Best 1990s Movie Posters UK — Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, Schindler's List

Tarantino · Scorsese · Spielberg · Boyle — the decade when independent cinema conquered Hollywood — from £3

The 1990s produced the most commercially successful independent cinema in Hollywood history and the most critically concentrated decade since the 1970s. Miramax and Fine Line Features proved that independent films could earn hundreds of millions; Tarantino proved a video store clerk could win the Palme d'Or; Spielberg made his most serious film (Schindler's List) and his most commercially dominant one (Jurassic Park) in the same year. At 98types Camden, confirmed 1990s products include Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, Schindler's List, Casino, Titanic, Forrest Gump, True Romance, Home Alone and The Notebook. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

🎥 Schindler's List (1993) — The Most Important Film of the Decade

Schindler's List (1993), directed by Steven Spielberg, won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director and received 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Shot in black and white (with the famous single instance of the girl in the red coat as the only colour), the film tells the true story of Oskar Schindler — a German businessman who saved over 1,200 Jewish lives during the Holocaust. Spielberg donated his entire salary from the film to the Shoah Foundation, which has since recorded the testimonies of over 55,000 Holocaust survivors. Schindler's List is the most morally serious major Hollywood film of the decade.

Pulp Fiction (1994) — The Palme d'Or That Changed Everything

Pulp Fiction (1994) won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Quentin Tarantino's non-linear crime anthology — three interlocking stories following Vincent Vega (John Travolta), Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) — demonstrated that a $8M independent film from a first-time director could compete commercially with studio productions and simultaneously redefine the aesthetic possibilities of genre cinema.

Titanic (1997) — The Highest-Grossing Film of the Century

Titanic (1997), directed by James Cameron, won 11 Academy Awards (equal to Ben-Hur's all-time record) including Best Picture and Best Director, and grossed $2.2 billion worldwide — the highest-grossing film in history at the time of its release (surpassed only by Cameron's own Avatar in 2009). Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio as Rose and Jack are the most universally recognised romantic couple in the history of cinema. The film's production — Cameron built a full-scale replica of the Titanic in a purpose-built tank in Baja California, flooded and tilted the set for the sinking sequence — was the most physically ambitious in Hollywood history.

Forrest Gump (1994) — The Decade's Populist Masterpiece

Forrest Gump (1994), directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, won six Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The film follows Forrest Gump — a man with an IQ of 75 — through fifty years of American history, from the civil rights movement through the Vietnam War through the Watergate era to the 1980s. Hanks's performance is the finest of his career; the film's specific emotional register — unironic, warm, genuinely moved by the simplest human goodness — is the counter-argument to the ironic detachment that dominated 1990s culture.