Best movies of before 2000 on netflix

The Truman Show(1998)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.



Taxi Driver(1976)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.



The Blair Witch Project(1999)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.



Rosemary's Baby(1968)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.



Fight Club(1999)

Combined Rating:
83
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more.



Election(1999)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.



American Psycho(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.



Jurassic Park(1993)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.



Heat(1995)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist, while both sides attempt to find balance between their personal and their professional lives.



Groundhog Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again.



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



Stand by Me(1986)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.



Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade(1989)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 63

When Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. must follow in his father's footsteps to stop the Nazis from getting their hands on the Holy Grail first.



Scarface(1983)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.



Sleepless in Seattle(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A recently widowed man's son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.



The Age of Innocence(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.



How the Grinch Stole Christmas(2000)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.



The Lost World: Jurassic Park(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.



The 6th Day(2000)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.



Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 58

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees, and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.




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