Best movies of before 2000 on netflix

Saving Private Ryan(1998)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.



Taxi Driver(1976)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.



Back to the Future(1985)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



Jurassic Park(1993)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.



Heat(1995)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist, while both sides attempt to find balance between their personal and their professional lives.



Groundhog Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again.



Good Will Hunting(1997)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.



Stand by Me(1986)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



Scream 3(2000)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, a new Ghostface begins to terrorize them once again.



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.



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.



Scream 2(1997)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Two years after the first series of murders, a new psychopath dons the Ghostface costume and a new string of killings begins.



Scary Movie(2000)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.



How the Grinch Stole Christmas(2000)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.



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.



The 6th Day(2000)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.



Trading Places(1983)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.



The Negotiator(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

In a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth.




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