Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Requiem for a Dream(2000)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.



Big Fish(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.



House of Sand and Fog(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.



Something's Gotta Give(2003)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age.



Troy(2004)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.



Real Steel(2011)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

In the near future, robot boxing is a top sport. A struggling promoter feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.



Snow White and the Huntsman(2012)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.



Lone Survivor(2013)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare.



Unbroken(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.



Florence Foster Jenkins(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.



Richard Jewell(2019)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

American security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely reported that he was a terrorist.



Midnight Cowboy(1969)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend.



Network(1976)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.



The Deer Hunter(1978)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



Thelma & Louise(1991)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!



The Sixth Sense(1999)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.



Greyhound(2020)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.



The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.



Joy(2015)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.




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