Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Felicity Jones, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Mary Beth Hurt, Kristin Griffith, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Woody Allen,

Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.

Actors : Geena Davis, Amy Wright, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Val Kilmer, Sandra Bullock, Michelle Pfeiffer,

An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Gregory Peck, Frank Overton, John Megna,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

Actors : Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : George Cukor,

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Marisa Berenson, Ryan O'Neal, Patrick Magee,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Actors : Sally Field, Paul Newman, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

Actors : Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Meryl Streep, Michael Kitchen,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

Actors : Meg Tilly, Annette Bening, Colin Firth, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an...

Actors : J.T. Walsh, Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Armand Assante,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate, and mysteriously disappears in 1975.

Actors : Stephen Mendillo, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Stephen J. Lang,
Directors : John Sayles,

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

Actors : Soma Chhaya, Laara Sadiq, Noorin Gulamgaus, Saara Chaudry,
Directors : Nora Twomey,

A headstrong young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

Actors : River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...

Actors : Josette Simon, Denzel Washington, Wabei Siyolwe, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.

Actors : Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Hal Holbrook, Gene Hackman,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

Actors : Christian Bale, Linda Hunt, Mel Gibson, Joe Baker,

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth-century Virginia.

Actors : John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Meg Ryan,

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.

Actors : Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker, Greyson Erik Pendry, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Milos Forman,

The life and career of a legendary comedian, Andy Kaufman.