Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Lois Smith, Ellen Greene,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

The portrayal of pretentiously bohemian youth.

Actors : Eve Gordon, Leo Fuchs, Elizabeth Perkins, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

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.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Ron Silver, Carrie Fisher, Catherine Hicks,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The son of a woman dying of a brain tumour tries to fulfil his mother's last wish: to meet Greta Garbo.

Actors : John Hurt, Richard Harris, Sean Bean, Frances Tomelty,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public ...

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Ina Balin, Myrna Loy,
Directors : Mark Robson,

An ambitious young executive chooses a loveless marriage and an unfulfilling personal life in exchange for a successful Wall Street career.

Actors : Debbie Reynolds, Laura Weekes, Albert Brooks, Paul Collins,
Directors : Albert Brooks,

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

Actors : Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Marlon Brando,
Directors : Bernhard Wicki,

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.

Actors : Keir Dullea, Howard Da Silva, Janet Margolin, Neva Patterson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

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 ...

Actors : Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : Hector Babenco,

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, ...

Actors : Kate Harrington, James Olson, Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons,
Directors : Paul Newman,

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.

Actors : Juliet Mills, James Franciscus, Philip Ahn, David Ladd,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

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.

Actors : Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

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. ...

Actors : Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Faye Dunaway,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

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.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

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

Actors : Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper, Vernel Bagneris, Steve Martin,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.

Actors : Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, George Segal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.

Actors : Jason Robards, Jane Fonda, George Grizzard, James Caan,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and ...

Actors : James Mason, Anne Bancroft, Janine Gray, Peter Finch,
Directors : Jack Clayton,

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...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Julianne Moore, D.B. Sweeney, Peter Falk,
Directors : Peter Yates,

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

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Twiggy, Peggy Ashcroft, Navin Chowdhry,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

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.