Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Norma Rae(1979)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 32

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.



Anastasia(1997)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 30

The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.



The Duchess(2008)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 31

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.



Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.



The Firm(1993)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.



Deliverance(1972)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 28

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.



All the President's Men(1976)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 29

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.



Oscar and Lucinda(1997)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 52

In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him ...



Topsy-Turvy(1999)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 45

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.



Brubaker(1980)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 42

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.



Iris(2001)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 38

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.



Dog Day Afternoon(1975)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.



Women Talking(2022)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.



The Great Escape(1963)

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Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.



Zelary(2003)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life ...



Poetic Justice(1993)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 45

In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.



The Apostle(1997)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 42

After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.



Emma(1996)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman.



Katyn(2007)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 41

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.




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