Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Plácido(1961)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...



Reuben, Reuben(1983)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.



The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(1972)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...



Period of Adjustment(1962)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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 ...



Isadora(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...



The Glass Menagerie(1987)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.



King of the Gypsies(1978)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.



Country(1984)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...



Summer and Smoke(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.



The Whisperers(1967)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...



The Angry Silence(1960)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 3

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his work-mates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.



For Love of Ivy(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...



Honeysuckle Rose(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.



Fanny(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.



I Never Promised You a Rose Garden(1977)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.



The Hiding Place(1975)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-WWII Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. ...



A Majority of One(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.



Kapò(1960)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.



A Handful of Dust(1988)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.



Wuthering Heights(1970)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.




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