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Best Movies of 1990, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
56 films from 1990 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is GoodFellas ('1990), at 8.7 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Another 48 Hrs., 5.9 on IMDb against 23 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GoodFellas '1990 | Drama / Crime | 8.7 | 93% | 92 | 8.4 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2 | Dances with Wolves '1990 | Drama / Western | 8.0 | 87% | 72 | 7.8 | Kevin Costner |
| 3 | Home Alone '1990 | Comedy | 7.8 | 66% | 63 | 7.5 | Chris Columbus |
| 4 | Edward Scissorhands '1990 | Fantasy / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 92% | 74 | 7.7 | Tim Burton |
| 5 | Misery '1990 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 86% | 75 | 7.8 | Rob Reiner |
| 6 | Awakenings '1990 | Drama | 7.8 | 81% | 74 | 7.8 | Penny Marshall |
| 7 | Back to the Future Part III '1990 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 79% | 55 | 7.5 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 8 | The Godfather Part III '1990 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 67% | 60 | 7.4 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 9 | Total Recall '1990 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 80% | 60 | 7.3 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 10 | Miller's Crossing '1990 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 93% | 66 | 7.4 | Joel Coen |
| 11 | The Hunt for Red October '1990 | Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 88% | 58 | 7.4 | John McTiernan |
| 12 | Jacob's Ladder '1990 | Drama / Mystery / Horror | 7.4 | 71% | 62 | 7.4 | Adrian Lyne |
| 13 | Die Hard 2 '1990 | Action / Thriller | 7.2 | 68% | 67 | 7.0 | Renny Harlin |
| 14 | A Grand Day Out '1990 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | - | - | 7.5 | Nick Park |
| 15 | Tremors '1990 | Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 88% | 65 | 7.0 | Ron Underwood |
| 16 | Pretty Woman '1990 | Romance / Comedy | 7.1 | 65% | 51 | 7.4 | Garry Marshall |
| 17 | Ghost '1990 | Fantasy / Romance / Thriller | 7.1 | 74% | 52 | 7.2 | Jerry Zucker |
| 18 | Wild at Heart '1990 | Crime / Thriller / Romance | 7.2 | 66% | 52 | 7.0 | David Lynch |
| 19 | Nikita '1990 | Action / Thriller | 7.2 | 89% | 65 | 7.1 | Luc Besson |
| 20 | Cyrano de Bergerac '1990 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | 79 | 7.3 | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| 21 | Dragon Ball Z: Bardock - The Father of Goku '1990 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Drama / Fantasy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.6 | Mitsuo Hashimoto |
| 22 | Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! '1990 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.0 | 69% | 55 | 6.8 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 23 | Presumed Innocent '1990 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | 86% | 72 | 6.8 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 24 | King of New York '1990 | Thriller / Crime | 6.9 | 72% | 66 | 6.8 | Abel Ferrara |
| 25 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles '1990 | Sci-Fi / Action / Comedy | 6.8 | 46% | 51 | 6.7 | Steve Barron |
| 26 | The Witches '1990 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.8 | 94% | 78 | 7.0 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 27 | The Rescuers Down Under '1990 | Animation / Action / Comedy | 6.8 | 85% | 68 | 6.6 | Mike Gabriel |
| 28 | Night of the Living Dead '1990 | Horror | 6.8 | 58% | 54 | 6.9 | Tom Savini |
| 29 | DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp '1990 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | 65% | - | 6.7 | Bob Hathcock |
| 30 | Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might '1990 | Action / Animation / Sci-Fi | 6.7 | - | - | 6.5 | Daisuke Nishio |
| 31 | Society '1990 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 69% | 50 | 6.7 | Brian Yuzna |
| 32 | Flatliners '1990 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Horror | 6.6 | 50% | 55 | 6.5 | Joel Schumacher |
| 33 | The Exorcist III '1990 | Horror | 6.5 | 60% | 48 | 6.3 | William Peter Blatty |
| 34 | Lord of the Flies '1990 | Drama / Thriller | 6.4 | 52% | 49 | 6.4 | Harry Hook |
| 35 | Cry-Baby '1990 | Comedy / Romance | 6.5 | 72% | 63 | 6.5 | John Waters |
| 36 | Arachnophobia '1990 | Comedy / Horror | 6.5 | 94% | 67 | 6.5 | Frank Marshall |
| 37 | Gremlins 2: The New Batch '1990 | Comedy / Horror / Fantasy | 6.5 | 71% | 69 | 6.5 | Joe Dante |
| 38 | Darkman '1990 | Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.4 | 80% | 65 | 6.4 | Sam Raimi |
| 39 | Lionheart '1990 | Action | 6.2 | 45% | 41 | 6.6 | Sheldon Lettich |
| 40 | Death Warrant '1990 | Action / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 5.7 | 0% | 34 | 6.3 | Deran Sarafian |
| 41 | The Rookie '1990 | Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller | 5.9 | 31% | 41 | 5.9 | Clint Eastwood |
| 42 | Dick Tracy '1990 | Comedy / Crime | 6.2 | 63% | 68 | 6.2 | Warren Beatty |
| 43 | Air America '1990 | Action / Comedy / Drama | 5.8 | 12% | 33 | 5.8 | Roger Spottiswoode |
| 44 | Bird on a Wire '1990 | Comedy / Romance | 6.0 | 26% | 36 | 6.2 | John Badham |
| 45 | Hard to Kill '1990 | Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller | 5.8 | 33% | 41 | 6.0 | Bruce Malmuth |
| 46 | Kindergarten Cop '1990 | Comedy | 6.3 | 54% | 61 | 6.1 | Ivan Reitman |
| 47 | Days of Thunder '1990 | Action / Drama | 6.2 | 38% | 60 | 6.4 | Tony Scott |
| 48 | Predator 2 '1990 | Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller | 6.3 | 36% | 46 | 6.3 | Stephen Hopkins |
| 49 | Another 48 Hrs. '1990 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 5.9 | 19% | 23 | 6.0 | Walter Hill |
| 50 | Child's Play 2 '1990 | Horror | 6.0 | 53% | 37 | 6.4 | John Lafia |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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