Academy Award Winners

852 Titles
Elmer Gantry Poster

Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry is a fast-talking, hard-drinking traveling salesman who always has a risqué story and a hip flask to entertain cronies and customers alike. He is immediately taken with Sister Sharon Falconer, a lay preacher whose hellfire-and-damnation revivalism has attracted quite a following. Gantry uses his own quick wit and Bible knowledge to become an indispensable part of Sister Sharon's roadshow, but his past soon catches up with him in the form of Lulu Bains, now a prostitute. While Gantry seeks and eventually gets forgiveness from Sharon, tragedy strikes when she finally manages to get out of her revivalist tent and opens a permanent church.

11,674 votes
7. 7 imdb
% metacritic
% 94 tomato meter
Two Women Poster

Two Women

In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.

11,067 votes
8. 7 imdb
% metacritic
% 88 tomato meter
Spartacus Poster

Spartacus

In 73 B.C., a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus (Sir Peter Ustinov). The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus (Charles Laughton) schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus (John Dall), Commander of the garrison of Rome, lead an army against the slaves who are living on Vesuvius. When Glabrus is defeated his mentor, Senator and General Marcus Licinius Crassus (Sir Laurence Olivier) is greatly embarrassed and leads his own army against the slaves. Spartacus and the thousands of freed slaves successfully make their way to Brandisium only to find that the Silesians have abandoned them. They then turn north and must face the might of Rome.

134K votes
9. 7 imdb
% 87 metacritic
% 94 tomato meter
The Alamo Poster

The Alamo

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

15,982 votes
8. 6 imdb
% metacritic
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BUtterfield 8 Poster

BUtterfield 8

A beautiful New York model and socialite enjoys a very active night-life, but all things change when she falls for a married man and the consequences are tragic.

6,601 votes
3. 6 imdb
% 48 metacritic
% 47 tomato meter
Exodus Poster

Exodus

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

9,991 votes
7. 6 imdb
% metacritic
% 65 tomato meter
The Guns of Navarone Poster

The Guns of Navarone

A team of Allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.

50,969 votes
5. 7 imdb
% 72 metacritic
% 92 tomato meter
Splendor in the Grass Poster

Splendor in the Grass

It's 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other. Bud, the popular football captain, and Deanie, the sensitive soul, are "good" kids who have only gone as far as kissing. Unspoken to each other, they expect to get married to each other one day. But both face pressures within the relationship, Bud who has the urges to go farther despite knowing in his heart that if they do that Deanie will end up with a reputation like his own sister, Ginny Stamper, known as the loose, immoral party girl, and Deanie who will do anything to hold onto Bud regardless of the consequences. They also face pressures from their parents who have their own expectation for their offspring. Bud's overbearing father, Ace Stamper, the local oil baron, does not believe Bud can do wrong and expects him to go to Yale after graduation, which does not fit within Bud's own expectations for himself. And the money and image conscious Mrs. Loomis just wants Deanie to get married as soon as possible to Bud so that Deanie will have a prosperous life in a rich family. When Bud makes a unilateral decision under these pressures, it leads to a path which affects both his and Deanie's future.

20,984 votes
7. 7 imdb
% 74 metacritic
% 73 tomato meter
Never on Sunday Poster

Never on Sunday

An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated.

5,769 votes
3. 7 imdb
% metacritic
% tomato meter
The Virgin Spring Poster

The Virgin Spring

Set in creepy 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy land-owning parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter from the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge.

29,234 votes
1. 8 imdb
% metacritic
% 88 tomato meter
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