Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Gary Busey, Oliver Clark, Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

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

Actors : Ralph Richardson, Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ian Holm,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

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 ...

Actors : Campbell Scott, John Malkovich, Debra Winger, Jill Bennett,
Directors : Bernardo Bertolucci,

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.

Actors : Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

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.

Actors : Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen,
Directors : Robert Wise,

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...

Actors : Albert Finney, William Daniels, Eleanor Bron, Audrey Hepburn,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

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

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Keith Carradine, Frances Faye, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

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

Actors : Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, William Devane, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Lynne Littman,

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

Actors : Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Leonard Termo, Ariane,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

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

Actors : Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Sayles,

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

Actors : Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves, Kenneth Branagh, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

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

Actors : Harve Presnell, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

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

Actors : Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, Audra Lindley, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Elaine May,

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 ...

Actors : Lindsay Wagner, Graham Beckel, John Houseman, Timothy Bottoms,
Directors : James Bridges,

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

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : István Szabó,

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 ...

Actors : Amy Irving, Nehemiah Persoff, Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

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

Actors : Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall, Betty Buckley,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

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.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Anne Pitoniak, Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

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

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Wallace Shawn,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

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 ...

Actors : Mae Whitman, George Clooney, Alex D. Linz, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

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