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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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fishy goyim
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Aromatic unhinged sound barrier
  05/27/25
Who even watches these anymore?
Swashbuckling underhanded step-uncle's house affirmative action
  05/27/25
I still watch Film
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indigo idiot
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fishy goyim
  05/27/25
but yet you know nothing of it
cruel-hearted pearly yarmulke
  05/27/25
Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Shivering wonderful marketing idea
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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  05/27/25
True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
fishy goyim
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Cowardly gas station jap
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
Charcoal pit
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
Lime messiness
  05/29/25
There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
fishy goyim
  05/27/25
How to train your dragon
Swashbuckling underhanded step-uncle's house affirmative action
  05/27/25
social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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sable dashing brunch ape
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
fishy goyim
  05/27/25
Speed
Idiotic pale headpube
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Swashbuckling underhanded step-uncle's house affirmative action
  05/27/25
"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
indigo idiot
  05/27/25
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sable dashing brunch ape
  05/27/25
I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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sable dashing brunch ape
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
Ocher histrionic toaster temple
  05/27/25
Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
fishy goyim
  05/28/25
Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Glassy space
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
fishy goyim
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
fishy goyim
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
narrow-minded public bath queen of the night
  05/28/25
Good one
fishy goyim
  05/28/25
lilo and stitch for the same reason
bossy boistinker prole
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sable dashing brunch ape
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exciting police squad blood rage
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
fishy goyim
  06/14/25
Road Trip
Idiotic pale headpube
  05/28/25
this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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sable dashing brunch ape
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
bateful stage
  05/28/25
Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
topaz candlestick maker
  05/29/25
Im a Curator
bateful stage
  05/29/25
Three Kings
Cowardly gas station jap
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1999
bateful stage
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
jet box office
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Black Hawk Down
red alcoholic death wish
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this
stimulating claret haunted graveyard chapel
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
fishy goyim
  05/29/25
I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Shivering wonderful marketing idea
  05/29/25
the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
odious bawdyhouse
  05/28/25
I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
fishy goyim
  05/29/25
Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
stimulating claret haunted graveyard chapel
  05/29/25
No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
Idiotic pale headpube
  05/29/25
tyvmft
stimulating claret haunted graveyard chapel
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
razzmatazz lake immigrant coffee pot
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Harry Potter
magenta cracking persian weed whacker
  06/03/25
The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
excitant ultramarine trailer park voyeur
  06/03/25
Good one
fishy goyim
  06/03/25
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topaz candlestick maker
  06/03/25
tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
Ruddy Appetizing Kitchen Wagecucks
  06/07/25
It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: fishy goyim



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Aromatic unhinged sound barrier

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Swashbuckling underhanded step-uncle's house affirmative action

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Shivering wonderful marketing idea

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: indigo idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: fishy goyim



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: cruel-hearted pearly yarmulke

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Shivering wonderful marketing idea

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: narrow-minded public bath queen of the night

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: Laughsome indian lodge dog poop

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: fishy goyim

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: stimulating claret haunted graveyard chapel



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: Salmon Hunting Ground Quadroon



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: indigo idiot

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: fishy goyim

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: Cowardly gas station jap



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: Charcoal pit

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Lime messiness

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: fishy goyim

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Swashbuckling underhanded step-uncle's house affirmative action

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: Lilac tripping nursing home

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: concupiscible base

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Fragrant obsidian potus lettuce



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: fishy goyim

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Idiotic pale headpube

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: fishy goyim

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Swashbuckling underhanded step-uncle's house affirmative action

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Carmine gay wizard mexican

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: indigo idiot

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: fishy goyim

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: indigo idiot



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Fragrant obsidian potus lettuce



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: Ocher histrionic toaster temple

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: fishy goyim

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Glassy space

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: fishy goyim

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: fishy goyim

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: narrow-minded public bath queen of the night

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: fishy goyim

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: bossy boistinker prole

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: exciting police squad blood rage



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: fishy goyim

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: Idiotic pale headpube

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: ebony theatre macaca

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: sable dashing brunch ape



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: bateful stage

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: topaz candlestick maker

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: bateful stage

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: Cowardly gas station jap

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: bateful stage

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: jet box office

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: red alcoholic death wish

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: stimulating claret haunted graveyard chapel

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: fishy goyim

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Shivering wonderful marketing idea

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: odious bawdyhouse

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: fishy goyim

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: stimulating claret haunted graveyard chapel

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Idiotic pale headpube

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: stimulating claret haunted graveyard chapel

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: razzmatazz lake immigrant coffee pot

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: magenta cracking persian weed whacker

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: excitant ultramarine trailer park voyeur

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: fishy goyim

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: topaz candlestick maker



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: Ruddy Appetizing Kitchen Wagecucks

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: magenta cracking persian weed whacker

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: Ruddy Appetizing Kitchen Wagecucks



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