Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Paint Your Wagon(1969)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.



The Heartbreak Kid(1972)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...



Faces(1968)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.



Ironweed(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.



The Sunshine Boys(1975)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A vaudeville duo agree to reunite for a TV special, but it turns out that they can't stand each other.



Frances(1982)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.



A Soldier's Story(1984)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.



The Greatest Story Ever Told(1965)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The life of Jesus Christ.



The Champ(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...



The Accused(1988)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.



The Milagro Beanfield War(1988)

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Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...



The Front(1976)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.



The Crucible(1996)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.



The Commitments(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.



Looking for Mr. Goodbar(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.



Mediterraneo(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.



The Dead(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.



Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins(1985)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 12

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.



Geronimo: An American Legend(1993)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the US Government's subjugation of his people.



Blue Sky(1994)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.




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