name,year,nominations,rating,duration,genre1,genre2,release,metacritic,synopsis
 Birdman,2014,9,7.8,119,Comedy,Drama,November,88,Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play a former popular actors struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown.
 12 Years a Slave,2013,9,8.1,134,Biography,Drama,November,97,In the antebellum United States Solomon Northup a free black man from upstate New York is abducted and sold into slavery.
 Argo,2012,7,7.8,120,Biography,Drama,October,86,Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
 The Artist,2011,10,8,100,Comedy,Drama,October,89,A silent movie star meets a young dancer but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
 The King's Speech,2010,12,8,118,Biography,Drama,December,88,The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.
 The Hurt Locker,2009,9,7.6,131,Drama,History,July,94,During the Iraq War a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
 Slumdog Millionaire,2008,10,8,120,Drama,Romance,January,86,"A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of ""Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"""
 No Country for Old Men,2007,8,8.1,122,Crime,Drama,November,91,Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
 The Departed,2006,5,8.5,151,Crime,Drama,October,86,An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
 Crash,2005,6,7.9,112,Drama,,May,69,Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race loss and redemption.
 Million Dollar Baby,2004,7,8.1,132,Drama,Sport,January,86,A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,2003,11,8.9,201,Adventure,Drama,December,94,Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Saurons army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
 Chicago,2002,13,7.2,113,Comedy,Crime,February,82,Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
 A Beautiful Mind,2001,8,8.2,135,Biography,Drama,January,72,After a brilliant but asocial mathematician John Nash accepts secret work in cryptography his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
 Gladiator,2000,12,8.5,155,Action,Drama,May,64,When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperors corrupt son he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
 American Beauty,1999,8,8.4,122,Drama,Romance,October,86,A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughters best friend.
 Shakespeare in Love,1998,13,7.2,123,Comedy,Drama,December,87,A young Shakespeare out of ideas and short of cash meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
 Titanic,1997,14,7.7,194,Drama,Romance,December,74,A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
 The English Patient,1996,12,7.4,162,Drama,Romance,November,87,At the close of WWII a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
 Braveheart,1995,10,8.4,178,Biography,Drama,May,68,When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
 Forrest Gump,1994,13,8.8,142,Drama,Romance,July,82,Forrest Gump while not intelligent has accidentally been present at many historic moments but his true love Jenny Curran eludes him.
 Schindler's List,1993,12,8.9,195,Biography,Drama,December,93,In Poland during World War II Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
 Unforgiven,1992,10,8.3,131,Western,,August,82,Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job with the help of his old partner and a young man.
 The Silence of the Lambs,1991,7,8.6,118,Crime,Drama,February,84,A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
 Dances with Wolves,1990,12,8,181,Adventure,Drama,November,72,Lt. John Dunbar exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost befriends wolves and Indians making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
 Driving Miss Daisy,1989,9,7.4,99,Comedy,Drama,January,81,An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
 Rain Man,1988,8,8,133,Drama,,December,65,Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitts father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
 The Last Emperor,1987,9,7.8,163,Biography,Drama,October,76,The story of the final Emperor of China.
 Platoon,1986,8,8.1,120,Drama,War,February,,A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
 Out of Africa,1985,11,7.2,161,Biography,Drama,December,,In 20th-century colonial Kenya a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
 Amadeus,1984,11,8.3,160,Biography,Drama,October,93,The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.
 Terms of Endearment,1983,11,7.4,132,Comedy,Drama,December,79,Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughters family problems.
 Gandhi,1982,11,8.1,191,Biography,Drama,December,,The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
 Chariots of Fire,1981,7,7.3,125,Biography,Drama,May,,Two British track athletes one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian compete in the 1924 Olympics.
 Ordinary People,1980,6,7.8,124,Drama,,February,85,The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
 Kramer vs. Kramer,1979,9,7.8,105,Drama,,December,77,Ted Kramers wife leaves her husband allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couples son deepening the wounds left by the separation.
 The Deer Hunter,1978,9,8.2,183,Drama,War,February,73,An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam war impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
 Annie Hall,1977,5,8.1,93,Comedy,Romance,April,,Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
 Rocky,1976,10,8.1,120,Drama,Sport,December,,Rocky Balboa a small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,1975,9,8.7,133,Drama,,November,79,A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
 The Godfather: Part II,1974,11,9,202,Crime,Drama,December,80,The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son Michael expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.
 The Sting,1973,10,8.3,129,Comedy,Crime,December,,In Chicago in September 1936 a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
 The Godfather,1972,11,9.2,175,Crime,Drama,March,100,The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
 The French Connection,1971,8,7.8,104,Action,Crime,October,96,A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
 Patton,1970,10,8,172,Biography,Drama,April,91,The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general George S. Patton.
 Midnight Cowboy,1969,7,7.9,113,Drama,,June,,A naive hustler goes to New York to seek personal fortune but in the process finds himself a new friend.
 Oliver!,1968,11,7.5,153,Drama,Family,September,,Musical adaptation about an orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
 In the Heat of the Night,1967,7,8,109,Crime,Drama,October,,An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
 A Man for All Seasons,1966,8,7.9,120,Biography,Drama,May,,The story of Thomas More who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.
 The Sound of Music,1965,10,8,174,Biography,Drama,March,,A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
 My Fair Lady,1964,12,7.9,170,Drama,Family,December,,A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
 Tom Jones,1963,10,6.8,128,Adventure,Comedy,December,,"In eighteenth century England ""first cousins"" Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside but could not be more different in nature. Tom the ...                See full summary »"
 Lawrence of Arabia,1962,10,8.4,216,Adventure,Biography,January,100,Follows a brilliant flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.
 West Side Story,1961,11,7.6,152,Crime,Drama,December,,Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
 The Apartment,1960,10,8.3,125,Comedy,Drama,September,,A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
 Ben-Hur,1959,12,8.1,212,Adventure,Drama,December,,When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
 Gigi,1958,9,6.9,115,Comedy,Musical,August,,Weary of the conventions of Parisian society a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship but it may not stay platonic for long.
 The Bridge on the River Kwai,1957,8,8.2,161,Adventure,Drama,October,,After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander a British colonel co-operates to oversee his mens construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
 Around the World in 80 Days,1956,8,6.8,175,Adventure,Comedy,October,,Adaptation of Jules Vernes novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says.
 Marty,1955,8,7.7,90,Drama,Romance,June,,A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall in love.
 On the Waterfront,1954,12,8.3,108,Crime,Drama,June,88,An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
 From Here to Eternity,1953,13,7.8,118,Drama,Romance,October,,In 1941 Hawaii a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his units team while his captains wife and second in command are falling in love.
 The Greatest Show on Earth,1952,5,6.7,152,Drama,Family,May,,The dramatic lives of trapeze artists a clown and an elephant trainer against a background of circus spectacle.
 An American in Paris,1951,8,7.3,113,Musical,Romance,November,,Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. However things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
 All About Eve,1950,14,8.3,138,Comedy,Drama,January,,An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.
 All the King's Men,1949,7,7.6,110,Drama,,January,,The rise and fall of a corrupt politician who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
 Hamlet,1948,7,7.9,155,Drama,,August,,Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle whom he suspects has murdered his father the former king.
 Gentleman's Agreement,1947,8,7.4,118,Drama,,February,,A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.
 The Best Years of Our Lives,1946,8,8.2,172,Drama,Romance,June,,Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
 The Lost Weekend,1945,7,8,101,Drama,Film-Noir,November,,The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four day drinking bout.
 Going My Way,1944,10,7.3,126,Comedy,Drama,October,,Youthful Father Chuck OMalley led a colorful life of sports song and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows ...                See full summary »
 Casablanca,1943,8,8.6,102,Drama,Romance,January,,Set in Casablanca Morocco during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover with unforeseen complications.
 Mrs. Miniver,1942,12,7.6,134,Drama,Romance,December,,A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
 How Green Was My Valley,1941,10,7.8,118,Drama,Family,April,,At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village the Morgans (he stern she gentle) raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
 Rebecca,1940,11,8.2,130,Drama,Mystery,April,,A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husbands dead first wife.
 Gone With the Wind,1939,13,8.2,238,Drama,Romance,January,,A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War.
 You Can't Take it With You,1938,7,8,126,Comedy,Drama,November,,A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
 The Life of Emile Zola,1937,10,7.3,116,Biography,Drama,October,,The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
 The Great Ziegfeld,1936,7,6.8,176,Biography,Drama,April,,This biography follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld famed producer of extravagant stage revues.
 Mutiny on the Bounty,1935,8,7.8,132,Adventure,Drama,,,Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However Bligh returns one year later hell bent on avenging his captors.
 It Happened One Night,1934,5,8.2,105,Comedy,Romance,February,,A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.
 Cavalcade,1933,4,6.1,112,Drama,Romance,April,,A cavalcade of English life from New Years Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War...                See full summary »
 Grand Hotel,1931,-,7.6,112,Drama,Romance,September,,A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
 Cimarron,1930,7,6,123,Drama,Western,February,,A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
 All Quiet on the Western Front,1929,4,8.1,136,Drama,War,August,,A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
 The Broadway Melody,1928,3,6.4,100,Musical,Romance,June,,Harriet and Queenie Mahoney a vaudeville act come to Broadway where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfields shows. Eddie was in love with Harriet...                See full summary »
 Wings,1927,-,7.8,144,Drama,Romance,January,,Two young men one rich one middle class who are in love with the same woman become fighter pilots in World War I.