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The Best Movies of 1996 (156) Most Notable
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Year 1996 Links / LEGEND
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Years
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Fargo
1996
Coen, Joel
/
Coen, Ethan
USA
/
UK
BD
Secrets & Lies
1996
Leigh, Mike
France
/
UK
BD
The English Patient
1996
Minghella, Anthony
USA
BD
Shine
1996
Hicks, Scott
Australia
DS
Breaking the Waves
1996
von Trier, Lars
Denmark
/
Sweden
/
France
/
Netherlands
/
Norway
BD
Trainspotting
1996
Boyle, Danny
UK
BD
Jerry Maguire
1996
Crowe, Cameron
USA
BY
Kolya
1996
Sverák, Jan
Czech Republic
Y
Lone Star
1996
Sayles, John
USA
D
The People vs. Larry Flynt
1996
Forman, Milos
Canada
/
USA
BD
Independence Day
1996
Emmerich, Roland
USA
BDS
Everyone Says I Love You
1996
Allen, Woody
USA
Y
Sling Blade
1996
Thornton, Billy Bob
USA
BD
Irma Vep
1996
Assayas, Olivier
France
BD
Big Night
1996
Scott, Campbell
/
Tucci, Stanley
USA
Y
Ridicule
1996
Leconte, Patrice
France
Y
Ponette
1996
Doillon, Jacques
France
Y
When We Were Kings
1996
Gast, Leon
USA
BDS
Romeo + Juliet
1996
Luhrmann, Baz
USA
BD
Crash
1996
Cronenberg, David
Canada
/
USA
BY
Evita
1996
Parker, Alan
USA
BD
Prisoner of the Mountains
1996
Bodrov, Sergei
Russia
/
Kazakhstan
Y
La Promesse
1996
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre
/
Dardenne, Luc
Belgium
/
France
/
Luxembourg
BD
A Self-Made Hero
1996
Audiard, Jacques
France
Shall We Dance?
1996
Suo, Masayuki
Japan
Y
Microcosmos
1996
Nuridsany, Claude
/
Pérennou, Marie
France
/
Switzerland
/
Italy
DS
Hamlet
1996
Branagh, Kenneth
UK
/
USA
BD
Gabbeh
1996
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Iran
/
France
D
Courage Under Fire
1996
Zwick, Edward
USA
BD
Scream
1996
Craven, Wes
USA
BDS
Pretty Village Pretty Flame
1996
Dragojevic, Srdjan
Fed Rep of Yugoslavia
D
Small Faces
1996
MacKinnon, Gillies
UK
Beyond Silence
1996
Link, Caroline
Germany
Y
The Crucible
1996
Hytner, Nicholas
USA
DS
Will It Snow for Christmas?
1996
Veysset, Sandrine
France
V
Marvin's Room
1996
Zaks, Jerry
USA
BDS
The Pillow Book
1996
Greenaway, Peter
France
/
UK
/
Netherlands
BD
Mother
1996
Brooks, Albert
USA
Y
L'Appartement
1996
Mimouni, Gilles
France
/
Spain
/
Italy
D
Flirting with Disaster
1996
Russell, David O.
USA
D
Thieves
1996
Téchiné, André
France
Y
Three Lives and Only One Death
1996
Ruiz, Raoul
France
/
Portugal
V
Mary Reilly
1996
Frears, Stephen
USA
BD
Swingers
1996
Liman, Doug
USA
BDS
Trees Lounge
1996
Buscemi, Steve
USA
DS
Hamsun
1996
Troell, Jan
Germany
/
Norway
/
Sweden
/
Denmark
D
The Leopard Son
1996
Van Lawick, Hugo
USA
/
Netherlands
S
The Portrait of a Lady
1996
Campion, Jane
UK
/
USA
BD
Bound
1996
Wachowski, Andy
/
Wachowski, Larry
USA
BD
James and the Giant Peach
1996
Selick, Henry
UK
/
USA
BD
The King of Masks
1996
Wu, Tian-Ming
China
/
Hong Kong
D
The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
1996
Dryfoos, Susan Warms
USA
D
Looking for Richard
1996
Pacino, Al
USA
VS
The Quiet Room
1996
de Heer, Rolf
Australia
/
Italy
/
France
D
Basquiat
1996
Schnabel, Julian
USA
Y
Deep Crimson
1996
Ripstein, Arturo
Mexico
/
France
/
Spain
Y
Mission: Impossible
1996
De Palma, Brian
USA
BDS
Twister
1996
de Bont, Jan
USA
BD
Blood & Wine
1996
Rafelson, Bob
USA
/
UK
DS
Fly Away Home
1996
Ballard, Carroll
USA
BD
A Time to Kill
1996
Schumacher, Joel
USA
BDS
Temptress Moon
1996
Chen, Kaige
China
/
Hong Kong
D
Michael Collins
1996
Jordan, Neil
UK
/
Ireland
/
USA
BD
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1996
Berlinger, Joe
/
Sinofsky, Bruce
USA
D
The Birdcage
1996
Nichols, Mike
USA
BD
A Chef in Love
1996
Dzhordzhadze, Nana
France
/
Georgia
/
Ukraine
/
Belgium
Y
The Other Side of Sunday
1996
Nesheim, Berit
Norway
Y
Study of a River
1996
Hutton, Peter B.
USA
The Watermelon Woman
1996
Dunye, Cheryl
USA
D
Freeway
1996
Bright, Matthew
USA
D
Manny & Lo
1996
Krueger, Lisa
USA
D
Last Man Standing
1996
Hill, Walter
USA
DS
Brigands - Chapter VII
1996
Iosseliani, Otar
France
/
Russia
/
Italy
/
Switzerland
Y
Carla's Song
1996
Loach, Ken
UK
/
Spain
/
Germany
Y
For Ever Mozart
1996
Godard, Jean-Luc
France
/
Switzerland
D
The Funeral
1996
Ferrara, Abel
USA
Y
Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi
1996
Lelouch, Claude
France
Ilona Arrives with the Rain
1996
Cabrera, Sergio
Colombia
/
Italy
/
Spain
Y
The Ogre
1996
Schlöndorff, Volker
France
/
Germany
/
UK
Y
Party
1996
de Oliveira, Manoel
Portugal
/
France
Y
Sacred Silence
1996
Capuano, Antonio
Italy
Y
Taipin tienguo
1996
Wu, Nien-Jen
Taiwan
Vesna va veloce
1996
Mazzacurati, Carlo
France
/
Italy
Yek Dastan-e Vaghe'i
1996
Jalili, Abolfazl
Iran
Beaumarchais
1996
Molinaro, Edouard
France
Y
Bitter Sugar
1996
Ichaso, Leon
Cuba
/
Dominican Republic
Y
Get on the Bus
1996
Lee, Spike
USA
DS
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996
Trousdale, Gary
/
Wise, Kirk
USA
BDS
The Eighth Day
1996
van Dormael, Jaco
France
/
Belgium
/
UK
Y
Lea
1996
Fíla, Ivan
Czech Republic
/
Germany
Y
Luna e l'Altra
1996
Nichetti, Maurizio
Italy
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
1996
Chan, Peter
Hong Kong
Y
Goodbye South, Goodbye
1996
Hou, Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan
Y
Improvisation
1996
Mili, Gjon
USA
Mahjong
1996
Yang, Edward
Taiwan
Oriental Elegy
1996
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Russia
/
Japan
D
Robert Altman's Jazz '34:
Remembrances of Kansas City Swing
1996
Altman, Robert
USA
The Suicide
1996
Bordowitz, Gregg
USA
Drifting Clouds
1996
Kaurismäki, Aki
Finland
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Capitaine Conan
1996
Tavernier, Bertrand
France
D
The Arrival
1996
Twohy, David
USA
/
Mexico
BD
Beautiful Girls
1996
Demme, Ted
USA
BDS
Escape from L.A.
1996
Carpenter, John
USA
BDS
Female Perversions
1996
Streitfeld, Susan
Germany
/
USA
Hard Eight
1996
Anderson, Paul Thomas
USA
D
I Shot Andy Warhol
1996
Harron, Mary
UK
/
USA
DS
Jane Eyre
1996
Zeffirelli, Franco
France
/
Italy
/
UK
DS
Kingpin
1996
Farrelly, Bobby
/
Farrelly, Peter
USA
BDS
Mulholland Falls
1996
Tamahori, Lee
USA
DS
Normal Life
1996
McNaughton, John
USA
D
The Phantom
1996
Wincer, Simon
Australia
/
USA
D
Primal Fear
1996
Hoblit, Gregory
USA
BDS
Private Confessions
1996
Ullmann, Liv
Sweden
The Rock
1996
Bay, Michael
USA
BDS
Set It Off
1996
Gray, F. Gary
USA
BDS
Shiloh
1996
Rosenbloom, Dale
USA
DS
Space Jam
1996
Pytka, Joe
USA
DS
Star Trek: First Contact
1996
Frakes, Jonathan
USA
DS
SubUrbia
1996
Linklater, Richard
USA
VS
The Truth About Cats & Dogs
1996
Lehmann, Michael
USA
BDS
Twelfth Night
1996
Nunn, Trevor
UK
/
Ireland
/
USA
D
Wallace & Gromit:
The Best of Aardman Animation
1996
Park, Nick
UK
Beautiful Thing
1996
MacDonald, Hettie
UK
DS
Chaplin's Goliath
1996
Macdonald, Kevin
UK
D
Citizen Ruth
1996
Payne, Alexander
USA
D
The Daytrippers
1996
Mottola, Greg
Canada
/
USA
BD
The Frighteners
1996
Jackson, Peter
New Zealand
/
USA
BDS
Harriet the Spy
1996
Hughes, Bronwen
USA
D
Heavenzapoppin'!
1996
Watzke, Robert
USA
Kissed
1996
Stopkewich, Lynne
Canada
DS
Life
1996
Johnston, Lawrence
Australia
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1996
Wellington, David
Canada
X
1996
Rintaro
Japan
D
Mars Attacks!
1996
Burton, Tim
USA
BDS
Pusher
1996
Refn, Nicolas Winding
Denmark
D
A Moment of Innocence
1996
Makhmalbaf, Mohsen
Iran
/
France
Floating Life
1996
Law, Clara
Australia
Waiting for Guffman
1996
Guest, Christopher
USA
BY
Carried Away
1996
Barreto, Bruno
USA
DS
Fire
1996
Mehta, Deepa
India
/
Canada
D
Hollow Reed
1996
Pope, Angela
UK
/
Germany
/
Spain
S
I'm Not Rappaport
1996
Gardner, Herb
USA
D
Jerusalem
1996
August, Bille
Sweden
/
Denmark
/
Norway
/
Finland
/
Iceland
V
Jude
1996
Winterbottom, Michael
UK
S
Little Angel
1996
Misselwitz, Helke
Germany
The Second Time
1996
Calopresti, Mimmo
France
/
Italy
Sleepers
1996
Levinson, Barry
USA
BDS
Some Mother's Son
1996
George, Terry
Ireland
/
USA
S
A Summer's Tale
1996
Rohmer, Eric
France
D
Un Air de Famille
1996
Klapisch, Cédric
France
D
When the Cat's Away
1996
Klapisch, Cédric
France
The Whole Wide World
1996
Ireland, Dan
USA
DS
The Unseen
1996
Janek, Miroslav
Czech Republic
NR
Emma
1996
Lawrence, Diarmuid
UK
D
NR
101 Dalmatians
1996
Herek, Stephen
USA
DS
NR
Ransom
1996
Howard, Ron
USA
BDS
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Year 1996 Links
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Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T Theaters (US)
B
Blu-ray Disc
D DVD
V VHS
Y Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S Soundtrack