Best movies of 1990s that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite,
Directors : George Miller,

A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Stockard Channing, Ian McKellen, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

Actors : Pat Morita, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicolas Cage, James Caan,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in ...

Actors : Loren Dean, Sigourney Weaver, Armand Assante, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Actors : Giancarlo Esposito, Tim Robbins, Ray Wise, Alan Rickman,
Directors : Tim Robbins,

A right-wing folk singer becomes a corrupt politician and runs a crooked election campaign. Only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.

Actors : Cher, Bob Hoskins, Michael Schoeffling, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin,
Directors : Peter Chelsom,

Two young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship.

Actors : Jay O. Sanders, Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Gavin O'Connor,
Directors : Gavin O'Connor,

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...

Actors : Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, Sue Jones-Davies, William Thomas,
Directors : Paul Morrison,

A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish

Actors : Whitney Houston, Gregory Hines, Denzel Washington, Courtney B. Vance,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all ...

Actors : Josif Josifovski, Grégoire Colin, Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Milcho Manchevski,

In the republic of Macedonia, amid war in Bosnia, an Albanian girl being hunted by Christians is offered protection by a monk who has taken a vow of silence.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Yada Beener, Danny Glover, Emil Pinnock,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close,
Directors : Ron Howard,

NYC tabloid editor Henry is faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges and a tempting job offer.

Actors : Roddy Maude-Roxby, Debra Winger, Anthony Hopkins, Julian Fellowes,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.

Actors : Robin Williams, Scott Weinger, Jonathan Freeman, Linda Larkin,

When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.

Actors : Andrea Corr, Jessalyn Gilsig, Bryan White, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Frederik Du Chau,

An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Julia Roberts, Robert Duvall, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A woman's world is rocked when she discovers her husband is cheating on her.

Actors : Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton, Demi Moore, Jason Alexander,

A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.