3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
IMDB's #1 movie and a movie that many people consider the best of the '90s, The Shawshank Redemption is another film that benefits from its immense run time, since it allows you to have a feeling that you've been in jail as long as Andy (even if it's only been 2 and a half hours). Although I think Pulp Fiction should have won the Oscar for Best Picture when it was nominated (instead of Forrest Gump), The Shawshank Redemption was still snubbed. Morgan Freeman's Red is one of the most sympathetic characters in all of film and it's his relationship with Andy that makes the experience so uplifting. The Shawshank Redemption proved that Stephen King's stories could be adapted to gripping drama as well as horror.