Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

Actors : Audrey Meadows, Gig Young, Doris Day, Cary Grant,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save her virginity for marriage.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Frankie Avalon, Laurence Harvey, John Wayne,
Directors : John Wayne,

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Actors : Toshirô Mifune, Eva Marie Saint, James Garner, Yves Montand,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, ...

Actors : Julia Foster, Millicent Martin, Michael Caine, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Actors : Frankie Vaughan, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, Yves Montand,
Directors : George Cukor,

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Stacy Keach, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Guy Green,

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere, John Dehner, George C. Scott,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

Dr Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited...

Actors : Bette Midler, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal, James Caan,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North ...

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Daryl Hannah, James Remar,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Albert Finney, Ignacio López Tarso, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : John Huston,

The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace.

Actors : Sonia Braga, Raul Julia, Jonathan Winters, Richard Dreyfuss,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

Little known actor, Jack Noah, is working on location in the country of Parador at the time the dictator dies. The dictator's right hand man, Roberto, makes Jack an offer he cannot refuse.....

Actors : Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.

Actors : Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Patricia Quinn,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

Actors : Richard Burton, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.

Actors : Ed Harris, Kathy Baker, Robert De Niro, Sloane Shelton,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both...

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her Uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around...