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Plot: "Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I."

Stars: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Richard Arlen, and Gary Cooper.

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Plot: "A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt."

Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, and Charles King.

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*The first Academy Awards ceremony of 1929 recognized movies from the 1927/1928 movie season, while the second ceremony was for 1928/1929 movies.

Plot: "A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I."

Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, and John Wray.

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Plot: "A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boomtown with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century."

Stars: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, and Estelle Taylor.

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Plot: "A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas."

Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, and Joan Crawford.

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Plot: "A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot."

Stars: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, and Una O'Connor.

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*The 1934 Academy Awards ceremony was the last time the event recognized movies spread over two calendar years (which is why there is no 1933 movie listed).

Plot: "A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story."

Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, and Walter Connolly.

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Plot: "Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti, Christian leads the crew to mutiny on the homeward voyage."

Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, and Franchot Tone.

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Plot: "The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed."

Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, and Luise Rainer.

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Plot: "The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair."

Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, and Joseph Schildkraut.

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Plot: "A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family."

Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, and Lionel Barrymore.

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Plot: "A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the American Civil War."

Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Thomas Mitchell.

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Plot: "A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife."

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, and George Sanders.

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Plot: "At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life."

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, and Anna Lee.

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Plot: "A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II."

Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Teresa Wright.

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Plot: "In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications."

Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.

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Plot: "Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After joining a parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction."

Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, and Frank McHugh.

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Plot: "The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout."

Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, and Phillip Terry.

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Plot: "Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed."

Stars: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, and Myrna Loy.

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Plot: "A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred."

Stars: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and John Garfield.

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Plot: "Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king."

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, and John Laurie.

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Plot: "The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal."

Stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, and Joanne Dru.

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Plot: "An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends."

Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, and George Sanders.

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Plot: "Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman."

Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, and Oscar Levant.

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Plot: "The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle."

Stars: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, and Betty Hutton.

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Plot: "In Hawaii in 1941, 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."

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Deborah Kerr.

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Plot: "An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses."

Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and Lee J. Cobb.

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Plot: "A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other."

Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, and Esther Minciotti.

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Plot: "A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days."

Stars: David Niven, Cantinflas, and Shirley MacLaine.

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Plot: "After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it."

Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Jack Hawkins.

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Plot: "Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long."

Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan.

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Plot: "When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge."

Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, and Stephen Boyd.

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Plot: "A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue."

Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray.

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Plot: "Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy."

Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, and Richard Beymer.

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Plot: "The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks."

Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, and Anthony Quinn.

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Plot: "The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England."

Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, and George Devine.

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Plot: "A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society."

Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, and Stanley Holloway.

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Plot: "A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower."

Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, and Eleanor Parker.

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Plot: "The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage."

Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, and Robert Shaw.

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Plot: "An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town."

Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates.

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Plot: "Young Oliver Twist runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor."

Stars: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, and Shani Wallis.

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Plot: "A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend."

Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, and Sylvia Miles.

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Plot: "The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S. Patton."

Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, and Stephen Young.

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Plot: "A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection."

Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey.

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Plot: "The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son."

Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, and James Caan.

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Plot: "In Chicago in September 1936, 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."

Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw.

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Plot: "The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate."

Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Robert Duvall.

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Plot: "A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients."

Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, and Michael Berryman.

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Plot: "Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect."

Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, and Burt Young.

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Plot: "Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall."

Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, and Tony Roberts.

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Plot: "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."

Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Cazale.

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Plot: "Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation."

Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, and Jane Alexander.

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Plot: "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."

Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, and Judd Hirsch.

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Plot: "Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics."

Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, and Nicholas Farrell.

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Plot: "Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed."

Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, and Candice Bergen.

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Plot: "Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems."

Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, and Jack Nicholson.

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Plot: "The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri — now confined to an insane asylum."

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, and Elizabeth Berridge.

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Plot: "In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter."

Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, and Klaus Maria Brandauer.

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Plot: "A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man."

Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Willem Dafoe.

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Plot: "The story of the final Emperor of China."

Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, and Peter O'Toole.

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Plot: "Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country."

Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, and Valeria Golino.

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Plot: "An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years."

Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, and Dan Aykroyd.

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

Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, and Graham Greene.

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Plot: "A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims."

Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and Lawrence A. Bonney.

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Plot: "Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man."

Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, and Morgan Freeman.

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Plot: "In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans."

Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, and Ben Kingsley.

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Plot: "Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him."

Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise.

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Plot: "Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England after an English soldier assaults the woman he loves."

Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, and Patrick McGoohan.

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Plot: "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."

Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, and Willem Dafoe.

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Plot: "A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic."

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, and Billy Zane.

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Plot: "A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays."

Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Geoffrey Rush.

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Plot: "A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend."

Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, and Thora Birch.

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Plot: "When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge."

Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, and Connie Nielsen.

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Plot: "After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish."

Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, and Jennifer Connelly.

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Plot: "Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago."

Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere.

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Plot: "Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring."

Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, and Ian McKellen.

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Plot: "A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional."

Stars: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, and Morgan Freeman.

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Plot: "Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption."

Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, and Thandie Newton.

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Plot: "An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston."

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson.

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Plot: "Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande."

Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin.

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Plot: "A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian version of 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'"

Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, and Saurabh Shukla.

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Plot: "During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work."

Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, and Brian Geraghty.

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Plot: "The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it."

Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, and Helena Bonham Carter.

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Plot: "A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions."

Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, and John Goodman.

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Plot: "Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980."

Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, and John Goodman.

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Plot: "In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery."

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Michael Fassbender.

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Plot: "Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor's struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown."

Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, and Edward Norton.

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Plot: "The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core."

Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, and Rachel McAdams.

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Plot: "A timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, 'Moonlight' chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami."

Stars: Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, and Duan Sanderson.

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Plot: "At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity."

Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones.

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Plot: "A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South."

Stars: Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortenson.

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Plot: "All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident."

Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo.

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