| 2013 |  | 12 Years a Slave (2013)
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.tt2024544
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| 2012 |  | Argo (2012)
A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran. tt1024648
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| 2011 |  | The Descendants (2011)
A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.tt1033575
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| 2010 |  | The Social Network (2010)
A chronicle of the founding of Facebook, the social-networking Web site.tt1285016+
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| 2009 |  | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)
In Harlem, an overweight, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.tt0929632
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| 2008 |  | Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?'' He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers. tt1010048
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| 2007 |  | No Country for Old Men (2007)
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. tt0477348
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| 2006 |  | The Departed (2006)
Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities. tt0407887
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| 2005 |  | Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Based on the 'E. Annie Proulx' story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.tt0388795
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| 2004 |  | Sideways (2004)
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle. tt0375063
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| 2003 |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. tt0167260+
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| 2002 |  | The Pianist (2002)
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. tt0253474+
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| 2001 |  | A Beautiful Mind (2001)
After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish. tt0268978+
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| 2000 |  | Traffic (2000)
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is an addict. tt0181865+
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| 1999 |  | Cider House Rules (1999)
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.tt0124315
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| 1998 |  | Gods and Monsters (1998)
The last days of Frankenstein director James Whale are explored.tt0120684
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| 1997 |  | L.A. Confidential (1997)
A shooting at an all night diner is investigated by three LA policemen in their own unique ways. tt0119488
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| 1996 |  | Sling Blade (1996)
Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town. tt0117666
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| 1995 |  | Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.tt0114388
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| 1994 |  | Forrest Gump (1994)
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him. tt0109830+
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| 1993 |  | Schindler's List (1993)
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. tt0108052+
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| 1992 |  | Howards End (1992)
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.tt0104454+
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| 1991 |  | The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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. tt0102926+
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| 1990 |  | Dances With Wolves (1990)
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. tt0099348
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| 1989 |  | Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. tt0097239
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| 1988 |  | Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Rich and bored aristocrats in Rococo France play high-stakes games of passion and betrayal. tt0094947
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| 1987 |  | The Last Emperor (1987)
The story of the final Emperor of China. tt0093389+
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| 1986 |  | A Room with a View (1985)
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views...tt0091867
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| 1985 |  | Out of Africa (1985)
In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter. tt0089755
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| 1984 |  | Amadeus (1984)
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. tt0086879+
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| 1983 |  | Terms of Endearment (1983)
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage... tt0086425
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| 1982 |  | Missing (1982)
When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.tt0084335+
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| 1981 |  | On Golden Pond (1981)
The loons are back again on Golden Pond and so are Norman Thayer, a retired professor, and Ethel who have had a summer cottage there since early in their marriage...tt0082846
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| 1980 |  | Ordinary People (1980)
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. tt0081283
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| 1979 |  | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him. tt0079417
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| 1978 |  | Midnight Express (1978)
Story of a man who is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.tt0077928
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| 1977 |  | Julia (1977)
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.tt0076245
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| 1976 |  | All the President's Men (1976)
Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. tt0074119
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| 1975 |  | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse. tt0073486
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| 1974 |  | The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The early life & career of Vito Corleone in 1920's 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. tt0071562
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| 1973 |  | The Exorcist (1973)
When a teenager is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. tt0070047
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| 1972 |  | The Godfather (1972)
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. tt0068646+
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| 1971 |  | The French Connection (1971)
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. tt0067116+
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| 1970 |  | M*A*S*H (1970)
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. tt0066026+
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| 1969 |  | Midnight Cowboy (1969)
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City. tt0064665
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| 1968 |  | The Lion in Winter (1968)
1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. tt0063227
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| 1967 |  | In the Heat of the Night (1967)
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. tt0061811
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| 1966 |  | A Man for All Seasons (1966)
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. tt0060665
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| 1965 |  | Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution. tt0059113+
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| 1964 |  | Becket (1964)
An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's.tt0057877
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| 1963 |  | Tom Jones (1963)
Tom Jones, the adopted son of a British country squire, is a love-'em-and-leave-'em lady charmer who goes blithely from bed to bed, while managing to get into enough other mischief to come within moments of being hanged.tt0057590
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| 1962 |  | To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice. tt0056592
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| 1961 |  | Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes. tt0055031
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| 1960 |  | Elmer Gantry (1960)
Elmer Gantry is a fast talking, hard drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike...tt0053793
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| 1959 | | Room at the Top (1959) |
| 1958 |  | Gigi (1958)
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. tt0051658
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| 1957 |  | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. tt0050212+
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| 1956 |  | Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Adaptation of Jules Verne's novel about a Victorian Englishman who bets that with the new steamships and railways he can do what the title says. tt0048960
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