Best 1993 Movies

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Best 1993 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1993 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. What's Love Got to Do with It

- Stacker score: 81.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 26,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Brian Gibson
- Actors: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, RaéVen Kelly
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $39,100,956

2 / 20

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#19. What's Eating Gilbert Grape

- Stacker score: 81.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 264,000)
- Metascore: 73
- Director: Lasse Hallström
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $10,032,765

3 / 20

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#18. Jurassic Park

- Stacker score: 81.1
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 1.1 million)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $407,185,075

4 / 20

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#17. Menace II Society

- Stacker score: 81.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 68,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
- Actors: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $27,912,072

5 / 20

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#16. Groundhog Day

- Stacker score: 82.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 724,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Harold Ramis
- Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $71,107,962

6 / 20

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#15. Much Ado About Nothing

- Stacker score: 82.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 54,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Kenneth Branagh
- Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $22,549,338

7 / 20

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#14. The Wedding Banquet

- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Ang Lee
- Actors: Winston Chao, May Chin, Ah-Lei Gua
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $6,933,459

8 / 20

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#13. Short Cuts

- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 49,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Robert Altman
- Actors: Andie MacDowell, Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins
- Runtime: 3 hours 8 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $6,110,979

9 / 20

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#12. A Bronx Tale

- Stacker score: 85.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 176,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Robert De Niro
- Actors: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $17,287,898

10 / 20

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#11. Dazed and Confused

- Stacker score: 85.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 212,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Richard Linklater
- Actors: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $8,249,404

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11 / 20

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#10. The Joy Luck Club

- Stacker score: 87.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Wayne Wang
- Actors: Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao, Kieu Chinh
- Runtime: 2 hours 19 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $32,901,136

12 / 20

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#9. The Nightmare Before Christmas

- Stacker score: 87.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 399,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Henry Selick
- Actors: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
- Runtime: 1 hour 16 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $93,745,329

13 / 20

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#8. Naked

- Stacker score: 87.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 47,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Actors: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge
- Runtime: 2 hours 11 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $1,769,305

14 / 20

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#7. The Age of Innocence

- Stacker score: 87.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 72,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder
- Runtime: 2 hours 19 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $32,255,440

15 / 20

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#6. Searching for Bobby Fischer

- Stacker score: 88.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 44,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Steven Zaillian
- Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, Max Pomeranc
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $7,266,383

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16 / 20

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#5. The Remains of the Day

- Stacker score: 88.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 90,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: James Ivory
- Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, John Haycraft
- Runtime: 2 hours 14 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $23,237,911

17 / 20

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#4. The Piano

- Stacker score: 88.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 99,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Jane Campion
- Actors: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $40,157,856

18 / 20

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#3. In the Name of the Father

- Stacker score: 89.2
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 198,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Jim Sheridan
- Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $25,096,862

19 / 20

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#2. The Fugitive

- Stacker score: 89.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 337,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Andrew Davis
- Actors: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward
- Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $183,875,760

20 / 20

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#1. Schindler's List

- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 9.0 (votes: 1.5 million)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
- Runtime: 3 hours 15 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $96,898,818

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