When the Internet Movie Database asked its users to rank the top fifty independent motion pictures of all time, thirty-seven of the fifty were movies released in the 1990s. (Number one was Dr. Strangelove or: How I "Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [1964]). As of 11 September 2000, the 1990s movies on the list included: no. 2, The Usual Suspects (1995); no. 4, Pulp Fiction (1994), no. 5, Being John Malkovich (1999); no. 7, The Silence of the Lambs (1991); no. 8, American History X (1998); no. 15, Reservoir Dogs (1992); no. 19, Sling Blade (1996); no. 24, Fargo (1996); no. 34, Good Will Hunting (1997); no. 37, Secrets & Lies (1996); and no. 47, The Cider House Rules (1999).

Source: "Top 50 Independent Movies, Internet Movie Database, 11 September, 2000, online at .

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