Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Nina Wayne, Aldo Ray, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv,
Directors : Bernard Girard,

A paroled conman co-ordinates the robbery of an L. A. Airport bank with the arrival of the Soviet premier.

Actors : Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Michael Sarne,

A provincial girl is entangled in the mod morality of London.

Actors : Keir Dullea, Glynne Morris, Anne Heywood, Sandy Dennis,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

Based on D.H. Lawrence's novella about two young women - sickly, chattering Jill Banford and quiet, strong Ellen March - who are trying, hopelessly, to run a chicken farm in Canada. A ...

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Mary Ure,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. ...

Actors : Rip Torn, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, ...

Actors : Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, James Garner,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Elena Tasisto, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid, Bobby Darin,

A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Mako, Tina Chen, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Tom Gries,

The intertwined lives of two kindred souls with ambition begins when Captain Whip Hoxworth discovers that Nyuk Tsin has been smuggled aboard as part of cargo on The Carthaginian, which he ...

Actors : Elke Sommer, Stephen Boyd, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : Russell Rouse,

Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.

Actors : Greer Garson, Debbie Reynolds, Agnes Moorehead, Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Young and inexperienced Sister Ann has just arrived at her next posting at Samaritan House, a Dominican order located in a disreputable neighborhood of Ghent, Belgium. Sister Ann is ...

Actors : Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Nancy Kwan, Glenn Ford,
Directors : Ralph Nelson,

A man refuses to believe that pilot error caused a fatal crash, and persists in looking for another reason.

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly...

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Eve Arden, Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Ruben Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman, when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to ...

Actors : Barbara Jefford, Maurice Roëves, Milo O'Shea, T.P. McKenna,
Directors : Joseph Strick,

Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a ...

Actors : Rod Steiger, Maria Schell, Stuart Whitman, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Guy Green,

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.

Actors : Barry Sullivan, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

During the Cold War, Air Force Colonel Jim Caldwell shapes up his Strategic Air Command B-52 wing to pass a nuclear war readiness test.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Reuben Figueroa, Miguel Alejandro,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

Abraham is a Puerto Rican single parent with two boys. He is becoming very worried about them living in their run down neighborhood when one day he notices that Cubans who escape are ...

Actors : James Yagi, Carroll Baker, Tetsurô Tanba, James Shigeta,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

Based on a true story, this compelling drama relates the difficulties of a young woman married to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, victim of suspicion and animosity from her husband's government.