Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Howards End(1992)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.



The People vs. Larry Flynt(1996)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.



The Witches of Eastwick(1987)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.



The Age of Innocence(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.



Sleepless in Seattle(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.



Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.



Blazing Saddles(1974)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.



Hercules(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.



Ed Wood(1994)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.



Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



Dirty Dancing(1987)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.



Beetlejuice(1988)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

When a recently-deceased ghost couple find their now-vacant home invaded by an obnoxious family, they hire a sleazy ghost who gets rid of humans to help them.



Secrets & Lies(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.



Breaking the Waves(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.



Girl, Interrupted(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.



The Mask of Zorro(1998)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.



Gattaca(1997)

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Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.



Star Trek: First Contact(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.




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