In March, ScreenAge Wasteland will have its 7th annual Movie Madness tournament to determine the Greatest Movie of the 1990s!
Similar to the NCAA March Madness tournament that starts with 64 teams and ends with one winner standing tall, SAW is going to have 64 of the best movies from the ’90s battle it out.
The great thing is that you — our beloved Screenagers — can help determine the winner by voting in the matchups! You will have to check back on March 2, 2026, when voting begins, to see what the matchups are for each region. Below, you can see which movies made the cut for the Tarantino Region and discuss the ones you’d like to see win the whole thing!
Spielberg Region | Scorsese Region | Wachowski Region
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
American History X (1998)
Directed by: Tony Kaye
Stars: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong
A white supremacist is released from prison, a changed man, and hopes to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps.
Beau Travail (1999)
Directed by: Claire Denis
Stars: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor
An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Stars: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Directed by: Tim Burton
Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder
The solitary life of an artificial man with scissors for hands is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.
Fargo (1996)
Directed by: The Coen Brothers
Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Forrest Gump (1994)
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Robin Wright
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the ’70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
La Haine (1995)
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs, the day after a violent riot.
Leon: The Professional (1994)
Directed by: Luc Besson
Stars: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman
When her family is murdered by a group of corrupt officers led by the tyrannical Norman Stansfield, a 12-year-old girl enlists the help of an Italian-American hitman to seek revenge.
Perfect Blue (1997)
Directed by: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji
A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past.
Point Break (1991)
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze
An F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Directed by: Trey Parker
Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone
When Eric Cartman and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing, and their parents think that Canada is to blame.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Directed by: Johnathon Demme
Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Ted Levine
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Titanic (1997)
Directed by: James Cameron
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Tombstone (1993)
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Stars: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Powers Booth
A successful lawman’s plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.
Trainspotting (1996)
Directed by: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.
What do you think of the films in this region? Have any predictions for which film will make it to the Final Four from this group of films?
