12 Movies In The IMDB Top 250 You've Probably Never Seen

As you may already know, Amadeus tells the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the famed and influential composer who lived during the 18th Century.

What you might not have known about the film, though, is that it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

But if you were to ask someone to name the most famous winners of that prestigious statuette from the last 40 years, or even name just a couple from the 80s, Amadeus would probably go overlooked. Its cultural impact directly contradicts its awards success.

Its mammoth runtime of almost three hours probably didn't help, and neither did its subject matter, which people who aren't fans of classical music or history may struggle to enjoy. But those are both surface-level problems, and underneath, Amadeus packs one hell of a punch.

It explores themes like obsession and jealousy - with Salieri becoming uncomfortably envious of Mozart's sheer brilliance as a composer - to a pitch-perfect degree, the production design is lavish and convincing and Tom Hulce, as Amadeus, gives the performance of a lifetime, earning a well-deserved Oscar nomination in the process.