Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in actor in a leading role category

Stand and Deliver(1988)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 28

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.



The China Syndrome(1979)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.





What's Love Got to Do with It(1993)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 27

The story of singer Tina Turner's rise to stardom and how she gained the courage to break free from her abusive husband, Ike Turner.



Aftersun(2022)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.



The Boys from Brazil(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.



Heaven Can Wait(1978)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.



Runaway Train(1985)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.



Mr. Holland's Opus(1995)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.



The Madness of King George(1994)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...



Children of a Lesser God(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.



Salvador(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.



Mona Lisa(1986)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.



Vice(2018)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 48

VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.



The Elephant Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.



The Stunt Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out, and falls for the leading lady.



Coming Home(1978)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.



The Goodbye Girl(1977)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 16

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.



The Buddy Holly Story(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.



My Favorite Year(1982)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show.




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