The Top 10 of the Decade
1. Farewell My Concubine/霸王別姬/Bàwáng Bié Jī (1993) - Chen Kaige
2. The Idiots/Idioterne (1998) - Lars Von Trier
3. Fargo (1996) - Ethan and Joel Coen
4. Batman Returns (1992) - Tim Burton
5. Goodfellas (1990) - Martin Scorsese
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6. Dead Man (1995) - Jim Jarmusch
7. Zentropa/Europa (1991) - Lars Von Trier
8. The Big Lebowski (1998) - Joel Coen
9. Frasier - season 1 (1993) - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
10. Braindead/Dead Alive (1992) - Peter Jackson
Other masterpieces (in alphabetical order):
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) - Tom Shadyac
Bad Lieutenant (1992) - Abel Ferrara
Being John Malkovich (1999) - Spike Jonze
Casino (1995) - Martin Scorsese
The Celebration/Festen (1998) - Thomas Vinterberg
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - Terry Gilliam
Frasier - season 3 (1995) - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Frasier - season 4 (1996) - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Good Will Hunting (1997) - Gus Van Sant
Groundhog Day (1993) - Harold Ramis
Three Colors: Blue/Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
Great movies and TV-series (in alphabetical order):
A Few Good Men (1992) - Rob Reiner
A Texas Funeral (1999) - William Blake Herron
American Beauty (1999) - Sam Mendes
American History X (1998) - Tony Kaye
American Pie (1999) - Chris and Paul Weitz
Amos & Andrew (1993) - E. Max Frye
Anastasia (1997) - Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Army of Darkness (1992) - Sam Raimi
As Good As It Gets (1996) - James L. Brooks
Barton Fink (1991) - Ethan and Joel Coen
Bean/Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie/Bean: The Movie (1997) - Mel Smith
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) - Mike Judge, Yvette Kaplan, Brian Mulroney, Mike de Seve
Belle Epoque (1992) - Fernando Trueba
Blade (1998) - Stephen Norrington
Boogie Nights (1997) - Paul Thomas Anderson
The Boxer (1997) - Jim Sheridan
The Cable Guy (1996) - Ben Stiller
Candyman (1992) - Bernard Rose
Carlito's Way (1993) - Brian De Palma
The Commitments (1991) - Alan Parker
The Crossing Guard (1995) - Sean Penn
Crumb, documentary (1994) - Terry Zwigoff
Dazed and Confused (1993) - Richard Linklater
Donnie Brasco (1997) - Mike Newell
Dumb and Dumber/Dumb & Dumber (1994) - Bobby and Peter Farrelly
Elizabeth (1998) - Shekhar Kapur
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) - Stanley Kubrick
Falling Down (1993) - Joel Schumacher
The Fisher King (1991) - Terry Gilliam
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) - Mike Newell
Frasier - season 2 (1994) - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Frasier - season 5 (1997) - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Frasier - season 6 (1998) - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Frasier - season 7 (1999) - David Angell, Peter Casey, David Lee
Freaks & Geeks (1999) - season 1 - Paul Feig
The Game (1997) - David Fincher
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) - Jim Jarmusch
Girl, Interrupted (1999) - James Mangold
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) - James Foley
The Godfather Part III (1990) - Francis Ford Coppola
Gods and Monsters (1998) - Bill Condon
The Great Day on the Beach/Den Store Badedag (1991) - Stellan Olsson
Hamlet (1990) - Franco Zeffirelli
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle (1992) - Curtis Hanson
Happiness (1998) - Todd Solondz
Happy Together/春光乍洩 (Chun gwong cha sit) (1997) - Wong Kar-Wai
He Got Game (1998) - Spike Lee
Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993) - Jim Abrahams
The Hunt for Red October (1990) - John McTiernan
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - Mike Figgis
Meet Joe Black (1998) - Martin Brest
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) - Chris Columbus
Philadelphia (1993) - Jonathan Demme
The Piano (1993) - Jane Campion
The Prince of Egypt (1998) - Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
The Scent of Green Papaya/Mùi đu đủ Xanh/L'Odeur de la Papaye Verte (1993) - Tran Anh Hung
Good, recommendable movies and TV-series (in alphabetical order):
12 Monkeys (1995) - Terry Gilliam
The Adventures of Tintin - all 3 seasons (1991-92) - Stéphane Bernasconi
The Age of Innocence (1993) - Martin Scorsese
Alien 3 (1992) - David Fincher
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, TV movie (1993) - Christopher Guest
Audition/オーディション (Ōdishon) (1999) - Takashi Miike
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) - Jay Roach
Back to the Future Part III (1990) - Robert Zemeckis
Basic Instinct (1992) - Paul Verhoeven
The Big One, documentary (1997) - Michael Moore
Black Cat, White Cat/Црна мачка, бели мачор (Crna mačka, beli mačor) (1998) - Emir Kusturica
Black Sheep (1996) - Penelope Spheeris
The Blair Witch Project (1999) - Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Bleeder (1999) - Nicolas Winding Refn
Boys Don't Cry (1999) - Kimberley Peirce
Buena Vista Social Club, documentary (1999) - Wim Wenders
Cape Fear (1991) - Martin Scorsese
Celebrity (1998) - Woody Allen
Chinese Box (1997) - Wayne Wang
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992) - John Glen
Chungking Express/重慶森林 (1994) - Wong Kar-wai
Cop Land (1997) - James Mangold
Dances with Wolves (1990) - Kevin Costner
Death of a Cheerleader, TV movie (1994) - William A. Graham
Demolition Man (1993) - Marco Brambilla
Desperado (1995) - Robert Rodriguez
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) - John McTiernan
Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - Mel Brooks
East Side Story, documentary (1997) - Dana Ranga
The Eel/うなぎ (Unagi) (1997) - Shôhei Imamura
Election (1999) - Alexander Payne
Enemy of the State (1998) - Tony Scott
The Faculty (1998) - Robert Rodriguez
The Flower of My Secret/La Flor de Mi Secreto (1995) - Pedro Almodóvar
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) - Robert Rodriguez
The Full Monty (1997) - Peter Cattaneo
Get Shorty (1995) - Barry Sonnenfeld
The Green Mile (1999) - Frank Darabont
Halloween H20/Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) - Steve Miner
Hard Eight (1996) - Paul Thomas Anderson
Hard Rain (1998) - Mikael Salomon
Home Alone (1990) - Chris Columbus
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - Chris Columbus
Hot Shots! (1990) - Jim Abrahams
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) - Joel Coen
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) - Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Live Flesh/Carne Trémula (1997) - Pedro Almodóvar
Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart (documentary) (1998) - Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) - Woody Allen
Mulan (1998) - Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Nick of Time (1995) - John Badham
Othello (1995) - Oliver Parker
Out of Sight (1998) - Steven Soderbergh
Pocahontas (1995) - Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
Porco Rosso (1992) - Hayao Miyazaki
Primal Fear (1996) - Gregory Hoblit
Showgirls (1995) - Paul Verhoeven
Stolen Spring/Det Forsømte Forår (1993) - Peter Schrøder
Mediocre, poor and/or failed movies and TV-series (in alphabetical order):
The 13th Warrior (1999) - John McTiernan
Absolute Power (1997) - Clint Eastwood
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) - Steve Oederkerk
Alice in Wonderland, TV movie (1999) - Nick Willing
Alien: Resurrection (1997) - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Amistad (1997) - Steven Spielberg
Another 48 Hrs. (1990) - Walter Hill
Any Given Sunday (1999) - Oliver Stone
Armageddon (1998) - Michael Bay
Body Snatchers (1993) - Abel Ferrera
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Francis Ford Coppola
Breakdown (1997) - Jonathan Mostow
Bride of Chucky (1998) - Ronny Yu
Chasing Amy (1997) - Kevin Smith
Criminal Lovers/Les Amants Criminels (1999) - François Ozon
Days of Thunder (1990) - Tony Scott
Deep Blue Sea (1999) - Renny Harlin
The Dentist 2 (1998) - Brian Yuzna
The Devil's Advocate (1997) - Taylor Hackford
Die Hard 2 (1990) - Renny Harlin
The Doom Generation (1995) - Gregg Araki
End of Days (1999) - Peter Hyams
The English Patient (1996) - Anthony Minghella
Escape from L.A./John Carpenter's Escape from L.A./Escape from Los Angeles (1996) - John Carpenter
Existenz/eXistenZ (1999) - David Cronenberg
Fallen (1998) - Gregory Hoblit
The Fifth Element/Le Cinquième Élément (1997) - Luc Besson
Fireworks/Hana-bi/はなび (1997) - Takeshi Kitano
The Firm (1993) - Sydney Pollack
Following (1998) - Christopher Nolan
Four Rooms (1995) - Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
The Frighteners (1996) - Peter Jackson
From Fusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) - Scott Spiegel
The Fugitive (1993) - Andrew Davis
Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven (1990) - Jannik Hastrup
G.I. Jane (1997) - Ridley Scott
Galaxy Quest (1999) - Dean Parisot
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah/ゴジラvsデストロイア (Gojira tai Destoroyah) (1995) - Takao Okawara
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah/ゴジラvsキングギドラ (Gojira tai Kingu Gidora) (1991) - Kazuki Ohmori
GoldenEye (1995) - Martin Campbell
Heaven & Earth (1993) - Oliver Stone
Hercules (1997) - Ron Clements, John Musker
High Heels/Tacones Lejanos (1991) - Pedro Almodóvar
Home Alone 3 (1997) - Raja Gosnell
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992) - Andrew Bergman
Høfeber (1990) - Annelise Hovmand
It, miniseries (1990) - Tommy Lee Wallace
Jingle All the Way (1996) - Brian Levant
Kun en Pige (1995) - Peter Schrøder
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) - Richard Donner
Night of the Living Dead (1990) - Tom Savini
Patriot Games (1992) - Phillip Noyce
The Phantom of the Opera/Il Fantasma dell'Opera (1998) - Dario Argento
Phantoms (1998) - Joe Chappelle
Run Lola Run/Lola Rennt (1998) - Tom Tykwer
Sidste Time (1995) - Martin Schmidt
Species (1995) - Roger Donaldson
The Quick and the Dead (1995) - Sam Raimi
Three Colors: White/Trois Couleurs: Blanc (1994) - Krzysztof Kieslowski
Other turkey movies and TV-series (in alphabetical order):
Analyze This (1999) - Harold Ramis
The Brave (1997) - Johnny Depp
Dangerous Beauty/A Destiny of Her Own (1998) - Marshall Herskovitz
The Glimmer Man (1996) - John Gray
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992) - Anthony Hickox
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) - David R. Ellis
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) - Danny Cannon
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) - Neil Jordan
Jerry Maguire (1996) - Cameron Crowe
Merlin (miniseries) (1998) - Steve Barron
The Bottom 10 of the Decade
1. Deep Impact - Mimi Leder
2. Hook (1991) - Steven Spielberg
3. At First Sight (1999) - Irwin Winkler
4. Hard to Kill (1990) - Bruce Malmuth
5. Far and Away (1992) - Ron Howard
6. Baby Geniuses (1999) - Bob Clark
7. Contact - Robert Zemeckis
8. Great Expectations - Alfonso Cuarón
9. Delicatessen - Jean-Pierre Jeunet
10. Godzilla vs. Mothra/ゴジラvsモスラ (Gojira tai Mosura) (1992) - Takao Okawara
Overview:
1990: 16 titles
1991: 15 titles
1992: 20 titles
1993: 21 titles
1994: 13 titles
1995: 33 titles
1996: 19 titles
1997: 35 titles
1998: 38 titles
1999: 30 titles
240 titles in total
Biggest flops of the decade:
[The
loss is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films.
Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other
auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. The 13th Warrior - 95.36 mil. $ range
2. EdTV - 65.92 mil. $ range
3. Hard Rain - 57.6 mil. $ range
4. At First Sight - 48 mil. $ range
5. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - 38.44 mil. $ range
6. Meet Joe Black - 32.84 mil. $ range
7. Fallen - 32 mil. $ range
8. Escape from L.A. - 31.12 mil. $ range
9. The Glimmer Man - 30.44 mil. $ range
10. Nixon - 30.16 mil. $ range
= Combined losses: 461.88 mil. $
Biggest hits of the decade:
[The
gain is based solely on the cost and box office earnings for the films.
Marketing costs and additional revenue (home video, TV rights and other
auxiliary profits) are not taken into account]
1. Ghost - 180.32 mil. $ range
2. Home Alone - 172.64 mil. $ range
3. Mrs. Doubtfire - 151.48 mil. $ range
4. Dances with Wolves - 149.18 mil. $ range
5. American Beauty - 127.48 mil. $ range
6. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 115.56 mil. $ range
7. The Fugitive - 103.52 mil. $ range
8. The Full Monty - 99.66 mil. $ range
9. The Blair Witch Project - 99.38 mil. $ range
10. Seven - 97.92 mil. $ range
= Combined profits: 1,297.14 mil. $
Previous decadal posts:
The 2010s in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
The 2000s in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
What do you think of these lists?
What films and TV-series from the 2000s would make it onto yours?