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1. 2001: Satine must choose between the love of a young writer and another man's obsession in 1898 Paris. They hang out at a freaky nightclub.
2. 2000: A trashy legal assistant stumbles onto a very large class action case, and browbeats her ambulance-chaser boss into investigating.
3. 1997: A construction worker with a checkered criminal record is given the chance to realize his intellectual potential, thanks to a pair of college-buddy professors.
4. 1994 - Andy Dufresne spends 19 years in prison for a double murder he didn't commit.
5. 1990 - A patient suffering a mysterious sleeping sickness awakes from his condition thanks to the efforts of a dedicated doctor, but soon starts to fall back.
6. 1988 - The bodies of three civil rights activists are discovered in a Mississippi swamp, leading to an FBI investigation that nearly tears still-racist America apart.
7. 1987 - Michael Douglas learns that he shouldn't fool around on his wife.
8. 1984 - A young Englishwoman (played by Judy Davis) travels to India where she is led on a tour of underground caves by a local, whom she accuses (upon her return) of raping her while on the outing.
9. 1981 - More a romance movie than anything else (though remembered as something more), this is the story of an American journalist and his lover, who take part in the Bolshevik revolution.
10. 1980 - Middleweight boxer Jake LaMotta fights his inner demons as well as his opponents and wives in this black and white classic.
11. 1978 - the true story of an American student imprisoned in Turkey for attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country.
12. 1976 - "Rocky" won the big prize, but this Martin Scorsese film with Robert DeNiro as a sociopath bent on rescuing a teenage prostitute has at least as much staying power, if not more.
13. 1973 - This movie became one of the very few horror movies ever nominated for Best Picture. What was it?
14. 1972 - Burt Reynolds starred in this movie about a canoe trip. It included one of the most terrifying and graphic rape scenes in movie history.
15. 1967 - Sidney Poitier almost single-handedly took "In the Heat of the Night" to the winner's circle, but one of the other nominees was a well constructed cast portraying one of the most notorious gangs of the first half of the 20th century. Name that movie.
16. 1963 - One of the worst movies ever nominated for Best Picture was this Liz Taylor/Richard Burton dog about ancient Egypt.
17. 1961 - This Paul Newman picture, co-starring Jackie Gleason, is the only movie Newman ever made (and starred in) a sequel to.
18. 1957 - "Bridge on the River Kwai" won the Oscar, but Henry Fonda certainly made this jury-room drama a memorable one.
19. 1952 - this John Wayne movie was nominated for Best Picture, where he portrayed a prizefighter.
20. 1950 - "All About Eve" won the Oscar, but this William Holden movie about a young writer living with (and eventually murdered by) an aging starlet is at least as well reknowned.
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