Sijmen's List of Mainstream Classics
of World Cinema


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1999
American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami / Iran)
The Matrix (The Wachowski Brothers)
Fight Club (David Fincher)
Toy Story 2 (John Lasseter)


1998
Central Station (Walter Salles / Brazil)
The Celebration {Festen} (Thomas Vinterberg / Denmark)
Life is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni / Italy)
Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh)
Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)


1997
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo / United Kingdom)
L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson)
Titanic (James Cameron)


1996
Breaking the Waves (Lars Von Trier / Denmark)
Fargo (Joel Coen)
Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh / United Kingdom)
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle / United Kingdom)


1995
Heat (Michael Mann)
La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz / France)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
Seven (David Fincher)
Toy Story (John Lasseter)
The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)


1994
Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata / Japan)
Léon (Luc Besson / France)
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Three Colors: Red (Krzyzstof Kieslowski / France)


1993
Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige / China)
The Piano (Jane Campion / Australia)
Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg)
Short Cuts (Robert Altman)


1992
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan / United Kingdom)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)


1991
Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou / China)
The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (James Cameron)
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott)


1990
Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau / France)
Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)



















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