Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "1990s", "unemployment"

1. The Big Lebowski (1998)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi

Votes: 861,381 | Gross: $17.50M

2. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

During the '90s, a new faction of Transformers - the Maximals - join the Autobots as allies in the battle for Earth.

Director: Steven Caple Jr. | Stars: Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez, Dean Scott Vazquez

Votes: 104,426 | Gross: $157.07M

3. Erin Brockovich (2000)

R | 131 min | Biography, Drama

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick

Votes: 221,776 | Gross: $125.60M

4. Naked (1993)

Not Rated | 131 min | Comedy, Drama

An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp, Katrin Cartlidge, Greg Cruttwell

Votes: 44,015 | Gross: $1.77M

5. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)

R | 92 min | Comedy

Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.

Director: David Mirkin | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Cumming

Votes: 53,192 | Gross: $29.21M

6. Falling Down (1993)

R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin

Votes: 206,988 | Gross: $40.90M

7. Reality Bites (1994)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Generation X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston.

Director: Ben Stiller | Stars: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn

Votes: 53,693 | Gross: $20.98M

8. Last of the Summer Wine (1973–2010)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.

Stars: Peter Sallis, Jane Freeman, Kathy Staff, Robert Fyfe

Votes: 3,661

9. House on Haunted Hill (1999)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.

Director: William Malone | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher

Votes: 60,176 | Gross: $40.85M

10. Swingers (1996)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama

A wannabe actor has a hard time moving on from a break-up, but he is lucky to have supportive friends.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Heather Graham, Jon Favreau, Ron Livingston

Votes: 88,203 | Gross: $4.51M

11. Inside Job (2010)

PG-13 | 109 min | Documentary, Crime

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.

Director: Charles Ferguson | Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason, Sigridur Benediktsdottir

Votes: 79,027 | Gross: $4.31M

12. Sliding Doors (1998)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

After personal and professional setbacks, a woman experiences an alternate reality.

Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 71,541 | Gross: $11.88M

13. Spaced (1999–2001)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy

Friends Tim and Daisy, 20-something North Londoners with uncertain futures, must pretend to be a couple to live in the only apartment they can afford.

Stars: Simon Pegg, Jessica Hynes, Julia Deakin, Nick Frost

Votes: 57,709

14. Bottom (1991–1995)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

Two perpetually bored and broke flatmates waste their days in a futile struggle to get laid, earn cash, and not kill one another.

Stars: Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, Steven O'Donnell, Christopher Ryan

Votes: 14,224

15. Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas

Votes: 152,841 | Gross: $4.06M

16. Nothing to Lose (1997)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Nick's wife's in bed with his boss. He later gets a gun to his head by a carjacker but steps on the gas pedal. They end up friends after adventures together - holdups, burglary, reckless driving, revenge etc. Twists follow.

Director: Steve Oedekerk | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito

Votes: 49,316 | Gross: $44.46M

17. Dave (1993)

PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

An uncanny Presidential lookalike named Dave is recruited by the Secret Service to become a momentary stand-in for the President of the United States.

Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn

Votes: 56,902 | Gross: $63.27M

18. Human Traffic (1999)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Music

Five youngsters embrace the 90s clubbing scene on a drug-fuelled weekend of partying in Cardiff.

Director: Justin Kerrigan | Stars: John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes, Nicola Reynolds

Votes: 27,159 | Gross: $0.10M

19. Soul Food (1997)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.

Director: George Tillman Jr. | Stars: Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Michael Beach

Votes: 9,023 | Gross: $43.49M

20. Renaissance Man (1994)

PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama

A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Danny DeVito, Gregory Hines, James Remar, Ed Begley Jr.

Votes: 19,065 | Gross: $24.33M

21. Fantasia 2000 (1999)

G | 75 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music.

Directors: James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Hendel Butoy, Francis Glebas, Eric Goldberg, Don Hahn, Pixote Hunt | Stars: James Levine, Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones

Votes: 41,464 | Gross: $60.66M

22. Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999–2001)

TV-14 | 34 min | Comedy

Raucous 90s sitcom starring Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus as awful flatmates. Tom is an out-of-work actor with a sharp tongue, and Linda La Hughes is his dysfunctional friend.

Stars: Kathy Burke, James Dreyfus, Beth Goddard, Rosalind Knight

Votes: 3,177

23. Flag Day (2021)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama

A father lives a double life as a counterfeiter, bank robber and con man in order to provide for his daughter.

Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Mitchell McCormick, Tom Anniko, Dylan Penn, Regina King

Votes: 3,589

24. Veronica Guerin (2003)

R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds

Votes: 21,910 | Gross: $1.57M

25. Rosetta (1999)

R | 95 min | Drama

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yernaux, Olivier Gourmet

Votes: 15,604 | Gross: $0.26M

26. Music Within (2007)

R | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Richard Pimentel began his life as a fighter, and his life's work became fighting for the rights of others. After losing his hearing in Nam, he overcame his handicap and used his public speaking skills to inspire injured war veterans.

Director: Steven Sawalich | Stars: Ron Livingston, Melissa George, Michael Sheen, Clint Jung

Votes: 6,019 | Gross: $0.15M

27. Head On (1998)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A 19 year old Greek Australian youth struggles with his sexual identity and has one clumsy heterosexual and several homosexual encounters.

Director: Ana Kokkinos | Stars: Alex Dimitriades, Elle Mandalis, Damien Fotiou, Alex Papps

Votes: 4,629 | Gross: $0.38M

28. Bus 174 (2002)

R | 122 min | Documentary, Crime

On June 12, 2000, a young man with a gun took the passengers aboard Bus 174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil hostage. This documentary examines the event itself, the resulting media frenzy, the police response, and the perpetrator's background.

Directors: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda | Stars: Sandro do Nascimento, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Anonymous

Votes: 8,627 | Gross: $0.22M

29. Ilo Ilo (2013)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

In 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.

Director: Anthony Chen | Stars: Yann Yann Yeo, Tian Wen Chen, Angeli Bayani, Jia Ler Koh

Votes: 5,001 | Gross: $0.05M

30. The Adversary (2002)

129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a man murders his wife, children and parents, the ensuing investigation reveals that he's been living a lie for almost 20 years.

Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Géraldine Pailhas, François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos

Votes: 3,963

31. Bænken (2000)

93 min | Drama

Kaj is an alcoholic living on the money the Danish state is providing him. Him and his friends spend their time drinking beer at a public bench. One day Kaj's life turns upside down when a young lady and her child moves in next to him.

Director: Per Fly | Stars: Jesper Christensen, Marius Sonne Janischefska, Stine Holm Joensen, Nicolaj Kopernikus

Votes: 4,434

32. Floundering (1994)

R | 96 min | Comedy

In this scathing and subversive social comedy, life in post riot Los Angeles is dissected under the sardonic eye of John Boyz, an unemployed thirty nothing flounderer on Venice Beach who is... See full summary »

Director: Peter McCarthy | Stars: James Le Gros, Shaka, Zander Schloss, John Cusack

Votes: 1,386

33. Marius and Jeannette (1997)

105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Marius is the keeper of an abandoned cement works staying high above the quarter of l'Estaque in Marseilles. Jeannette is bringing up her two children alone with her poor checkout operator ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Boudet

Votes: 1,725 | Gross: $0.28M

34. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss (1998)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

Billy is a gay fine-arts photographer who falls in love with straight coffee-shop waiter Gabriel.

Director: Tommy O'Haver | Stars: Sean Hayes, Brad Rowe, Armando Valdes-Kennedy, Mr. Dan

Votes: 3,990 | Gross: $2.02M

35. Metsolat (1993–1995)

50 min | Drama

An elderly farmer couple from rural Finland, and their adult children, are forced to adapt in the face of nationwide economical and societal changes as well as personal tragedies.

Stars: Ahti Haljala, Helinä Viitanen, Kari Hakala, Svante Martin

Votes: 383

36. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

Not Rated | 76 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A series of grisly events that took place in the state of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900 is dramatized as reported in the Black River Falls newspaper.

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe

Votes: 1,610

37. My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1996)

178 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his ... See full summary »

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger, Marianne Denicourt

Votes: 1,704

38. Loggerheads (2005)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama

Three overlapping stories of estranged families in three regions of North Carolina.

Director: Tim Kirkman | Stars: Kip Pardue, Michael Kelly, Tess Harper, Adrian Lee

Votes: 1,855 | Gross: $0.12M

39. Une époque formidable... (1991)

96 min | Comedy, Drama

A working man brutally loses both his job and his wife. He suddenly discovers poverty and is thrown in the street where he will meet tramps who will help him recover what he has lost.

Director: Gérard Jugnot | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Richard Bohringer, Victoria Abril, Ticky Holgado

Votes: 1,401

40. Pölynimurikauppiaat (1993)

58 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

In this Finnish cinema classic, three vacuum cleaner salesmen go door-to-door selling dreams of dust-free homes and personal ambitions in a bleak Finland hit by the worst recession in history.

Director: John Webster | Stars: Kimmo Sädeaho, Sami Ahtola, Kristiina Marin, John Webster

Votes: 362

41. King of Hearts (2019)

113 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Singer boy makes good: woos initially reluctant lass who then in 'behind every successful man there's a tough woman' way, pushes and stands by his struggle to success and standard to Finn singing star success, through alcoholism problems.

Director: Aleksi Mäkelä | Stars: Matti Ristinen, Tiina Lymi, Tatu Sinisalo, Talvikki Eerola

Votes: 532

42. Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (2002– )

360 min | Documentary, History

The people, ideas, and events that created our current world economy.

Stars: David Ogden Stiers, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Gordon Brown

Votes: 549

43. Club Le Monde (2002)

79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

One eventful night at a seedy London nightclub in 1993.

Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Danny Nussbaum, Emma Davidson, Tania Emery, Lee Oakes

Votes: 151

44. Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York (2023)

Documentary, History

Once a failing city that by 1990 had over 2,200 murders and 93,000 violent robberies annually, New York went on to be the revitalized word capital.

Director: Matthew Taylor | Stars: Nicole Gelinas, Michael Goodwin, Larry Mone, Fred Seigel

Votes: 28

45. The Prodigal Son (1992)

97 min | Drama, Thriller

Esa is a small time crook who has been precisely released from prison. He starts to make money by mugging people. One day psychiatrist Lindström rings Esa's doorbell. He has a very strange ... See full summary »

Director: Veikko Aaltonen | Stars: Hannu Kivioja, Esko Salminen, Leea Klemola, Markku Peltola

Votes: 441

46. The Weight of Chains 2 (2014)

124 min | Documentary, Comedy, History

'The Weight of Chains 2' is a documentary film largely dealing with the effects of the Washington Consensus economic doctrine on the newly established former Yugoslav republics, but also ... See full summary »

Director: Boris Malagurski | Stars: Boris Malagurski, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Carla Del Ponte

Votes: 1,440

47. Laboratory Greece (2019)

165 min | Documentary

A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.

Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos

Votes: 32

48. Making Love in St. Pierre (2004)

86 min | Drama

A couple trying to rekindle their relationship travel to St. Pierre, a French island off the Newfoundland coast, and become entangled with another couple.

Director: John Vatcher | Stars: Nicole Underhay, Allan Hawco, Chérie Ouellet, Aiden Flynn

49. Where the Air Is Cool and Dark (1997)

80 min | Drama

Thirty-year-old Emmett LeClere, a former logger and recovering drug addict, returns from school in New York to make a film in his Olympic Peninsula hometown. To finance the project, he ... See full summary »

Director: Brion Rockwell | Stars: Jason Bortz, Raphael Carlo, Damien P. Daley, Johnny Klein

Votes: 52

50. The First Measured Century (2000 TV Movie)

Documentary, Crime, War

A history of the twentieth century, by the numbers.

Stars: Ben Wattenberg, Betsy Ames, Betty Friedan, Milton Friedman