Best movies of before 2000

Metropolitan(1990)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.



Demolition Man(1993)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.



Flashdance(1983)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.



Ulee's Gold(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.



Cure(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.



Postcards from the Edge(1990)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.



Kiss the Girls(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Police hunting for a serial kidnapper are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time.



Maurice(1987)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 56

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.



Uncle Buck(1989)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.



Little Women(1994)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.



Red Dawn(1984)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 43

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.



Speed 2: Cruise Control(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 42

A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.



Revenge of the Nerds(1984)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

At Adams College, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight back for their peace and self-respect.



Twelve Monkeys(1995)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 37

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.



Kalifornia(1993)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.



Fierce Creatures(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Zookeepers struggle to deal with the policies of changing directors.



The 'Burbs(1989)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 43

An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.



Airheads(1994)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head DJ refuses to play them.



The Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.



Phenomenon(1996)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 41

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.




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