Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Geraldine Page, Ed Begley, Paul Newman, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...

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

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

Actors : Norman Burton, Laurie Heineman, Jack Gilford, Jack Lemmon,
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 : Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti, Pauline Collins,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...

Actors : Sissy Spacek, John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Jack Lemmon,
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 : Helen Hunt, David Paymer, Julie Warner, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Billy Crystal,

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

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

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Vivien Leigh,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for post-war Germany represents a microcosm of 1930s society.

Actors : Julia Foster, Michael Caine, Millicent Martin, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Actors : Richard Widmark, Frankie Avalon, Laurence Harvey, John Wayne,
Directors : John Wayne,

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Robert Duvall, Laura Dern, Diane Ladd,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.