Best Picture by Plot

Question 1

Sunrise

Answer 1

A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.

Question 2

The Broadway Melody

Answer 2

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

Question 3

All Quiet on the Western Front

Answer 3

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Question 4

Cimarron

Answer 4

A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

Question 5

Grand Hotel

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Cavalcade

Answer 6

A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.

Question 7

It Happened One Night

Answer 7

A renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.

Question 8

The Great Ziegfeld

Answer 8

The ups and downs of a famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.

Question 9

The Life of Emile Zola

Answer 9

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.

Question 10

You Can’t Take It with You

Answer 10

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family, not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

Question 11

Rebecca

Answer 11

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat’s wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife’s spectral presence.

Question 12

How Green Was My Valley

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Mrs. Miniver

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Casablanca

Answer 14

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.

Question 15

Going My Way

Answer 15

When young Father O’Malley arrives at St. Dominic’s, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn’t think much of the church’s newest member.

Question 16

The Best Years of Our Lives

Answer 16

Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Question 17

Gentlemen’s Agreement

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

All the King’s Men

Answer 18

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

Question 19

All About Eve

Answer 19

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

Question 20

An American in Paris

Answer 20

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

Question 21

The Greatest Show on Earth

Answer 21

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

Question 22

From Here to Eternity

Answer 22

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his commanding officer’s wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.

Question 23

On the Waterfront

Answer 23

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate’s victims.

Question 24

Marty

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

Gigi

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Ben-Hur

Answer 26

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Question 27

The Apartment

Answer 27

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Question 28

Lawrence of Arabia

Answer 28

The story ofT.E. Lawrence, the officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Question 29

Tom Jones

Answer 29

The romantic and chivalrous adventures of an adopted bastard in 18th-century England.

Question 30

My Fair Lady

Answer 30

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

Question 31

A Man for All Seasons

Answer 31

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

Question 32

In the Heat of the Night

Answer 32

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

Question 33

Oliver!

Answer 33

After being sold to a mortician, a young orphan runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.

Question 34

Midnight Cowboy

Answer 34

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

Question 35

The Sting

Answer 35

Two 1930s grifters, played by Robert Redford and Paul Newman, team up to pull off the ultimate con of a mob boss.

Question 36

The Deer Hunter

Answer 36

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.

Question 37

Ordinary People

Answer 37

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.

Question 38

Chariots of Fire

Answer 38

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.

Question 39

Terms of Endearment

Answer 39

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter’s family problems.

Question 40

Out of Africa

Answer 40

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

Question 41

The Last Emperor

Answer 41

Bernardo Bertolucci’s Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China’s final ruler, Pu Yi.

Question 42

Unforgiven

Answer 42

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The “Schofield Kid.”

Question 43

Schindler’s List

Answer 43

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, an industrialist gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

Question 44

Green Book

Answer 44

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