Top 10 Underrated Films of the 1990s 

I thought Dark City also had a cult following.

Thanks =)

SIX of the ten films in this list have cult followings or are downright popular now.

saw this about a month ago, great and fuckin crazy movie

Tarantino scripts aren't underrated. He has a solid following.

Saw it twice in the theater with my pop when I was in the 6th grade. Been my favorite movie ever since. Written by Tarantino, but directed by Tony Scott. The story of how that happened is pretty cool.

this cast...

and it was written by Quentin Tarantino. But I don't think that is underrated, I personally didn't liked that much, but in general I don't think that is underrated it was well received....

Yep. I saw most of them. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10. I liked all of them, although I didn’t like Miller’s Crossing the first time I saw it. Never heard of 3 and 4. I saw a simple plan in the theater. One of the few who did evidently.

Ghost Dog and Kingpin deserved acting nominations at the very least. Are you sure about 1 and 2? They were critically acclaimed and seen by many.

@@Rob2068 didn't like Miller's Crossing?! For shame!

@@johnmorrison4280 Eh, fuck Miller's Crossing.

I loved Dark City. Never seen Frailty but will watch it now.

Agreed. Both awesome movies, Fragilty was clever

Camilo Basile I don't think true romance is underrated at all. It's wildly popular and come out at a time tarantino was at his peak.

Except Tarantino didnt direct and it bombed at the box office. Tarantino didnt go mainstream until after Pulp Fiction so saying Tarantino was at his peak isnt accurate. I wouldnt call it wildly popular now either, most people I know have never heard of it.

hardly under-rated. Popular film

Camilo Basile Someone already said this

I love that movie! Slater and Arguette are so damn sexy

#1 with a bullet for sure. Love the Quick and the Dead too but ... I think it found an audience in the end ... a quite large one ;o).

Richard Sheehy hell yeah dude. Judgement night is the shiz

exactly

"KingPin"

+FernTheRU-vidr At least half of these are cult classics.

+FernTheRU-vidr And this is why, while I like WM, I prefer ScreenRants because they don't make a list with their head up their asses and list something...that contradicts the rules of their list. Also SR does the 10 best, not the top 10 which puts 10 choices but doesnt number them 10 to 1 so its up the the viewer to put them in whatever order they feel fit.

+Bennyboy087 thats total bullshit screen rants make list just to capture pop culture and mainstream shit for example, when star wars force awaken came out legit 20 out of 30 videos and thumbnails consisted of star wars

K ittridge I prefer LBS to any Die Hard. Great

TLBS is a typical 90s action flick, and yes, probably also on par with the Die Hard sequels. But let's not compare it to Die Hard 1, or even pretend it's a really good movie. It's a good action movie with Willis at his peak, but nothing more than that. And the character of Halle Berry is of course really cringy...

A very average 90s actioner and not even slightly under rated.

Same 😂

YES. Now, THAT is an underrated film. But it was made in the 80s.

@@maryscottoconnor1203 It came out in 1990

Great movie!I loved it!

I just watched this movie based one your recommendation... It was f***ing sh*t. Sean Penn and Gary Oldman were brilliant (as expected), John C. Reilly as well. But Ed Harris was a poor casting, Robin Wright's character had no reason to be in the movie, and every supporting character was stereotypical to the point of caricature . The story was stock, the script was shallow, the directing was amateur, and the shootout at the end was F***ING SLOW MO SH*T!!!! I give it 2 stars, one for Gary Oldman, and one for Robin Wright's side boob. 😂

Sergio Ramón Rodríguez Cajiga *Long Kiss Goodnight

A Long Kiss Goodnight was waaaaaayyy before it's time. One of the greatest lead female action roles of all time. Charlie Baltimore is in my top 3 with Ripley and Salt.

Geena Goddess Davis

Same. Love the scene in the fast food joint where his burger looks nothing like the picture.

As soon as the video hit four minute mark, I paused it and started scrolling down for comments about the topic 'Since when was Falling Down underrated?"' I'm glad the first person I found agreeing on the subject has somewhat similar and almost as stupid nick as I do. :)

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I agree..almost everyone I know of..even teenagers..seem to know of Falling Down. It's a classic..if there was any of Douglas 90's films that underrated..I would have put "The Game" in this space instead.

I really hated this movie, when it came out. Never like Douglas, so that did not help.

Dad and I loved it and both own a copy.

Deth43 Robert Deniro, and Jean Reno were great in it.

to this day

I loved it since day one.

Yes, Ronin is a great film. The car chase is my favorite chase in any movie ever. It's Frankenheimer's best, and it's therefore THE best car chase scene ever. One of my favorite thing about that scene is how to soundtrack doesn't kick into fifth gear until like halfway through the chase, just when you think it has to be about over. Good Call!

Ronin is underrated too. Also Reindeer Games, which reminds me of Ronin in many ways, but for some reason seems to be hated?

I think him in 'The Man Who Knew Too Little' should've been mentioned.

Quick Change

Right, he plays a near perfect asshole.

Coffee Drinker SOTD Bill Murray is A 🐖💩

MartyMonster it’s crap.

very fun movie

Richard Lefaive Yes a different movie. I’m familiar with where the movie took place too.

@@Rob2068 me too. Was there just 1 year ago. Hard to believe its part of Detroit!

Richard Lefaive Well not part of Detroit technically. Metro Detroit. The Pointes are separate cities, the southernmost of which borders Detroit. Some of metro Detroit is very nice.

@@Rob2068 yeah - I realize that. But that's just semantics to cover the bad optics of one of the world's richest boroughs sitting next door to one of America's poorest. Quite the shocker to drive along the waterfront front from.downtown Detroit through all those empty and boarded up buildings and then stumble smack into the pointe with no warning... literally after crossing one main street ! It's beautiful of course but ... also the perfect and stark illistration of what's wrong with America considering what surrounds it.

Fantastic movie

I thought it was killer

Ty!

yes

I was just thinking about that movie earlier today, it is a good one

They seriously need more films like that. Crime noir is amazing. But supernatural crime noir seeded in realism rather than overtly fantastical. Fucking brilliant

The movie sucked.

I love this movie.... Let me tell you a story about the time I almost died.

Rent THX 1138. It was filmed in the same location.

I will pass on any George Lucas BS... thanks.

I still remember seeing it at the movies. Got it on DVD.

Sneakers was loads of fun and clever. I agree not enough ppl saw it in it's time.

Yep, Sneakers! Saw it like 8 times.

What about... MY ASS

Sneakers to me was kind of boring and sleepers the first half was good second half got boring real quick..

yes I completely agree. I completely forgot about that movie. One of the best movies I've ever seen.

David R all the sci Fi movies on this list are better than the matrix as far as I'm concerned.

Dark City was amazing when it came out, its still amazing. Alex Proyas created a masterpiece.

Indeed one of the greatest film of the 90s: _"First there was darkness. Then came the strangers. They were a race as old as time itself. They had mastered the ultimate technology. The ability to alter physical reality by will alone. They called this ability "Tuning". But they were dying. Their civilization was in decline, and so they abandoned their world seeking a cure for their own mortality. Their endless journey brought them to a small, blue world in the farthest corner of the galaxy. Our world. Here they thought they had finally found what they had been searching for. My name is Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber. I am just a man. I helped the strangers conduct their experiments. I have betrayed my own kind."_ _"Daylight. When was the last time you remember seeing it? And I'm not talking about some distant, half-forgotten childhood memory. I mean like yesterday? Last week? When? Can you come up with a single memory? You can't, can you? You know something? I don't think the sun even exists in this place, because I've been up for hours and hours and hours and the night never ends here."_

I don't understand why it was on the list...Dark City is not considered a cult classic?

David R Wonderful film.

Sweet!

+TheAgentAssassin Aye, just a shame that the director just made Gods of Egypt... oh the mighty have fallen.

zombiesnyder13 The Crow being a phenomenal adaptation and I Robot being a damn good Sci-fi flick, Dark City for me still being his best film though.

+tony bennett its one of my top 10 movies ever

Actually, it was a horrible movie with horrible dialogue, cheesy stereotypes, and all sorts of other issues. But, yes, it has it's moments. We all get it.

Totally agree! If you think the movie is great (and it is), the book is that much better! The details you get from the thought processes the characters go through as the story unravels are riveting.

+Mitchell Hodgemeyer In my hometown, where I spent 2 years living with my grandparents (during 7th and 8th grade), there was this video-rental store that managed to have all kind of movies. I got to watch most of this list from them, I suppose I didn't know how lucky I was. Sad thing is that I can tell why these movies didn't get the attention they deserved, it was one or more of the following: 1) the lack of movie stars 2) the lack of strenght (or better budget) in portraying the story 3) they were ahead of their time Think of Dark City, it should be in the same "shelf" than The Matrix but the Wachowski Bros got better budget for SFX and an uprising star like Keanu Reves.

Maicol Mallers I had a similar experience. There were two video stores in my hometown that really had good stuff. One specialized in foreign films, especially foreign horror films, and one specialized in rare movies and cult movies. I agree with you about Dark City. I like The Matrix, but Dark City is a more interesting and much more visually appealing film than the Matrix. And Dark City came out a year before The Matrix. Existenz came out the same year as The Matrix by the way, even though a lot of people trash it saying it's trying to be like the Matrix. One, it's completely different, only the general idea is similar. And two, it's directed by David Cronenberg; and if you're a fan of good horror, that tells you pretty much all you need to know - that you should see it.

No shit and hunchback of Notre Dame was always a great film. Then and now it's a Disney film everyone remembers. Idiots...

came to the comments to find this ^

@mrrpggamer2 - 6.9 imdb, 74% metacritic, 71% R.T. (70% audience). Truly sits on a high pedestal; yet another moving children's picture book with nothing to actually set it apart and above any other Disney production. So great. Another familiar, risk-free, no chances, no need to do anything new adaptation of a century and a half old public-domain property; A main character who's basically the elephant man (though this has the typical kiddie-friendly sugary ending where the whole city unilaterally accepts him) and a flat one-dimensional baddie who's bad just to be bad who literally dies the same way as Gaston (and like half the Disney Villains). Perfunctory musical numbers that play like every other Disney musical cue. Conflicts resolved in an hour-and-a-half with a neat pretty bow on top and they all live in perfect harmony ever after. Wow, such a stand-out in Disney's 200+ movie catalog. Also Quasi gets friend-zoned hard at the end and, y'know, he's perfectly chill with it. Why don't you ask around who remembers it?

Is that the movie with Nicole Kidman!?

I'll have to watch that

"Third prize is, you're fired!"

ALWAYS BE CLOSING

I thought everyone had seen it, it's al pacino and Kevin Spacey ffs...

It's an excellent movie! Weird, most of my movie-appreciating friends have seen it and enjoyed it.

Yea - if you wanted to create a TRUE list of underrated movies: This list is popular movies that everyone saw.

Original title : C'est arrivé pres de chez vous.

Hell yes.

Timesthree Thehighest Emphasis on hell.

just no

Andrew Boley just yes

Yep

I never cared for it.

I love that film.:-):-D

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Nope.. Existentz was being filmed at the same time and only came out a month before. Dark City came out a year before though the Matrix but the Matrix was in production for at least 2 years before that. If you want to find an influence, look to the works of Cyberpunk fiction writer William Gibson who had 'virtual worlds' in his writings.

Also Inception

Reality is the source material for the matrix

Film technology has pretty much peaked. Thanks videophiles!

You're right

+Mark Muhammad I know! I caught that as well.

Exactly what I thought

+Mark Muhammad come on Mike Bounce!

+Mark Muhammad Most of the films in the list do.

+Mark Muhammad Heck... Just the first one on the list. Dark City. Which has been screened again recently at Alamo Drafthouse.

+Benoit Guillaume great film. one of my absolute favorites.

Lovecraft never gets the respect he deserves.

Good but Carpenter did better. Christine, The Thing, Prince of Darkness all outshine that movie.

Creepy

Timesthree Thehighest - That is the point of it being underrated. That it is good but overlooked.

Stir of Echoes, most definitely. Flatliners was well filmed but the remake detracts from its score.

The long kiss goodnight 👍

raven89F now THAT fuggin movie was Uncle Nanners for real. GUN KATA??? Whaaaaa!!??

That movie's kind of dumb when you think about it though.

It's dumb, but because of that it's so entertaining.

Excellent choice only wrong category but forgive me if we are only talking a matter of weeks (90s 2000s

Raising Arizona is not underrated. Everybody knows about it.

Bringing out the dead???

Wild At Heart

Leaving Las Vegas

Joe

+Rob Hardin Hell yeah!!! Love them both!!!

+Rob Hardin HA! same two I picked:)

Funny 😃

"Dan...Dan Chipowski."

Hell yeah very bad things was awesome probably in my top 10 movies ever!

Kickass user name

Completely forgot about that myself. That movie was fantastic!

Too boring for most, but amazing film. Love Jim jarmusch.

Yeah, back when Depp used to do good stuff.

I watched this on Easter Sunday in either '95 or '96 with my entire extended family. Scared the $#!+ out of me.

Is it underrated? Was a critical success.

My 2nd favorite film. I haven’t seen the remake.

@@SneedyKetler didn't know there's a remake. originals are usually best.

You like "rewatchable?" Can I highly, highly, highly recommend Mulholland Dr. to you if you haven't seen it?

the three movies in this list that I really liked were Gattaca, eXistenZ and The long kiss goodnight. So if your taste in movies is similar as mine, I recommend watching the other two aswell. Also, "Antitrust" comes to mind, another one I used to rewatch often.

@@ObscuredByTime I re watched it the other day. I love David Lynch.

Gattica was one of the most boring movies ever!