| Storyline | Best picture | year |
| Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related character | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. | |
| The World War II phase of the controversial American general's career is depicted. | |
| An unintelligent man, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him. | |
| Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight to keep away from the gallows. | |
| When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome to seek revenge. | |
| Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. | |
| A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of a game show. He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events | |
| 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. | |
| Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man. | |
| The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. | |
| A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job | |
| The story of the final ruler of the Chinese Monarchy. | |
| A young Bard, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. | |
| Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship. | |
| Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every objec | |
| A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. | |
| Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country | |
| | Storyline | Best picture | year |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her attempt to establish herself as a boxer. | |
| Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| The story of two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics. | |
| In Poland during World War II, a man gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. | |
| An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA. | |
| An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years | |
| Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy title character | |
| 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. | |
| William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. | |
| Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wild animals and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. | |
| The incredible story of a famous musical prodigy, told in flashback mode by Antonio Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. | |
| In 1930s Chicago, 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 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. | |
| Biography of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through his philosophy of non-violent protest. | |
| 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. | |
| After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish. | |
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