Beautiful Girls (1996)

Beautiful Girls (1996)

[8] Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People) heads up an ensemble cast in this warm and funny comedy/drama from director Ted Demme (The Ref) and screenwriter Scott Rosenberg (Venom, Disturbing Behavior). Hutton's a Chicago piano-player returning to his small, blue-collar hometown for his ten-year…
Scent of a Woman (1992)

Scent of a Woman (1992)

[7] Al Pacino took home the Best Actor Oscar playing a blind, cantankerous veteran who hires a reluctant prep school student, played by Chris O'Donnell (Fried Green Tomatoes), to escort him on a trip to New York City. O'Donnell is confounded by…
Goodfellas (1990)

Goodfellas (1990)

[8] Director Martin Scorsese (Mean Streets, Raging Bull) returns to the gangster subgenre that made him a household name. Goodfellas is based on the true story of Henry Hill, a Brooklyn youth who quit his primary education to start working for the…
The Basketball Diaries (1995)

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

[5] Leonardo DiCaprio gives a strong early-career performance in this film based on the life of Jim Carroll, a promising young basketball player and writer whose life was derailed by drug addition in the late '60s and early '70s. The film transplants…
The World is Not Enough (1999)

The World is Not Enough (1999)

[7] Pierce Brosnan's third Bond film is on par with his previous two. In The World is Not Enough, Bond is protecting an oil baroness (Braveheart's Sophie Marceau) from a terrorist (Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle) who's about to come into possession of nuclear…
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

[7] Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) joins Pierce Brosnan for his second turn as James Bond. In Tomorrow Never Dies, they both play secret agents trying to stop a nefarious media mogul (Jonathan Pryce) from tricking China and the U.K.…
The Rocketeer (1991)

The Rocketeer (1991)

[9] Based on a graphic novel by Dave Stevens, The Rocketeer stars Bill Campbell as a young pilot in 1938 Los Angeles who comes into possession of a mysterious jetpack prototype and uses it to become a masked, flying hero. Pursued by…
GoldenEye (1995)

GoldenEye (1995)

[6] Pierce Brosnan (TV's Remington Steele) makes his debut as James Bond in GoldenEye, the first Bond film after a then-record 6 year gap. He finds himself battling a former fellow MI6 agent (Sean Bean) who has teamed up with a Russian…
Striptease (1996)

Striptease (1996)

[4] Demi Moore received a whopping $12.5 million to appear topless in this film about a woman who starts strip-dancing to make ends meet after a judge grants full custody of her young daughter (played well by Moore's real life daughter, Rumer…
Backdraft (1991)

Backdraft (1991)

[6] Director Ron Howard (Cocoon, Apollo 13) delivers peak-level pyrotechnics wrapped in corny melodrama with Backdraft. Kurt Russell and Daniel Baldwin co-star as quarreling brothers who follow their late father into firefighting careers. Baldwin plays the younger brother, embarrassed by a series…