Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Paint Your Wagon(1969)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.



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.



The Paper Chase(1973)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.



Faces(1968)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.



Ironweed(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.



The Greatest Story Ever Told(1965)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The life of Jesus Christ.



Mediterraneo(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.



Frances(1982)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.



Looking for Mr. Goodbar(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.



The Accused(1988)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.



The Front(1976)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.



The Champ(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...



Geronimo: An American Legend(1993)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the US Government's subjugation of his people.



A Soldier's Story(1984)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.



The Dead(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.



The Crucible(1996)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.



The Milagro Beanfield War(1988)

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Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...



The Commitments(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.



Indochine(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...



California Suite(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.




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