Best movies of before 2000 on prime

Bloodsport(1988)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 32

Follows Frank Dux, an American martial artist serving in the military, who decides to leave the army to compete in a martial arts tournament in Hong Kong where fights to the death can occur.



Mercury Rising(1998)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.



Soldier(1998)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A soldier is dumped on a waste disposal planet and lives among a community of crash survivors on the planet and takes it upon himself to defend his new home when genetic engineered soldiers are ordered to eliminate the crash survivors.



Bad Boys(1995)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Two hip detectives protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct.



Fiddler on the Roof(1971)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 22

In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.





A Bridge Too Far(1977)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.



Double Impact(1991)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Twin brothers are separated when their parents are murdered but 25 years later they re-unite in order to avenge their parents' death.



Sholay(1975)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 9

After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.



Autumn in New York(2000)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Romantic drama about an aging playboy who falls for a sweet, but terminally ill, young woman.



Andaz Apna Apna(1994)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two slackers competing for the affections of an heiress, inadvertently become her protectors from an evil criminal.



Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.



Much Ado About Nothing(1993)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.



Hera Pheri(2000)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Three unemployed men find the answer to all their money problems when they recieve a call from a kidnapper. However, things do not go as planned.



Kuch Kuch Hota Hai(1998)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During their college years, Anjali was in love with her best-friend Rahul, but he had eyes only for Tina. Years later, Rahul and the now-deceased Tina's eight-year-old daughter attempts to reunite her father and Anjali.



Blown Away(1994)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.



Mannequin(1987)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young artist, searching for his vocation, makes a mannequin so perfect he falls in love with it. Finding the mannequin in a store window, he gets a job there and his creation comes to life.



Sarfarosh(1999)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After his brother is killed and father severly injured by terrorists, a young med student quits his studies to join the Indian Police Service to wipe out the terrorists.



The Handmaid's Tale(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.



Anand(1971)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of a terminally ill man who wishes to live life to the full before the inevitable occurs, as told by his best friend.




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