Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Richard Harris, Julie Andrews, Gene Hackman, Max von Sydow,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.

Actors : Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Frank Sinatra, Barbara Rush,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

Leaving home, young Buddy Baker arrives unannounced at the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his older brother, Alan, a swinging girl chasing bachelor who prefers his carefree life to ...

Actors : Felicia Farr, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Wende Wagner, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Edmon Ryan, Elisabeth Fraser, Shirley MacLaine,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from ...

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, John Forsythe,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.

Actors : Greer Garson, Ralph Bellamy, Jean Hagen, Hume Cronyn,
Directors : Vincent J. Donehue,

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Anne Bancroft, Sidney Poitier, Steven Hill,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A college volunteer at the crisis phone gets a call from a suicide caller.

Actors : Guy Stockwell, George Peppard, Rock Hudson, Nigel Green,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A Canadian POW major is rescued by a special British military unit made up of Germans to help lead an attack on a major Nazi fuel depot in Tobruk, Libya.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann...

Actors : Richard Burton, Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Christian Marquand,

Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Éva Gábor, Paul Newman, Thelma Ritter,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

The fashion industry and Paris provide the setting for a comedy surrounding the mistaken impression that Joanne Woodward is a high-priced call girl. Paul Newman is the journalist interviewing her for insights on her profession.

Actors : Maria Schell, Glenn Ford, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Baxter,

The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier family and its friends.

Actors : Ian McShane, Suzanne Pleshette, Murray Hamilton, Vittorio De Sica,
Directors : Mel Stuart,

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an eighteen-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.

Actors : Bernard Cribbins, David Kossoff, Ron Moody, Margaret Rutherford,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A tiny country persuades the Americans and Soviets that they're starting a space program, when they really just want some money for new plumbing.

Actors : Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Edmond O'Brien, George Sanders,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

After a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four-year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Kelly McGillis, Tom Conti, Joel Fabiani,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Sissy Spacek, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins,
Directors : Tom Moore,

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, ...

Actors : Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, James Naughton, Karen Allen,
Directors : Paul Newman,

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.