Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Electric Horseman(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

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 ...



The Children's Hour(1961)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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



Harry and Tonto(1974)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

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



Summer of '42(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 15

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.



1776(1972)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

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



Cyrano de Bergerac(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



In Harm's Way(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.



Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



This Sporting Life(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.



Ju Dou(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...



Murphy's Romance(1985)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...



Passion Fish(1992)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had ...



Never Cry Wolf(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.



Tommy(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.



Under Fire(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.



Endless Love(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.



The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.



The Wind and the Lion(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.



Missing(1982)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.



The Longest Yard(1974)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.




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