Best movies of before 2000 on amazon prime

Basic Instinct(1992)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved.



Rocky V(1990)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Reluctantly retired from boxing, and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him, as the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy.



Dead Again(1991)

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Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An amnesiac and a private eye find they might have a past life connection.



Rocky IV(1985)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 46

After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.



A View to a Kill(1985)

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Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 48

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.



The Saint(1997)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.



Cujo(1983)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.



The Running Man(1987)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 46

A wrongly convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a game show.



Apt Pupil(1998)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.



Forces of Nature(1999)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A soon-to-be-married man encounters an exciting stranger after his plane suffers an accident on takeoff.



Little Big Man(1970)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.



Soapdish(1991)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.



Escape from New York(1981)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 38

In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.



F/X(1986)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.



Pet Sematary(1989)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.



Black Rain(1989)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.



The Relic(1997)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.



The Muppets Take Manhattan(1984)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.



Clue(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Six guests are invited to a strange house and must cooperate with the staff to solve a murder mystery.



Witness(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.




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