Critically acclaimed movies of before 2000 on amazon prime

Sixteen Candles(1984)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.



Soapdish(1991)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.



Cujo(1983)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

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



F/X(1986)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A movie special effects man is hired to fake a real-life mob killing for a witness protection plan, but finds his own life in danger.



Kindergarten Cop(1990)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A tough cop must pose as a kindergarten teacher in order to locate a dangerous criminal's ex-wife, who may hold the key to putting him behind bars.



Apt Pupil(1998)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.



Forces of Nature(1999)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A soon-to-be-married man encounters an exciting stranger after his plane suffers an accident on takeoff.



Kiss Me, Stupid(1964)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Jealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.



Basic Instinct(1992)

Combined Rating:
65
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved.



Kansas City(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930s Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held ...



The Saint(1997)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.



Rocky V(1990)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 49

Reluctantly retired from boxing, and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him, as the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy.



Higher Learning(1995)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 49

People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.



Little Big Man(1970)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.



The Muppets Take Manhattan(1984)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Kermit and his friends go to New York to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.



A View to a Kill(1985)

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Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 48

An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.



The Relic(1997)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.



Chill Factor(1999)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 48

A new biological chemical weapon that explodes up to temperatures over fifty degrees Fahrenheit, falls into the hands of two men who try to make sure that it doesn't get stolen by a terrorist.



Snow Day(2000)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 47

When a school in upstate New York is snowed in, a group of students hi-jack a plow to keep the school closed.



The Dark Half(1993)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A writer's fictional alter ego wants to take over his life...at any price.




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