Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas

The mid-1990s delivered one of Hollywood’s last great sweeping romance epics—the kind that smelled like leather harnesses and forbidden love. Edward Zwick’s Legends of the Fall is a full-bodied melodrama served with a side of frontier grit, supported by the trifecta of Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt and Aidan Quinn.

Set against the Montana wilderness, the story follows three brothers and the woman who upends their lives, as war, grief, and passion tear them apart. Director Zwick merges his Glory-forged battle instincts with the tender eye from his years showrunning thirtysomething, turning gunfire and longing glances—especially at hot dudes on horseback—into pop art. A prestige weepie disguised as a Western, Legends of the Fall remains peak “big feelings, big hair, big sky” filmmaking and cemented Pitt as the smoldering golden-haired god of ’90s hunkdom—the kind of flick “they truly don’t make anymore.”