My personal favorites are:
Fight Club
The Matrix
Star Wars Episode 1
LOL, just joking
Seven
Braveheart, though I do have my issues with that film
Mulholland Drive
American Beauty

Ill post more as I think of them.

My faves (of the 90s):

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
The Matrix (first only, the other two suuuuck)
Sling Blade
Shawshank Redemption
6th Sense
Three Kings
Pulp Fiction
Dazed & Confused
Go

How can you have issues with Braveheart but nothing with that piece of crap that Lucas called the first Star Wars?

Anyway, I'm right with you on Fight Club
Also,

Big Lebowski
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Usual Suspects
American Beauty
American History X
Unforgiven
Clerks
Say Anything
High Fidelity
Braveheart

I of course forgot about Pulp Fiction and Three Kings was awesome. Its a pity that David O'Russel hates making big movies so we wont be seeing anymore big movies from him.

The Star Wars: Episode I was a joke. I put that I was just kidding in black underneath.

Anyway, I thought Braveheart was a really awesome movie, but there were alot of things wrong with it. I hated the character of William Wallace. He was perfect. History has painted a picture of him more as being a guy who was totally blinded by his own idealism and he lost his friends because of it, but in the movie he is perfect, even when all other characters have their moments of doubt. He was pious to God, he was always true to his cause and never shook in his belief. Nothing was ever HIS fault. It was always someone elses. Also, The English were just simply written off as bad. There was no depth added to the history, it was just black and white.

My problem isnt that its historically inaccurate, but it is just too dismissive and simple in that regard for my liking. Sometimes its better to have a flawed hero. One that you can see as an amazing person despite their shortcomings, ie Lawrence of Arabia.

Also, another thing about Braveheart is the glaring amount of mistakes in it. Im not a particularly observant film goer and I will willingly overlook most mistake, but there were so many glaring ones. Youve got to wonder if Mel Gibson was half blind when he was shooting this stuff. In the battle of Stirling all the extras are standing around and at points talking to each other.

These might only be a few things, and there are so many points that are just mindblowingly good about Braveheart (music score, photogrpahy, costumes), but they really ruin my experience with it.

Still, it was very deserving of its Oscars.

Fargo for me definitely!

Excuse these choices for being rather umm...different

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Amelie

Pulp Fiction

Kill Bill (Both 1 &2 together)

Delicatessan's awesome but by no means Best-of material


Oh I dunno I'll have to think some more---of course as soon as I post this a million great films will pop into my head

~Eccentro

Oh I remember Requiem for a Dream!!!

I don't want to get too picky, but few responders have actually listed only movies that were released in the 90s; most include post-1999 movies and some go back to the 80s. As far as 90s movies, the greatest have to be Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart, L.A. Confidential, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, Goodfellas, Fight Club and SE7EN. I hope that you don't laugh too loudly if I include Shawshank Redemption, Dances With Wolves, Silence of the Lambs, The Crying Game, Quiz Show, Forrest Gump, As Good As it Gets, and I better stop before I...accidentally...say...Titanic. Father, please forgive me because I know not what I do.

For me: Pulp Fiction, Boogie Nights, Fight Club, the Truman Show, Being John Malkovich, Trainspotting. Fairly generic, I suppose.

I can't go through the whole 90s and pick out the best movies, it's too overwhelming, but here are some that haven't been mentioned that I think deserve to be in there:

Barton Fink
Reality Bites
Rushmore

Reality Bites is in there because it got me through the day when I was just out of college and without a job and all I had to do was sit at home and chain smoke and feel sorry for myself. And for Janeane Garafolo.

Now that s a huge poll

I d say Schindler, Shawshank redp., Princess Mononoke, Matrix, Fight Club and Reservoir Dogs.

Ah, and Léon (the professional or something )
Had to include a French movie sorry

Three more:

Rushmore
Virgin Suicides
Magnolia

Also

Trainspotting
Being John Malkovich
Usual Suspects

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Originally posted by Thomas:
Matrix

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Ahh, I had forgotten this when I made the list. It really is a classic, isn't it?

My list:

Goodfellas
Braveheart
American Beauty
Big Lebowski
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction
Starship Troopers
Silence of the Lambs
Titanic

Yes, Titanic. I don't begrudge it's success. It was a very well done film.

Pulp Fiction
Titanic
Fight Club

etc, etc...

A lot of people have listed films that are post-1990s (including Mulholland Drive, which I find to be one of the greatest cinematic achievements, well, EVER), but...

As far as the 90's go, here goes:

Beau Travail
Breaking the Waves
Magnolia
Safe
All About My Mother
Heavenly Creatures
The Thin Red Line
Raise the Red Lantern
Three Colors Trilogy
Ed Wood


AHHH!!! It's so hard to choose. But I guess that's it. Beau Travail, Breaking the Waves, and Magnolia are probably tied for the top spot... each is so difficult, yet so completely wonderful.

As far as the 2000s go, Mulholland Drive and Dogville are the masterpieces among the other masterpieces and are the films to top.


Ciao

Pulp Fiction as an undisputed no. 1
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure in a close second

Others worth mentioning:
The anime trilogy Memories
Eyes Wide Shut
Before Sunrise
Happiness
The Dreamlife of Angels
Dead Man
The Tste of Cherry
Funny Games
Reservoir Dogs
The Piano
Secrets and Lies

My earlier list accidentally left off two movie-movie opuses by Paul Verhoeven: Total Recall and Basic Instinct. Maybe those will push someone's buttons.

I was quite suprised at how slammed Basic Instinct got by the critics. I thought it was pretty well done.