Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, Miriam Hopkins, James Garner,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Charles Durning, Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Sally Field, James Garner,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...

Actors : Elton John, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.

Actors : Alan Badel, Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Lenore Banks, Mary McDonnell, Angela Bassett,
Directors : John Sayles,

May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had ...

Actors : Ed Harris, Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Actors : Li Gong, Ma Chong, Wei Li, Baotian Li,

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...

Actors : Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, John Huston, Brian Keith,
Directors : John Milius,

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.

Actors : Patricia Neal, Kirk Douglas, Tom Tryon, John Wayne,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Rock Hudson, Jim Brown,
Directors : John Sturges,

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.

Actors : Zachary Ittimangnaq, Samson Jorah, Brian Dennehy, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.

Actors : Arthur Hill, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

Actors : Martin Hewitt, Brooke Shields, Don Murray, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, Arlene Francis, Pamela Tiffin, James Cagney,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.

Actors : Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti, Pauline Collins,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...

Actors : Helen Hunt, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Billy Crystal,

The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.

Actors : Jessica Tandy, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.