Best movies of before 2000

The Beach(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.



The Cell(2000)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.



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.



The Bridges of Madison County(1995)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.



Gods and Monsters(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The last days of Frankenstein (1931) Director James Whale are explored.



Amistad(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.



Crimson Tide(1995)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny, to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles, before confirming his orders to do so.



Primary Colors(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.



Delicatessen(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.



Bulworth(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.



Days of Thunder(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.



Wild Wild West(1999)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the clutches of a nineteenth-century inventor-villain.



Air Force One(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them.



A Bronx Tale(1993)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A father becomes worried when a local gangster befriends his son in the Bronx in the 1960s.



Point Break(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

An FBI agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.



Menace II Society(1993)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.



The Devil's Advocate(1997)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.



The Wedding Singer(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged, but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.



True Lies(1994)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.



The Doors(1991)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.




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