Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

12(2007)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.



Mary Shelley's Frankenstein(1994)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 24

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.





Nashville(1975)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.



The Contender(2000)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 30

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.



True Grit(1969)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.



Somewhere in Time(1980)

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Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.



Daylight(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.



Afterglow(1997)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.



What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.



Hamlet(1996)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.



Elizabeth: The Golden Age(2007)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.



The Leisure Seeker(2017)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call The Leisure Seeker.



Airport(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.



The Killing Fields(1984)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.



Five Easy Pieces(1970)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.



Straw Dogs(1971)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.



Educating Rita(1983)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 36

In London, the twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins the literature course in an ...



Breakfast on Pluto(2005)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 30

In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.



Sorcerer(1977)

Combined Rating:
44
Combined Critics Rating: 34

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.




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