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Best Movies 90 to 120 minutes

Films whose runtime is 90 to 120 minutes, ranked by TMDB rating (500+ votes). Useful when the evening, not the mood, decides.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 5,225 titlesavg ★ 6.60 avg 104 min Drama Comedy Thriller Action

Under 90 minutes 90 to 120 minutes 2 to 2½ hours Over 2½ hours

#1 Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026) · ★ 9.1 · 1,215 votes · 1h 39m · action, fantasy, adventure
Avatar Aang, the world's last Airbender, learns of an ancient power that could save his culture from extinction. With the help of his friends, he embarks on a global quest to find…
#2 Swapped (2026) · ★ 8.9 · 2,214 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
A small woodland creature and a majestic bird, two natural sworn enemies of the Valley, magically trade places and set off on an adventure of a lifetime to switch back. Their journ…
#3 Facing El Chapo (2026) · ★ 8.8 · 786 votes · 1h 31m · action, thriller, crime
Two Mexican officers must survive the final hours of their shift after crossing a ruthless cartel boss.…
#4 12 Angry Men (1957) · ★ 8.6 · 10,417 votes · 1h 37m · drama
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi…
#5 Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc (2025) · ★ 8.6 · 1,207 votes · 1h 40m · action, comedy, fantasy
In a brutal war between devils, hunters, and secret enemies, a mysterious girl named Reze has stepped into Denji's world, and he faces his deadliest battle yet, fueled by love in a…
#6 Your Name. (2016) · ★ 8.5 · 13,048 votes · 1h 46m · romance, drama, animation
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This biza…
#7 Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026) · ★ 8.5 · 846 votes · 1h 54m · fantasy, drama, mystery
Through unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.…
#8 Twin Peaks (1989) · ★ 8.5 · 677 votes · 1h 56m · tv-movie, thriller, drama
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for…
#9 Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me (2022) · ★ 8.5 · 620 votes · 1h 35m · music, documentary
After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and inti…
#10 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) · ★ 8.4 · 17,856 votes · 1h 57m · action, adventure, science-fiction
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable…
#11 Whiplash (2014) · ★ 8.4 · 17,153 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, drama, music
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.…
#12 Life Is Beautiful (1997) · ★ 8.4 · 14,273 votes · 1h 56m · comedy, drama
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire famil…
#13 Howl's Moving Castle (2004) · ★ 8.4 · 11,504 votes · 1h 59m · fantasy, adventure, animation
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to…
#14 Psycho (1960) · ★ 8.4 · 11,281 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror, mystery
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Ba…
#15 A Dog's Will (2000) · ★ 8.4 · 1,243 votes · 1h 44m · comedy, fantasy, romance
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be ju…
#16 Protector (2026) · ★ 8.4 · 602 votes · 1h 30m · action, thriller
Nikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.…
#17 The Legend of Hei (2019) · ★ 8.4 · 554 votes · 1h 42m · action, fantasy, animation
When cat spirit Luo Xiaohei's home is deforested by humans, he must find a new one. He runs into a group of other spirit creatures who take him under their wing with dreams of reco…
#18 Back to the Future (1985) · ★ 8.3 · 22,492 votes · 1h 56m · comedy, adventure, science-fiction
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu…
#19 The Intouchables (2011) · ★ 8.3 · 18,859 votes · 1h 53m · comedy, drama
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.…
#20 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) · ★ 8.3 · 18,541 votes · 1h 59m · thriller, drama, crime
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psych…
#21 Léon: The Professional (1994) · ★ 8.3 · 16,480 votes · 1h 51m · action, drama, crime
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling…
#22 American History X (1998) · ★ 8.3 · 12,943 votes · 1h 59m · drama
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to priso…
#23 Rear Window (1954) · ★ 8.3 · 7,347 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, drama, mystery
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.…
#24 The Wild Robot (2024) · ★ 8.3 · 6,663 votes · 1h 42m · action, adventure, science-fiction
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orph…
#25 Sunset Boulevard (1950) · ★ 8.3 · 3,018 votes · 1h 50m · drama
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.…
#26 Toy Story 5 (2026) · ★ 8.3 · 2,448 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, adventure, animation
When Bonnie receives a Lilypad tablet as a gift and becomes obsessed, Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs become exponentially harder when they have to go head to h…
#27 Gabriel's Inferno: Part II (2020) · ★ 8.3 · 1,563 votes · 1h 46m · romance, drama
Professor Gabriel Emerson finally learns the truth about Julia Mitchell's identity, but his realization comes a moment too late. Julia is done waiting for the well-respected Dante…
#28 Gabriel's Inferno: Part III (2020) · ★ 8.3 · 1,095 votes · 1h 42m · romance, drama
The final part of the film adaption of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous Canadian author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard.…
#29 Voicemails for Isabelle (2026) · ★ 8.3 · 937 votes · 1h 59m · comedy, romance, drama
A young woman's hilariously confessional voicemails to her late sister are unknowingly redirected to a stranger, who begins to fall in love from afar.…
#30 Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2020) · ★ 8.3 · 627 votes · 1h 38m · romance, drama, animation
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push ea…
#31 Dedicated to my ex (2019) · ★ 8.3 · 514 votes · 1h 34m · comedy, drama
The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option whe…
#32 Coco (2017) · ★ 8.2 · 21,436 votes · 1h 45m · adventure, animation, family
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Mig…
#33 The Truman Show (1998) · ★ 8.2 · 20,730 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, drama
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running…
#34 Alien (1979) · ★ 8.2 · 16,863 votes · 1h 57m · horror, science-fiction
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containin…
#35 Memento (2000) · ★ 8.2 · 16,816 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, mystery
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rar…
#36 The Usual Suspects (1995) · ★ 8.2 · 11,788 votes · 1h 46m · thriller, drama, crime
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and h…
#37 Oldboy (2003) · ★ 8.2 · 10,241 votes · 2h 0m · action, thriller, drama
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.…
#38 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) · ★ 8.2 · 8,970 votes · 1h 43m · action, comedy, fantasy
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an e…
#39 Five Feet Apart (2019) · ★ 8.2 · 5,993 votes · 1h 56m · romance, drama
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to…
#40 Obsession (2026) · ★ 8.2 · 5,702 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires c…

Questions

What are the best movies 90 to 120 minutes?

Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender (2026, 99 min) rates highest at 9.1/10, followed by Swapped and Facing El Chapo.