Best movies of before 2000

Addams Family Values(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.



The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear(1991)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Lieutenant Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.



The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 59

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



No Way Out(1987)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.



Repo Man(1984)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Young punk Otto becomes a repo man after helping to steal a car, and stumbles into a world of wackiness as a result.



Wall Street(1987)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.



The Mask(1994)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.



Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.



Dirty Rotten Scoundrels(1988)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.



The Living Daylights(1987)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

James Bond is living on the edge to stop an evil arms dealer from starting another world war. Bond crosses all seven continents in order to stop the evil Whitaker and General Koskov.



The Santa Clause(1994)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 56

When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.



Big Trouble in Little China(1986)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

An All-American trucker gets dragged into a centuries-old mystical battle in Chinatown.



Body Heat(1981)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.



Falling Down(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 54

An unemployed defense worker frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.



Licence to Kill(1989)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

James Bond goes rogue and sets off to unleash vengeance on a drug lord who tortured his best friend, a C.I.A. agent, and left him for dead and murdered his bride after he helped capture him.



True Romance(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 54

In Detroit, a lonely pop culture geek marries a call girl, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine - the Mob - track them down in an attempt to reclaim it.



Tremors(1990)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.



La Bamba(1987)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of early rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens who died at age 17 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.



Octopussy(1983)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.




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