Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

The Sandpiper(1965)

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Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.



Lover Come Back(1961)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.



Cheyenne Autumn(1964)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 11

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.



Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Millie comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality and white slavers.



To Be or Not to Be(1983)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when what should intrude but World War II in the form of an invasion. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while ...



The Hospital(1971)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 9

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.



The Americanization of Emily(1964)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An American naval officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission.



Funny Lady(1975)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.



Shenandoah(1965)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 4

During the Civil War, a Virginia farmer and his family vow to remain neutral but one of the sons is captured by Union soldiers, sending the farmer to his rescue.



Pocketful of Miracles(1961)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.



Sounder(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.



Khartoum(1966)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In the Sudan, in 1884-85, Egyptian forces led by a British general defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim army led by a religious fanatic, the Mahdi.



The Dresser(1983)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An effeminate personal assistant of a deteriorating veteran actor struggles to get him through a difficult performance of King Lear.



The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A no account outlaw establishes his own particular brand of law and order and builds a town on the edges of civilization in this farcical western. With the aid of an old law text and ...



Crimes of the Heart(1986)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. The oldest sister, Lenny, takes care of their grandfather and ...



The Ruling Class(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.



Bite the Bullet(1975)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A group of ex-rough riders, an ex-prostitute and a gunfighter enter a horse race in the desert.



Sunset(1988)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.



Swing Shift(1984)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.



Dad(1989)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...




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