Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

Actors : Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Robert Rossen,

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.

Actors : Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Andy Tennant,

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

Actors : Ted Levine, Mare Winningham, Max Perlich, Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong. Her ...

Actors : Hilary Swank, Jonathan Pryce, Adrien Brody, Simon Baker,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

Actors : Emily Blunt, Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro, Simon Merrells,
Directors : Joe Johnston,

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.

Actors : Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Ronee Blakley, Karen Black,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen,
Directors : Rod Lurie,

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Actors : Joan Crawford, Wesley Addy, Victor Buono, Bette Davis,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Actors : Jeremy Slate, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, John Wayne,
Directors : Henry Hathaway,

A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian territory.

Actors : Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.

Actors : Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

When the brilliant, but unorthodox scientist, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes, and later swears revenge.

Actors : Dan Hedaya, Amy Brenneman, Sylvester Stallone, Viggo Mortensen,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Lara Flynn Boyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Julie Christie,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Jordi Mollà, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush,
Directors : Shekhar Kapur,

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.

Actors : Harvey Keitel, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.