Best 1996 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1996 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. James and the Giant Peach
- Stacker score: 84.3
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 77,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Henry Selick
- Actors: Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Pete Postlethwaite
- Runtime: 1 hour 19 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $28,946,127

#19. Fly Away Home
- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 28,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Carroll Ballard
- Actors: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany
- Runtime: 1 hour 47 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $25,143,818

#18. Waiting for Guffman
- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 32,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: Christopher Guest
- Actors: Christopher Guest, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara
- Runtime: 1 hour 24 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $2,923,982

#17. Star Trek: First Contact
- Stacker score: 84.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 136,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Jonathan Frakes
- Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $92,027,888

#16. Trees Lounge
- Stacker score: 85.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Steve Buscemi
- Actors: Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $749,741

#15. Flirting with Disaster
- Stacker score: 86.6
- IMDb user rating: 6.7 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: David O. Russell
- Actors: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $14,702,438

#14. Hard Eight
- Stacker score: 86.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 58,000)
- Metascore: 78
- Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
- Actors: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow
- Runtime: 1 hour 41 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $222,559

#13. Irma Vep
- Stacker score: 87.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 10,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Olivier Assayas
- Actors: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard
- Runtime: 1 hour 39 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: $282,310

#12. Jerry Maguire
- Stacker score: 87.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 302,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Cameron Crowe
- Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger
- Runtime: 2 hours 19 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $153,952,592

#11. The People vs. Larry Flynt
- Stacker score: 88.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 104,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Milos Forman
- Actors: Woody Harrelson, Courtney Love, Edward Norton
- Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $20,300,385

#10. Big Night
- Stacker score: 89.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 24,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci
- Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, Marc Anthony
- Runtime: 1 hour 49 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $12,008,376

#9. Lone Star
- Stacker score: 89.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 35,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: John Sayles
- Actors: Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Mendillo
- Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $12,408,986

#8. Breaking the Waves
- Stacker score: 93.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 75,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Lars von Trier
- Actors: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge
- Runtime: 2 hours 33 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $3,803,298

#7. The English Patient
- Stacker score: 93.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 210,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Anthony Minghella
- Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
- Runtime: 2 hours 42 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $78,676,425

#6. When We Were Kings
- Stacker score: 94.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Leon Gast
- Actors: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King
- Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $2,789,985

#5. Shine
- Stacker score: 94.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 58,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Scott Hicks
- Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine
- Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $35,892,330

#4. Trainspotting
- Stacker score: 95.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 756,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $16,491,080

#3. Sling Blade
- Stacker score: 95.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 103,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Billy Bob Thornton
- Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh
- Runtime: 2 hours 15 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $24,444,121

#2. Fargo
- Stacker score: 98.3
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 764,000)
- Metascore: 88
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Actors: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
- Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $24,611,975

#1. Secrets & Lies
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.0 (votes: 50,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Mike Leigh
- Actors: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan
- Runtime: 2 hours 16 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $13,417,292