Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Greer Garson, Ralph Bellamy, Jean Hagen, Hume Cronyn,
Directors : Vincent J. Donehue,

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, John Forsythe,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann...

Actors : William Sanderson, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Ray Sharkey, Paul Land, Tovah Feldshuh,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

Actors : Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Wende Wagner, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Wendy Hiller, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ...

Actors : Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Khambula, Harriet Lenabe,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Barbara Rütting, Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.

Actors : Elizabeth Ercy, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...

Actors : Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, Jane Fonda, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

On December 23rd, Korean War veteran George Haverstick and nurse Isabel Crane - who George lovingly refers to as "Little Bit" - get married in a civil ceremony. They met when George was ...

Actors : Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

After his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.

Actors : Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...

Actors : Jack Albertson, Patricia Neal, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

Actors : Jill St. John, Warren Beatty, Vivien Leigh, Coral Browne,
Directors : José Quintero,

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Sissy Spacek, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins,
Directors : Tom Moore,

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, ...

Actors : George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Vince Edwards, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Carl Foreman,

Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.