Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Click(2006)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.



JFK(1991)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 65

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.



Serpico(1973)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.



American History X(1998)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.



Glengarry Glen Ross(1992)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.



Breakfast at Tiffany's(1961)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.



The Book Thief(2013)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 66

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.



Pollock(2000)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.



Nurse Betty(2000)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.



Venus(2006)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.



Motherless Brooklyn(2019)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.



The Family Stone(2005)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.



Donnie Brasco(1997)

Combined Rating:
75
Combined Critics Rating: 64

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.



Howards End(1992)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.



Pieces of April(2003)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.



The Lady in the Van(2015)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.



Grandma(2015)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 80

A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.



Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



The Hundred-Foot Journey(2014)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.



Burlesque(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.




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