Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in best actress - motion picture drama category

Coming Home(1978)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.



The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...



The Night of the Iguana(1964)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.



The Lion in Winter(1968)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1183 A.D.: 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.



The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.



Ryan's Daughter(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.



The Collector(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.



Missing(1982)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.



Ship of Fools(1965)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.



Born Free(1966)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...



Anne of the Thousand Days(1969)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.



The Trip to Bountiful(1985)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.





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...



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.



Cinderella Liberty(1973)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.



The Whisperers(1967)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...



Anna(1987)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...




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