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Films of Highest Quality
These represent cinematic works selected not only because they demonstrate skillful production values and contain meaningful content, but because the overall effect of the complete product is of particular quality, interest, and completeness.
[Contemporary] or [Classic] ?
Contemporary Selections for "Films of Highest Quality"
 
1977Annie Hall  
1982Das Boot    
1985The Breakfast Club
1986Stand By Me 
 
1987First Choice: The Last Emperor 
Second Choice: Au Revoir Les Enfants   
Also worth watching: Empire of the Sun 
 
1988First Choice: Cinema Paradiso  
Second Choice: Dangerous Liasons  
Also worth watching: Stand and Deliver, The Accidental Tourist 
 
1989First Choice: Dead Poets Society  
Second Choice: Camille Claudel  
 
1990First Choice: Cyrano de Bergerac  
Second Choice: Awakenings  
Also worth watching: The Hunt for Red October, Total Recall, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge 
 
1991 
 
First Choice: Europa, Europa  
Second Choice: Thelma and Louise  
Also worth watching: Toto le heros, The Silence of the Lambs, The Prince of Tides 
 
1992First Choice: Howard's End  
Second Choice: The Player  
Also worth watching: Glengarry Glen Ross 
 
1993First Choice: Falling Down  
Second Choice: Six Degrees of Separation 
Also worth watching: The Remains of the Day, The Man without a Face 
 
1994First Choice: Reality Bites    
Second Choice: Clerks  
Also worth watching: Killing Zoe, Nobody's Fool, The Client 
 
1995First Choice: The Usual Suspects    
Second Choice: Beyond Rangoon  
Also worth watching: Get Shorty, Twelve Monkeys 
 
1996First Choice: Jerry Maguire 
Second Choice: Fargo  
Also worth watching: Lone Star 
 
1997First Choice: Chasing Amy  
Second Choice: The Spanish Prisoner  
Also worth watching: The Saint 
 
1998First Choice: The Thin Red Line  
Second Choice: Zugvögel ... Einmal Nach Inari 
Also worth watching: The Negotiator, Comedian Harmonists  
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