Best Oscar films on Netflix
A heron, a dog, a bull... and a particularly vicious bear — here are the 10 best Oscar-winning films on Netflix
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1985
Adventure
Comedy
PG
Sci-fi comedy adventure starring Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd. High-school student Marty McFly thinks his future is ahead of him, until the day he tries out Dr Emmett Brown's modified DeLorean car and travels back in time. Stranded in 1955, Marty meets his parents and unwittingly changes their destiny. Can he put things right and return to the future before it's too late?
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1981
War
Drama
12
Second World War action drama, starring Jürgen Prochnow, portraying the experiences of a German U-boat crew on a mission that subjects them to the pressures of intense battle as well as demoralising periods of inactivity.
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2023
Animation
Adventure
12A
Animated fantasy from Studio Ghibli. Following the death of his mother, young Mahito is taken by his newly remarried father to live in the Japanese countryside. When Mahito's pregnant stepmother disappears into the woods, the boy follows and is led by a sinister heron into a strange and magical realm. Can Mahito find his stepmother and return safely?
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2014
Sci-fi
Drama
15
Sci-fi thriller starring Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson. A young software programmer is given the opportunity to spend time at the home of his company's reclusive chairman. But when he arrives he discovers that he will be required to be part of a strange experiment.
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2023
Comedy
Drama
15
Period comedy drama starring Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa. Paul Hunham, the crotchety classics teacher at a boys' boarding school, is tasked with supervising the students who have been forced to stay on campus during the Christmas break. Four of the lads are soon whisked off for a skiing trip, leaving Paul and his colleague, cafeteria manager Mary, with just one remaining charge: Angus Tully, who wants nothing more than to run away.
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2003
Comedy
Drama
15
Romantic comedy drama starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson. While in Tokyo to star in a lucrative commercial, jaded film actor Bob Harris meets the unhappy Charlotte, whose photographer husband is there on an assignment. Against the neon-lit landscape the two slowly begin to fall in love.
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2021
Romance
Western
12A
Western starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Montana, 1925: ranch owner George Burbank meets and falls in love with widowed restaurant proprietor Rose Gordon. Though the two marry and make a home together, George's tyrannical brother, Phil, determines to make life hell for Rose and her sensitive son, Peter.
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1980
Documentary
Drama
X
Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning drama, based on the life of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, starring Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci. 1941: under the managership of his brother Joey, Jake La Motta establishes a reputation as a world championship contender with a string of brutal victories. He begins an affair with Vickie, a teenager who becomes his second wife, but his obsessive jealousy sends both his personal life and career into a downward spiral.
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2015
Thriller
Western
15
Oscar-winning historical adventure starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Rural Missouri in the 1820s: frontiersman and fur trapper Hugh Glass acts as a guide for a hunting party when the men are attacked by a local tribe. The survivors head for Fort Kiowa but on the way Glass is savagely mauled by a bear. Although left for dead and severely injured, Glass is determined to make it back to the fort and have his revenge. But ahead of him lies hundreds of miles of tough terrain, bitter cold and murderous tribesmen.
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2015
Drama
Thriller
15
Drama adapted from Emma Donoghue's novel, starring Oscar-winning Brie Larson. The mother of five-year-old Jack strives to make her son's life as normal as possible. But it's a difficult task given they are incarcerated in a claustrophobic space, the only world Jack has known since birth.
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