Best Movies of 1991
Most watched in 1991
The Silence of the Lambs1991 · ★ 8.3 · 1h 59m
Terminator 2: Judgment Day1991 · ★ 8.2 · 2h 17m
Beauty and the Beast1991 · ★ 7.7 · 1h 24m
Hook1991 · ★ 6.8 · 2h 22m
The Addams Family1991 · ★ 7.1 · 1h 40m
Point Break1991 · ★ 7.2 · 2h 2m
#1 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) · ★ 8.3 · 18,541 votes · 1h 59m · thriller, drama, crimeClarice 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…
#2 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) · ★ 8.2 · 14,833 votes · 2h 17m · action, thriller, science-fictionTen years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, h…
#3 Paris Is Burning (1991) · ★ 8.0 · 571 votes · 1h 18m · history, documentaryWhere does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African A…
#4 Raise the Red Lantern (1991) · ★ 7.9 · 818 votes · 2h 5m · dramaIn 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.…
#5 Beauty and the Beast (1991) · ★ 7.7 · 10,859 votes · 1h 24m · fantasy, romance, animationFollow the adventures of Belle, a bright young woman who finds herself in the castle of a prince who's been turned into a mysterious beast. With the help of the castle's enchanted…
#6 Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) · ★ 7.7 · 1,537 votes · 2h 10m · comedy, dramaAmidst her own personality crisis, a southern housewife meets an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced h…
#7 Thelma & Louise (1991) · ★ 7.6 · 4,012 votes · 2h 10m · adventure, thriller, dramaTaking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women…
#8 JFK (1991) · ★ 7.6 · 2,506 votes · 3h 9m · thriller, drama, historyFollows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.…
#9 Boyz n the Hood (1991) · ★ 7.6 · 2,360 votes · 1h 52m · drama, crimeThree friends growing up in South Central Los Angeles navigate a neighborhood plagued by violence, unemployment, and crime, each responding differently to the harsh realities of st…
#10 Mediterraneo (1991) · ★ 7.6 · 1,094 votes · 1h 36m · comedy, romance, warGreek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village…
#11 Barton Fink (1991) · ★ 7.5 · 1,958 votes · 1h 57m · comedy, thriller, dramaA renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.…
#12 Night on Earth (1991) · ★ 7.5 · 1,097 votes · 2h 9m · comedy, dramaA quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.…
#13 The Double Life of Véronique (1991) · ★ 7.5 · 914 votes · 1h 38m · fantasy, romance, dramaVéronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the tw…
#14 My Girl (1991) · ★ 7.4 · 2,369 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, dramaVada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the su…
#15 Only Yesterday (1991) · ★ 7.4 · 1,296 votes · 1h 59m · romance, drama, animationIn lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.…
#16 Cape Fear (1991) · ★ 7.3 · 3,996 votes · 2h 8m · thriller, drama, crimeSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public d…
#17 Delicatessen (1991) · ★ 7.3 · 1,700 votes · 1h 39m · comedy, fantasy, science-fictionIn a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town f…
#18 The Fisher King (1991) · ★ 7.3 · 1,482 votes · 2h 18m · comedy, dramaTwo troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.…
#19 Johnny Stecchino (1991) · ★ 7.3 · 1,083 votes · 1h 55m · comedyGood hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love.…
#20 Operation Condor (1991) · ★ 7.3 · 671 votes · 1h 47m · action, adventure, thrillerHired by a Spanish baron, Hong Kong treasure hunter Jackie, a.k.a. "Asian Hawk" and his entourage seek WWII Nazi gold buried in the Sahara Desert.…
#21 The Commitments (1991) · ★ 7.3 · 632 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, drama, musicJimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers:…
#22 Point Break (1991) · ★ 7.2 · 4,160 votes · 2h 2m · action, thriller, crimeIn Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the member…
#23 Paprika (1991) · ★ 7.2 · 617 votes · 1h 56m · comedy, dramaIn 1957 Trieste, a few months before the general ban on brothels, inexperienced country girl Mimma becomes Paprika to finance her useless boyfriend as a prostitute. Amid the hustle…
#24 The Addams Family (1991) · ★ 7.1 · 5,190 votes · 1h 40m · comedy, fantasyWhen a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electr…
#25 The Doors (1991) · ★ 7.1 · 1,650 votes · 2h 20m · drama, history, musicThe story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.…
#26 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) · ★ 7.0 · 1,443 votes · 1h 50m · action, adventure, thrillerAfter years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Ente…
#27 My Own Private Idaho (1991) · ★ 7.0 · 1,278 votes · 1h 44m · dramaIn this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel fro…
#28 Naked Lunch (1991) · ★ 7.0 · 1,261 votes · 1h 55m · drama, crimeBlank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bil…
#29 Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge (1991) · ★ 7.0 · 761 votes · 0h 48m · action, science-fiction, animationAfter defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after G…
#30 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) · ★ 6.9 · 3,710 votes · 2h 23m · action, adventure, dramaNobleman crusader Robin of Locksley breaks out of a Jerusalem prison with the help of Moorish fellow prisoner Azeem and travels back home to England. But upon arrival he discovers…
#31 What About Bob? (1991) · ★ 6.9 · 943 votes · 1h 40m · comedyBefore going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias,…
#32 Career Opportunities (1991) · ★ 6.9 · 779 votes · 1h 23m · comedy, romanceAfter falling asleep in a Target dressing room, an unhappy heiress wakes up locked inside the store overnight with a local slacker and notorious liar, leading the two unlikely comp…
#33 Hook (1991) · ★ 6.8 · 5,890 votes · 2h 22m · comedy, fantasy, adventureThe boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Gra…
#34 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991) · ★ 6.8 · 2,888 votes · 1h 25m · comedy, crimeBumbling lieutenant Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.…
#35 The Last Boy Scout (1991) · ★ 6.8 · 2,221 votes · 1h 45m · action, thrillerSomewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer…
#36 Frankie and Johnny (1991) · ★ 6.8 · 670 votes · 1h 58m · comedy, romance, dramaWhen Johnny is released from prison following a forgery charge, he quickly lands a job as a short-order cook at a New York diner. Following a brief fling with waitress Cora, he dev…
#37 Backdraft (1991) · ★ 6.7 · 1,632 votes · 2h 17m · action, thriller, dramaTwo feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their diff…
#38 White Fang (1991) · ★ 6.7 · 682 votes · 1h 47m · action, adventure, dramaJack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.…
#39 New Jack City (1991) · ★ 6.7 · 639 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, drama, crimeA gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a…
#40 Hot Shots! (1991) · ★ 6.6 · 2,540 votes · 1h 25m · action, comedy, warThe gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing th…