Films featuring a Best Actress Academy Award-winning performance

Nomadland

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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Street Angel

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1928 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

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Blue Jasmine

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.3

After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but s...

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Monster

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 7.3

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.

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The Queen

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise b...

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Suspicion

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains...

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Norma Rae

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor un...

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Funny Girl

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and ev...

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Driving Miss Daisy

Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong friendship between the two ve...

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