Best 1994 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1994 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.

#20. Ed Wood
- Stacker score: 81.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 189,000)
- Metascore: 71
- Director: Tim Burton
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker
- Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $5,887,457

#19. Léon: The Professional
- Stacker score: 81.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 1.3 million)
- Metascore: 64
- Director: Luc Besson
- Actors: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $19,501,238

#18. Speed
- Stacker score: 82.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 413,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Jan de Bont
- Actors: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock
- Runtime: 1 hour 56 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $121,248,145

#17. Four Weddings and a Funeral
- Stacker score: 83.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 176,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Mike Newell
- Actors: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, James Fleet
- Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $52,700,832

#16. The Secret of Roan Inish
- Stacker score: 84.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 10,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: John Sayles
- Actors: Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan, Mick Lally
- Runtime: 1 hour 43 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $6,159,269

#15. The Last Seduction
- Stacker score: 84.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: John Dahl
- Actors: Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $5,842,603

#14. Fresh
- Stacker score: 85.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 16,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Boaz Yakin
- Actors: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson
- Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $8,094,616

#13. Once Were Warriors
- Stacker score: 85.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 38,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Lee Tamahori
- Actors: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,608,570

#12. Heavenly Creatures
- Stacker score: 86.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 70,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Peter Jackson
- Actors: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,049,135

#11. Nobody's Fool
- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Robert Benton
- Actors: Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $39,491,975

#10. Little Women
- Stacker score: 87.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 67,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Gillian Armstrong
- Actors: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst
- Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $50,083,616

#9. The Madness of King George
- Stacker score: 88.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 89
- Director: Nicholas Hytner
- Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $15,238,689

#8. Quiz Show
- Stacker score: 91.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 76,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Robert Redford
- Actors: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow
- Runtime: 2 hours 13 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $24,822,619

#7. Three Colors: White
- Stacker score: 91.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 84,000)
- Metascore: 91
- Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Actors: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $1,237,219

#6. Forrest Gump
- Stacker score: 92.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.8 (votes: 2.4 million)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
- Runtime: 2 hours 22 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $330,455,270

#5. Crumb
- Stacker score: 94.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 23,000)
- Metascore: 93
- Director: Terry Zwigoff
- Actors: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Charles Crumb
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,041,083

#4. The Lion King
- Stacker score: 94.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.5 (votes: 1.2 million)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
- Actors: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones
- Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $424,979,720

#3. The Shawshank Redemption
- Stacker score: 95.6
- IMDb user rating: 9.3 (votes: 3.1 million)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Frank Darabont
- Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
- Runtime: 2 hours 22 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $28,767,189

#2. Hoop Dreams
- Stacker score: 98.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.3 (votes: 29,000)
- Metascore: 98
- Director: Steve James
- Actors: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates
- Runtime: 2 hours 50 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $7,830,611

#1. Pulp Fiction
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.8 (votes: 2.4 million)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Actors: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson
- Runtime: 2 hours 34 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $107,928,762