Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas(1982)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV reporter targets it as the Devil's playhouse.



This Sporting Life(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.



Tommy(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.



Ice Station Zebra(1968)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

USN nuclear sub USS Tigerfish must rush to the North Pole to rescue the staff of Drift Ice Station Zebra weather station.



The Wind and the Lion(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.



The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.



One, Two, Three(1961)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter.



In Harm's Way(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.



A Little Romance(1979)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...



Endless Love(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.



Shirley Valentine(1989)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...



Save the Tiger(1973)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.



Missing(1982)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.



The Shop on Main Street(1965)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...



Mr. Saturday Night(1992)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.



Nobody's Fool(1994)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.



'Round Midnight(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...



Silver Streak(1976)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.



The Longest Yard(1974)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.




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