Films featuring a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award-winning performance

L.A. Confidential

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

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A Beautiful Mind

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 8.2

John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

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Gone with the Wind

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1939 IMDB Rating: 8.2

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.

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On the Waterfront

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Terry Malloy dreams about being a prize fighter, while tending his pigeons and running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly, the corrupt boss of the dockers union. Terry witnesses a murder by two...

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12 Years a Slave

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 8.1

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not on...

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The Help

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended...

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Paper Moon

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1973 IMDB Rating: 8.1

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl—who may or may not be his daughter—and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

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Network

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 8.1

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink...

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The Last Picture Show

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 8

High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nea...

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