Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Fredric March, Dick York, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Actors : Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Actors : Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

Actors : Ellie Raab, Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Steve Kloves,

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Ian McKellen, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Peter Falk,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.

Actors : Marlee Matlin, William Hurt, Philip Bosco, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Randa Haines,

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.

Actors : Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Susannah York, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

The lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon.

Actors : Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Yada Beener, Danny Glover, Emil Pinnock,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.

Actors : Janet McTeer, Jay O. Sanders, Kimberly J. Brown, Gavin O'Connor,
Directors : Gavin O'Connor,

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...

Actors : Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, William Thomas, Sue Jones-Davies,
Directors : Paul Morrison,

A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish

Actors : Josif Josifovski, Grégoire Colin, Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Milcho Manchevski,

In the republic of Macedonia, amid war in Bosnia, an Albanian girl being hunted by Christians is offered protection by a monk who has taken a vow of silence.

Actors : Whitney Houston, Denzel Washington, Gregory Hines, Courtney B. Vance,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all ...