Movie Timeline 1990-1999

1990

The Ages of Lulu (Spain…Bigas Luna)

An Angel at My Table (New Zealand…Jane Campion)

Archangel (Canada…Guy Maddin)

The Branches of the Tree (India…Satyajit Ray)

Close-Up (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)

Cyrano de Bergerac (France…Jean-Paul Rappeneau)

Daddy Nostalgie (France…Bertrand Tavernier)

Dances With Wolves: Special Edition (US (1991)…Kevin Costner)

Delicatessen (France…Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro)

Diary for My Father and Mother (Hungary…Márta Mészáros)

Edward Scissorhands (US…Tim Burton)

Europa (West Germany/Denmark…Lars Von Trier)

The Godfather Part Three: Special Edition (US (1991)…Francis Ford Coppola)

GoodFellas (US…Martin Scorsese)

The Grifters (US…Stephen Frears)

Hidden Agenda (UK…Ken Loach)

I, the Worst of All (Argentina…Maria Luisa Bemberg)

Ju Dou (China…Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang)

Life is Sweet (UK…Mike Leigh)

Metropolitan (US…Whit Stillman)

Miller’s Crossing (US…Joel Coen)

No Fear, No Die (France…Claire Denis)

Nouvelle Vague (France…Jean-Luc Godard)

Oranges are not the Only Fruit (UK…Beeban Kidron)

Riff Raff (UK…Ken Loach)

The Second Circle (Russia…Aleksandr Sokurov)

The Sheltering Sky (US…Bernardo Bertolucci)

Tilai (Burkino Faso…Idrissa Ouedraogo)

To Sleep With Anger (US…Charles Burnett)

Total Recall (US…Paul Verhoeven)

 

1991

Actress (Hong Kong…Stanley Kwan)

Les Amants du Pont Neuf (France…Leos Carax)

Autobus (France…Eric Rochant)

Barton Fink (US…Joel Coen)

Beauty and the Beast (US…Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)

La Belle Noiseuse (France…Jacques Rivette)

The Best Intentions (TV version) (Sweden…Bille August)

Bhopal (India…Tapan Bosé)

Black Robe (Canada…Bruce Beresford)

Boyz N the Hood (US…John Singleton)

A Brighter Summer Day (Taiwan…Edward Yang)

Cape Fear (US…Martin Scorsese)

City of Hope (US…John Sayles)

Clarissa (UK…Robert Bierman)

Un Coeur en Hiver (France…Claude Sautet)

The Commitments (UK/Ireland…Alan Parker)

Days of Being Wild (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)

The Double Life of Véronique (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Europa, Europa (Germany/France…Agnieszka Holland)

G.B.H. (UK…Robert Young)

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (US…Fax Bahr, George Hickenloper)

Homicide (US…David Mamet)

JFK: director’s cut (US (1992)…Oliver Stone)

Life for Life (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)

Lovers (Spain…Vicente Aranda)

The Man in the Moon (US…Robert Mulligan)

My Own Private Idaho (US…Gus van Sant)

Once Upon a Time in China (Hong Kong…Tsui Hark)

Paris Trout (US…Stephen Gyllenhaal)

Proof (Australia…Jocelyn Moorhouse)

Prospero’s Books (UK…Peter Greenaway)

Raise the Red Lantern (China…Zhang Yimou)

The Silence of the Lambs (US…Jonathan Demme)

Slacker (US…Richard Linklater)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (US…James Cameron)

Tetsuo II: Iron Man (Japan…Shinya Tsakamoto)

Thelma and Louise (US…Ridley Scott)

Toto le héros (Belgium/France…Jaco van Dormael)

Urga (Russia…Nikita Mikhalkov)

Van Gogh (France…Maurice Pialat)

 

1992

Aladdin (US…John Musker, Ron Clements)

And Life Goes On… (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)

Bad Lieutenant (US…Abel Ferrara)

Conte d’Hiver (France…Eric Rohmer)

Cronos (Mexico…Guillermo del Toro)

The Crying Game (UK…Neil Jordan)

Glengarry Glen Ross (US…James Foley)

God is My Witness (India…Mukul Anand)

Guelwaar (Senegal/France…Ousmene Sembene)

Heimat 2 (Germany…Edgar Reitz)

Hoffa (US…Danny de Vito)

Howards End (UK…James Ivory)

Husbands and Wives (US…Woody Allen)

The Last Bolshevik (France…Chris Marker)

The Last of the Mohicans (US…Michael Mann)

Leolo (Canada…Jean-Claude Lauzon)

Lessons of Darkness (France/Germany…Werner Herzog)

The Long Day Closes (UK…Terence Davies)

Man Bites Dog (Belgium…Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel)

A Midnight Clear (US…Keith Gordon)

Olivier, Olivier (France…Agnieszka Holland)

One False Move (US…Carl Franklin)

The Player (US…Robert Altman)

The Quince Tree Sun (Spain…Victor Erice)

Reservoir Dogs (US…Quentin Tarantino)

Romper Stomper (Australia…Geoffrey Wright)

Singles (US…Cameron Crowe)

The Story of Qiu Ju (China…Zhang Yimou)

The Strange Tale of Oyuki (Japan…Kaneto Shindo)

Strictly Ballroom (Australia…Baz Luhrmann)

Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe (Hungary…István Szábo)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (US…David Lynch)

Unforgiven (US…Clint Eastwood)

 

1993

Abraham’s Valley (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)

The Age of Innocence (US…Martin Scorsese)

Blue (UK…Derek Jarman)

The Blue Kite (China/Hong Kong…Tian Zhuangzhuang)

Dazed and Confused (US…Richard Linklater)

Farewell, My Concubine (China/Hong Kong…Chen Kaige)

Germinal (France…Claude Berri)

Groundhog Day (US…Harold Ramis)

Jurassic Park (US…Steven Spielberg)

King of the Hill (US…Steven Soderbergh)

Lipstick on Your Collar (UK…Renny Rye)

Naked (UK…Mike Leigh)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (US…Henry Selick)

Orlando (UK…Sally Potter)

The Piano (New Zealand…Jane Campion)

The Puppetmaster (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

Raining Stones (UK…Ken Loach)

The Red Squirrel (Spain…Julio Medem)

The Remains of the Day (UK…James Ivory)

Les Roseaux Sauvages (France…André Techine)

The Scent of Green Papaya (France/Vietnam…Tran Anh Hung)

Schindler’s List (US…Steven Spielberg)

Shadowlands (UK…Richard Attenborough)

Short Cuts (US…Robert Altman)

Six Degrees of Separation (US…Fred Schepisi)

Sonatine (Japan…Takeshi Kitano)

Stalingrad (Germany…Joseph Vilsmaier)

Three Colours: Blue (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Three Colours: White (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)

True Romance (US…Tony Scott)

The Wedding Banquet (Hong Kong/US…Ang Lee)

The Wrong Trousers (UK…Nick Park)

 

1994

Amateur (US…Hal Hartley)

Ashes of Time (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)

Before the Rain (Macedonia/UK/France…Milcho Manchevski)

Blush (Hong Kong/China…Li Shaohong)

The Boys of St Vincent (Canada…John N.Smith)

Burnt by the Sun (Russia…Nikita Mikhalkov)

Chungking Express (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)

Confucian Confusion (Taiwan…Edward Yang)

Crows (Poland…Dorota Kedzierzawska)

Crumb (US…Terry Zwigoff)

Dear Diary (Italy…Nanni Moretti)

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Hong Kong…Ang Lee)

Ed Wood (US…Tim Burton)

Enthusiasm (Russia…Kira G.Muratova)

Ermo (China…Zhou Xiaowen)

Forrest Gump (US…Robert Zemeckis)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (UK…Mike Newell)

Great Conqueror’s Concubine: Parts I & II (China…Stephen Shin)

Heavenly Creatures (New Zealand…Peter Jackson)

Hoop Dreams (US…Steve James)

In the Heat of the Sun (China…Jiang Wen)

Jeanne la Pucelle: Parts I & II (France…Jacques Rivette)

The Kingdom (Denmark…Lars Von Trier, Morton Arnfred)

Lamerica (Italy…Gianni Amelio)

The Last Seduction (US…John Dahl)

Leon: Version Longue (US/France…Luc Besson)

The Lion King (US…Roger Allers, Ron Minkoff)

London (UK…Patrick Keiller)

The Madness of King George (UK…Nicholas Hytner)

Martin Chuzzlewit (UK…Pedr James)

Middlemarch (UK…Anthony Page)

Natural Born Killers: the director’s cut (US (1995)…Oliver Stone)

Une Nouvelle Vie (France…Olivier Assayas)

Once Were Warriors (New Zealand…Lee Tamahori)

Il Postino (Italy…Michael Radford)

Priest (UK…Antonia Bird)

Pulp Fiction (US…Quentin Tarantino)

Quiz Show (US…Robert Redford)

La Reine Margot: Version Longue (France…Patrice Chereau)

Sátántangó (Hungary…Béla Tarr)

Shallow Grave (UK…Danny Boyle)

The Shawshank Redemption (US…Frank Darabont)

Three Colours: Red (France/Poland…Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Through the Olive Trees (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)

To Live (China…Zhang Yimou)

Vanya on 92^nd Street (US…Louis Malle)

Vive l’Amour (Taiwan…Tsai Ming-Liang)

 

1995

Babe (Australia…Chris Noonan)

Before Sunrise (US…Richard Linklater)

Braveheart (US…Mel Gibson)

Carried Away (US…Bruno Barreto)

Casino (US…Martin Scorsese)

La Cérémonie (France…Claude Chabrol)

A Close Shave (UK…Nick Park)

Clueless (US…Amy Heckerling)

Cyclo (Vietnam…Tran Anh-hung)

Dead Man (US…Jim Jarmusch)

Dead Man Walking (US…Tim Robbins)

Fallen Angels (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)

Ghost in the Shell (Japan…Mamoru Oshii)

Good Men, Good Women (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

La Haine (France…Mathieu Kassovitz)

Hearts and Minds (UK…Stephen Whittaker)

Heat (US…Michael Mann)

Kids (US…Larry Clark)

Land and Freedom (UK/Spain…Ken Loach)

Les Misérables (France…Claude Lelouch)

A Moment of Innocence (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)

Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (France…Claude Sautet)

The Neon Bible (US/UK…Terence Davies)

Nixon (US…Oliver Stone)

Pride and Prejudice (UK …Simon Langton)

Richard III (UK…Richard Loncraine)

Safe (US…Todd Haynes)

A Self-Made Hero (France…Jacques Audiard)

Sense and Sensibility (US/UK…Ang Lee)

Se7en (US…David Fincher)

Shanghai Triad (China…Zhang Yimou)

Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead (US…Gary Fleder)

To Die For (US…Gus Van Sant)

Toy Story (US…John Lasseter)

Twelve Monkeys (US…Terry Gilliam)

Underground: Extended Version (Yugoslavia…Emir Kusturica)

The Usual Suspects (US…Bryan Singer)

Wild Side: the director’s cut (US/UK (1999)…Donald Cammell)

 

1996

L’Appartement (France…Gilles Mimouni)

Big Night (US…Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci)

Bound (US…Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski)

Brassed Off (UK…Mark Herman)

Breaking the Waves (Denmark/UK…Lars Von Trier)

Crash (Canada…David Cronenberg)

The English Patient (UK/US…Anthony Minghella)

Fargo (US…Joel Coen)

Freeway (US…Matthew Bright)

Gabbeh (Iran…Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Goodbye South, Goodbye (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

Hamlet (UK…Kenneth Branagh)

Irma Vep (France…Olivier Assayas)

Jude (UK…Michael Winterbottom)

Kolya (Czech Republic…Jan Sverak)

Life at a Gallop (Poland…Krzysztof Zanussi)

Lone Star (US…John Sayles)

Mahjong (Taiwan…Edward Yang)

Mother Night (US…Keith Gordon)

Our Friends in the North (UK…Pedr James, Simon Cellan Jones, Stuart Urban)

The People Vs Larry Flynt (US…Milos Forman)

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (Serbia…Srdjan Dragojevic)

La Promesse (Belgium…Jean-Luc Dardenne, Pierre Dardenne)

Scream (US…Wes Craven)

Secrets and Lies (UK…Mike Leigh)

Shine (Australia…Scott Hicks)

Sling Blade (US…Billy Bob Thornton)

Three Lives and Only One Death (France…Raoul Ruiz)

Trainspotting (UK…Danny Boyle)

When We Were Kings (US…Leon Gast)

William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet (US…Baz Luhrmann)

 

1997

The Apostle (US…Robert Duvall)

The Apple (Iran…Samira Makhmalbaf)

As Good as it Gets (US…James L.Brooks)

Boogie Nights (US…Paul Thomas Anderson)

Le Bossu (France…Philippe de Broca)

The Butcher Boy (Ireland…Neil Jordan)

The Children of Heaven (Iran…Majid Majidi)

Croupier (UK…Mike Hodges)

Cure (Japan…Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

A Dance to the Music of Time (UK…Christopher Morahan, Alvin Rakoff)

Donnie Brasco: director’s cut (US (2007)…Mike Newell)

Face/Off (US…John Woo)

Four Little Girls (US…Spike Lee)

The Full Monty (UK…Peter Cattaneo)

Funny Games (Austria…Michael Haneke)

Gattaca (US…Andrew Niccol)

Grosse Pointe Blank (US…George Armitage)

Hana Bi (Japan…Takeshi Kitano)

Happy Together (Hong Kong…Wong Kar-Wai)

The Ice Storm (US…Ang Lee)

Iruvar (India…Mani Ratnam)

Jackie Brown (US…Quentin Tarantino)

Journey to the Beginning of the World (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)

The Kingdom II (Denmark…Lars Von Trier, Morton Arnfred)

L.A. Confidential (US…Curtis Hanson)

Lawn Dogs (US…John Duigan)

Life is Beautiful (Italy…Roberto Benigni)

Live Flesh (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)

Lolita (US/France…Adrian Lyne)

Lost Highway (US…David Lynch)

Mother and Son (Russia…Aleksandr Sokurov)

Nil by Mouth (UK…Gary Oldman)

Open Your Eyes (Spain…Alejandro Aménabar)

Perfect Blue (Japan…Satoshi Kon)

Princess Mononoke (Japan…Hayao Miyazaki)

The River (Taiwan…Tsai Ming-Liang)

Starship Troopers (US…Paul Verhoeven)

The Sweet Hereafter (Canada….Atom Egoyan)

A Taste of Cherry (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)

The Thief (Russia…Pavel Chukhrai)

Timeless, Bottomless (Bad Movie) (South Korea…Jang Sun-Woo)

Titanic (US…James Cameron)

Ulee’s Gold (US…Victor Nunez)

Under the Skin (UK…Carine Adler)

Wednesday (Russia…Viktor Kossokovsky)

The Wings of the Dove (UK…Iain Softley)

 

1998

After Life (Japan…Hirokazu Kore-Eda)

American History X (US…Tony Kaye)

The Big Lebowski (US…Joel Coen)

Black Cat, White Cat (Yugoslavia…Emir Kusturica)

Buena Vista Social Club (Germany…Wim Wenders)

Bulworth (US…Warren Beatty)

Cabaret Balkan (France/Greece/Macedonia…Goran Paskaljevic)

Central Station (Brazil…Walter Salles)

Conte d’Automne (France…Eric Rohmer)

The Count of Monte Cristo (France…Josée Dayan)

Dark City: the director’s cut (US/Australia (2008)…Alex Proyas)

The Dream Life of Angels (France…Erick Zonca)

Elizabeth (UK…Shekhar Kapur)

L’Ennui (France…Cédric Kahn)

Eternity and a Day (Greece…Theo Angelopoulos)

Festen (Denmark…Thomas Vinterberg)

The Flowers of Shanghai (Taiwan…Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

Fucking Amal (Sweden/Denmark…Lukas Moodysson)

Fufu the Worldweary (Japan…Yuri Obitani)

The General (Ireland…John Boorman)

Happiness (US…Todd Solondz)

Inquietude (Portugal…Manoel de Oliveira)

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Japan…Hiroyaki Okura)

The Last Days of Disco (US…Whit Stillman)

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (UK…Guy Ritchie)

Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Spain…Julio Medem)

The Mask of Zorro (US…Martin Campbell)

Mother of 1084 (India…Govind Nihalini)

My Name is Joe (UK…Ken Loach)

The Opposite of Sex (US…Don Roos)

Our Mutual Friend (UK …Julian Faring)

Out of Sight (US…Steven Soderbergh)

π (US…Darren Aronofsky)

Pleasantville (US…Gary Ross)

Run, Lola, Run (Germany…Tom Tykwer)

Rushmore (US…Wes Anderson)

Saving Private Ryan (US…Steven Spielberg)

Seul Contre Tous (France…Gaspar Noé)

Shakespeare in Love (US/UK…John Madden)

Sombre (France…Philippe Grandrieux)

There’s Something About Mary (US…Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly)

The Thin Red Line (US…Terrence Malick)

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (France…Patrice Chereau)

The Truman Show (US…Peter Weir)

Vanity Fair (UK…Marc Munden)

 

1999

All About my Mother (Spain…Pedro Almodóvar)

American Beauty (US…Sam Mendes)

Aristocrats (UK…David Caffrey)

Audition (Japan…Takashi Miike)

Beau Travail (France…Claire Denis)

Being John Malkovich (US…Spike Jonze)

The Blair Witch Project (US…Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez)

Boys Don’t Cry (US…Kimberley Peirce)

The Cider House Rules (US…Lasse Hallström)

East is East (UK…Damien O’Donnell)

Election (US…Alexander Payne)

Eyes Wide Shut (US…Stanley Kubrick)

Fantasia 2000 (US…James Algar, Gaetan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi)

Fight Club (US…David Fincher)          

The Girl on the Bridge (France…Patrice Leconte)

Go (US…Doug Liman)

Gohatto (Japan…Nagisa Oshima)

Holy Smoke (Australia…Jane Campion)

L’Inhumaine (France…Bruno Dumont)

The Insider (US…Michael Mann)

Lies (South Korea…Jang Sun-woo)

The Matrix (US…Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski)

Magnolia (US…Paul Thomas Anderson)

Oliver Twist (UK…Renny Rye)

Ratcatcher (UK…Lynne Ramsay)

Ride With the Devil (US…Ang Lee)

A Room for Romeo Brass (UK…Shane Meadows)

Rosetta (Belgium/France…Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne)

Shooting the Past (UK…Stephen Poliakoff)

The Sixth Sense (US…M.Night Shyamalan)

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (US…Trey Parker)

The Straight Story (US…David Lynch)

Sweet and Lowdown (US…Woody Allen)

The Talented Mr Ripley (US…Anthony Minghella)

10 Things I Hate About You (US…Gil Junger)

Three Kings (US…David O’Russell)

Time Regained (France…Raoul Ruiz)

Titus (US…Julie Taymor)

Topsy Turvy (UK…Mike Leigh)

Toy Story 2 (US…Ash Brannon, John Lasseter)

The War Zone (UK…Tim Roth)

Water Drops on Burning Rocks (France…François Ozon)

The Wind Will Carry Us (Iran…Abbas Kiarostami)