Best movies of before 2000

2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.



The Godfather: Part II(1974)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.



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.



Alien(1979)

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Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.



Apocalypse Now(1979)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.



Goodfellas(1990)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.



The Lion King(1994)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Lion cub and future king Simba searches for his identity. His eagerness to please others and penchant for testing his boundaries sometimes gets him into trouble.



Titanic(1997)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.



The Blair Witch Project(1999)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.



The Iron Giant(1999)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.



The French Connection(1971)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.



Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.



Annie Hall(1977)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.



Ran(1985)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.



The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.



The Insider(1999)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.



Rushmore(1998)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

The extracurricular king of Rushmore preparatory school is put on academic probation.



The Matrix(1999)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.



Magnolia(1999)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.



Three Kings(1999)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.




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