Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Contender(2000)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.



The Time Machine(2002)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.



Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.



What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.





True Grit(1969)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.



Nashville(1975)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.



Nine to Five(1980)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.



Vatel(2000)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the ...



Five Easy Pieces(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.



Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.



Straw Dogs(1971)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.



Three Days of the Condor(1975)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 24

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.



Marathon Man(1976)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.



Sorcerer(1977)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.



Ragtime(1981)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 41

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.



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 ...



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.





Living(2022)

Combined Rating:
43
Combined Critics Rating: 65

An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.




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