Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Geoffrey Rush, Michael Caine,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, John Malkovich, Cary Elwes, Udo Kier,
Directors : E. Elias Merhige,

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.

Actors : John C. Reilly, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.

Actors : Julian Sands, Elisabeth Shue, Richard Lewis, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Actors : Philip King, Alison Crosbie, Pete Postlethwaite, Daniel Day-Lewis,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Depp, Dianne Wiest, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Tim Burton,

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.

Actors : Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jack Nicholson,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Actors : Fred Ward, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Actors : Stockard Channing, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway, John Travolta,
Directors : Randal Kleiser,

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?

Actors : David Morse, Peter Stormare, Catherine Deneuve, Björk,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.

Actors : J.T. Walsh, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter,
Directors : Billy Bob Thornton,

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Olatz López Garmendia, Giovanni Florido, Javier Bardem,
Directors : Julian Schnabel,

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...

Actors : Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Directors : John Singleton,

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Tim Burton,

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being the clownishly homicidal Joker.

Actors : Anne Heche, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Denis Leary,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

Actors : Lisa Kudrow, Chazz Palminteri, Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Harold Ramis,

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure mob boss.

Actors : Tom McCamus, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.

Actors : Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Mike Newell,

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Pam Grier,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.

Actors : Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien,
Directors : Tony Kaye,

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.