Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

In the Bedroom(2001)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband.



Trainspotting(1996)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.



Loving(2016)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 85

The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.



Notes on a Scandal(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.



Happy-Go-Lucky(2008)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.



Stranger Than Fiction(2006)

Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.



Eyes Wide Shut(1999)

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Combined Rating:
82
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.



The Deer Hunter(1978)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.



On the Rocks(2020)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



The Informant!(2009)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.



Allied(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.



Big Fish(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.



The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.



Troy(2004)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.



Boogie Nights(1997)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.



Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.



Pride(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.



J. Edgar(2011)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly 50 years, looks back on his professional and personal life.



Snow White and the Huntsman(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.




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