Best movies of before 2000

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.



Keeping the Faith(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Two friends, a priest and a rabbi, fall in love with the same woman they knew in their youth, but the religious position of both men denies them romance.



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.



MASH(1970)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.



Scarface(1983)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.



The Evil Dead(1981)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.



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.



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.



Small Time Crooks(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.



Planes, Trains & Automobiles(1987)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.



Remember the Titans(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.



State and Main(2000)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.



The Blues Brothers(1980)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised.



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.



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.



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.



Never Been Kissed(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A newspaper reporter enrolls in high school as part of research for a story.



Any Given Sunday(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A behind-the-scenes look at the life-and-death struggles of modern-day gladiators and those who lead them.



Deep Blue Sea(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.



Summer of Sam(1999)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.




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