Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.



The Firm(1993)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

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



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.



Moscow on the Hudson(1984)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 47

When a Russian musician defects in Bloomingdale's department store in New York, he finds adjusting to American life more difficult than he imagined.



Brothers(2009)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.



The Blue Lagoon(1980)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together, unaware that sexual maturity will eventually intervene.



Guarding Tess(1994)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A former U.S. First Lady wants a particular Secret Service agent to head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her.



The Duchess(2008)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.



Anastasia(1997)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 30

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.



All the President's Men(1976)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 29

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.



It's Complicated(2009)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 29

When attending their son's college graduation, a couple reignite the spark in their relationship. But the complicated fact is they're divorced and he's remarried.



Oscar and Lucinda(1997)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 52

In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him ...



Deliverance(1972)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.



Topsy-Turvy(1999)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.



Brubaker(1980)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.



The Matador(2005)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 33

A globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected.



Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.



Iris(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 38

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.



Zelary(2003)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...



The Great Escape(1963)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.




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