Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Blue Velvet(1986)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.



Licorice Pizza(2021)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 88

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.



August: Osage County(2013)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.



You Can Count on Me(2000)

Combined Rating:
78
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.



Maps to the Stars(2014)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A tour into the heart of a Hollywood family chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.



Memoirs of a Geisha(2005)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.



Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.



Quiz Show(1994)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.



Days of Heaven(1978)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.



Belfast(2021)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.



Easy Rider(1969)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two counterculture bikers travel from Los Angeles to New Orleans in search of America.



The Young Victoria(2009)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.



Big(1988)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.



Passengers(2016)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.



Igby Goes Down(2002)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.



Pleasantville(1998)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.



Timbuktu(2014)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.



No(2012)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 78

An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.



Downsizing(2017)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 78

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.



Misery(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.




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