Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Quinn Cummings, Richard Dreyfuss, Paul Benedict, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Actors : Haing S. Ngor, Hiep Thi Le, Bussaro Sanruck, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

The final movie in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a ...

Actors : Frank Langella, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Emma Thompson,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

As part of a fertility research project, a male scientist agrees to carry a pregnancy in his own body.

Actors : David Hayman, Sarah Miles, Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir,
Directors : John Boorman,

A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was ...

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Oliver Clark, Gary Busey,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Uma Thurman, Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June ...

Actors : Raffaella Carrà, Trevor Howard, Frank Sinatra, Brad Dexter,
Directors : Mark Robson,

An American POW leads a group of mainly British prisoners to escape from the Germans in WWII.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn, Walter Matthau, Cary Grant,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Actors : Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Barbara Parkins,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.

Actors : Jason Robards, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Jocelyn Moorhouse,

"King Lear" set on a farm in Iowa.

Actors : James Fox, Sean Connery, Roy Scheider, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.

Actors : Campbell Scott, John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Jill Bennett,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, John Wayne,
Directors : Howard Hawks,

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis,
Directors : Robert Benton,

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

Actors : Pat Morita, Eddie Smith, Ralph Macchio, Bruce Malmuth,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Daniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.

Actors : Al Pacino, Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Madonna,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Actors : Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Sayles,

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.