Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Harry Andrews, Diane Cilento, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Carol Reed,

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, Susannah York,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Actors : Kathy Baker, Jack Lemmon, Olympia Dukakis, Ted Danson,
Directors : Gary David Goldberg,

A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him ...

Actors : Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Billy Dee Williams, James T. Callahan,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.

Actors : Fred Ward, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

A woman finds romance when she takes a job at an aircraft plant to help make ends meet after her husband goes off to war.

Actors : Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

Actors : Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Alan Alda,
Directors : Alan Alda,

Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.

Actors : Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jeff Bridges, R.G. Armstrong,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships ...

Actors : Albert Finney, Kenneth More, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

Actors : Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

Actors : Isa Crino, Sidney Poitier, Lisa Mann, Lilia Skala,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

A traveling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Actors : Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills,
Directors : David Swift,

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Actors : Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Walter McGinn, Anny Duperey,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.

Actors : David Niven, Ava Gardner, Flora Robson, Charlton Heston,

During the 1900 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China, U.S. Marine Major Matt Lewis, aided by British Consul Sir Arthur Robertson, devises a strategy to keep the rebels at bay until an international military relief force arrives.

Actors : Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin ...

Actors : Paul Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Actors : Sylvia Kuumba Williams, John Lithgow, Geneviève Bujold, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.

Actors : Vincent Price, Lillian Gish, Ann Sothern, Bette Davis,
Directors : Lindsay Anderson,

It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island ...

Actors : Shelley Long, Ryan O'Neal, Sam Wanamaker, Drew Barrymore,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.