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60. Being John Malkovich
Director – Spike Jonze
Cast – John Cusack, Cameron Diaz
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 29 October 1999
Box Office – $32.4 Million
Genre – Comedy, Fantasy
Awards – 3 Academy Award Nominations
Plot – A Man discovers a portal that make him see world through the eyes of famous movie star John Malkovich.
59. Magnolia
Director – Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast – Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 8 December 1999
Box Office – $48.5 Million
Genre – Drama
Awards – 3 Oscar Nominations
Plot – Interrelated stories of different people who are in search of love and forgiveness.
58. American Pie
Director – Paul & Chris Weitz
Cast – Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Tara Reid
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 61%
Release Date – 9 July 1999
Box Office – $235.5 Million
Genre – Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – Four High School Boys pledges to lose their virginity.
57. Men in Black
Director – Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast – Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 4 July 1997
Box Office – $589.4 Million
Genre – Action, Comedy, Sci Fi
Awards – Oscar for Best Makeup
Plot – A Police officer is recruited to monitor alien activities on earth.
56. Total Recall
Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Arnold Schwarzenegger
IMDB Rating – 7.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 1 June 1990
Box Office – $261.3 Million
Genre – Action, Sci Fi
Awards – 2 Academy Awards Nomination
Plot – A Man feels like as if he has gone to mars.
55. Starship Troopers
Director – Paul Verhoeven
Cast – Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 62%
Release Date – 4 November 1997
Box Office – $121.2 Million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Sci Fi
Awards – Nominated for 1 Academy Award
Plot – In dystopian world human race is on war with huge alien bugs.
54. A Few Good Men
Director – Rob Reiner
Cast – Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin bacon
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 9 December 1992
Box Office – $243.2 Million
Genre – Thriller, Drama
Awards – 4 Academy Awards Nominations
Plot – A Miltary lawyer is appointed to defend officers who commited murders under order.
53. Dances With Wolves
Director – Kevin Costner
Cast – Kevin Costner
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 82%
Release Date – 19 October 1990
Box Office – $424.2 Million
Genre – Adventure, Western
Awards – Won 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Director, adapted screenplay, original score, film editing,cinematography, art direction, sound
Plot – A military officer is appointed in west where he befriends Indians and wolves.
52. Princess Mononoke
Director – Hayao Miyazaki
Cast – Yoji Matsuda
IMDB Rating – 8.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 12 July 1997
Box Office – $159.4 million
Genre – Adventure, Fantasy, Anime
Awards – None
Plot – A Princess pledges to save forrest after he meets its gods.
51. L.A. Confidential
Director – Curtis Hanson
Cast – Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
Release Date – 19 September 1997
Box Office – $126.2 Million
Genre – Crime, Mystery
Awards – Won 2 Oscars Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay
Plot – Three cops tries to uncover a murder mystery in 1950s los angeles.
50. Con Air
Director – Simon West
Cast – Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich, Steve Buscemi
IMDB Rating – 6.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 55%
Release Date – 2 June 1997
Box Office – $224 Million
Genre – Action, Thriller
Awards – 2 Academy Award Nominations
Plot – A Prisoner transporting plane is hijacked by the criminals but they don’t know that the flight is also taken by an ex military officer.
49. Armageddon
Director – Michael Bay
Cast – Bruce Willis, Billy Bob thornton, ben affleck, Liv tyler
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 38%
Release Date – 30 June 1998
Box Office – $553.7 Million
Genre – Action, Sci Fi
Awards – Nominated for 4 Academy Awards
Plot – A Team of drillers is sent to space so that they can drill an asteroid that is coming towards earth.
48. There’s Something about Mary
Director – Peter and Bobby Farrelly
Cast – Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 15 July 1998
Box Office – $369.9 Million
Genre – Romance, Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – A Man get another chance to win the heart of her highschool crush.
47. The Fifth Element
Director – Luc Besson
Cast – Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich
IMDB Rating – 7.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 71%
Release Date – 7 May 1997
Box Office – $263.9 Million
Genre – Sci Fi, Action
Awards – 1 Academy Award Nomination
Plot – In a futuristic world a taxi driver helps a woman who is hunting a weapon that can destroy anything.
46. Speed
Director – Jan De Bont
Cast – Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – 10 June 1994
Box Office – $350.4 Million
Genre – Action, Adventure, Crime
Awards – Won 2 Oscars Best Sound and Best Sound mixing
Plot – A bomb is fitted in a bus. If the bus goes below the speed of 50 MPH the bomb will explode.
45. Independence Day
Director – Roland Emmerich
Cast – Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 64%
Release Date – 25 June 1996
Box Office – $817.4 million
Genre – Sci Fi, Action
Awards – Academy Awards for Visual effects
Plot – Man kind faces their biggest challenge when an adavnce alien civilization attacks earth.
44. Sleepy Hollow
Director – Tim Burton
Cast – Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 68%
Release Date – 19 November 1999
Box Office – $207 Million
Genre – Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Awards – None
Plot – A Detective in the late 19th century is sent to a town where he has to solve the mystery of murderous headless horse rider.
43. Mission Impossible
Director – Brian De Palma
Cast – Tom Cruise, Jon Voight
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 22 May 1996
Box Office – $457.7 Million
Genre – Action, Thriller
Awards – None
Plot – A Spy is wrongly accused of betrayal so he must fight to uncover the truth.
42. Face/Off
Director – John Woo
Cast – John Travolta, Nicolas Cage
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 92%
Release Date – 19 June 1997
Box Office – $245.7 Million
Genre – Action, Sci Fi, Crime
Awards – nominated for 1 Oscar
Plot – An FBI agent and a terrorist goes under face transplant surgery thereby swapping identities.
41. Dumb and Dumber
Director – Peter Farrelly
Cast – Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 67%
Release Date – 6 December 1994
Box Office – $247.3 Million
Genre – Comedy
Awards – None
Plot – Two Not so intelligent man goes on a cross country road trip to return the bag of a beautiful woman.
