Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Landlord(1970)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...



King Rat(1965)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 3

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.



Comes a Horseman(1978)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...



The Formula(1980)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The synthetic fuel production formula, invented by the Nazis at the end of WW2, is sought after by some who aim to sell it and by others who wish to destroy it.



The Secret of Santa Vittoria(1969)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 7

During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans



Gypsy(1962)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.



David and Lisa(1962)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...



Voyage of the Damned(1976)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.



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.



The Shoes of the Fisherman(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...



The Hindenburg(1975)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.



Morituri(1965)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.



Paris Blues(1961)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 9

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.



Jonathan Livingston Seagull(1973)

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Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.



The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz(1974)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...



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...



Joe(1970)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...



Cross Creek(1983)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.



Mon oncle d'Amérique(1980)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.



Tom & Viv(1994)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their planned honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry ...




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