English Patient

Nine Oscars---including Best Picture---went to this superb romantic WWII drama starring Ralph Fiennes. Juliette Binoche plays a compassionate nurse who takes her horribly injured, amnesiac patient (Fiennes) to a monastery to die in peace. A book the man carries reveals the story of his life before the war and explains the chain of events that brought him to his fate, including his affair with a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas). Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews, Colin Firth.