Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Terence Stamp, Maurice Dallimore, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : William Wyler,

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.

Actors : Hana Slivková, Martin Hollý, Ida Kaminska, Jozef Kroner,

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...

Actors : Jack Lemmon, Norman Burton, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

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.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Jack Lemmon, John Shea,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

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

Actors : Dexter Gordon, Gabrielle Haker, Sandra Reaves-Phillips, François Cluzet,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...

Actors : Billy Crystal, Helen Hunt, David Paymer, Julie Warner,
Directors : Billy Crystal,

The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.

Actors : Jessica Tandy, Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.

Actors : Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard,

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Actors : James Mason, Alec Guinness, Stephen Boyd, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.

Actors : Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.

Actors : Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, David Carradine, Ronny Cox,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Lee Grant, Jack Lemmon, Olivia de Havilland,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under 100 feet of water.

Actors : Christopher Bowen, Edward Jewesbury, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.

Actors : Danielle Macdonald, Scott Thomas, Bill Camp, Jamie Bell,
Directors : Guy Nattiv,

A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.

Actors : Peter Lukoye, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Geoffrey Keen,

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...

Actors : Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, Richard Burton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Actors : Elizabeth Cheshire, Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.