Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Coal Miner's Daughter(1980)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Biographical story of Loretta Lynn, a legendary country singer that came from poverty to worldwide fame. She rose from humble beginnings in Kentucky to superstardom and changing the sound and style of country music forever.



Working Girl(1988)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 60

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.



Fatal Attraction(1987)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.



The Color Purple(1985)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.



Romancing the Stone(1984)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.



Breaking Away(1979)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 67

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.



An American Werewolf in London(1981)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.



Hoosiers(1986)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the championship.



Field of Dreams(1989)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.



The Abyss(1989)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.



Splash(1984)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.



Thunderball(1965)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 57

James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.



In & Out(1997)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.



Babe: Pig in the City(1998)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



The Mask(1994)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 54

Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.



Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.



Wall Street(1987)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.



Addams Family Values(1993)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 57

A comical Gothic horror-movie-type family tries to rescue their beloved uncle from his gold-digging new love.



Bicentennial Man(1999)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 55

An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions.




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