Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Billy Budd(1962)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.



Mary, Queen of Scots(1971)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.



Goodbye, Columbus(1969)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archtypical Jewish American Princess, very emotionally involved...



I Never Sang for My Father(1970)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.



The Reivers(1969)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.



Freud(1962)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

This pseudobiographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure ...



The Great White Hope(1970)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.



What's the Matter with Helen?(1971)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.



Taras Bulba(1962)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the 16th century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and the Cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.



Buster(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.



Cinderella Liberty(1973)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.



The Little Prince(1974)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.



Starting Over(1979)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.



The Sundowners(1960)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In Australia's Outback during the early 20th century the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon but the mom and son want to settle while the dad is against it.



The Sterile Cuckoo(1969)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams...



The V.I.P.s(1963)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Fog delays a group of travelers headed for New York. They wait at the V.I.P. lounge of London Airport, each at a moment of crisis in his or her life.



You're a Big Boy Now(1966)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with a loyal lass.



Madame Bovary(1991)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love ...



Babes in Toyland(1961)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo ...



Tango(1998)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.




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