Best movies that are oscar winners or nominees in best screenplay motion picture category



The Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



Hannah and Her Sisters(1986)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.



Bonnie and Clyde(1967)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, robbing cars and banks.



Tootsie(1982)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.



Dead Poets Society(1989)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

English teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Moonstruck(1987)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Loretta Castorini, a book keeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.



As Good as It Gets(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.



Howards End(1992)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.



The People vs. Larry Flynt(1996)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.



Shine(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.



Philadelphia(1993)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 60

When a man with HIV is fired by his law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit.



Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.



Breaking Away(1979)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.



Working Girl(1988)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 61

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.



Reversal of Fortune(1990)

Combined Rating:
69
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.



The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 60

In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.



Scent of a Woman(1992)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.



Love Story(1970)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes.




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