REPOST: PWT's Top 100 movies of the 90's

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#100. Miller’s Crossing (1990)
(41 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%27s_crossing

Tagline: Up is down, black is white, and nothing is what it seems.
Directed by: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden


Plot summary:
Tom Regan is an advisor to Leo, a crime boss in an unnamed Prohibition-era town. When Leo and rival boss Johnny Caspar feud over a bookie who's been cheating Caspar, Tom tries to keep the peace. Instead he finds himself caught in the middle of a war of ambushes and shifting allegiances where nothing is ever quite what it seems.

Quote:
Tic-Tac:Come on, Tom. Boss wants to see ya. He didn't have time to engrave nothin' formal.

IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (20,462 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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#99. Léon (aka The Professional) (1994)
(41 points, 3 votes)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_%28film%29

Tagline: If you want a job done well hire a professional.
Directed by: Luc Besson
Starring: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman


Plot summary:
Leon is a hitman, and happy with his life. When a young girl comes home to find her family has been killed by a drug dealer, she runs to him for help. When she discovers he is a hitman, she asks him to teach her the skills to take her revenge.

Quote:
Fatman: Somebody's coming up. Somebody serious.


IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (77,638 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#98. Tombstone (1993)
(42 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108358/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_%28film%29

Tagline: Justice Is Coming
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Starring: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer. Sam Elliott. Bill Paxton


Plot summary:
Former lawman Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and friend Doc Holliday settle in the town of Tombstone in order to lead a profitable and peaceful life but soon come into conflict with the Cowboys, a band of outlaws led by the Clanton brothers. This retelling of the Earp/Clanton feud also follows up the gunfight at the O.K. Corral with a look at the bloody consequences of the showdown.

Quote:
Johnny Ringo: My fight's not with you, Holliday.
Doc Holliday: I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we never got to finish. "Play For Blood" - remember?
Johnny Ringo: Oh that. I was just foolin' about.
Doc Holliday: I wasn't.


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (22,190 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 77%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#97. Philadelphia (1993)
(42 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107818/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_%28film%29#Awards


Tagline: No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system.
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Tom Hanks (Academy Award: Best Actor), Denzel Washington


Plot summary:
Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him. After Andrew is fired, in a last attempt for peace, he sues his former law firm with the help of a homophobic lawyer, Joe Miller. During the court battle, Miller sees that Beckett is no different than anyone else on the gritty streets of the city of brotherly love, sheds his homophobia and helps Beckett with his case before AIDS overcomes him.

Quote:
Judge Garrett: In this courtroom, Mr.Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation.
Joe Miller: With all due respect, your honor, we don't live in this courtroom, do we?


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (24,511 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 73%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#96. Misery (1990)
(42 point, 1 vote)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100157/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_%28film%29

Tagline: Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now, he's writing to stay alive.
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates (Academy Award: Best Actress)


Plot summary:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

Quote:
Annie Wilkes: I am your number one fan. There is nothing to worry about. You are going to be just fine. I am your number one fan.


IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (18,043 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#95. Laat sau sen taan (aka Hard Boiled) (1992)
(42 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104684/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Boiled


Tagline: The Most Action-Packed Film of Alltime.
Directed by: John Woo
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu Wai


Plot summary:
Tequila is a "hard boiled" cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers. In order to bring down the gun smugglers, Tequila must team up with an undercover cop named Tony, who goes undercover as a hired gun with a Hong Kong Triad, which is run by a vicious boss named Johnny Wong.

Quote:
Johnny Wong: We either conquer the world or you kill me tonight with this gun.


IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (8,619 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#94. Benny’s Video (1992)
(42 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103793/

Directed by: Michael Haneke
Starring: Arno Frisch

Plot summary:
A story about a boy called Benny, who watches violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig being slaughtered. Soon after, Benny loses his mind and kills a girl and films the murder with his video camera.

IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 (566 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: N / A
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#93. Speed (1994)
(43 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111257/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_%28film%29


Tagline: Get ready for rush hour.
Directed by: Jan de Bont
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper


Plot summary:
LAPD cops Jack Traven and Harry Temple rescue a group of executives trapped in a sabotaged elevator, thus foiling mad bomber Howard Payne's ransom demands. In retaliation, Payne sets a new challenge for Traven: a bomb on a city bus which will arm itself when the bus reaches 50 mph, and which will explode if the bus drops below that speed or if any of the passengers try to escape.

Quote:
Swat Cop: Anything else that'll keep this elevator from falling?
Jack: Yeah. The basement.


IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (41,686 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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Finally… The Rock… has come back to..
#92. The Rock (1996)
(43 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_%28film%29

Tagline: Alcatraz. Only one man has ever broken out. Now five million lives depend on two men breaking in.
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris


Plot summary:
A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader, a former highly-decorated U. S. general, demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied compensation. Otherwise, he is threatening to launch 15 rockets carrying deadly VX nerve gas into the San Francisco Bay area. An elite SEAL team, with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Stanley Goodspeed) and a former Alcatraz escapee (John Mason), is assembled to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on Alcatraz and neutralize the rocket threat before time runs out.

Quote:
Stanley Goodspeed: Mason, you all right?
John Mason: [hanging upside down] Yes. Perfectly okay, you ******* idiot.


IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (58,724 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 62%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#91. Lik wong (aka Riki-Oh: The Story of Riky) (1991)
(44 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102293/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riki-Oh:_The_Story_of_Ricky

Tagline:
Directed by: Ngai Kai Lam
Starring: Sui-Wong Fan


Plot summary:
The story is set in the year of 2001 in a prison owned by a major company. A new prisoner sees his friends being harassed and killed by the guards and seeks his revenge.

Quote:
Asst. Warden: [Watching Oscar strangling Ricky with his own intestines] You got a lot of guts, Oscar!


IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 (1,697 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 60%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#90. La Haine (aka Hate) (1995)
(44 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Haine

Tagline: Three Young Friends... One Last Chance.
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Starring: Vincent Cassel


Plot summary:
Injured by a police inspector during an interrogation, Abdel is at a hospital, almost dead. In the suburbs where he lives, some riots happened during the night, and one policeman lost his gun. One of Abdel's friends, Vinz, finds it. Vinz and his two pals, Said and Hubert, have nothing to do so they try to kill time. Vinz swears that if Abdel dies, he will shoot a policeman...

Quote:
Hubert: Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!


IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (9,250 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 100%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#89. The Green Mile (1999)
(44 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_green_mile_%28film%29

Tagline: This is a story about a miracle where I work... The Green Mile.
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse



Plot summary:
Paul Edgecomb is a slightly cynical veteran prison guard on Death row in the 1930's. His faith, and sanity, deteriorated by watching men live and die, Edgecomb is about to have a complete turn around in attitude. Enter John Coffey, He's eight feet tall. He has hands the size of waffle irons. He's been accused of the murder of two children... and he's afraid to sleep in a cell without a night-light. And Edgecomb, as well as the other prison guards - Brutus, a sympathetic guard, and Percy, a stuck up, perverse, and violent person, are in for a strange experience that involves intelligent mice, brutal executions, and the revelation about Coffey's innocence and his true identity.

Quote:
Melinda Moores: I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.


IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (84,460 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#88. Cube (1997)
(44 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_%28film%29

Tagline: Fear... Paranoia... Suspicion... Desperation
Directed by: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni,, David Hewlett


Plot summary:
Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.

Quote:
Quentin: Listen, we can't go climbing around in here.
Holloway: Why not?
Quentin: There's traps.
Holloway: What do you mean traps?
Quentin: Booby traps. I looked in the room down there, and something almost cut my head off.


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (22,707 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 57%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#87. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
(44 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118655/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Powers:_International_Man_of_Mystery

Tagline: If he were any cooler, he'd still be frozen, baby!
Directed by: Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York


Plot summary:
In 1967, after burning most of his henchmen, Dr. Evil sets a trap for Austin Powers, but freezes himself so Austin won't catch him. Austin then volunteers to be frozen in case Dr. Evil shows up again. 30 years later, Dr. Evil wakes up in Nevada and steals a nuclear weapon and holds the world hostage for 1 million dollars. Sorry, 100 billion dollars. Austin is woken up to stop Dr. Evil but gets Vanessa Kensington, his ex-partner's daughter and goes to Vegas to look for Evil, but finds out there is no longer any free love in the 90's, or Swinging.

Quote:
[returning Austin's personal property after reanimating him]
Quartermaster Clerk: One Swedish-made penis enlarger.
Austin Powers: [to Vanessa] That's not mine.
Quartermaster Clerk: One credit card receipt for Swedish-made penis enlarger signed by Austin Powers.
Austin Powers: I'm telling ya baby, that's not mine.
Quartermaster Clerk: One warranty card for Swedish-made penis enlarger pump, filled out by Austin Powers.
Austin Powers: I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby.
Quartermaster Clerk: One book, "Swedish-made Penis Enlargers And Me: This Sort of Thing Is My Bag Baby", by Austin Powers.


IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (42,509 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 71%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#86. Young Guns 2: Blaze of Glory (1990)
(45 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100994/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Guns_II

Tagline: The West just got wilder.
Directed by: Geoff Murphy
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips


Plot summary:
Billy "The Kid" and his gang is wanted by the law, and when "Doc" Scurlock and Chavez are captured, Billy has to save them. They escape and set south for Mexico. "Let's hire a thief to catch one", John S. Chisum said, so he paid Pat Barrett, one of Billy's former partners, $1000 for the killing of William H. Bonney aka Billy "The Kid".

Quote:
Tom O'Folliard: Are you Billy the Kid?
Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh: No, I'm Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh. You ever heard of me? I've killed 65 men, not countin' Mexicans and Indians. You must have heard of me! Come on! Rudabaugh! That's great!


IMDB Rating: 5.8/10 (5,959 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 25%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5

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#85. King of New York (1990)
(45 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099939/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_new_york

Tagline: Not everyone who runs a city is elected.
Directed by: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Christopher Walken, Laurence Fishburne, David Caruso


Plot summary:
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to the city's poor in this stylish and ultraviolent modern twist on Robin Hood.

Quote:
Jump: I wanna know who I'm selling drugs to, you know what I mean?
Joey Dalesio: You don't sell drugs, my brother. You shoot people.
Jump: Yo, I'm unemployed. Ain't nobody left.


IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (4,020 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 73%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#84. Kikujirô No Natsu (1999)
(45 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199683/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikujiro_no_Natsu

Tagline:
Directed by: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto


Plot summary:
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro hardly seems the ideal companion for little Masao who is determined to travel long distances to see the mother he has never met. Their excursion to the cycle races is the first of a series of adventures for the unlikely pair which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and odd ball characters to meet along the way.

Quote:
Kikujiro: [to the teenagers who have stolen Masao's lunch money] Hand over more money or I'll kill you guys!
Kikujiro's Wife: Quit playing gangster!


IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (4,031 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 58%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#83. The Sixth Sense (1999)
(45 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167404/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Sense

Tagline: Not every gift is a blessing.
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, bunch o’ ghosts


Plot summary:
Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole's mom is at her wit's end with what to do about her son's increasing problems. Crowe is the boy's only hope.

Quote:
Ghost in the Closet: Is someone out there? Open this door, please! Come on. I can't breathe! If you can hear me, open this door... I swear on my life I didn't take the master's horse! OPEN THIS DOOR, OR I'LL BREAK THROUGH IT AND GRAB YOU!


IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (126,133 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 83%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#82. Juice (1992)
(46 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104573/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice_(film)

Tagline: In the Ghetto's of Harlem you dont buy respect ... you earn it.
Directed by: Ernest R. Dickerson
Starring: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Khalil Kain


Plot summary:
4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but the lunatic Bishop intentionally shoots the clerk for no apparent reason. They run into an alley where Raheem tells Bishop to give him the gun, they fight, and Raheem gets shot. Only the other 3 know what happened, and Bishop wants to get rid of them too.

Quote:
Trip: Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesn't make it pancakes!

IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 (2,264 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 82%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#81. Falling Down (1993)
(46 points, 1 vote)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Down

Tagline: The adventures of an ordinary man at war with the everyday world.
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall


Plot summary:
A divorced engineer for the defense industry gets stuck in L.A. traffic and finally snaps. He gets out of his car and begins a walk through central L.A., where he encounters various levels of harassment, which he learns to deal with by acquiring weapons along the way. His actions attract the attention of a retiring cop, and he gets involved with the case, following the engineer's path toward Venice, where his daughter is having a birthday party.

Quote:
Annoying Man at Phone Booth: Excuse me... Hey, EXCUSE ME. I don't know if you have noticed it or not, but there are other people waiting to use the phone here.
Bill Foster: There are?
Annoying Man at Phone Booth: Yeah.
Bill Foster: There's other people who want to use the phone?
Annoying Man at Phone Booth: That's right, you selfish asshole.
Bill Foster: Well, that's too bad. Because you know what?
[firing a machine gun into the phone booth]
Bill Foster: I think it's out of order.


IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (20,147 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#80. Face/Off (1997)
(46 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119094/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face/Off

Tagline: In order to catch him, he must become him.
Directed by: John Woo
Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage


Plot summary:
Sean Archer (Travolta) has been chasing Castor Troy (Cage) to avenge his son's death by the hands of the psychotic terrorist for six years. Now that he killed Castor, Sean must find a biological bomb by assuming the identity of Castor Troy by taking his face and being brought in prison. But Troy, who awakes from his coma, takes Archer's face in order to take revenge on him. Now, Troy turns Archer's life upside down by assuming his identity. Will Archer break free from his prison and get his face back, or will Troy have the last laugh ?

Quote:
Castor Troy: I torched *all* the evidence that proves you're you. So, like, WOW! Looks like you're gonna be in here for...
[looks at his watch]
Castor Troy: [in a childish na-na tone] THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS!


IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (48,408 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#79. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
(46 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyes_Wide_Shut


Tagline: Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick.
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman


Plot summary:
A doctor (Tom Cruise) becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter after his wife (Nicole Kidman) admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met and chastising him for dishonesty in not admitting to his own fantasies. This sets him off into unfulfilled encounters with a dead patient's daughter and a hooker. But when he visits a nightclub, where a pianist friend Nick Nightingale (Todd Field) is playing, he learns about a secret sexual group and decides to attend one of their congregations. However, he quickly learns he is in well over his head and finds he and his family are threatened.

Quote:
Alice Harford: Why do think Ziegler invites us to these things every year?
Dr. Bill Harford: This is what you get for making house calls.

IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (49,755 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#78. Batman Forever (1995)
(46 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112462/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Forever

Tagline: Courage now, truth always....
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones


Plot summary:
The Dark Knight of Gotham City confronts a dastardly duo: Two-Face and the Riddler. Formerly District Attorney Harvey Dent, Two-Face incorrectly believes Batman caused the courtroom accident which left him disfigured on one side; he has unleashed a reign of terror on the good people of Gotham. Edward Nygma, computer-genius and former employee of millionaire Bruce Wayne, is out to get the philanthropist; as The Riddler he perfects a device for draining information from all the brains in Gotham, including Bruce Wayne's knowledge of his other identity. Batman/Wayne is/are the love focus of Dr. Chase Meridan. Former circus acrobat Dick Grayson, his family killed by Two-Face, becomes Wayne's ward and Batman's new partner Robin the Boy Wonder.

Quote:
Two-Face: One man is born a hero, his brother a coward. Babies starve, politicians grow fat. Holy men are martyred, and junkies grow legion. Why? Why, why, why, why, why? Luck! Blind, stupid, simple, doo-dah, clueless luck!


IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 (33,802 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 49%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5

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#77. Armageddon (1998)
(46 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_%28film%29

Tagline: It's Closer Than You Think.
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thorton, Ben Affleck


Plot summary:
Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity's last chance...

Quote:
General Kimsey: The fate of the planet is in the hands of a bunch of retards I wouldn't trust with a potato gun..


IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 (59,606 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 41%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5

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#76. Timecop (1994)
(47 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111438/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timecop

Tagline: They killed his wife ten years ago. There's still time to save her. Murder is forever... until now.
Directed by: Peter Hyams
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Mia Sara


Plot summary:
The perfection of time travel brings with it new opportunities for criminals. The government sets up a special police force (T.E.C.) to ensure the new technology isn't abused. Max Walker, one of these timecops learns of a corrupt politician's plot to become president using the device. Senator McComb discovers Walker on his trail and the real action begins--in Walker's own past!

Quote:
Senator Aaron McComb: Look don't expect to be my chief of staff if my slamming your face into the side of the car is gonna turn you into a sniveling worm.


IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 (7,868 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 43%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 /5

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#75. Huozhe (aka: To Live) (1994)
(47 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110081/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huozhe

Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Starring: You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu


Plot summary:
Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work. They raise a family and survive, managing "to live" from the 40's to the 70's in this epic, but personal, story of life through an amazing period.

IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (3,192 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#74. Husbands and Wives (1992)
(48 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104466/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husbands_and_Wives

Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Judy Davis, Sydney Pollack


Plot summary:
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.

Quote:
Sally: It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit. That's my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica.


IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (4,842 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 100%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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#73. Clockers (1995)
(48 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112688/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockers

Tagline: When there's murder on the streets, everyone is a suspect.
Directed by: Spike Lee
Starring: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo


Plot summary:
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

Quote:
Rodney: [sigh] If God created anything better than crack cocaine he kept that shit for hisself.


IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (4,275 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 76%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#72. Sátántangó (1994)

(49 points, 1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111341/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1t%C3%A1ntang%C3%B3

Tagline:
Directed by: Béla Tarr
Starring: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy

Plot summary:
In a small dilapidated village in post-communist Hungary, life has come to a virtual standstill. The autumn rains have started. The villagers expect to receive a large cash payment that evening, and then plan to leave. Some want to abscond earlier with more than their fair share of the money. However they hear that the smooth talking Irimias, whom they thought had died, is coming back. They are apprehensive that he will take all their money in one of his grandiose schemes to keep the community going.

Quote:


IMDB Rating: 8.8/10 (305 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 100%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#71. Natural Born Killers (1994)
(50 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110632/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Born_Killers

Tagline: In the media circus of life, they were the main attraction.
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones


Plot summary:
Delivery boy Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson) falls in love with customer Mallory Wilson (Juliette Lewis). He soon helps her kill her abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield) and enabling mother (Edie McClurg), beginning their macabre journey down Route 666. Their M.O.: every few miles, they attack everyone within their site, invariably leaving only one person alive to tell the tale. The two are made famous by unscrupulous reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downy jr.), as they run across the countryside, pursued by the equally sadistic Jack Scagnetti (Tom Sizemore). Just before the trial, a ratings-whoring interview by the same reporter who made them famous leads to pandemonium, not just within the prison itself, but nationwide. A satire of the media, public opinion, and the modern attitude toward violence.

Quote:
Old Indian: Once upon a time, a woman was picking up firewood. She came upon a poisonous snake frozen in the snow. She took the snake home and nursed it back to health. One day the snake bit her on the cheek. As she lay dying, she asked the snake, "Why have you done this to me?" And the snake answered, "Look, bitch, you knew I was a snake."



IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (34,401 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 48%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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Gilliam and Hunter S. Thomson take us to Bat Country!

#70. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
(53 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas_%28film%29

Tagline: Give us your brain for two hours and you will never be the same again..
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro


Plot summary:
An adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's novel of the same name. The film details a whacky search for the "American Dream", by Thompson and his crazed, Samoan lawyer. Fueled by the massive amount of drugs they purchased with an advance from a magazine to cover a sporting event in Vegas; they set out in the Red Shark. Encountering police, reporters, gamblers, racers, and hitchhikers; they search for some undefinable thing know only as the "American Dream" and find fear, loathing and hilarious adventures into the dementia of the modern American West.

Quote:
Raoul Duke: Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel. Total loss of all basic motor function. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column. Which is interesting because you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it.


IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (33,455 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 39%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#69. Aladdin (1992)
(54 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103639/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(1992_film)

Tagline: Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams and they all could come true
Directed by: Ron Clements
Starring: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin


Plot summary:
Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago with his faithful monkey friend Abu. When Princess Jasmine gets tired of being forced to remain in the palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan's advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar's plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a "diamond in the rough" can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. Aladdin might fight that description, but that's not enough to marry the princess, who must (by law) marry a prince.

Quote:
Jafar: How many times do I have to kill you, boy?


IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (30,980 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#68. Beyond The Mat (1999)
(54 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218043/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_mat

Tagline: The movie Vince McMahon does not want you to see!
Directed by: Barry W. Blaustein
Starring: Mick Foley, Terry Funk, Jake Roberts, New Jack (aka the Next Denzel)


Plot summary:
This documentry focuses on the lives of professional wrestlers Terry Funk, Mick Foley (Mankind), Jake Roberts (Jake the Snake), and Darren Drozdov (Droz). As the film progresses the story of their lives unfolds, as well as we learn how the wrestling industry is not the plastic-weapons fake-slap sideshow that many have perceived it as. We are shown how moves, although not actually injuring anyone, are not fake, and extreme training is required to be able to perform the stunts without being harmed. We are also treated to interviews with the family of Mick Foley and what it is like for them to know their father literally puts his life on the line every week and how it feels to have other children call their father a "fake". Vince McMahon, owner of World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, also makes a few appearances, responding to criticism on various wrestling situations, including, once again, his real athletes very real orginization being called fake by sources such as USA Today and various news programs.

Quote:
Paul Heyman: Tonight, we have a chance to say, 'Yeah, you're right. We're too extreme. We're too wild. We're too out of control. We're too full of our own shit.' Or we have a chance to say, 'Hey, **** you, you're wrong! **** you, we're right!' Because you have all made it to the dance. 'Cause believe me, this is the dance!


IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 (2,788 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 87%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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Shop smart. Shop… S-Mart.

#67. Army of Darkness (1992)
(55 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106308/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Darkness

Tagline: Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas
Directed by: Sami Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, the evil Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz


Plot summary:
In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee ("Name's Ash. Housewares.") is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash's 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.

Quote:
Arthur: Are all men from the future loud-mouthed braggarts?
Ash: Nope. Just me baby... Just me.


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (29,169 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 76%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5

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#66. Rush Hour (1998)
(56 points, 2 votes)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120812/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Hour_%28film%29

Tagline: The Fastest Hands In The East Meet The Biggest Mouth In The West.
Directed by: Brett Ratner
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker


Plot summary:
Realizing that the FBI and their by the book tactics may be unsuccessful, the Chinese consul recruits the aid of a loyal Hong Kong inspector to help rescue his kidnapped daughter. Outlawed by the FBI, the inspector must form an unlikely partnership with a cocky, street smart LAPD officer who prefers doing things his own way.

Quote:
Captain Diel: Every now and then we have to let the general public know that we can still blow shit up.
Carter: You're God damn right.


IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 (24,358 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 56%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#65. La Vita è bella (aka Life is Beautiful) (1997)
(57 points, 2 votes – one #1 viote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118799/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_is_Beautiful


Tagline: An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
Directed by: Roberto Benigni
Starring: Roberto Benigni (Academy Award: Best Actor), Nicoletta Braschi


Plot summary:
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

Quote:
Guido: [carrying his son through the camp] You are such a good boy. You sleep now. Dream sweet dreams. Maybe we are both dreaming. Maybe this is all a dream, and in the morning, Mommy will wake us up with milk and cookies. Then, after we eat, I will make love to her four or five times. If I can.


IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (50,875 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#64. Mononoke-hime (aka Princess Mononoke) (1997)
(63 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_mononoke


Tagline: The Fate Of The World Rests On The Courage Of One Warrior.
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida


Plot summary:
A prince is infected with an incurable disease by a possessed boar/god. He is to die unless he can find a cure to rid the curse from his body. It seems that his only hope is to travel to the far east. When he arrives to get help from the deer god, he finds himself in the middle of a battle between the animal inhabitants of the forest and an iron mining town that is exploiting and killing the forest. Leading the forest animals in the battle is a human raised by wolves, Princess Mononoke.

Quote:
Jigo: This soup tastes like donkey piss!


IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (28,733 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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#63. Friday (1995)
(63 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113118/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_%28film%29

Tagline: a lot can go down between thursday and saturday...
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Zeus the Human Wrecking Machine


Plot summary:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do. Encounters with neighbors and other friends over the course of the day and night, and their ensuing antics, make up the rest of the movie.


Quote:
Smokey: I got mind control over Deebo. He b like "shut the f**k up". I be quiet. But when he leave, I be talking again.


IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 (9,718 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#62. Kids (1995)
(64 points, 2 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_%28film%29


Directed by: Larry Clark
Starring: Leo Fitzpatrick, Chloë Sevigny, Rosario Dawson


Plot summary:
Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers growing up in poverty in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Telly remains undaunted.

Quote:
Telly: When you are young not much matters, when you find something you like that's all you got.


IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 (12,639 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 55%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#61. Dogma (1999)
(64 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma_%28film%29

Tagline: Get 'touched' by an angel.
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Linda Fiorentino, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jay and Silent Bob


Plot summary:
The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Quote:
Jay: What the **** is this, The Piano? Why ain't this broad talking?


IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (57,308 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 68%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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#60. Carlito’s Way (1993)
(65 points, 2 votes – two #1 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106519/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlito%27s_Way

Directed by: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, John Leguizamo


Plot summary:
A Puerto Rican ex-con pledges to stay away from his former drug dealing ways but finds himself being dragged back by his past connections and the naive machinations of his lawyer and best friend. Hoping to raise enough money to get away from New York, Carlito Brigante takes on the job of running a nightclub, renews an affair with a dancer but old associates and old instincts suck him back into a world of violence and mistrust.

Quote:
David Kleinfeld: **** you and your self-righteous code of the goddamn streets. Did it pull you out of a 30 year stint in only 5 years? No, it didn't, I did. Did it get you acquitted 4 ******* times? No, it didn't, I did, so **** you, **** the streets, your whole goddamn world is this big, and there's only one rule, you save your own ass.


IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (20,360 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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The sky is blue and all the leaves are green. My heart's as warm as a baked potato. I think I know precisely what I mean, when I say it's a *Shpadoinkle* day!

#59. Alferd Packer: The Musical (aka Cannibal! The Musical) (1996)
(65 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115819/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_the_musical
http://www.badmovies.org/othermovies/cannibalm/


Tagline: All Singing! All Dancing! All Flesh Eating!
Directed by: Trey Parker
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar


Plot summary:
Alfred Packer was a mountain guide and sole survivor of a party of pioneers that got lost in the mountains in winter. Accused and convicted of murdering and eating his travelling companions, he was to be executed by hanging.The movie begins at his trial, where he pleads his innocence to an unsympathetic audience. Only reporter Polly Pry will listen to his story, which is then related to the viewers in the form of flashbacks. As Packer and his gold-prospecting clients make their way through the forests and mountains, they encounter bemused Japanese Indians, an unimpressed group of mountain men and the brutal Rocky Mountain winter, all of which inspire the travellers to break out into song and dance.

Quote:
[reaching the Grand Canyon]
Alferd Packer: Come on, we can just walk around it. It can't be that big.

IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (3,423 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 56%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5

.. hey guys if you get a chance check out the director’s commentary for this movie. They all start drinking Scotch during it and are drunk by the end.

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#58. Groundhog’s Day (1993)
(66 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_%28film%29

Tagline: He's having the worst day of his life... over, and over...
Directed by: Harold Ramis
Starring: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell


Plot summary:
A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.

Quote:
Rita: Have you ever had déjà-vu?
Phil: Didn't you just ask me that?


IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (61,053 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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Nobody fucks with the Jesus..

#57. The Big Lebowski (1998)
(67 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lebowski

Tagline: They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right.
Directed by: Joel Coen
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore


Plot summary:
When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.

Quote:
The Dude: Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.


IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 (72,003 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#56. Batman Returns (1992)
(67 points, 2 votes)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103776/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Returns

Tagline: The Bat, the Cat, the Penguin
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer


Plot summary:
Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt to expose Batman in a different light. Earlier however, Selina Kyle, Max's secretary, is thrown from the top of a building and is transformed into Catwoman - a mysterious figure who has the same personality disorder as Batman. Batman must attempt to clear his name, all the time deciding just what must be done with the Catwoman.

Quote:
Henchman: Penguin... killing sleeping children. Isn't it that a little ah...
[Penguin grabs an umbrella and shoots Henchman dead]
The Penguin: No! It's a lot!
[Kicks Henchman into the water]



IMDB Rating: 6.6/10 (33,932 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 82%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#55. American Pie (1999)
(67 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163651/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_%28film%29

Tagline: There's something about your first piece.
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Starring: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott, Shannon Elizabeth,

Plot summary:
At a high-school party, four friends (Jim, Kevin, Finch, and Oz) find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to try to be the first to "score." And of course, the senior prom is their last best chance. As the fateful date draws near, the boys wonder who among them will get lucky. More importantly, do they really want to do it at all?

Quote:
[watching Jim and Nadia over the Internet]
Kevin: He's pullin' out the porn.
Finch: He's desperate. Jim, just wait till she leaves.


IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 (54,365 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 60%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#54. Apollo 13 (1995)
(68 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112384/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_%28film%29

Tagline: Houston, we have a problem.
Directed by: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Hanks ,Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton


Plot summary:
Based on the true story of the ill-fated 13th Apollo mission bound for the moon. Astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert were scheduled to fly Apollo 14, but are moved up to 13. It's 1970, and America have already achieved their lunar landing goal, so there's little interest in this "routine" flight.. until that is, things go very wrong, and prospects of a safe return fade.

Quote:
Jim Lovell: From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (51,024 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#53. Starship Troopers (1997)
(70 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_%28film%29

Tagline: Prepare for Battle
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Jake Busey


Plot summary:
In the distant future high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don't know is that they'll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity.

Quote:
Johnny Rico: I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!


IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 (41,552 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 60%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5

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#52. Rushmore (1998)
(70 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_%28film%29

Tagline: Love. Expulsion. Revolution.
Directed by: Wes Anderson
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams


Plot summary:
Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very little after school he doesn't do. His life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic probation, and when he stumbles into love with Miss Cross, a pretty teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore. Added to the mix is his friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys who attend the school, and who also finds himself attracted to Miss Cross. Max's fate becomes inextricably tied to this odd love triangle, and how he sets about resolving it is the story in the film

Quote:
[Describing Max to the police]
Herman Blume: 112 pounds. Black hair. Glasses... Oval face.


IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 (29,391 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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#51. Dazed and Confused (1993)
(72 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazed_and_Confused_%28film%29

Tagline: See It With A Bud
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Starring: Jason London, Matthew McConaughey, Ben Affleck


Plot summary:
It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.

Quote:
Slater: George Washington was in a cult, and the cult was into aliens, man.


IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (19,301 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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#50. True Romance (1993)
(73 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108399/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_romance

Tagline: Stealing, Cheating, Killing. Who said romance is dead?
Directed by: Tony Scott
Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Gary Oldman


Plot summary:
Clarence and Alabama are newlyweds who acquire an unexpected wedding present. Unknown to the blissfully happy couple, ruthless gangsters are on their tail, determined to reclaim their lost property

Quote:
Elliot: Hi. How are you? My name's Elliot, and I'm with the Cub Scouts of America. We're... we're selling uncut cocaine to get to the jamboree.


IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (35,737 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 88%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#49. The Lion King (1994)
(73 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110357/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_King

Tagline:
Directed by: Roger Allers
Starring: Jonathon Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons


Plot summary:
A young lion prince is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so flees the kingdom in shame. After years of exile he is persuaded to return home to overthrow the usurper and claim the kingdom as his own thus completing the "Circle of Life".


Quote:
Scar: I'm surrounded by idiots.


IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (46,437 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#48. Being John Malkovich (1999)
(73 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich

Tagline: Ever wanted to be someone else? Now you can.
Directed by: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich

Plot summary:
A puppeteer (John Cusack) discovers a door in his office that allows him to enter the mind and life of John Malkovich (John Malkovich) for 15 minutes. The puppeteer then tries to turn the portal into a small business.

Quote:
Maxine: You're not someone I could get interested in, Craig, you play with dolls.


IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (71,494 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 92%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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#47. Half Baked (1998)
(74 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120693/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Baked

Tagline: They'll do anything to save their best bud.
Directed by: Tamra Davis
Starring: Dave Chappelle, Guillermo Díaz, Jim Breuer


Plot summary:
After Kenny accidentaly kills a cop's diabetic horse by feeding it the food he purchased from a munchie run, he is put in jail and is given a 1 million dollar bail. The rest of the group must bail Kenny out before Nasty Nate gets to him. The group decides to sell marijuana that Thurgood gets through his job as a janitor at a pharmaceutical lab. They become pals with rap star Sir Smoke-A-Lot and the rivals of dealer Samson Simpson. On the side, Thurgood seeks the love of Mary Jane, an anti-pot daughter of a dealer. What follows is typical pothead behaviour with a ton of cameos. Look carefully.

Quote:
[quitting]
Scarface: **** you, **** you, **** you, you're cool, and **** you, I'm out!

IMDB Rating: 6.1/10 (8,938 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 25%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5

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#46. Con Air (1997)
(76 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118880/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Air

Tagline: Get Ready To Fly
Directed by: Simon West
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich, John Cusack


Plot summary:
Cameron Poe, a highly decorated US ranger, is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife in a drunken brawl. Finally, after eight years, he's being paroled and going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home: the Jailbird, which is also transporting society's vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising escape is made on board the plane as the cons seize control of the plane, and head it towards Las Vegas. The officials on the ground want to blow it out of the sky, but three people know an alternative... US Marshal Vince Larkin, Cameron Poe's wife, and his daughter.

Quote:
[They can't reach Vince Larkin]
Duncan Malloy: Well of course you can't reach him. He's off saving the rain forest, or recycling his sandals or some shit.


IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 (35,912 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 50%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5

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#45. Unforgiven (Academy Award: Best Picture 1992)
(77 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105695/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgiven
http://www.filmsite.org/unfo.html


Directed by: Clint Eastwood (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor), Morgan Freeman


Plot summary:
The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.


Quote:
The Schofield Kid: [referring to his gun] You go on, keep it. I'm never gonna use it again. I won't kill nobody no more. I ain't like you, Will...
[indicating the money]
The Schofield Kid: Go on, keep it. All of it. It's yours.
Bill Munny: What about your spectacles and fancy clothes?
The Schofield Kid: I guess I'd rather be blind and ragged than dead.


IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (42,042 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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#44. 12 Monkeys (1995)
(77 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys

Tagline: The future is history.
Directed by: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe


Plot summary:
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.

Quote:
Jeffrey Goines: You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example.
James Cole: Germs?
Jeffrey Goines: Uh-huh. In the eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person, anyway. Ah! Ah! Along comes this doctor, uh, uh, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, well, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. Ah? He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do you call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, cut to the 20th century. Last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger in this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. Jim, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is just a plot they made up so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See? Ah! Ah! There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.


IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (82,185 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 88%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#43. Magnolia (1999)
(78 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175880/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_%28film%29

Tagline: Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours.
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore, Philip Baker Hall


Plot summary:
24 hours in L.A.; it's raining cats and dogs. Two parallel and intercut stories dramatize a man about to die: both men are estranged from a grown child, both want to make contact, and neither child wants anything to do with dad. Earl Partridge's son is a charismatic misogynist; Jimmy Gator's daughter is a cokehead and waif. A mild and caring nurse intercedes for Earl, reaching the son; a prayerful and upright beat cop meets the daughter, is attracted to her, and leads her toward a new calm. Meanwhile, guilt consumes Earl's young wife, while two whiz kids, one grown and a loser and the other young and pressured, face their situations. The weather, too, is quirky.

Quote:
Narrator: There are stories of coincidence and chance, of intersections and strange things told, and which is which and nobody knows; and we generally say, "Well, if that was in a movie, I wouldn't believe it."


IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (62,383 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 86%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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#42. Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
(78 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099423/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_2

Tagline: Die harder.
Directed by: Renny Harlin
Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton


Plot summary:
Once again, New York cop John McClane is in the wrong place at the wrong time - this time he's waiting for his wife's plane to arrive at Washington's Dulles Airport when he uncovers a plot to sabotage the airport's landing system. The criminals wish to free a drug baron being extradited to America for trial by holding the airport to ransom until they all safely escape on another plane. However, if they'd known that Holly McClane was on a flight home to the very airport they were hijacking, they would have picked another day.


Quote:
[after the terrorist attack]
Holly McClane: Why do this keep happening to us?


IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 (31,051 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 64%
Allmovie rating: 2.5 / 5

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#41. Trainspotting (1996)
(80 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_%28film%29

Tagline: Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Kevin McKidd


Plot summary:
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them...

Quote:
Mark "Rent-boy" Renton: We would have injected vitamin C if only they had made it illegal!

IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (70,378 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 87%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Features the two greatest war sequences in cinema history that demands 1,000$ speakers.. Should’ve won the Academy award that year..

#40. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
(81 points, 2 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan

Tagline: In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving... One.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies


Plot summary:
In World War II, it is found that 3 soldiers who have been killed are brothers. The mother will be receiving three death notices on the same day. The army discovers that there were actually four brothers. A mission is deployed to find Private James Ryan and send him home.

Quote:
Private Caparzo: Sir, It's the decent thing to do, sir.
Captain Miller: We're not here to do the decent thing! We're here to follow ******* orders!


IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (132,597 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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Start the reactor..

#39. Total Recall (1990)
(82 points, 3 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_recall

Tagline: They stole his mind, now he wants it back.
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger,


Plot summary:
What is reality when you can't trust your memory? An Earthbound construction worker keeps having dreams about Mars. A trip to a false memory transplant service for an imaginary trip to Mars goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces. When his old self returns, he finds groups of his friends and several strangers seem to have orders to kill him. He finds records his other self left him that tell him to get to Mars to join up with the underground. The reality of the situation is constantly in question. Who is he? Which personality is correct? Which version of reality is true?

Quote:
Lori: Listen to me, Sweetheart. Those assholes at Rekall have fucked up your mind. You're having paranoid delusions.
[Quaid holds up his bloodied hands]
Douglas Quaid: You call this a delusion?



IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 (34,479 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#38. Boogie Nights (1997)
(82 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118749/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie_Nights

Tagline: Everyone has one special thing
Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Julianne Moore, Heather Graham


Plot summary:
Everyone's born with one special thing, and Eddie Adams uses his humongous "asset" to take the world of film pornography by storm. Things get ugly though when success leads to drugs and ruin. Will Dirk clean up and get back on top? Will Amber see her son? Will Rollergirl ever take off her skates?!

Quote:
Dirk: I know ******* karate.


IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (36,150 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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#37. Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance (1995)
(87 points, 3 votes)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181852/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard:_With_a_Vengeance

Tagline: Think fast. Look alive. Die hard.
Directed by: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, Jeremy Irons,

Plot summary:
A man calling himself "Simon" begins a reign of terror in the streets of New York: he threatens to detonate bombs around the city unless Detective John McClane cooperates in a game of "Simon Says". McClane has a bad hangover and a bad attitude, and isn't in the mood for games, especially this one.

Quote:
[McClane and Zeus are speeding through Central Park]
Zeus: Are you aiming for these people?
John McClane: No.
[pauses]
John McClane: Well, maybe that mime.

IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (34,432 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 47%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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Your gonna die clown!

#36. Happy Gilmore (1996)
(90 points, 3 votes)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116483/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Gilmore

Tagline: He doesn't play golf... he destroys it.
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher McDonald, Julie Bowen

Plot summary:
A Hockey player wannabe finds out that he has the most powerful golf drive in history. He joins the P.G.A. tour to make some money to save grandma's house. The downside is that his hocky player mentality doesn't really go on the P.G.A. tour. Especially with the favorite to win the championship.

Quote:
Shooter McGavin: I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
Happy Gilmore: [laughing] you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
Shooter McGavin: No... I...

IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 (24,727 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 53%
Allmovie rating: 2 / 5

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You're a federal agent! You represent the United States Government! Never end a sentence with a preposition.

#35. Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996)
(91 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115641/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-head_Do_America

Tagline: Coming to a screen bigger than your TV.
Directed by: Mike Judge
Starring: Beavis, Butthead


Plot summary:
Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover it, and, who knows, maybe even score. On the way they encounter a murderous smuggler of a deadly virus and his treacherous wife, an FBI agent with a predilection for cavity searches, a couple of rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Dreesen singing "Lesbian Seagull", a little old lady and of course Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Uh-huh. Huh-huh.

Quote:
Beavis: Why does everybody want to see my schlong?


IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 (12,325 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 70%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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Well….. we dina get dressed up for nottin’..
#34. Braveheart (Academy Award: Best Picture 1995)
(93 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112573/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart

Tagline: What kind of man would defy a king?
Directed by: Mel Gibson (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Brendan Gleeson, Sophie Marceau


Plot summary:
William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.

Quote:
William Wallace: I AM William Wallace! And I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny. You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
Soldier: Against that? No, we'll run, and we'll live.
William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least for a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!


IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (121,087 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 79%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#33. Chasing Amy (1997)
(96 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118842/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Amy

Tagline: It's not who you love. It's how.
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Ben Afflek, Joey Lauren Adams
, Jay and Silent Bob


Plot summary:
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.

Quote:
Jay: So why the long face, Horse? Banky on the rag?
Holden: I'm just, ahh... just havin' a little girl trouble.
Jay: Bitch pressin' charges? I get that a lot.


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (39,797 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Mini-me, we do not gnaw on the kitty.

#32. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
(96 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145660/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Powers:_The_Spy_Who_Shagged_Me

Tagline:
Directed by: Jay Roach
Starring: Mike Myers, Heather Graham,


Plot summary:
Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a "Time Machine" to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers' mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil's personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs "Mini-Me". The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either "The Death Star" or "Alan Parson's Project," depending on which name is available.

Quote:
Scott: [both are the Jerry Springer show] How could you do this to me? On national television!
Dr. Evil: Because you're not quite evil enough.
[audience boos]
Dr. Evil: Well it's true! You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil. Just one calorie, not evil enough.


IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 (47,658 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 56%
Allmovie rating: 3 / 5

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There is no spoon.

#31. The Matrix (1999)
(99 points, 4 votes)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix

Tagline: The Fight for the Future Begins
Directed by: The Wachowski brothers
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishurne, Carrie-Anne Moss

Plot summary:
In the near future, a computer hacker named Neo (Keanu Reeves) discovers that all life on Earth may be nothing more than an elaborate facade created by a malevolent cyber-intelligence, for the purpose of placating us while our life essence is "farmed" to fuel the Matrix's campaign of domination in the "real" world. He joins like-minded Rebel warriors Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie Ann Moss) in their struggle to overthrow the Matrix.

Quote:
Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You're a plague and we are the cure.

IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 (189,726 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 74%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5


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#30. Ed Wood (1994)
(102 points, 3 votes)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109707/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood_(film)

Tagline: Movies were his passion. Women were his inspiration. Angora sweaters were his weakness.
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor), Sarah Jessica-Parker

Plot summary:
Edward D. Wood Jr. was an actor writer-director-producer, occasionally in drag, who combined meager bursts of talent with an undying optimism to create some of the most bizarrely memorable "B" movies to ever come out of Tinseltown. Though Wood died in obscurity as an alcoholic in 1978, his films have been considered cult classics for years. He is consistently voted the worst director who ever lived. You would think this an odd subject, but director Tim Burton harnesses the undying hopefulness that made Wood such a character. Shot in black and white, just like Wood's creations, this stylized, witty production captures the poetic absurdity of Wood's films and his unconventional life. Burton's recreation of Wood's wonderfully awful Plan 9 from Outer Space looks much better than the original low-budget quickie. Burton tackled an extremely strange subject matter for a biopic, but Wood is presented as naive almost to the point of delusion, so the story works. The pace sags in the middle, as the weirdness starts to wear thin, but Depp proves himself an adroit actor, even while wearing angora and a blonde wig. Wood's unconventional repertoire company is faithfully reproduced, including an Academy Award-winning Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi. Landau is pathetic, droll, and charismatic as the elderly junkie who made his last screen appearances in Wood's films.

Quote:
Orson Welles: Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (32,594 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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An exhausting, but incredibly powerful movie.

#29. Schindler’s List (Academy Award: Best Picture 1993)
(104 points, 6 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler%27s_List_%28film%29

Tagline: Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.
Directed by: Steven Spielberg (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley


Plot summary:
The true story of Czech born Oskar Schindler, a businessman who tried to make his fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap Jewish labour, but ended up penniless having saved over 1000 Polish Jews from almost certain death during the holocaust.

Quote:
Oskar SchindlerI could have got more out. I could have got more. I don't know. If I'd just... I could have got more.
Itzhak Stern: Oskar, there are eleven hundred people who are alive because of you. Look at them.
Oskar Schindler: If I'd made more money... I threw away so much money. You have no idea. If I'd just...
Itzhak Stern: There will be generations because of what you did.
Oskar Schindler: I didn't do enough!
Itzhak Stern: You did so much.
[Schindler looks at his car]
Oskar Schindler: This car. Goeth would have bought this car. Why did I keep the car? Ten people right there. Ten people. Ten more people.
[removing Nazi pin from lapel]
Oskar Schindler: This pin. Two people. This is gold. Two more people. He would have given me two for it, at least one. One more person. A person, Stern. For this.

IMDB Rating: 8.8/10 (130,748 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 96%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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Timeless fairy tales come alive in the 50’s and stars Robert Smith

#28. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
(105 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_scissorhands

Tagline: Edward Was Here
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Wiona Ryder, Dianne West


Plot summary:
A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local "Avon" representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn't used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body's heart. But life isn't always so sweet..

Quote:
Peg Boggs: Why are you hiding back there? You don't have to hide from me - I'm Peg Boggs, your local Avon representative and I'm as harmless as cherry pie...
[sees Edward come toward her]
Peg Boggs: Oh - I can see that I've disturbed you. I'll just be going now...
Edward: Don't go.
Peg Boggs: [sees his scissor hands] Oh, my. What happened to you?
Edward: I'm not finished.


IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (41,672 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Sadly, some people spend their entire lives never watching a movie as cool as this.
In some cinemas tickets for the "Braindead" movie included paperbags for vomiting.

#27. Braindead (aka. Dead Alive) (1992)
(109 points, 3 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Alive
http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/dead-alive/

Tagline: Some things won't stay down... even after they die.
Directed by: Peter Jackson
Starring: Timothy Balme, Diane Peñalver, Elizabeth Moody


Plot summary:
Lionel, a Mama's boy has the unwanted honor of having to look after his overbearingly evil mother. He ends up falling in love with a local woman who believes that they're destined together. In a moment of intentional sabotage of one of their dates, his mother is bitten by a mysterious creature that ends up zombifying her. It's only a matter of time before she rises from the dead a powerful, bloodthirsty zombie. It's only a matter of time before she starts infecting residents of the town and Lionel has to stop her...and them.

Quote:
Father McGruder: I kick arse for the Lord!


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (16,079 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 83%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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No wait.. maybe this is the funniest movie of the 90’s?

#26. There’s Something About Mary (1998)
(110 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129387/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s_Something_About_Mary

Tagline: There's Just Something About Her..
Directed by: The Farrelly brothers
Starring: Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon


Plot summary:
Ted was a geek in high school, who was going to go to the prom with one of the most popular girls in school, Mary. The prom date never happened, because Ted had a very unusual accident. Thirteen years later he realizes he is still in love with Mary, so he hires a private investigator to track her down. That investigator discovers he too may be in love with Mary, so he gives Ted some false information to keep him away from her. But soon Ted finds himself back into Mary's life, as we watch one funny scene after another.

Quote:
Hitchhiker: You heard of this thing, the 8-Minute Abs?
Ted: Yeah, sure, 8-Minute Abs. Yeah, the exercise video.
Hitchhiker: Yeah, this is going to blow that right out of the water. Listen to this: 7... Minute... Abs.
Ted: Right. Yes. OK, all right. I see where you're going.
Hitchhiker: Think about it. You walk into a video store, you see 8-Minute Abs sittin' there, there's 7-Minute Abs right beside it. Which one are you gonna pick, man?
Ted: I would go for the 7.
Hitchhiker: Bingo, man, bingo. 7-Minute Abs. And we guarantee just as good a workout as the 8-minute folk.
Ted: You guarantee it? That's - how do you do that?
Hitchhiker: If you're not happy with the first 7 minutes, we're gonna send you the extra minute free. You see? That's it. That's our motto. That's where we're comin' from. That's from "A" to "B".
Ted: That's right. That's - that's good. That's good. Unless, of course, somebody comes up with 6-Minute Abs. Then you're in trouble, huh?
[Hitchhiker convulses]
Hitchhiker: No! No, no, not 6! I said 7. Nobody's comin' up with 6. Who works out in 6 minutes? You won't even get your heart goin, not even a mouse on a wheel.
Ted: That - good point.
Hitchhiker: 7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
Ted: Why?
Hitchhiker: 'Cause you're fuckin' fired!


IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (57,318 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Garth fears change.


#25. Wayne’s World (1992)
(111 points, 5 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World_%28film%29

Tagline: You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl.
Directed by: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe


Plot summary: Wayne is still living at home. He has a world class collection of name tags from jobs he's tried, but he does have his own public access TV show. A local station decides to hire him and his sidekick, Garth, to do their show professionally and Wayne & Garth find that it is no longer the same. Wayne falls for a bass guitarist and uses his and Garth's Video contacts to help her career along, knowing that Ben Oliver, the sleazy advertising guy who is ruining their show will probably take her away from him if they fail.

Quote:
Wayne Campbell: Phil, what are you doing here? You're partied out, man. Again.
Garth Algar: What if he honks in the car?
Wayne Campbell: I'm giving you a no-honk guarantee.


IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 (22,248 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Also should’ve won the Academy award that year..

#24. Fargo (1996)
(114 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(film)

Tagline: A homespun murder story.
Directed by: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: Frances McDormand (Academy Award: Best Actress), William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi


Plot summary:
Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan to hire someone to kidnap his wife and demand ransom from her wealthy father, to be secretly split between Jerry and the perpetrators. Jerry, who is not the most astute of individuals, hires a couple of real losers from the frozen northern reaches of Fargo, North Dakota for the job. Then things begin to slip from bad to worse as Jerry helplessly watches on.

Quote:
Marge Gunderson: Say Lou, didya hear the one about the guy who couldn't afford personalized plates so he went and changed his name to J3L2404?
Lou: Yah, that's a good one.


IMDB Rating: 8.2/10 (84,333 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 93%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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Starring Michael Bolton!

#23. Office Space (1999)
(116 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Space


Tagline: A comedy from Mike Judge, creator of "Beavis and Butt-head" and co-creator "King of the Hill".
Directed by: Mike Judge
Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, Ajay Naidu


Plot summary:
Peter Gibbons, thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, decides not to go to work at the same time his company is laying people off. When layoffs affect his two best friends, they conspire to plant a virus that will embezzle money from the company into their account.

Quote:
[Peter, Michael and Samir are trying to figure out how to launder money]
Peter Gibbons: I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.


IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 (38,982 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 78%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Who is Keyser Soze?

#22. The Usual Suspects (1995)
(116 points, 6 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usual_suspects


Tagline: Five Criminals . One Line Up . No Coincidence
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor), Benicio Del Toro


Plot summary:
Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug money. The only survivors are a severely burned and very scared Hungarian terrorist and Verbal Kint, a crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressurised into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects on a hijacked truck and ends with the possible identification of a criminal mastermind.

Quote:
McManus: Old McDonald had a farm ee i ee i o. And on that farm he shot some guys. Badda boom badda bing bang boom.


IMDB Rating: 8.7/10 (137,430 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5


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Most underrated movie of all-time?


#21. The Truman Show (1998)
(118 points, 6 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Show

Tagline: The Story of a Lifetime
Directed by: Peter Weir
Starring: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney


Plot summary:
Truman Burbank is a normal man, living in a normal town. He grew up to be a desk clerk for a insurance company, living an ordinary life, having an ordinary wife, an ordinary neighbour and an ordinary bud, who pops in from time to time with a sixpack. But Truman is not happy with his life. He wants to see the world. He wants to get away from his happy-happy, ever tidy, nice'n'shiny little island town at the seaside. In reality, Truman was an unwanted pregnancy. His "father", Christof, a reckless TV-Producer whom he never met, made up the Truman Show - the greatest show on earth - a show in which life is live. So, everyone around poor Truman is an actor with a little headphone in the ear. One day, Truman accidentally bumps into a catering area backstage and gets pretty suspicious. His plan now is: Pretend to be sleeping and steal away...

Quote:
Christof: I know you better than you know yourself.
Truman: You never had a camera in my head!


IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (79,888 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 96%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5


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I still can’t see shit in those “magic eye posters” either!


#20. Mallrats
(124 points, 4 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113749/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallrats


Tagline: They're not there to shop. - They're not there to work. - They're just there.
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Jason Lee, Jeremy London, Shannen Doherty, Jay & Silent Bob


Plot summary:
Brodie Bruce, a Sega and comic book obsessed college student, and his best friend, TS Quint, are both dumped by their girlfriends on the same day, and to deal with their loss, they both go to the local mall. Along the way, they meet up with some friends, including Willam, a guy who stares at Magic Eye pictures, desprately trying to see the hidden image; Gwen, one of TS's ex-girlfriends; and Jay & Silent Bob, of Clerks fame. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others, and take care of their respective nemesises (TS's girlfriend's father, and a store clerk who hates the two for not having any shopping agenda).

Quote:
Jay: Silent Bob stole the schematics from some foolish carpenter and found a weakness just like the ******* Death Star. You knock this crossbeam out and, fuckin' bickety-bam, the whole stage comes crashing down.
Brodie: Well we were thinking of something simple, but hey, if you want to destroy the stage, we're all for that.


IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 (29,798 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 50%
Allmovie rating: 1.5 / 5

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#19. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
(124 points, 6 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_Stock_and_Two_Smoking_Barrels

Tagline: A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Gletcher, Jason Statham


Plot summary:
Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heros decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

Quote:
Soap: A minute ago this was the safest job in the world. Now it's turning into a bad day in Bosnia.


IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (49,657 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 71%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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#18. L.A. Confidential (1997)
(129 points, 6 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._A._Confidential


Tagline: Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush...
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kevin Spacey, Kim Basinger (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actress)


Plot summary:
1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

Quote:
[Dick Stensland arrives with liquor for a party]
Officer: What took you, Stensland?
Dick Stensland: My partner stopped to help a damsel in distress. He's got his priorities all screwed up.


IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (89,439 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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#17. Heat (1998)
(132 points, 4 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_%28film%29

Tagline: From "The Godfather" to "Scent of a Woman".From "Raging Bull" to "Goodfellas".Two of America's celebrated superstars will finally collide
Directed by: Michael Mann
Starring: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer


Plot summary:
Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending....

Quote:
[Over the phone]
Van Zant: What are you doing?
Neil McCauley: What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone.
Van Zant: I don't understand.
Neil McCauley: 'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin' line


IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (63,196 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 90%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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An eye-popping movie.


#16. Casino (1995)
(137 points, 5 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_%28film%29

Tagline: No one stays at the top forever.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Sharon Stone


Plot summary:
This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Quote:
Nicky Santoro: A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night.


IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (39,854 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 80%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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Tic-Tac, sir?

#15. Dumb & Dumber (1994)
(139 points, 5 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109686/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_%26_Dumber

Tagline: What the one doesn't have, the other is missing.
Directed by: The Farrelly brother.
Starring: Jim Carrey


Plot summary:
Harry and Lloyd are two brainless losers who try to return a suitcase full of money to its pretty owner. After a journey full of accidents they arrive in snowy Aspen, Colorado and try to find her. But will they succeed?

Quote:
Lloyd: I got robbed by a sweet old lady on a motorized cart. I didn't even see it coming.



IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 (39,241 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 56%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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The movie for the Baby Boomers.

#14. Forrest Gump (Academy Award: Best Picture 1994)
(146 points, 5 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Gump

Tagline: The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of Forrest Gump.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Tom Hanks (Academy Award: Best Actor), Gary Sinise, Robin Wright Penn


Plot summary:
The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970's including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he's too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.

Quote:
Forrest Gump: You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Momma always said dyin' was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest, he's doing just fine. About to start school again soon. I make his breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He, uh, wrote a letter, and he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if Momma was right or if, if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.

IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (126,058 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 79%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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Computers? Used for movies?… Could that really work?

#13. Jurassic Park (1993)
(159 points, 5 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_%28film%29


Tagline: An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern


Plot summary:
Scientists develop a means of bringing dinosaurs to life using DNA taken from dino' blood, which has been preserved inside insects encased in amber. Whilst Hammond is showing off his dinosaur 'theme park' to a selected audience [a lawyer (Gerrano), mathematician (Malcolm), dino' expert (Grant), palaeobotanist (Sattler) and his grandchildren (Tim & Lex)], Nedry (computer expert) disables the security system so that he can make his escape with some stolen embryos. This enables all the dinosaurs to escape their enclosures... Look out the dinosaurs are coming !

Quote:
Dr. Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided *not* to endorse your park.


IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 (77,350 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 87%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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#12. Clerks (1994)

(167 points, 6 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks


Tagline:
Directed by: Kevin Smith
Starring: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jay & Silent Bob


Plot summary:
Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local convenience store in New Jersey. On one particular Saturday morning, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must deal with multiple problems. The shutters outside won't open. His ex-girlfriend, whom he is still in love with, is getting married. His girlfriend, who bugs him about starting college, has revealed certain, uh...stuff about her past. His boss hasn't come in to take his place. He has a hockey game at 2 o'clock. Another ex has died, and today's the last day he can go to her wake. He must deal with customers that aren't so intelligent. His friend, Randal, a clerk at the video store next door, is even less dedicated to his job than Dante, and is always bothering Dante's customers. And the biggest problem of them all: HE'S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY!! Can Dante manage it all?

Quote:
Dante Hicks: 37! My girlfriend's sucked 37 dicks!
Customer with Diapers: In a row?


IMDB Rating: 7.9/10 (52,225 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 86%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Chill out…….. dickwad.

#11. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
(205 points, 6 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2

Tagline: Ten Years Ago. The Machines Who Rule The Future Sent An Unstoppable Terminator To Assassinate The Yet Unborn John Connor. They Failed. In 1991. The Machines Will Try Again.
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong


Plot summary:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.

Quote:
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.


IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (102,871 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 96%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.

#10. The Silence of the Lambs (Academy Award: Best Picture 1991)
(207 points, 7 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_of_the_lambs


Tagline: Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer.
Directed by: Jonathan Demme (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins (Academy Award: Best Actor), Jodie Foster (Academy Award: Best Actress), Scott Glenn


Plot summary:
Clarice Starling a young intelligent FBI trainee, has been sent to the Batlimore state hospital for the Criminally insane to interview an inmate Dr. Hannibal-cannibal- Lecter. A Brilliant renowned psychiatrist turned infamous Psycopathic Serial killer. She must match wits Lecter -who has the darkest of all minds- and trust him trust him to give her clues in the search of "Buffalo Bill". a nick name for a loose,unknown, unstoppable Pyscopathic Serial killer...

Quote:

Hannibal Lecter: I will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And...?
Clarice Starling: [tears begin forming in her eyes] And one morning, I just ran away.
Hannibal Lecter: No "just", Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time?
Clarice Starling: Early, still dark.
Hannibal Lecter: Then something woke you, didn't it? Was it a dream? What was it?
Clarice Starling: I heard a strange noise.
Hannibal Lecter: What was it?
Clarice Starling: It was... screaming. Some kind of screaming, like a child's voice.
Hannibal Lecter: What did you do?
Clarice Starling: I went downstairs, outside. I crept up into the barn. I was so scared to look inside, but I had to.
Hannibal Lecter: And what did you see, Clarice? What did you see?
Clarice Starling: Lambs. The lambs were screaming.
Hannibal Lecter: They were slaughtering the spring lambs?
Clarice Starling: And they were screaming.
Hannibal Lecter: And you ran away?
Clarice Starling: No. First I tried to free them. I... I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run.
Hannibal Lecter: But you could and you did, didn't you?
Clarice Starling: Yes. I took one lamb, and I ran away as fast as I could.
Hannibal Lecter: Where were you going, Clarice?
Clarice Starling: I don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but... he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again.
Hannibal Lecter: What became of your lamb, Clarice?
Clarice Starling: They killed him.


IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 (119,962 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 97%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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True it’s a remake of City on Fire, but’s it’s still pretty bad-ass.

#9. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
(208 points, 7 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_dogs

Tagline: Five Total Strangers Team Up For The Perfect Crime. They Don't Know Each Other's Name. But They've Got Each Other's Number
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi


Plot summary:
A gang of thieves carry out an armed robbery on a Diamond warehouse. The police are after them so quickly that they suspect they have a rat in their company. This film starts right after the robbery, with flashbacks to before the robbery, and to the planning of the crime. We are also introduced to the main characters in flashback mode. Plenty of fast action, and plenty of blood and gore.

Quote:
Joe: With the exception of Eddie and myself, whom you already know, we're going to be using aliases on this job. Under no circumstances do I want any one of you to relate to each other by your Christian names, and I don't want any talk about yourself personally. That includes where you been, your wife's name, where you might've done time, or maybe a bank you robbed in St. Petersburg. All I want you guys to talk about, if you have to, is what you're going to do. That should do it. Here are your names...
[pointing to each respective member]
Joe: Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink.
Mr. Pink: Why am I Mr. Pink?
Joe: Because you're a faggot, alright?


IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 (95,532 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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It’s still just a shopping bag.

#8. American Beauty (Academy Award: Best Picture 1999)
(211 points, 7 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169547/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Beauty_%28film%29

Tagline: … look closer
Directed by: Sam Mendes (Academy Award: Best Director)
Starring: Kevin Spacey (Academy Award: Best Actor), Annette Bening, Thora Birch


Plot summary:
Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.

Quote:
Carolyn Burnham: Uh, who's car is that out front?
Lester Burnham: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!


IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (144,659 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 89%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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An ugly but fantastic film.

#7. American History X (1998)
(223 points, 8 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120586/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_history_x

Tagline: Some Legacies Must End.
Directed by: Tony Kaye
Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo


Plot summary:
Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) returns from prison to find his younger brother, Danny (Edward Furlong), caught in the same web of racism and hatred that landed him in prison. After Derek's father is killed in the line of duty by a minority, Derek's view of mankind is altered, but while in prison, he discovers that there is good and bad in every race. The task before him now is to convince Danny of his newfound enlightenment.

Quote:
Bob Sweeney: There was a moment... when I used to blame everything and everyone... for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Used to blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions.
Derek Vinyard: Like what?
Bob Sweeney: Has anything you've done made your life better?


IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (88,029 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 85%
Allmovie rating: 3.5 / 5

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OK. Now THIS is the funniest film of the 90s..

#6. South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
(225 points, 7 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158983/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_park_bigger

Tagline: All Hell Breaks Loose
Directed by: Trey parker
Starring: Kyle, Stan, Kenny, & Eric Cartman


Plot summary:
Southpark is a quiet and peaceful place until the latest Terrance and Philip movie comes out. Once all the kids see it, all hell breaks loose, as the parents try to find a way to stop their kids from saying all the naughty words coming out of their mouths. The parents blame Terrance and Philip, place them under Citizen's Arrest, and declare war on their home country, Canada. It is up to the kids to save the world from Satan and keep Terrance and Philip from being executed

Quote:
[In bed together]
Satan: Is sex the only thing that matters to you?
Saddam Hussein: I love you.


IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 (44,493 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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Best ending ever?

#5. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
(228 points, 7 votes – two #1 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawshank


Tagline: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, William Sadler


Plot summary:
Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.

Quote:
Andy Dufresne: Dear Warden, You were right. Salvation lies within.


IMDB Rating: 9.1/10 (217,119 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 86%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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WHAT’S IN THE ******* BOX!?!!

#4. Se7en (1995)
(266 points, 9 votes)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se7en


Tagline: Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey


Plot summary:
A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while green Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...

Quote:
William Somerset: This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient.
David Mills: He's a nut-bag! Just because the ******'s got a library card doesn't make him Yoda!


IMDB Rating: 8.5/10 (122,494 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 84%
Allmovie rating: 4.5 / 5

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Ezekiel 25:17

#3. Pulp Fiction (1994)
(306 points, 8 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction_%28film%29

Tagline: Girls like me don't make invitations like this to just anyone!
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel Jackson, Bruce Willis


Plot summary:
The film initiates with two small-time thieves, Honey Bunny and Pumpkin, who spontaneously decide to hold up a restaurant. The film then shifts to the story of Jules and Vincent, who hit men for the well known and feared Marsellus Wallace, who is caught up in a deal gone wrong with struggling boxer Butch Coolidge.

Quote:
[Jules and Vincent take Marvin with them in their car and Vincent's gun goes off and blows Marvin's head off]
[/b]Vincent: [/b] Whoa!
Jules: What the ****'s happening, man? Ah, shit man!
Vincent: Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face.
Jules: Why the **** did you do that!
Vincent: Well, I didn't mean to do it, it was an accident!
Jules: Oh man I've seen some crazy ass shit in my time...
Vincent: Chill out, man. I told you it was an accident. You probably went over a bump or something.
Jules: Hey, the car didn't hit no motherfucking bump.
Vincent: Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a bitch. The gun went off. I don't know why.
Jules: Well look at this ******* mess, man. We're on a city street in broad daylight here!
Vincent: I don't believe it.
Jules: Well believe it now, motherfucker! We gotta get this car off the road! You know cops tend to notice shit like you're driving a car drenched in ******* blood.


IMDB Rating: 8.8/10 (186,258 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 95%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

#2. Goodfellas (1990)
(321 points, 8 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoodFellas

Tagline: "As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci (Academy Award: Best Supporting Actor)



Plot summary:
Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners success, but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy ?

Quote:
Spider: [hesitating] Why don't you go **** yourself, Tommy?
[stunned silence]
Jimmy Conway: WHOA. I don't believe what I'm hearing. Check out the BALLS on this kid. Hey Spider, this is for you.
[tosses money on the table]
Jimmy Conway: [/b] That's the way. You don't take no shit from nobody.
I got respect for this kid. He's got alot of ******* balls. Good for you, don't take no shit of nobody. He shoots him in the foot he tells him to go **** himself.
[to Tommy, joking]
Jimmy Conway: Tommy, you gonna let him get away with that? You gonna let this ******* punk get away with that? What's the matter? What's the world coming to?
[Tommy pulls out a gun and shoots Spider in the chest]
Jimmy Conway: What's the fuckin' matter with you? What - what is the fuckin' matter with you? What are you, stupid or what? Tommy, Tommy, I'm kidding with you. What the **** are you doin'? What are you, a fuckin' sick maniac?
Tommy DeVito: How am I meant to know you're kidding? What you mean, you're kidding? You breaking my fuckin' balls?
Jimmy Conway: I'm fuckin' kidding with you! You fuckin' shoot the guy?
Henry Hill: He's dead.
Tommy DeVito: Good shot. What do you want from me? I’m a good shot.
Anthony Stabile: How could you miss at this distance?
Tommy DeVito: Fuckin' rat anyway. Kid's all rat. He'll grow up to be a rat.
Jimmy Conway: You stupid bastard, I can't fuckin' believe you. Now, you're gonna dig the fuckin' thing now. You're gonna dig the hole. You're gonna do it. I got no fuckin' line. You're gonna do it.
Tommy DeVito: Who the **** cares? I'll dig the fuckin' hole. I don't give a ****. What is it, the first hole I dug? Not the first time I dug a hole. I'll fuckin' dig a hole. Where are the shovels?


IMDB Rating: 8.7/10 (95,719 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 98%
Allmovie rating: 5 / 5

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[Chanting] His name is Robert Paulsen.

#1. Fight Club
(349 points, 10 votes – one #1 vote)


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_%28film%29

Tagline: Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter


Plot summary:
You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there's nothing wrong with you until they're hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.

Quote:
Narrator: You met me at a very strange time in my life.


IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 (161,206 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 81%
Allmovie rating: 4 / 5

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