| Storyline | Best picture | year |
| A touching story about two lonely people who have almost resigned themselves to never being truly loved. | |
| The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer against a background of circus spectacle. | |
| The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. | |
| Jerry Mulligan, a struggling painter in France, is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than art. Jerry in turn falls for a young French girl | |
| A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. | |
| A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City. | |
| 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 wi | |
| American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and Reconstruction. | |
| In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love. | |
| A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. | |
| An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town. | |
| 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 | |
| When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. | |
| Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. | |
| A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his residence for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. | |
| Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. | |
| The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair. | |
| Two young men fall in love for the same same girl. After US enters WWi, both join the Air Corps and become ace.. | |
| Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the . However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors. | |
| When a naive young woman marries a rich widower and settles in his gigantic mansion, she finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants. | |
| William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. | |