The 20 Best Movies of 1995

One year gave us a serial-killer thriller, a De Niro-Pacino shootout and the first computer-animated feature. Sort them out.

1. 1
   Whisper of the Heart

   Studio Ghibli's quiet story of a Tokyo schoolgirl who decides to write.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Heat

   Michael Mann's crime epic that put De Niro and Pacino on screen together for the first time.
   892pts
3. 3
   Se7en

   David Fincher's rain-soaked thriller about a killer working through the deadly sins.
   856pts
4. 4
   GoldenEye

   Pierce Brosnan's first outing as James Bond, and the franchise's post-Cold War reset.
   784pts
5. 5
   Babe

   A sheep-pig learns the sheepdog trade in a family film nominated for Best Picture.
   513pts
6. 6
   Casino

   Scorsese's three-hour account of how the mob lost Las Vegas.
   513pts
7. 7
   Braveheart

   Mel Gibson's Scottish war epic, winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture.
   434pts
8. 8
   La Haine

   A day in the Paris banlieue after a riot, shot in stark black and white.
   434pts
9. 9
   Dead Man Walking

   A nun accompanies a condemned prisoner; Susan Sarandon won Best Actress.
   434pts
10. 10
    Leaving Las Vegas

    A screenwriter drinks himself to death in Vegas; Nicolas Cage won the Oscar for it.
    434pts
11. 11
    Die Hard with a Vengeance

    McClane is dragged around New York by a bomber with a grudge.
    434pts
12. 12
    Before Sunrise

    Two strangers meet on a train and spend one night walking around Vienna.
    342pts
13. 13
    Apollo 13

    Ron Howard's reconstruction of the 1970 lunar mission that went wrong on the way out.
    342pts
14. 14
    The Usual Suspects

    A lineup of criminals, an unreliable narrator, and one of cinema's most quoted twists.
    342pts
15. 15
    Ghost in the Shell

    The cyberpunk anime that shaped how film imagines networked consciousness.
    342pts
16. 16
    Sense and Sensibility

    Ang Lee's Austen adaptation, named best film of the year by several critics' groups.
    342pts
17. 17
    Jumanji

    A board game empties the jungle into a small town, with Robin Williams caught inside it.
    342pts
18. 18
    Toy Story

    The first entirely computer-animated feature film, and Pixar's debut.
    233pts
19. 19
    12 Monkeys

    Terry Gilliam's time-loop thriller about a prisoner sent back to trace a plague.
    233pts
20. 20
    Clueless

    Amy Heckerling's Beverly Hills reworking of Jane Austen's Emma.
    103pts