Best Picture Winners
Wings
Two young men from the same town but different social classes end up as fighter pilots ...
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
In this fable-morality subtitled “A Song of Two Humans”, the “evil” temptress is a city woman ...
The Broadway Melody
Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs ...
All Quiet on the Western Front
This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author ...
Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot ...
Grand Hotel
Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag “People ...
Cavalcade
A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes ...
It Happened One Night
Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked ...
Mutiny on the Bounty
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to ...
The Great Ziegfeld
At the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, sideshow barker Flo Ziegfeld turns the tables on his more ...
The Life of Emile Zola
Fictionalized account of the life of famed French author Emile Zola. As portrayed in the film, ...
You Can’t Take It with You
The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president ...
Gone with the Wind
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union ...
Rebecca
A shy ladies’ companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim ...
How Green Was My Valley
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. ...
Mrs. Miniver
The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. ...
Casablanca
The story of Rick Blaine, a cynical world-weary ex-patriate who runs a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco ...
Going My Way
Youthful Father Chuck O’Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the ...
The Lost Weekend
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been “on the wagon” for ten days and seems to be ...
The Best Years of Our Lives
The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a ...
Gentleman’s Agreement
Philip Green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write ...
Hamlet
William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. ...
All the King’s Men
Jack Burden is a newspaper reporter who first hears of Willie Stark when his editor sends ...
All About Eve
Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette ...
An American in Paris
Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an ...
The Greatest Show on Earth
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this ...
From Here to Eternity
It’s 1941. Robert E. Lee Prewitt has requested Army transfer and has ended up at Schofield ...
On the Waterfront
Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at ...
Marty
Stuck as the last of six children at home with an overbearing Italian mother, the only ...
Around the World in 80 Days
When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less ...
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who ...
Gigi
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a ...
Ben-Hur
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of ...
The Apartment
As of November 1, 1959, mild mannered C.C. Baxter has been working at Consolidated Life, an ...
West Side Story
West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, “Romeo and Juliet”. The ...
Lawrence of Arabia
Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent to ...
Tom Jones
In eighteenth-century England, “first cousins” Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in ...
My Fair Lady
Pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon ...
The Sound of Music
In 1930’s Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become ...
A Man for All Seasons
The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love ...
In the Heat of the Night
Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he ...
Oliver!
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage ...
Midnight Cowboy
Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a ...
Patton
“Patton” tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. ...
The French Connection
William Friedkin’s gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a ...
The Godfather
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one ...
The Sting
When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced and ...
The Godfather: Part II
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone ...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced ...
Rocky
Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt ...
Annie Hall
Alvy Singer, a forty year old twice divorced, neurotic, intellectual Jewish New York stand-up comic, reflects ...
The Deer Hunter
Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to ...
Kramer vs. Kramer
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife ...
Ordinary People
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the ...
Chariots of Fire
It’s the post-WWI era. Britons Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell are both naturally gifted fast sprinters, ...
Gandhi
In 1893, Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling ...
Terms of Endearment
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, ...
Amadeus
Antonio Salieri believes that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music is divine and miraculous. He wishes he was ...
Out of Africa
Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated ...
Platoon
Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in ...
The Last Emperor
This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader’s ...
Rain Man
Charles Sanford “Charlie” Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with ...
Driving Miss Daisy
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow ...
Dances with Wolves
Lt. John Dunbar is dubbed a hero after he accidentally leads Union troops to a victory ...
The Silence of the Lambs
FBI trainee Clarice Starling works hard to advance her career, including trying to hide or put ...
Unforgiven
The town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys ...
Schindler’s List
Oskar Schindler is a vainglorious and greedy German businessman who becomes an unlikely humanitarian amid the ...
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running ...
Braveheart
William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward ...
The English Patient
October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical ...
Titanic
84 years later, a 100 year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her ...
Shakespeare in Love
Will Shakespeare is a known but struggling poet, playwright and actor who not only has sold ...
American Beauty
After his death sometime in his forty-third year, suburbanite Lester Burnham tells of the last few ...
Gladiator
Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. ...
A Beautiful Mind
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it ...
Chicago
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future ...
Million Dollar Baby
Wanting to learn from the best, aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald wants Frankie Dunn to train her. ...
Crash
Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a handful of disparate people’s lives intertwine as ...
The Departed
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover ...
No Country for Old Men
In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the remains of several drug ...
Slumdog Millionaire
The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is ...
The Hurt Locker
An intense portrayal of elite soldiers who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the ...
The King’s Speech
England's Prince Albert must ascend the throne as King George VI, but he has a speech ...
The Artist
Outside a movie premiere, enthusiastic fan Peppy Miller literally bumps into the swashbuckling hero of the ...
Argo
In 1979, the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans were ...
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Actor Riggan Thomson is most famous for his movie role from over twenty years ago of ...
Spotlight
When the Boston Globe's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the ...
Moonlight
Three time periods - young adolescence, mid-teen and young adult - in the life of black-American ...
The Shape of Water
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship ...
Green Book
A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of ...
Parasite
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and ...
Nomadland
After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American ...
Everything Everywhere All at Once
A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can ...