Category: Best Picture Nominee
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Precious (2009)
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Categories: Best Picture NomineeGenres: DramaDirector: Lee DanielsCountries: USARating: 7.4It’s Harlem 1987. Sixteen year old Claireece Jones – who goes by her middle name Precious – is an illiterate, overweight black girl. She is pregnant with her second child, both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn’t see otherwise. Her infant…
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Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The (2008)
As she lay dying in a hospital bed on the eve of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans, an elderly woman asks her daughter Caroline to read from a diary left to her by a man named Benjamin. Born on the same day World War I ended, Benjamin Button’s mother died giving birth to him. As…
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French Connection, The (1971)
Police partners Doyle and Russo put a candy store under surveillance based on a hunch that something fishy was going on. Eventually it turns out that the proprietors are involved in one of the biggest narcotics smuggling rings on either side of the Atlantic, and the cops go to work. French Connection, The A $32,000,000…
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Life Of Pi (2012)
In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell a story. Pi tells the story of his life since he was a kid in Pondicherry, India and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father that owns a zoo tells that his business is not good and he…
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Silence Of The Lambs, The (1991)
Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent…
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Network (1976)
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Categories: Best Picture NomineeGenres: DramaDirector: Sidney LumetCountries: USARating: 8.2In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks’ nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how…
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Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Categories: Best Picture NomineeDirector: Francis Ford CoppolaCountries: USARating: 8.6It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, ‘does not exist – nor will it ever exist’. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the…
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Deer Hunter, The (1978)
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. Deer Hunter, The Winner of 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture 1978 Michael Cimino UK, USA 8.2 IMDb
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Godfather: Part II, The (1974)
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba. Godfather: Part II, The Francis Ford Coppola USA 9.1…
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True Grit (2010)
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. True Grit Punishment comes one way or another Ethan Coen, Joel Coen USA 7.8 IMDb