Best movies of before 2000

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.

Actors : David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows, Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.

Actors : Darwin Joston, Martin West, Laurie Zimmer, Austin Stoker,
Directors : John Carpenter,

A police sergeant and an unlikely band of criminals defend a closing LA precinct office on New Years Eve against an army of gang members.

Actors : Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko, Wesley Snipes,
Directors : Christian Duguay,

Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead ...

Actors : Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Xander Berkeley, Stellan Skarsgård,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.

Actors : Marcel Hillaire, Woody Allen, Jacquelyn Hyde, Janet Margolin,
Directors : Woody Allen,

The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes,
Directors : John Carpenter,

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield to kill again.

Actors : Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese,
Directors : Terry Jones,

Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Paolo Stoppa, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Paul Frankeur, Delphine Seyrig, Fernando Rey,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

Actors : Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Bembol Roco,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.

Actors : Dan O'Bannon, Dre Pahich, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm,
Directors : John Carpenter,

In the far reaches of space, a small crew, 20 years into their solitary mission, find things beginning to go hilariously wrong.

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, John Cusack,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

Actors : Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Famke Janssen, Geoffrey Rush,
Directors : William Malone,

An amusement park mogul offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.

Actors : Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau, Morris Chestnut,
Directors : Malcolm D. Lee,

Harper's autobiographical novel is almost out, his girlfriend Robin desires commitment, and he's best man at the wedding of Lance, a pro athlete. He goes to New York early (Robin will come ...

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Anne Yernaux, Fabrizio Rongione, Émilie Dequenne,

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

Actors : Bebe Neuwirth, Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and ...

Actors : William Eadie, Michelle Stewart, Mandy Matthews, Tommy Flanagan,
Directors : Lynne Ramsay,

Glasgow, summer, 1973. Dustmen are striking; bags of garbage add to the blight of council flats and a fetid canal. Ryan, who's about 12, drowns during a play fight with his neighbor, the ...

Actors : Steve Zahn, Ally Walker, William H. Macy, Jeremy Northam,
Directors : Mark Illsley,

Two escaped convicts arrive in the town of Happy, Texas, where they are mistaken for a gay couple who is to host the town's Little Miss Fresh Squeezed beauty pageant. Enjoying the celebrity...