jackson |
IMDb |
| 95 |
Jude |
1996 |
Michael Winterbottom |
IMDb |
| 96 |
Cradle Will Rock |
1999 |
Tim Robbins |
IMDb |
| 97 |
Proof |
1991 |
Jocelyn Moorhouse |
IMDb |
| 98 |
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl |
1993 |
Ray Muller |
IMDb |
| 99 |
Titus |
1999 |
Julie Taymor |
IMDb |
| 100 |
Mystery Men |
1999 |
Kinka Usher |
IMDb |
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