Best award winning movies with a riveting finish from 1990s

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a riveting finish from 1990s! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a riveting finish from 1990s, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Insider (1999)

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

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1999-10-28 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Al Pacino, Russell Crowe

Rating

rating icon 7.458
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #97 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  2. Ranked #241 for
    crusading
  3. Ranked #275 for
    superb acting

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2 Apollo 13 (1995)

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

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1995-06-30 | Drama / History

Cast

Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton

Rating

rating icon 7.45
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #70 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #81 for
    Oscar nomination deserving
  3. Ranked #114 for
    great sound effects

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3 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

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1991-02-14 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins

Rating

rating icon 8.348
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #7 for
    cat-and-mouse
  2. Ranked #12 for
    masterpiece
  3. Ranked #48 for
    Oscar-worthy performance

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4 Breaking the Waves (1996)

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.

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1996-07-05 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård

Rating

rating icon 7.479
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #17 for
    blasphemous
  2. Ranked #69 for
    cinema verite
  3. Ranked #117 for
    masterpiece

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5 The Celebration (1998)

During a family gathering, a celebration for their father's 60th birthday, the eldest son presents a speech that reveals a shocking secret to everyone.

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1998-06-19 | Drama

Cast

Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #60 for
    natural light
  2. Ranked #65 for
    cinema verite
  3. Ranked #112 for
    with epiphany moments

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6 Amistad (1997)

In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.

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1997-12-10 | Drama / History

Cast

Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne

Rating

rating icon 7.025
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #95 for
    Courtroom Drama
  2. Ranked #125 for
    historical significance
  3. Ranked #155 for
    teaching tool

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7 Schindler's List (1993)

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

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1993-12-15 | Drama / History

Cast

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley

Rating

rating icon 8.567
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4 for
    sad
  2. Ranked #4 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #28 for
    poindexter

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8 Se7en (1995)

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

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1995-09-22 | Crime / Mystery

Cast

Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt

Rating

rating icon 8.373
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #66 for
    gruesome murder
  2. Ranked #133 for
    horrific crimes
  3. Ranked #145 for
    for the fearless

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9 In the Name of the Father (1993)

A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.

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1993-12-12 | Drama

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite

Rating

rating icon 7.903
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #48 for
    innocent man
  2. Ranked #92 for
    foster father
  3. Ranked #192 for
    proof positive

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10 The Remains of the Day (1993)

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

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1993-11-05 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson

Rating

rating icon 7.367
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #54 for
    unrequited love
  2. Ranked #82 for
    like Titanic
  3. Ranked #122 for
    Oscar-worthy performance

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