Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Geneviève Page, Raf Vallone,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Actors : Pamela Brown, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor,

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Paul Scofield, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Actors : Katharine Hepburn, John Castle, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Actors : Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Maggie Smith,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Candy Clark, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : John Huston,

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Tony Curtis, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Actors : Jane Fonda, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Alan Alda,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

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

Actors : Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Treat Williams,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, ...

Actors : Judy Davis, Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Sydney Pollack,
Directors : Woody Allen,

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Catherine Deneuve, Linh Dan Pham,
Directors : Régis Wargnier,

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 ...

Actors : Carrie Snodgress, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Powers Boothe,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Audrey Hepburn, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins,
Directors : William Wyler,

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.

Actors : Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Oliver Conant, Jennifer O'Neill,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.

Actors : Peggy Ashcroft, Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch, Murray Head,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...

Actors : Ken Howard, Howard Da Silva, Donald Madden, William Daniels,
Directors : Peter H. Hunt,

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Art Carney, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Actors : Robert Redford, Willie Nelson, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...

Actors : Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Weber, Vincent Perez, Anne Brochet,
Directors : Jean-Paul Rappeneau,

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.