Best movies of before 2000

Patton(1970)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton.



You Can Count on Me(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.



A Fish Called Wanda(1988)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot.



Frequency(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.



Die Hard(1988)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 67

John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.



Young Frankenstein(1974)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.



Chocolat(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.



Blue Velvet(1986)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.



Once Upon a Time in the West(1968)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.



Airplane!(1980)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.



Superman II(1980)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth.



From Russia with Love(1963)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 70

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination ploy involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by SPECTRE.



Das Boot(1981)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.



Notting Hill(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.



10 Things I Hate About You(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A pretty, popular teenager can't go out on a date until her ill-tempered older sister does.



Bowfinger(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.



American Pie(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.



Bringing Out the Dead(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Haunted by the patients he failed to save, an extremely burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three fraught and turbulent nights.



A Simple Plan(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When three blue collar acquaintances come across millions of dollars in lost cash they make a plan to keep their find from the authorities but find complications and mistrust weaving its way into their plan.



The World Is Not Enough(1999)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.




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