Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.

Actors : Robin Williams, John Lithgow, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

Actors : Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close,
Directors : Ron Howard,

NYC tabloid editor Henry is faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges and a tempting job offer.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Lonette McKee, Diane Lane, Richard Gere,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, John Wayne,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Actors : Roddy Maude-Roxby, Debra Winger, Anthony Hopkins, Julian Fellowes,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer, and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets a spirited poet from the U.S.

Actors : Ed Harris, Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Robert Benton,

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.

Actors : James Fox, Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Victor Banerjee,
Directors : David Lean,

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.

Actors : William Finley, Gerrit Graham, Jessica Harper, Paul Williams,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.

Actors : River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Christine Lahti,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Audrey Christie,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Actors : Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane, Bob Hoskins, Michael Caine,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.

Actors : Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...

Actors : Mia Farrow, Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Simon MacCorkindale,
Directors : John Guillermin,

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Actors : Warren Beatty, Lee Grant, Goldie Hawn, Julie Christie,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

Lovers undo a hairdresser from Beverly Hills around Election Eve in 1968.

Actors : Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Christian Bale,
Directors : Adam McKay,

VICE explores how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways still felt today.

Actors : John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : David Lynch,

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

Actors : Mary Kay Bergman, Corey Burton, Demi Moore, Jason Alexander,

A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Miranda Richardson, Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery.