Best movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : John Randolph, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : John Guillermin,

A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.

Actors : Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Richard Burton, Peter Firth,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.

Actors : Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Alan Alda,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Catherine Deneuve, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...

Actors : Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Jack Good, Trevor Howard, Cary Grant,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

During World War II, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Trevor Howard,
Directors : David Lean,

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Actors : Peggy Ashcroft, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Art Carney, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Actors : Arthur Hill, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

Actors : Vincent Perez, Anne Brochet, Jacques Weber, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Paul Newman, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Brandon De Wilde,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Maurice Dallimore, Terence Stamp, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Actors : Elton John, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Ken Russell,

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.

Actors : Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner,

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...

Actors : Norman Burton, Laurie Heineman, Jack Gilford, Jack Lemmon,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Actors : David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.