Best movies of before 2000

The Guns of Navarone(1961)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.



Otesánek(2000)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 37

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than a ...



Sade(2000)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.



The Price of Milk(2000)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 49

New Zealand milk farmer Rob gives his lover Lucinda a ring. Trying to spark up her relationship with Rob, she takes her friend Drosophila's advice and starts to try and make Rob angry. But ...



Under Suspicion(2000)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. This will only take ten minutes, they say, but it turns out to be one ...



Blinkende lygter(2000)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Four small-time gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop...



The Opportunists(2000)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A struggling auto mechanic with a criminal past agrees to one last heist to pay off his debts.



Emporte-moi(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Canadian/Swiss/French production that tells the tale of Hannah, a tomboyish 13 year-old hitting puberty in 1963. An unhappy and uncomfortable family life leads Hannah to seek escapism in the world of cinema. Specifically, she repeatedly watches and appears enthralled by Anna Karina, the character from Jean-Luc Godard's "Vivre sa vie" (1962) about a Parisian woman's descent into prostitution. Her ...



Kadosh(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Two sisters become victims of the patriarchal, ultra-orthodox society.



Kikujirô no natsu(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.



I Went Down(1997)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who ...



Zero Effect(1998)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The world's greatest detective Daryl Zero aided by his associate Steve Arlo investigates a complex and mysterious case of blackmail and missing keys for shady tycoon Gregory Stark who is less than forthcoming about what is really happening!



Wrongfully Accused(1998)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 19

Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail.



Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 37

An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes,...



A Slipping-Down Life(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.



Wilde(1997)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage, fatherhood and ...



Conte d'automne(1998)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Magali, 45, is a wine producer in the south of France. She's a widow, and her best friend, Isabelle, decides to find her a new husband. She puts an ad in the local newspaper and finds a ...



The Tango Lesson(1997)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 46

On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from ...



Body Shots(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 36

A tale of the mysterious, but necessary, mating ritual between men and women of today and everything they think about sex but are afraid to say.



In Dreams(1999)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.




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