Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

A Star Is Born(1976)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.



Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon ...



The Sheltering Sky(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.



The Sand Pebbles(1966)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...



The Spy Who Came in from the Cold(1965)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.



Pretty Baby(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.



Year of the Dragon(1985)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.



Testament(1983)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 23

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.



Two for the Road(1967)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.



Matewan(1987)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.



Much Ado About Nothing(1993)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.



Yentl(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.



Agnes of God(1985)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.



Paint Your Wagon(1969)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.



Tender Mercies(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.



The Paper Chase(1973)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.



One Fine Day(1996)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.



The Heartbreak Kid(1972)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...



Prick Up Your Ears(1987)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 21

This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while ...



Mephisto(1981)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and ...




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