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

Educating Rita(1983)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 36

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...



On Golden Pond(1981)

Combined Rating:
41
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.



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.



Mr. & Mrs. Bridge(1990)

Combined Rating:
40
Combined Critics Rating: 47

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.



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.



Nell(1994)

Combined Rating:
39
Combined Critics Rating: 20

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.



Private Benjamin(1980)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A sheltered young high society woman joins the United States Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.



Lorenzo's Oil(1992)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 21

A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn all about it and tackle the problem himself.



To Leslie(2022)

Combined Rating:
38
Combined Critics Rating: 57

Inspired by true events. A West Texas single mother wins the lottery and squanders it just as fast, leaving behind a world of heartbreak. Years later, with her charm running out and nowhere to go, she fights to rebuild her life and find redemption.





The Fabulous Baker Boys(1989)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.



Six Degrees of Separation(1993)

Combined Rating:
36
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.



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.



Tumbleweeds(1999)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...



Shadowlands(1993)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.



A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Places in the Heart(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.



The Bostonians(1984)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.



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 French Lieutenant's Woman(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...




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