Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in actress category

Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.



A Patch of Blue(1965)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.



Lady Sings the Blues(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 13

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.



Sounder(1972)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.



Love with the Proper Stranger(1963)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...



Hester Street(1975)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 17

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ...



Georgy Girl(1966)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.



The Unsinkable Molly Brown(1964)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

A poor, uneducated mountain girl leaves her cabin in search of respect, a wealthy husband, and a better life.





A Touch of Class(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Romantic comedy about a pair of clandestine lovers in a London-Spain tryst.



The Pumpkin Eater(1964)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...



Rachel, Rachel(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.



Long Day's Journey Into Night(1962)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...



Diary of a Mad Housewife(1970)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.



Nicholas and Alexandra(1971)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.



The Sundowners(1960)

Combined Rating:
11
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 Great White Hope(1970)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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



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.



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...



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.




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