Director: Jonathan Demme
Release Date: 14 February 1991 (USA)
Genre: Crime | Thriller
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine…
Plot: A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 39 wins & 27 nominations
Director: Sidney Lumet
Release Date: 29 July 1957 (Sweden)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Cast: Martin Balsam, John Fiedler, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman…
Plot: A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 6 nominations
Director: Steven Spielberg
Release Date: 12 June 1981 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies…
Plot: Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 21 nominations
Director: Federico Fellini
Release Date: 25 June 1963 (USA
Genre: Drama | Fantasy
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo…
Plot: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 5 nominations
Director: John Ford
Release Date: 13 March 1956 (USA)
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Western
Cast: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood…
Plot: As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Release Date: 21 July 1958 (Brazil)
Genre: Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore…
Plot: A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 2 nominations
Director: Frank Capra
Release Date: 7 January 1947 (USA)
Genre: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell…
Plot: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.
Awards: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 4 wins
Director: David Fincher
Release Date: 15 October 1999 (USA)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Cast: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier…
Plot: An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Release Date: 6 April 1968 (USA)
Genre: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter…
Plot: Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 6 nominations
Director: Martin Scorsese
Release Date: 8 February 1976 (USA)
Genre: Drama | Thriller
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel…
Plot: A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 18 wins & 9 nominations
Director: Steven Spielberg
Release Date: 20 June 1975 (USA)
Genre: Thriller
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary…
Plot: When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
Awards: Won 3 Oscars. Another 9 wins & 13 nominations
Director: Martin Scorsese
Release Date: 19 September 1990 (USA)
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino, Frank Sivero…
Plot: Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 34 wins & 18 nominations
Director: Orson Welles
Release Date: 1 May 1941 (USA)
Genre: Drama | Mystery
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead…
Plot: Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 4 wins & 9 nominations
Director: Michael Curtiz
Release Date: 23 January 1943 (USA)
Genre: Drama | Romance | War
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains…
Plot: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Awards: Won 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations
Director: Irvin Kershner
Release Date: 21 May 1980 (USA)
Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams…
Plot: While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 12 nominations
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Release Date: 25 August 1960 (Brazil)
Genre: Horror | Thriller
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles…
Plot: A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations
Director: Steven Spielberg
Release Date: 15 December 1993 (USA)
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall…
Plot: Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
Awards: Won 7 Oscars. Another 63 wins & 21 nominations
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Release Date: 14 October 1994 (USA)
Genre: Crime | Thriller
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Phil LaMarr…
Plot: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 43 wins & 40 nominations
Director: Frank Darabont
Release Date: 23 September 1994 (USA)
Genre: Crime | Drama
Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows…
Plot: Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Awards: Nominated for 7 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 13 nominations
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Release Date: 20 December 1974 (USA)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Talia Shire…
Plot: 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.
Awards: Won 6 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 15 nominations
