Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Angela Lansbury, Raf Vallone, Red Buttons, Carroll Baker,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A screen adaption of the blistering best-seller which examines the story of the platinum blonde bombshell (Baker) who rose to fame in the reckless Hollywood of the 1930's.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Robert Loggia, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Chagall,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Actors : Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom,
Directors : George Cukor,

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ...

Actors : Diane McBain, Joan Crawford, Polly Bergen, Robert Stack,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to ...

Actors : Mary Tyler Moore, Katherine Healy, Shannon Wilcox, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Tony Bill,

A wealthy cosmetic tycoon and her 12-year-old daughter who's dying from leukemia, strike up a sentimental friendship with a California politician. Since the girl has only six weeks or less ...

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas, Will Geer,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.

Actors : Paulina Porizkova, Robert Fields, Gibby Brand, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Yurek Bogayevicz,

Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...

Actors : Brendan Fletcher, Jake Manley, Spencer Macpherson, Brendan Fehr,
Directors : Richard Bell,

In 1926, a band of teenage boys arrive at Long Point Camp for the adventure of their lives. When their canoe capsizes in a freak summer storm, their holiday descends into a soul-shuddering fight for survival.

Actors : Len Bari, Leonardo Cimino, Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor,
Directors : Arthur Barron,

Shy cellist boy meets upperclassman ballet dancing girl at school. They experience first-time love, then happenstance pulls them apart.

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Paul Sorvino, Richard Gere, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.

Actors : Susan Hayward, Charles Drake, John Gavin, Vera Miles,
Directors : David Miller,

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Rupert Everett,
Directors : Andrey Konchalovskiy,

Stephanie, a famous violin player married to a composer becomes ill from multiple sclerosis. Her whole life goes to pieces : her career ends abruptly and her husband betrays her with ...

Actors : Laurence Luckinbill, Kathleen Quinlan, Beatrice Straight, Stephen Collins,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Elsa Lanchester, Patty Duke, James Farentino,
Directors : Fred Coe,

A young woman struggles for independence.

Actors : Lou Jacobi, Don De Natale, Louise Kirtland, Teresa Wright,
Directors : James Ivory,

"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.

Actors : Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke, Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas, Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

Francesa Kinsolving, a very pregnant widow whose husband was rescently killed in action in Vietnam, travels to visit her late husband's mother in a snowy Minnesota town only to get snowed ...

Actors : Beryl Reid, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of ...

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.