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Best Movies of 1999, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
91 films from 1999 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Fight Club ('1999), at 8.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Thirteenth Floor, 7.0 on IMDb against 36 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fight Club '1999 | Drama / Thriller | 8.8 | 81% | 67 | 8.4 | David Fincher |
| 2 | The Matrix '1999 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.7 | 83% | 73 | 8.3 | Lana Wachowski |
| 3 | The Green Mile '1999 | Fantasy / Drama / Crime | 8.6 | 78% | 61 | 8.5 | Frank Darabont |
| 4 | American Beauty '1999 | Drama | 8.3 | 87% | 84 | 8.0 | Sam Mendes |
| 5 | The Sixth Sense '1999 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.2 | 86% | 64 | 8.0 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 6 | Toy Story 2 '1999 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | 100% | 88 | 7.6 | John Lasseter |
| 7 | The Iron Giant '1999 | Animation / Drama / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 96% | 85 | 8.0 | Brad Bird |
| 8 | Magnolia '1999 | Drama | 8.0 | 82% | 78 | 7.7 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 9 | Being John Malkovich '1999 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.7 | 94% | 90 | 7.4 | Spike Jonze |
| 10 | The Insider '1999 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 96% | 85 | 7.5 | Michael Mann |
| 11 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut '1999 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | 81% | 73 | 7.3 | Trey Parker |
| 12 | The Straight Story '1999 | Drama | 8.0 | 95% | 86 | 7.7 | David Lynch |
| 13 | Office Space '1999 | Comedy | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.4 | Mike Judge |
| 14 | The Boondock Saints '1999 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 26% | 44 | 7.2 | Troy Duffy |
| 15 | Eyes Wide Shut '1999 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.5 | 77% | 69 | 7.5 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 16 | October Sky '1999 | Drama | 7.8 | 90% | 71 | 7.7 | Joe Johnston |
| 17 | All About My Mother '1999 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 98% | 87 | 7.6 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 18 | 10 Things I Hate About You '1999 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.4 | 72% | 70 | 7.6 | Gil Junger |
| 19 | The Talented Mr. Ripley '1999 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 85% | 76 | 7.2 | Anthony Minghella |
| 20 | The Hurricane '1999 | Drama | 7.6 | 82% | 74 | 7.4 | Norman Jewison |
| 21 | Sleepy Hollow '1999 | Fantasy / Thriller / Mystery / Horror | 7.3 | 71% | 65 | 7.2 | Tim Burton |
| 22 | Galaxy Quest '1999 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 90% | 70 | 7.1 | Dean Parisot |
| 23 | Tarzan '1999 | Animation | 7.3 | 90% | 80 | 7.4 | Chris Buck |
| 24 | Boys Don't Cry '1999 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 86 | 7.4 | Kimberly Peirce |
| 25 | Dogma '1999 | Fantasy / Comedy | 7.3 | 72% | 62 | 6.9 | Kevin Smith |
| 26 | Girl, Interrupted '1999 | Drama | 7.3 | 53% | 51 | 7.6 | James Mangold |
| 27 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai '1999 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 84% | 68 | 7.3 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 28 | Man on the Moon '1999 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 64% | 58 | 7.2 | Miloš Forman |
| 29 | Notting Hill '1999 | Romance / Comedy | 7.2 | 84% | 68 | 7.3 | Roger Michell |
| 30 | Following '1999 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 87% | 60 | 7.1 | Christopher Nolan |
| 31 | The Cider House Rules '1999 | Drama | 7.4 | 72% | 75 | 7.1 | Lasse Hallström |
| 32 | The Mummy '1999 | Action / Fantasy | 7.1 | 64% | 49 | 7.0 | Stephen Sommers |
| 33 | Election '1999 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 92% | 83 | 6.9 | Alexander Payne |
| 34 | Arlington Road '1999 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 62% | 65 | 7.0 | Mark Pellington |
| 35 | Three Kings '1999 | Action / Comedy / War | 7.1 | 94% | 82 | 6.7 | David O. Russell |
| 36 | Go '1999 | Crime / Comedy / Thriller | 7.2 | 91% | 74 | 7.0 | Doug Liman |
| 37 | American Pie '1999 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 62% | 58 | 6.7 | Paul Weitz |
| 38 | Payback '1999 | Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller | 7.0 | 56% | 46 | 6.8 | Brian Helgeland |
| 39 | The Thirteenth Floor '1999 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.0 | 29% | 36 | 7.1 | Josef Rusnak |
| 40 | Bicentennial Man '1999 | Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 38% | 42 | 7.3 | Chris Columbus |
| 41 | Any Given Sunday '1999 | Drama | 6.9 | 51% | 52 | 6.8 | Oliver Stone |
| 42 | The Thomas Crown Affair '1999 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 6.9 | 68% | 72 | 6.8 | John McTiernan |
| 43 | Stir of Echoes '1999 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 70% | 67 | 6.7 | David Koepp |
| 44 | Ravenous '1999 | Western / Horror / Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | 52% | 46 | 6.8 | Antonia Bird |
| 45 | Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas '1999 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | 50% | - | 7.1 | Bill Speers |
| 46 | Life '1999 | Comedy / Crime | 6.8 | 53% | 63 | 6.7 | Ted Demme |
| 47 | Bringing Out the Dead '1999 | Drama | 6.8 | 74% | 72 | 6.6 | Martin Scorsese |
| 48 | eXistenZ '1999 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 77% | 70 | 6.8 | David Cronenberg |
| 49 | Cruel Intentions '1999 | Drama / Romance | 6.8 | 55% | 56 | 6.8 | Roger Kumble |
| 50 | Anna and the King '1999 | Drama / Romance | 6.7 | 52% | 56 | 6.8 | Andy Tennant |
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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