Best thought-provoking award winning movies from 1990s
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1 The Truman Show (1998)
Truman Burbank is the star of The Truman Show, a 24-hour-a-day reality TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows, including his wife and his best friend, is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.
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- 1998-06-04 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Jim Carrey, Laura Linney
Rating
8.139
2 Gods and Monsters (1998)
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, hires a handsome young gardener, the flamboyant director and simple yard man develop an unlikely friendship, which will change them forever.
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- 1998-01-21 | Drama
Cast
- Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser
Rating
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6.956
3 Dead Man Walking (1995)
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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- 1995-12-29 | Drama
Cast
- Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn
Rating
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7.327
4 American Beauty (1999)
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
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- 1999-09-15 | Drama
Cast
- Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening
Rating
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8.019
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5 Pleasantville (1998)
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
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- 1998-09-17 | Fantasy / Comedy
Cast
- Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon
Rating
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7.253
6 Being John Malkovich (1999)
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
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- 1999-10-29 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- John Cusack, John Malkovich
Rating
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7.412
7 The Matrix (1999)
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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- 1999-03-31 | Action / Science Fiction
Cast
- Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne
Rating
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8.217
8 Contact (1997)
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
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- 1997-07-11 | Drama / Science Fiction
Cast
- Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey
Rating
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7.428
9 The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
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- 1996-12-25 | Drama
Cast
- Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love
Rating
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6.964
10 Fight Club (1999)
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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- 1999-10-15 | Drama
Cast
- Edward Norton, Brad Pitt
Rating
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8.442
