Best 1990 Movies

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Best 1990 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1990 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

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#20. Home Alone

- Stacker score: 78.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 704,000)
- Metascore: 63
- Director: Chris Columbus
- Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $285,761,243

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#19. Trust

- Stacker score: 78.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 67
- Director: Hal Hartley
- Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $356,122

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#18. House Party

- Stacker score: 78.8
- IMDb user rating: 6.5 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Reginald Hudlin
- Actors: Christopher Reid, Robin Harris, Christopher Martin
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $26,385,627

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#17. Presumed Innocent

- Stacker score: 78.8
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 51,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Alan J. Pakula
- Actors: Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Greta Scacchi
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $86,303,188

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#16. The Freshman

- Stacker score: 79.9
- IMDb user rating: 6.5 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Andrew Bergman
- Actors: Marlon Brando, Matthew Broderick, Bruno Kirby
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $21,460,601

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#15. Miller's Crossing

- Stacker score: 79.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 147,000)
- Metascore: 66
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $5,080,409

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#14. Truly Madly Deeply

- Stacker score: 80.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 10,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Anthony Minghella
- Actors: Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Jenny Howe
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $1,554,742

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#13. The Witches

- Stacker score: 81.6
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 58,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Nicolas Roeg
- Actors: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher
- Runtime: 1 hour 31 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $10,360,553

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#12. Pump Up the Volume

- Stacker score: 83.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 33,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Allan Moyle
- Actors: Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Anthony Luke Lucero
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $11,541,758

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#11. Metropolitan

- Stacker score: 83.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Whit Stillman
- Actors: Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements, Chris Eigeman
- Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $2,960,492

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11 / 20

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#10. Awakenings

- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 172,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Penny Marshall
- Actors: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $52,096,475

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#9. Dances with Wolves

- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 303,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Kevin Costner
- Actors: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
- Runtime: 3 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $184,208,848

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#8. Edward Scissorhands

- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 551,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: Tim Burton
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $56,362,352

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#7. Misery

- Stacker score: 85.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 253,000)
- Metascore: 75
- Director: Rob Reiner
- Actors: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $61,276,872

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#6. The Grifters

- Stacker score: 86.6
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 32,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Stephen Frears
- Actors: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $13,446,769

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#5. Life Is Sweet

- Stacker score: 90.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Actors: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,516,414

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#4. Paris Is Burning

- Stacker score: 91.6
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Jennie Livingston
- Actors: Brooke Xtravaganza, André Christian, Dorian Corey
- Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,905,297

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#3. Reversal of Fortune

- Stacker score: 92.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Barbet Schroeder
- Actors: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $15,445,131

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#2. Days of Being Wild

- Stacker score: 93.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Wong Kar-Wai
- Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $146,310

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#1. Goodfellas

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.7 (votes: 1.3 million)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
- Runtime: 2 hours 25 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $46,909,721

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