Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Days of Thunder(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level.



Top Gun(1986)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 56

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.



Pretty Woman(1990)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.



TRON(1982)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.



Empire of the Sun(1987)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.



Beverly Hills Cop(1984)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.



Excalibur(1981)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the round table of Camelot even as forces conspire to tear it apart



The Grifters(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.



Starship Troopers(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.



The Fisher King(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake.



Sweet and Lowdown(1999)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 63

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.



The American President(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. president and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception" and sparks fly anyway.



Reversal of Fortune(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.



A Civil Action(1998)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 64

The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyers.



Hook(1991)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

When Captain Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.



Kundun(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 65

From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.



Batman Forever(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.



Con Air(1997)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Newly paroled ex-con and former U.S. Ranger Cameron Poe finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the passengers seize control.



The Nutty Professor(1996)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Grossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.



Waterworld(1995)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 56

In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.




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