1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1996th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 996th year of the 2nd millennium, the 96th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1990s decade.
1996 was designated as:
- International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Films released in 1996[]
- 2 Days in the Valley
- Aladdin and the King of Thieves
- Barb Wire
- Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
- Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering
- Crucible, The
- Fargo
- Femalien
- Frighteners, The
- From Dusk Till Dawn
- Happy Gilmore
- Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996)
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2
- Humanoids from the Deep (1996)
- Independence Day (1996)
- Long Kiss Goodnight, The
- Mary Reilly (1996)
- Sling Blade (1996)
- Sometimes They Come Back... Again
- Striptease (1996)
- Thinner
- Tin Cup
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Virtual Encounters