Top 10: 1991

By: CGI Baby

Honorable Mention (in no particular order): Slacker (Richard Linklater), The Lovers on the Bridge (Leos Carax), Hearts of Darkness (George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr), La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette), Highway Patrolman (Alex Cox), Begotten (E. Elias Merhige), Homicide (David Mamet), Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow), Madonna: Truth or Dare (Alek Keshishian), JFK (Oliver Stone)

Gone but Not Forgotten: City Slickers, Boyz n the Hood, Barton Fink, Grand Canyon, Cape Fear, Thelma and Louise, The Commitments, Naked Lunch, New Jack City, The Hard Way, Hot Shots!, Night on Earth, The Indian Runner, Life Stinks, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, Shadows and Fog, Dead Again*, Mississippi Masala*, Once Upon a Time in China*, High Heels*, Surviving Desire*

*-new entry
(!)-bad movie

• 01
  A Brighter Summer Day
  Edward Yang
• 02
  The Rapture
  Michael Tolkin
• 03
  The Double Life of Véronique
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 04
  Life, and Nothing More...
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 05
  The Silence of the Lambs
  Jonathan Demme
• 06
  My Own Private Idaho
  Gus Van Sant
• 07
  Poison
  Todd Haynes
• 08
  Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  James Cameron
• 09
  Raise the Red Lantern
  Zhang Yimou
• 10
  Delicatessen
  Jean-Pierre Jeunet