Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

The Royal Tenenbaums(2001)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A clan's estranged patriarch loses his home and learns that his ex-wife plans to remarry.



Collateral(2004)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in Los Angeles.



Munich(2005)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.



Flags of Our Fathers(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.



Volver(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.



Half Nelson(2006)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.



The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.



Rise of the Planet of the Apes(2011)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives rise to a super-intelligent chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.



45 Years(2015)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.



Fences(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.



Eighth Grade(2018)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 91

An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.



Goodfellas(1990)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.



Road to Perdition(2002)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 79

Bonds of loyalty are put to the test when a hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living.



Syriana(2005)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.



Rachel Getting Married(2008)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 84

A young woman who has been in and out of rehab for the past ten years, returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.



Philomena(2013)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.



Lion(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.



The Two Popes(2019)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.



Mulan(2020)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Jet Li, Li Gong, Gong Li, Donnie Yen, Yifei Liu,
Niki Caro,

A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father.



One Night in Miami...(2020)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 88

A fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.




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