Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Jerry Maguire(1996)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.



The Reader(2008)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.



The Last Emperor(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The story of the final Emperor of China.



The Last Samurai(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.



Ordinary People(1980)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 78

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.



Bohemian Rhapsody(2018)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.



The Messenger(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 79

An American soldier struggles with an ethical dilemma when he becomes involved with a widow of a fallen officer.



A Clockwork Orange(1971)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.



The Painted Veil(2006)

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Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.



Arbitrage(2012)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.



Bright Star(2009)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.



Mustang(2015)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 81

When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.



The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.



Wonder Boys(2000)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.



Hereafter(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.



Monster's Ball(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard reexamines his attitudes while falling in love with the African American wife of the last prisoner he executed.



Ali(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A biography of sports legend Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.



Song of the Sea(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.



The Way Back(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.



Late Night(2019)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.




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