There are so many must-s🎶ee movies and so little time; luckily, there are plenty of great films that are 90 m𒀰inutes or less and won't take up your entire afternoon or evening to watch. While there are, of course, movies that merit an epic length like Lawrence of Arabia, there's also something refreshing and wonderful about a movie that can get in and get out in under an hour and a half.

Here are 32 of the best movies that are 90 minutes or less. Despite the breezy runtime, not all of them are light fare. Some short movies deal with big themes, while others are just a fun hour and a half of cinema. Animated kids movies and horror movies tend to lend themselves to short runtimes. It would be easy to solely focus ust on those two genres, but for the sake of having a varied list, you won't find too much children's fare or horror below. You also won't find shorts, which the Oscars defin🀅e as films that are less t💦han 40 minutes. (There are some movies on this list that are south of an hour, though.)

Finally, while these 32 films are among the best to ever do it in 90 minutes or less, there are countless incredible movies that are just a minute or two over this arbitrary time limit. Pour some out for ♌all the 92-minute-long masterpieces that are ineligible for our purposes.

32. Hester Street

Year: 1975
Director: Joan Micklin Silver

Set in Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1896, Joan Micklin Silver's restrained, charming comedy-drama follows Carol Kane as Gitl, a recent Jewish immigrant who arrived from Eastern Europe. Gitl and her son are ostensibly coming to join her husband, Yankel, who crossed the Atlantic some time earlier. However, Yankel now goes by "Jake" and is trying to assimilate in a way that Gitl might not be ready for—if she wants it at all. It's a deeply sympathetic and enjoya👍ble American tale.

31. Miracle Mile

Year: 1988
Director: Steve De Jarnatt

When Harry (Anthony Edwards) meets Julie (Mare Winningham), the girl of his dreams, it seems like things are finally looking up for him. That is, until he oversleeps and is late to meet her when her night shift ends for their date. Things get even worse when he answers a payphone call from somebody claiming to be in the military who dialed a wrong number—and who says the nukes have launched and will hit Los Angeles in just over an hour. Now, Harry must race to find Julie and try t🍃o get her to safety (if that phone call is to be be🌞lieved).

30. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Year: 2021
Director: Dean Fleischer Camp

Actress-comedian Jenny Slate and director Dean Fleischer Camp reteam for a feature-length adaptation of the beloved series of web shorts they made in the early '00s, following the titular Marcel as they go on a series of twee, cute stop-motion adventures. The film, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, is a quirky and e🌳motional story about grief, mov🏅ing on, loneliness, and community. And it's all starring a little shell with shoes on.

29. March of the Penguins

Year: 2007
Director: Luc Jacquet

This sensational Oscar-winning documentary follows Antarctica's emp༒eror penguin population over the course of a breeding season, one of the most astounding and impressive feats in all the animal kingdom. As Morgan Freeman narrates, we watch the penguins waddle more than 60 miles inland—far from the oceans where all their food swims—where they lay their eggs. Then, the males huddle together to keep the eggs (and themselves) warm in temperatures that reach minus 80 degrees, all without eating anything, for four months. Nature, man!

28. Liar Liar

Year: 1997
Director: Tom Shadyac

In this classic '90s family comedy, Jim Carrey stars as Fletcher Reede, a defense attorney who is constantly lying, whether it's in court or little fibs to his son, Max, whenever he breaks promises. So, Max makes a birthday wish that his dad would be unable to lie for one full day. This, understandably, causes proble꧃ms, and Carrey is exc♛eptional as he contorts his face and tries (and fails) to lie. It's a super fun little premise, and one that feels just right for its 86-minute runtime.

27. Duel

Year: 1971
Director: Steven Spielberg

Duel, Steven Spielberg's directorial debut, was originally released as a TV film that ran 74 minutes long. When the powers that be realized that the movie was better than an average TV movie (perhaps because it was directed by Steven Sp🎀ielberg!), they put together a 90-minute 🎶cut and released it theatrically. Both runtimes qualify for this list, and Duel, which follows a man as he tries to escape the irate driver of a semi-truck who is trying to run him off the road, is well worth watching.

26. Zola

Year: 2020
Director: Janicza Bravo

This A24 movie has the unique distinction of being based on a Twitter thread, as it's a dramatization of a famous 148-tweet thread by Zola, a waitress and stripper, retelling the story of how a trip to Florida with another stripper turned into chaos and debauchery. Taylour Paige stars as Aziah "Zola" King, while Riley Keough plays her companion, Stefani. It𒊎's a funny and weird tale of a specific slice of American culture born from a particular time period in internet culture, all in a tight 90 minutes.

25. But I'm a Cheerleader

Year: 1999
Director: Jamie Babbit

Natasha Lyonne leads this cult classic comedy as Megan Bloomfield, a seemingly🍨 typical high school senior and cheerleader. Hoꦯwever, her parents suspect that she might be a lesbian, so they send her to a conversion therapy camp in an attempt to turn her straight. It's a delightful, heartfelt, and kitschy flick, and it should be considered telling that even back in 1999, the idea of conversion therapy was so ridiculous that a movie like But I'm a Cheerleader could spoof the very concept.

24. Zoolander

Year: 2001
Director: Ben Stiller

One of the most beloved and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best comedies of the '00s (if not the most beloved), Zoolander stars directඣor Ben Stiller as Derek Zoolander, a male model who was once at the top of the industry but is now verging on being over-the-hill. In an effort to stay on top, Derek finds himself caught in a potential assassination plot as well as some high-stakes underground catwalks. Zoolander is an absurd comedy, taking something inherently a little silly like the fashion industry and making it even more heightened, dumber, and funnier. Owen Wilson co-stars as Derek's up-and-coming rival model Hansel, while Will Ferrell plays Jacobim Mugatu, the film's villain (and inventor of the piano key necktie).