Most popular movies of before 2000

Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.



Psycho(1960)

Combined Rating:
89
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.



Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.



Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

Combined Rating:
91
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.



The Nutty Professor(1963)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.





The Sound of Music(1965)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 30

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.



Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo(1966)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 45

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.



The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.



2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.



Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.



MASH(1970)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.



A Clockwork Orange(1971)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.



The Godfather(1972)

Combined Rating:
93
Combined Critics Rating: 90

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.



Westworld(1973)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.



The Texas Chain Saw Massacre(1974)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Two siblings visit their grandfather's grave in Texas along with three of their friends and are attacked by a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.



Jaws(1975)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers, until a local sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.



Taxi Driver(1976)

Combined Rating:
87
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.



Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Following an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.



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?




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