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Best Comedy Movies of the 1990s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
309 comedy films from the 1990s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Forrest Gump (1994), at 8.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.8. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 7.4 on IMDb against 41 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forrest Gump '1994 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.8 | 75% | 82 | 8.5 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2 | Pulp Fiction '1994 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 8.8 | 92% | 95 | 8.5 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 3 | Life Is Beautiful '1997 | Comedy / Drama | 8.6 | 80% | 58 | 8.4 | Roberto Benigni |
| 4 | Toy Story '1995 | Comedy / Animation | 8.3 | 100% | 96 | 8.0 | John Lasseter |
| 5 | The Truman Show '1998 | Comedy / Drama | 8.2 | 94% | 90 | 8.2 | Peter Weir |
| 6 | The Big Lebowski '1998 | Comedy / Crime | 8.1 | 79% | 71 | 7.9 | Joel Coen |
| 7 | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels '1998 | Comedy / Crime | 8.1 | 75% | 67 | 8.1 | Guy Ritchie |
| 8 | Groundhog Day '1993 | Romance / Fantasy / Comedy | 8.0 | 93% | 72 | 7.6 | Harold Ramis |
| 9 | Toy Story 2 '1999 | Animation / Comedy | 7.9 | 100% | 88 | 7.6 | John Lasseter |
| 10 | Home Alone '1990 | Comedy | 7.8 | 66% | 63 | 7.5 | Chris Columbus |
| 11 | Boogie Nights '1997 | Drama / Comedy | 7.9 | 91% | 87 | 7.6 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 12 | The Wrong Trousers '1993 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | - | - | 7.8 | Nick Park |
| 13 | Ed Wood '1994 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 92% | 71 | 7.5 | Tim Burton |
| 14 | Being John Malkovich '1999 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.7 | 94% | 90 | 7.4 | Spike Jonze |
| 15 | As Good as It Gets '1997 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.7 | 86% | 67 | 7.4 | James L. Brooks |
| 16 | Clerks '1994 | Comedy | 7.7 | 90% | 70 | 7.4 | Kevin Smith |
| 17 | The Sandlot '1993 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 66% | 55 | 7.6 | David Mickey Evans |
| 18 | Chungking Express '1994 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.9 | 89% | 78 | 8.0 | Wong Kar-wai |
| 19 | Dazed and Confused '1993 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 94% | 82 | 7.3 | Richard Linklater |
| 20 | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut '1999 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | 81% | 73 | 7.3 | Trey Parker |
| 21 | Back to the Future Part III '1990 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 79% | 55 | 7.5 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 22 | Office Space '1999 | Comedy | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.4 | Mike Judge |
| 23 | Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge '1995 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 100% | - | 8.5 | Aditya Chopra |
| 24 | My Cousin Vinny '1992 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 85% | 68 | 7.5 | Jonathan Lynn |
| 25 | Barton Fink '1991 | Comedy / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 90% | 69 | 7.5 | Joel Coen |
| 26 | Rushmore '1998 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 90% | 87 | 7.4 | Wes Anderson |
| 27 | The Muppet Christmas Carol '1992 | Musical / Comedy / Fantasy / Drama | 7.8 | 78% | 64 | 7.5 | Brian Henson |
| 28 | Fried Green Tomatoes '1991 | Drama / Comedy | 7.7 | 77% | 64 | 7.7 | Jon Avnet |
| 29 | All About My Mother '1999 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 98% | 87 | 7.6 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 30 | Underground '1995 | Comedy / Drama / War | 8.0 | 86% | 79 | 7.7 | Emir Kusturica |
| 31 | 10 Things I Hate About You '1999 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.4 | 72% | 70 | 7.6 | Gil Junger |
| 32 | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas '1998 | Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 50% | 41 | 7.2 | Terry Gilliam |
| 33 | Army of Darkness '1992 | Fantasy / Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | 68% | 59 | 7.3 | Sam Raimi |
| 34 | Men in Black '1997 | Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 91% | 72 | 7.2 | Barry Sonnenfeld |
| 35 | Dumb and Dumber '1994 | Comedy | 7.3 | 69% | 41 | 6.7 | Peter Farrelly |
| 36 | Three Colors: White '1994 | Comedy / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 91% | 91 | 7.4 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 37 | Black Cat, White Cat '1998 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 8.0 | 82% | 73 | 7.6 | Emir Kusturica |
| 38 | The Fisher King '1991 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 84% | 67 | 7.3 | Terry Gilliam |
| 39 | Night on Earth '1991 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 77% | 68 | 7.5 | Jim Jarmusch |
| 40 | Delicatessen '1991 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Fantasy | 7.5 | 90% | 66 | 7.3 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| 41 | Pleasantville '1998 | Fantasy / Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 85% | 71 | 7.3 | Gary Ross |
| 42 | A Close Shave '1996 | Animation / Comedy | 8.1 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Nick Park |
| 43 | Short Cuts '1993 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 95% | 81 | 7.2 | Robert Altman |
| 44 | A League of Their Own '1992 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 82% | 69 | 7.2 | Penny Marshall |
| 45 | Galaxy Quest '1999 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 90% | 70 | 7.1 | Dean Parisot |
| 46 | Naked '1993 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 88% | 85 | 7.3 | Mike Leigh |
| 47 | Happiness '1998 | Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | 84% | 81 | 7.4 | Todd Solondz |
| 48 | Jerry Maguire '1996 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 86% | 77 | 7.0 | Cameron Crowe |
| 49 | Braindead '1992 | Horror / Comedy | 7.4 | 89% | 54 | 7.4 | Peter Jackson |
| 50 | Hercules '1997 | Animation / Fantasy / Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 83% | 74 | 7.5 | Ron Clements |
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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