Best movies of before 2000 that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Leo Rossi, Bruce Barlow, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...

Actors : Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, George Baker, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Frank Perry,

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Alec McCowen,
Directors : George Cukor,

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she ...

Actors : Deborah Kerr, John Mills, Edith Evans, Hayley Mills,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert,
Directors : David Miller,

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Actors : Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Diahann Carroll, Tamu Blackwell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Berry,

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Actors : Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Gladys Cooper, Fred MacMurray,
Directors : Norman Tokar,

A happy and unbelievably lucky young Irish immigrant, John Lawless, lands a job as the butler of an unconventional millionaire, Biddle. His daughter, Cordelia Drexel Biddle, tires of the ...

Actors : Pina Pellicer, Ignacio López Tarso, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, Enrique Lucero,
Directors : Roberto Gavaldón,

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him...

Actors : Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Peter Ustinov, Bob Newhart,
Directors : Eric Till,

A paroled London fraudster poses as a computer specialist in order to work for an insurance company that entirely relies on its corporate server.

Actors : Jason Robards, Jean Simmons, Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

After 17 years, things have got too predictable and stale. They argue, they visit a marriage counselor, Richard (drunk) visits a prostitute. They split up. After meeting other people, they ...

Actors : Henry Fonda, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former President's endorsement.

Actors : Mildred Natwick, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Actors : Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Antonio Gades, Marisol,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...

Actors : Lesley-Anne Down, Len Cariou, Diana Rigg, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Harold Prince,

Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Only she's been a virgin for the whole eleven months of the marriage, and being a bit restless, Fredrik ...

Actors : Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Marsha Mason, James Caan,
Directors : Robert Moore,

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

Actors : Étienne Guichard, Régis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa, Arnault LeCarpentier,
Directors : Ettore Scola,

The 50 year story of a ballroom in France, from the 1920s. The people who go there is always the same, even the musicians. You can see all kind of people dancing all the fashion dances (...

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...