Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 6

When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.



Avalon(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.



The Cardinal(1963)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.



Mahogany(1975)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring ...



Mother(1996)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.



The Molly Maguires(1970)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...



The Secret of Santa Vittoria(1969)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 7

During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans



Rachel, Rachel(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.



Morituri(1965)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.



At Play in the Fields of the Lord(1991)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, ...



Jonathan Livingston Seagull(1973)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.



Voyage of the Damned(1976)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.



Joe(1970)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...



David and Lisa(1962)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...



Roommates(1995)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.



The Landlord(1970)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...



Madame Sousatzka(1988)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Renowned Russian piano teacher Irina Sousatzka gets a new student - Bengali piano prodigy Manek. They are both immigrants in the UK and bond quickly. When Manek's single mother's business fails, he must make a career decision.



Paris Blues(1961)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 9

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.



The Shoes of the Fisherman(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...



The Pumpkin Eater(1964)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...




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