Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees



The Cotton Club(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.



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.



The Wiz(1978)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

An adaptation of 'The Wizard of Oz' that tries to capture the essence of the African-American experience.



Dragonslayer(1981)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.



The Shootist(1976)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.



The Paper(1994)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

NYC tabloid editor Henry is faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges and a tempting job offer.



The World According to Garp(1982)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.



Running on Empty(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.



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.



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.



Bugsy Malone(1976)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.



Jagged Edge(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...



Earthquake(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.



Aladdin(1992)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her.



Phantom of the Paradise(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.



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.



Death on the Nile(1978)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 12

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?



Quest for Camelot(1998)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.



Young Sherlock Holmes(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.




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