Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Cleopatra(1963)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.



The Night of the Iguana(1964)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.



Days of Wine and Roses(1962)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.



El Cid(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.



One-Eyed Jacks(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.



Ryan's Daughter(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.



Summer of '42(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 15

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.



The Journey of Natty Gann(1985)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In the 1930s, a tomboyish girl runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, because there was work there.



Harry and Tonto(1974)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.



Equus(1977)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.



Sunday Bloody Sunday(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...



The Day of the Locust(1975)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.



Cyrano de Bergerac(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.



1776(1972)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.



Father Goose(1964)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 10

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.



The Mambo Kings(1992)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother, the business manager, and the ladies' man...



Ridicule(1996)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.



The Electric Horseman(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...



The Black Hole(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.



Jesus Christ Superstar(1973)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.




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