Top Ten Films Of The 1990's

1. METROPOLITAN (Whit Stillman) - A group of friends from upper-class families of New York meet almost every night at an apartment in Manhattan, talking about social mobility, playing bridge and discussing Fourier's socialism.

2. GOODFELLAS (Martin Scorsese) - Based on a true story, the plot revolves around Henry and his two unstable friends Jimmy and Tommy as they gradually climb the ladder from petty crime to violent murders.

3. MILLER'S CROSSING (Joel Coen) - When the Italian Mafia threatens to kill a crooked bookie (John Turturro), Irish mob boss Leo O'Bannon (Albert Finney) refuses to allow it, chiefly because he's dating the bookie's sister, crafty gun moll Verna Bernbaum (Marcia Gay Harden). Leo's right-hand man, Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), is also seeing Verna on the sly, and when he's found out is obliged to switch sides, going to work for the Italian mob amidst a dramatically escalating gang war over liquor distribution.

4. THE GRIFTERS (Stephen Frears) - Hard-as-nails Lily Dillon (Anjelica Huston) works as a swindler for dangerous bookie Bobo (Pat Hingle), probably the only man she fears. Arriving in Los Angeles on "business," Lily looks up her son, Roy (John Cusack), a small-time con artist content with paltry sleight-of-hand cheats. Roy's girlfriend, Myra (Annette Bening), looks like an All-American type but is a grifter looking to pull off another big-time con. The convergence of the three hustlers inevitably means trouble for all of them.

5. LIFE IS SWEET (Mike Leigh) - Critically acclaimed bitter-sweet comedy about the everyday dreams and disasters of an ordinary North London family in Thatcher's Britain.

6. GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Joe Dante) - A group of malicious Gremlins take over a high-tech corporate skyscraper belonging to a media baron. The Gremlins wreak havoc throughout the building while the 'Mogwai's' try hard to regain control.

7. BULLET IN THE HEAD (John Woo) - Three Hong Kong gang fighters (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee) try crime in Vietnam and land in a prison camp with U.S. soldiers.

8. TRUST (Hal Hartley) - High school dropout Maria Coughlin (Adrienne Shelly) is having a rough time of it on Long Island. Her father recently died of a heart attack, her boyfriend has left her and she's pregnant. To make matters even worse, her mother has now kicked her out of the house. But when electronics genius Matthew Slaughter (Martin Donovan) comes into her life, things start to brighten up for Maria. Sure, he's unemployed and a little unhinged, but together they just might have a chance.

9. TOTAL RECALL (Paul Verhoeven) - Douglas Quaid tries to find the reason behind his recurring dream about Mars. He soon learns that a false memory has been planted into his brain and the people responsible for this want him dead.

10. REVERSAL OF FORTUNE (Barbet Schroeder) - Based on a true story, in which a brilliant professor of law is hired by a wealthy socialite to attempt to overturn his two convictions for attempted murder of his extremely wealthy wife.

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