Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen, Elizabeth Cheshire,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Actors : Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Frankie Avalon, Laurence Harvey, John Wayne,
Directors : John Wayne,

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.

Actors : Victor Izay, Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat,
Directors : Tom Laughlin,

Ex-Green Beret hapkido expert saves wild horses from being slaughtered for dog food and helps protect a desert "freedom school" for runaway.

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Trish Van Devere, John Dehner, George C. Scott,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

Dr Jake Terrell, who has been training a pair of dolphins for many years, has had a breakthrough. He has taught his dolphins to speak and understand English, although they do have a limited...

Actors : Bette Midler, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal, James Caan,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

With the help of the singer and dancer Dixie Leonhard US-Entertainer Eddie Sparks wants to bring some fun to the soldiers during World War II. Becoming a perfect team they tour from North ...

Actors : Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Guy Green,

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Sal Mineo, Karl Malden, Carroll Baker,
Directors : John Ford,

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

Actors : Ed Harris, Kathy Baker, Robert De Niro, Sloane Shelton,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both...

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her Uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Albert Finney, Ignacio López Tarso, Anthony Andrews,
Directors : John Huston,

The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace.

Actors : Richard Burton, Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Vincente Minnelli,

A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wed headmaster of an Episcopal boarding school in California.

Actors : Maythavee Burapasing, Lawrence de Stefano, Kelly B. Jones, Ron Smoorenburg,
Directors : Tom Waller,

A Thai youth football team is trapped in a cave while rescue workers scramble to save them.

Actors : Ed Harris, David Clennon, Ann Wedgeworth, Jessica Lange,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Jessica Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Stacy Keach, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson,
Directors : William Peter Blatty,

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S.M.C. soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out ...

Actors : Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, James Broderick, Patricia Quinn,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.

Actors : Edie Adams, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

A series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor.

Actors : Pamela Reed, Thomas G. Waites, Daryl Hannah, James Remar,
Directors : Michael Chapman,

A young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.