Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Sancho Gracia, Gael García Bernal, Angélica Aragón, Ana Claudia Talancón,
Directors : Carlos Carrera,

Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer, Irene Papas, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.

Actors : Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Doug McKeon, Henry Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.

Actors : Julia Roberts, Shirley MacLaine, Sally Field, Olympia Dukakis,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.

Actors : Dana Delany, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.

Actors : Olivia Hussey, John McEnery, Milo O'Shea, Leonard Whiting,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Scott Brady, Michael Douglas,
Directors : James Bridges,

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Actors : James Mason, Charlotte Rampling, Paul Newman, Jack Warden,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.

Actors : Ray McAnally, Jeremy Irons, Robert De Niro, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Bette Midler, John Heard, Spalding Gray,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Actors : Estelle Harris, Virginia Paris, Mark Phelan, Edward James Olmos,
Directors : Ramón Menéndez,

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.

Actors : Saundra McClain, Margaret Welsh, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Ivory,

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Actors : Léa Drucker, Émilie Dequenne, Gustav De Waele, Eden Dambrine,
Directors : Lukas Dhont,

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.

Actors : Paul Mescal, Kayleigh Coleman, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Frankie Corio,
Directors : Charlotte Wells,

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Actors : Micheal Ward, Olivia Colman, Toby Jones, Colin Firth,
Directors : Sam Mendes,

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.