Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Heaven Can Wait(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.





The Longest Day(1962)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.



The Guns of Navarone(1961)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.



Against All Odds(1984)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love, and the twists start to appear.



Fearless(1993)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.



The Boys from Brazil(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.



Zelig(1983)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

"Documentary" about a man who can look and act like whoever he's around, and meets various famous people.



The Great Gatsby(1974)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.



Heartbreak Ridge(1986)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.



Klute(1971)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.



Runaway Train(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.



Ladyhawke(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for ...



Toys(1992)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

When a military general inherits a toy making company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.



Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(1968)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.



Return to Oz(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.



Lorenzo's Oil(1992)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.



Private Benjamin(1980)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.



The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.



Radio Days(1987)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A nostalgic look at radio's golden age focusing on one ordinary family and the various performers in the medium.




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