Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the 1990s was a good decade for cinema. Contained within were numerous great B-movies, arthouse films, and gangster flicks, to highlight just a few genres or types of film. As such, it’s not surprising that it was also a great decade for anyone who considers themselves a romantic. The 1990s can be thought of as one where cynicism and a certain detachment were cool, but such things didn’t seem to kill romance entirely.
As far as the narrative goes, The Bridges of Madison County is about two people meeting by chance and having a short-term yet passionate affair, with parts of the film also exploring the aftermath of this impactful interaction. It hits all the beats you'd expect a romantic drama to hit, but hits them well regardless, and stands as one of the more distinctive/unexpected films within Eastwood’s directorial career.
It’s an exploration of love set in a time long past, and with characters who are all very well-off, yet the emotional stuff it deals with proves universal and even relatable to this day. The Age of Innocence amazingly recreates the time and place in which it’s set, and is overall a very sensitive, subtle, and quietly sad film about the highs and lows of love.
Chungking Express is very approachable and easy to enjoy, even though much of it’s also unconventional, making it arguably feel like an arthouse romantic comedy. Though it might sound a little scattershot on paper, watching it play out is another experience altogether. The ride Chungking Express provides is a uniquely stylish and cinematic one, and the multitude of things it has to say about love inevitably make it one of the decade’s best romance films.
It’s all unapologetic in how mass-appeal it is, but you’d have to have a particularly hard heart to completely resist getting swept up in the love story found in Titanic. Yes, parts can be cheesy and very Hollywood, but James Cameron is a master at making this kind of movie, and Titanic might well be his best mass-appeal mash-up to date .*Availability in US
2 'True Romance' Director: Tony Scott True Romance largely feels like a crime movie , but as the title promises, romance is at the heart of it all. Things kick off with two young people falling in love with each other at great speed after discovering that they're basically soulmates. But then they get on the wrong side of some dangerous people, and much of the film becomes about them going on the run.
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