Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Jeanne Bates, Justin Theroux,
Directors : David Lynch,

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Actors : George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Tony Gilroy,

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.

Actors : Alfred Molina, Peter Sarsgaard, Carey Mulligan, Olivia Williams,
Directors : Lone Scherfig,

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Actors : Michelle Williams, John Doman, Ryan Gosling, Faith Wladyka,
Directors : Derek Cianfrance,

The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.

Actors : Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave, Channing Tatum, Steve Carell,
Directors : Bennett Miller,

U.S. Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join "Team Foxcatcher", led by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but John's self-destructive behavior threatens to consume them all.

Actors : Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard,
Directors : Pablo Larraín,

Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.

Actors : Lily Collins, Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Tom Pelphrey,
Directors : David Fincher,

1930's Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).

Actors : Laverne Cox, Carey Mulligan, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Bo Burnham,
Directors : Emerald Fennell,

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.

Actors : John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

Actors : Noah Emmerich, Laura Linney, Jim Carrey, Ed Harris,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show.

Actors : Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr.,
Directors : Thomas Kail,

The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.

Actors : Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose, Paul Giamatti,

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Actors : Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : George Clooney,

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Chiara Mastroianni, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Deneuve,

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Actors : Sari Lennick, Fred Melamed, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind,

Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern physics teacher, watches his life unravel over multiple sudden incidents. Though seeking meaning and answers amidst his turmoils, he seems to keep sinking.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins,
Directors : Woody Allen,

A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...

Actors : Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner, Janelle Monáe,
Directors : Theodore Melfi,

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tom Wilkinson,
Directors : John Madden,

A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.

Actors : Clarke Peters, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Norm Lewis,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.