Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

The Big Sick(2017)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 89

Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.



Before Sunset(2004)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.



King Kong(2005)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to the mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow.



United 93(2006)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 88

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.



Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.



The Descendants(2011)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.



Silver Linings Playbook(2012)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.



Captain Phillips(2013)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.



Interstellar(2014)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.



Dawn of the Planet of the Apes(2014)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.



Sicario(2015)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.



The Revenant(2015)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.



Creed(2015)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.



Bridge of Spies(2015)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 87

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.



Steve Jobs(2015)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.



First Man(2018)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 91

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.



The Father(2020)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.



American Beauty(1999)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.



Dune(2021)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.



The Batman(2022)

Combined Rating:
90
Combined Critics Rating: 85

When the Riddler, a sadistic serial killer, begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.




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