Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Flashdance(1983)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.



Maurice(1987)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 56

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.



Planet of the Apes(1968)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.



The Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.



Silkwood(1983)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.



The Prince of Tides(1991)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.



Smokey and the Bandit(1977)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over county lines in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.



Dead Man Walking(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.



Black Rain(1989)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.



The Last of the Mohicans(1992)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.



Casino(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast living and fast loving woman.



Braveheart(1995)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 34

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.



Elizabeth(1998)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.



Green Card(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 47

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.



The Wings of the Dove(1997)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 55

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.



Evita(1996)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.



Hamlet(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.



Awakenings(1990)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.



Cape Fear(1991)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.



The Hurricane(1999)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.




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