Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.

Actors : Cary Elwes, Udo Kier, Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich,
Directors : E. Elias Merhige,

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.

Actors : Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Björk,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovanni Florido, Javier Bardem,
Directors : Julian Schnabel,

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...

Actors : Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway, John Travolta, Stockard Channing,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

Actors : Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl,
Directors : Tim Burton,

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Anthony Michael Hall, Dianne Wiest,
Directors : Tim Burton,

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.

Actors : Cuba Gooding Jr., Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Laurence Fishburne,
Directors : John Singleton,

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.

Actors : Fred Ward, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg, Tim Robbins,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Actors : Pete Postlethwaite, Daniel Day-Lewis, Philip King, Alison Crosbie,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

Actors : Nicolas Cage, Julian Sands, Elisabeth Shue, Richard Lewis,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Actors : J.T. Walsh, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter,
Directors : Billy Bob Thornton,

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

Actors : Helen Hunt, Jack Nicholson, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Actors : Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.

Actors : Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Bruno Kirby, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Mike Newell,

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Actors : Anne Heche, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Denis Leary,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

Actors : Tom McCamus, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.

Actors : Edward Norton, Jennifer Lien, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo,
Directors : Tony Kaye,

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

Actors : Billy Crystal, Chazz Palminteri, Lisa Kudrow, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.