Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees



Children of a Lesser God(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.



Salvador(1986)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.



EO(2022)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 51

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.



Before the Rain(1994)

Combined Rating:
35
Combined Critics Rating: 20

In the republic of Macedonia, amid war in Bosnia, an Albanian girl being hunted by Christians is offered protection by a monk who has taken a vow of silence.



The Shootist(1976)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.



The Mirror Has Two Faces(1996)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.



The Cotton Club(1984)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.



The World According to Garp(1982)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.



Shadowlands(1993)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 18

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.



Barfly(1987)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.



The Paper(1994)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

NYC tabloid editor Henry is faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges and a tempting job offer.



A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Splendor in the Grass(1961)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.



Places in the Heart(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.



Earthquake(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.



Running on Empty(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.



Death on the Nile(1978)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 12

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?



Phantom of the Paradise(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.



Jagged Edge(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...




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