Critically acclaimed movies of before 2000 on netflix

Monty Python and the Holy Grail(1975)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.





Reservoir Dogs(1992)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.



Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



Notting Hill(1999)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

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



Grease(1978)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?



Croupier(1998)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.



The Mask of Zorro(1998)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A young thief, seeking revenge for the death of his brother, is trained by the once great, but aged Zorro, who also pursues vengeance of his own.



Tucker: The Man and His Dream(1988)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 61

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.



The Hunt for Red October(1990)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 59

In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect or to start a war?



The Nutty Professor(1996)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.



Air Force One(1997)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he - an ex-soldier - works from hiding to defeat them.



Addams Family Values(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.



28 Days(2000)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A big-city newspaper columnist is forced to enter a drug and alcohol rehab center after ruining her sister's wedding and crashing a stolen limousine.



Top Gun(1986)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 56

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.



Heavy(1995)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 55

The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.



The Addams Family(1991)

Combined Rating:
67
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Con artists plan to fleece an eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long-lost uncle.



Fletch(1985)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 53

Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher is a newspaper reporter being offered a large sum to off a cancerous millionaire, but is on the run, risking his job, and finding clues when it's clear the man is healthy.



Blue Streak(1999)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A former convict poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.



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.




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