Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Tim Dutton, Rosemary Harris, Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : Brian Gilbert,

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...

Actors : Donna Summer, Chick Vennera, Valerie Landsburg, Terri Nunn,
Directors : Robert Klane,

It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other ...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

Actors : Dana Hill, Peter Coyote, Rip Torn, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.

Actors : Tim Choate, Robin Ellis, Wesley Addy, Lee Remick,
Directors : James Ivory,

It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout ...

Actors : Donald Sinden, Mako, Jacques Marin, David Hartman,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Actors : Alan Bates, Jill Clayburgh, Cliff Gorman, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Alan Arkin, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.

Actors : Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In Chicago, during the Prohibition, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Peter Falk, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Resnais,

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Actors : Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Amy Irving, Sam Wanamaker, Richard Dreyfuss, Lee Remick,
Directors : Joel Oliansky,

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...

Actors : Michael Pas, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck,
Directors : Stijn Coninx,

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ...