Awesome Semi-Obscure 90s Films
Had many of these on VHS or taped from TV, and for me, the capture some of the essential ethos of the 90s and remind me of my childhood! These are not in order or in anyway a comprehensive list of the Top 20; just 20 I loved!
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- DirectorDennis HopperStarsTom BerengerErika EleniakWilliam McNamaraA hapless Navy sailor is assigned SP duty. The catch: he must escort a beautiful female prisoner on her way to prison for going UA. She in turn will try anything to escape.
- DirectorPeter FaimanStarsEd O'NeillEthan EmbryJoBeth WilliamsTo get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from his prep school, only to learn that he isn't the nicest young man.
- DirectorDonald PetrieStarsWhoopi GoldbergDianne WiestEli WallachA comedy about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.
- DirectorJessie NelsonStarsRay LiottaWhoopi GoldbergTina MajorinoIn 1959, a widower hires a kindly housekeeper/nanny to care for his seven-year-old daughter.
- DirectorJeff FranklinStarsAshley OlsenMary-Kate OlsenRhea PerlmanWhen twins Sarah and Julie feel like their mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting adventure to their great-grandmother's house and encounter a pair of villains along the way.
- DirectorFranco AmurriStarsThora BirchHarvey KeitelFinsterA young girl's life turns hairy when her new pet monkey turns out to be a trained pickpocket on the run from a scheming gypsy.
- DirectorCharles T. KanganisStarsVictor WongMax Elliott SladeSean FoxYoung martial artists face their grandfather's foes when they accompany him to Japan to deliver a priceless dagger.
- DirectorPatrick Read JohnsonStarsLara Flynn BoyleJoe MantegnaJoe PantolianoAfter three kidnappers lose the baby they have kidnapped, both the cops and kidnappers go looking for the baby.
- DirectorTia BrelisStarsSissy SpacekAnna ChlumskyAaron Michael MetchikThree children have had it with their mother, and magically make her disappear. They then head out to the "Mommy Market" for a replacement mother.
- DirectorJames FoleyStarsMark WahlbergReese WitherspoonWilliam PetersenWhen Nicole met David; handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear.
- DirectorMatthew BrightStarsReese WitherspoonKiefer SutherlandBokeem WoodbineA twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.
- DirectorMarco BrambillaStarsAlicia SilverstoneBenicio Del ToroChristopher WalkenA bratty teenager fakes her own kidnapping, but gets mistakenly kidnapped for real instead.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsOlivia Newton-JohnJuliet SorciDoug SheehanA young girl who wants a mom for the Christmas holidays gets her wish when a department store mannequin comes to life.
- DirectorJohn Patrick ShanleyStarsTom HanksMeg RyanLloyd BridgesWhen a hypochondriac learns that he is dying, he accepts an offer to throw himself in a volcano at a tropical island, and along the way there, learns to truly live.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsTina MajorinoKeith CarradineChelsea FieldThe true story of how a seal named Andre befriended a little girl named Toni and her family in 1962.
- DirectorMichael LehmannStarsEd Begley Jr.Stockard ChanningDabney ColemanModelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
- DirectorJohn BiffarStarsJesse ZeiglerAmy BushGeorge BlairWhile vacationing on Captiva Island, Florida with his parents, a teen, gloomy about his future, finds love and friendship when he meats a cute girl and 3 kooky pensioners with passion for life and crazy schemes.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsRobin WilliamsMichael GambonJoan CusackWhen Lieutenant General Leland Zevo (Sir Michael Gambon) inherits a toymaking company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.
- DirectorAllan A. GoldsteinStarsRichard MulliganShirley JonesBobcat GoldthwaitWiley Thompson is a boy of New York and hates the country life. But he has no choice when his dad has to go abroad to his work. He has th stay at this grandpa's farm. At his new school he find out he knows more things than his science teacher do and also befriend a beautiful girl named Cynthia. Life seems to go well until Wiley decides to observe a comet that appear one night. When he try to make a wish he fell down from the attic and much to his surprise discovers that he can talk to animals. When he find about that his grandpa is about to loss his farm unless he paid $30,000 by the weekend, it's up to Wiley to save the farm using his ability. When his suspicious science teacher learns that Wiley can talk to animals he teams up with Wiley and Cynthia to save the day with the help of the animals.
- DirectorStephen HerekStarsChristina ApplegateJoanna CassidyJohn GetzFive siblings are left alone all summer when their mom leaves town and the evil babysitter bites the dust.