Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Pride & Prejudice(2005)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 41

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?



The Bodyguard(1992)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.



Spartacus(1960)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.



The Master(2012)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.



Music of the Heart(1999)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 60

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.



Backdraft(1991)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Two Chicago firefighter brothers who don't get along have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.



Purple Rain(1984)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.



Argentina, 1985(2022)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.



The Sting(1973)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 40

In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.



Little Big Man(1970)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 48

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.



Sense and Sensibility(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.



One True Thing(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.



Out of Sight(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.



Babe(1995)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.



Footloose(1984)

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Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A city teenager moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.



Patch Adams(1998)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.



Snow Falling on Cedars(1999)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 56

A Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.



Scrooged(1988)

Combined Rating:
59
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.



The Thin Red Line(1998)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.



Metropolitan(1990)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.




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