Best movies of before 2000

Look Who's Talking(1989)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 47

After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice-over.



Superman(1978)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.



Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.



The Andromeda Strain(1971)

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Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A group of scientists investigate a deadly new alien virus before it can spread.



Mallrats(1995)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.



Grumpy Old Men(1993)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.



Brazil(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error, and becomes an enemy of the state.



River's Edge(1986)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.



Mighty Aphrodite(1995)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 50

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother: a ditzy porn star and prostitute.



Timecop(1994)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Max Walker, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who's intent on changing the past to control the future.



Buffy the Vampire Slayer(1992)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.



Cujo(1983)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 51

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



Tristana(1970)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 65

When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable ...



Down and Out in Beverly Hills(1986)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.



School Ties(1992)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Set in the 1950s, a star-quarterback is given an opportunity to attend an elite preparatory school but must conceal the fact that he is Jewish.



Superman III(1983)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Synthetic kryptonite laced with tobacco tar splits Superman in two: good Clark Kent and bad Man of Steel.



Robin Hood: Men in Tights(1993)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A spoof of Robin Hood in general and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) in particular.



Bean(1997)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 46

The bumbling Mr. Bean travels to America when he is given the responsibility of bringing a highly valuable painting to a Los Angeles museum.



Hackers(1995)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 47

This movie is about hackers who are blamed for making a virus that will capsize 5 oil tankers.



Rumble Fish(1983)

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Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.




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