Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Goodbye Girl(1977)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 15

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.



Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon ...



A Star Is Born(1976)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.



Valley of the Dolls(1967)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.



Beaufort(2007)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 26

The story of a group of Israeli soldiers stationed in an outpost prior to the withdrawal of forces of 2000.



Henry & June(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 14

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June ...



Hatari!(1962)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A group of men trap wild animals in Africa and sell them to zoos before the arrival of a female wildlife photographer threatens to change their ways.



Two for the Road(1967)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.



The Sand Pebbles(1966)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...



Testament(1983)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 23

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.



The Spy Who Came in from the Cold(1965)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 12

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.



Matewan(1987)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.



Pretty Baby(1978)

Combined Rating:
29
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.



The Heartbreak Kid(1972)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Three days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly ...



Sabrina(1995)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.



One Fine Day(1996)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.



Tender Mercies(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.



Yentl(1983)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.



Agnes of God(1985)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.



The Buddy Holly Story(1978)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.




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