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1993

Showing 162 works across all media from 1993

Comedy drama · Comedy

Groundhog Day

Directed by Harold Ramis
1993

The title became a phrase people use without knowing the film: a comedy about repeating one day turned into the most quietly serious argument about how to live.

★ 8.2
Grunge · Alternative rock

All Apologies

Nirvana
1993 · From MTV Unplugged in New York

Lori Goldston's cello beside Cobain at the November 1993 Unplugged taping, months before his death, apology turned farewell.

★ 7.3
TV program · Coming of age (TV) · Comedy (TV) · Coming of age · Comedy

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day, you’re in diapers; next day, you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house…like a lot of other houses; a yard like a lot of other yards; on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is…after all these years, I still look back…with wonder.

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)
The Wonder Years · 1993
★ 6.9
Action thriller · Action

The Fugitive

Directed by Andrew Davis
1993

The train wreck was staged for real because it was cheaper than faking it: a surgeon convicted of his wife's murder runs, and Tommy Lee Jones's marshal is better company than the hero.

★ 6.4
Pop rock · Pop

Ordinary World

Duran Duran
1993 · From Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

Three days to finish the music in Cuccurullo's home studio, and an elegy for a dead friend became their comeback.

★ 6.1
Nonfiction · Biography

W. E. B. Du Bois

Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
David Levering Lewis
1993 · 715 pages

Du Bois took the first Harvard doctorate given a Black American, wrote The Souls of Black Folk, and helped found the NAACP. Lewis won Pulitzers for this volume and for its sequel.

★ 6.0
Crime drama · Mafia

Carlito's Way

Directed by Brian De Palma
1993

De Palma's best film with Pacino, and it took people twenty years to notice: an ex-convict tries to go straight in 1975 New York, and the Grand Central chase is a masterclass.

★ 5.9
Hip hop

Shoop

Salt-N-Pepa
1993

Built on a Sweet Inspirations sample, with Salt and Pepa flipping the gaze and riding it to number four.

★ 5.9
Crime drama · Crime

A Bronx Tale

Directed by Robert De Niro
1993

Chazz Palminteri turned down large offers for his one-man play until someone would let him star: De Niro directed his first film out of it, about a boy with two fathers competing.

★ 5.8
Hip hop

I Get Around

Tupac
1993

Shock G's beat was meant for Digital Underground, and by his account Shakur wrote Shock's verse for him.

★ 5.8
Crime thriller · Crime

True Romance

Directed by Tony Scott
1993

Tarantino sold this script to pay for Reservoir Dogs and Tony Scott shot it with real affection: a comic book clerk and a call girl leave Detroit with the wrong suitcase.

★ 5.7
Nonfiction · Sociology

How We Die

Sherwin B. Nuland
1993 · 278 pages

There is little dignity in how we die, the surgeon Nuland writes, and he shows why: what heart failure, stroke, cancer, and Alzheimer's do to a body. Dignity belongs to the life before.

★ 5.7
Any Time, Any PlaceJanet Jackson
R&B · Soul

Any Time, Any Place

Janet Jackson
1993

Fingersnaps, a saxophone and rolling thunder from Jam and Lewis, with Jackson singing desire at a whisper.

★ 5.5
Grunge · Alternative rock

Rape Me

Nirvana
1993 · From In Utero

Written on acoustic guitar in 1991, recorded by Albini at Pachyderm, and stocked by Walmart under a changed title.

★ 5.2
Soft rock · Pop

Fields of Gold

Sting
1993

Barley fields outside Sting's Wiltshire house, Kathryn Tickell's Northumbrian smallpipes, and a promise meant to last a lifetime.

★ 4.9
Nonfiction

Workers

An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
Sebastiao Salgado
1993 · 400 pages

Fifty thousand men climb out of a Brazilian gold pit on wooden ladders, caked in mud. Salgado spent six years across twenty-six countries photographing manual labor as the machines took it away.

★ 4.9
R&B · Pop

Dreamlover

Mariah Carey
1993

Eight weeks at number one on a loop from the Emotions' Blind Alley, with Carey sounding weightless above it.

★ 4.9
Country

Chattahoochee

Alan Jackson
1993

Keith Stegall produced it, Jim McBride supplied the title line, and Jackson water-skied through the video in red cowboy boots.

★ 4.8
Come UndoneDuran Duran
Alternative rock · Pop rock

Come Undone

Duran Duran
1993 · From Duran Duran (The Wedding Album)

One drum loop, a phone call that brought Nick Rhodes over, and Tessa Niles unleashing the diva on the chorus.

★ 4.7
Legal drama · Drama

Philadelphia

Directed by Jonathan Demme
1993

The first major studio film to take AIDS seriously, aimed squarely at people who had not: a lawyer sues the firm that fired him, and Bruce Springsteen wrote the opening song.

★ 4.7
Western

Tombstone

Directed by George P. Cosmatos
1993

Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday is the reason people keep rewatching it: the film lost its director a month into shooting and still produced the most quotable western since the sixties.

★ 4.6
R&B · Pop

Hero

Mariah Carey
1993

Written for Gloria Estefan until Mottola heard the demo; Carey thought it schmaltzy and took it to number one.

★ 4.5
Pop

Possession

Sarah McLachlan
1993

McLachlan wrote it in the voice of her own obsessive letter writers, and Marchand makes it sound tender.

★ 4.3
The SignAce of Base
Europop · Pop

The Sign

Ace of Base
1993

A synth flute over a Banbarra drum sample, cut at Cheiron in Stockholm, and Billboard's biggest single of 1994.

★ 4.2
Coming of age · Sports

The Sandlot

Directed by David Mickey Evans
1993

It has become the film American men quote at each other about being eleven: a new kid in 1962 learns baseball on a vacant lot, and the stakes are imaginary and total.

★ 3.9
Speech · Political speech

We lack, at some core level, meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively-that sense that our lives are part of some greater effort, that we are connected to one another... We need a new politics of meaning. We need a new ethos of individual responsibility and caring. We need a new definition of civil society which answers the unanswerable questions posed by both the market forces and the governmental ones, as to how we can have a society that fills us up again and makes us feel that we are part of something bigger than ourselves.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Speech at the University of Texas, April 7, 1993 · 1993
★ 3.7
Sports drama · Sports

Rudy

Directed by David Anspaugh
1993

Notre Dame had not allowed a film crew on campus in fifty years: a kid with no size and no grades wants to dress for one game, and everybody tells him no.

★ 3.7
Film · War (film) · Epic (film) · War · Epic

This is a different kind of army. If you look back through history you will see men fighting for pay, or women, or some other kind of loot. They fight for land, power, because a king leads them, or just because they like killing. But we're here for something new. This has not happened much in the history of the world. We are an army out to set other men free. America should be free ground, all of it, not divided by a line between slave state and free. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow, no man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here is the place to build a home. But it's not the land. There's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me. What we're fighting for, in the end, you're fighting for each other.

★ 3.5
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