Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Romy Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Trevor Howard, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin ...

Actors : Paul Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Actors : Sylvia Kuumba Williams, John Lithgow, Geneviève Bujold, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.

Actors : Richard Egan, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Hayley Mills,
Directors : David Swift,

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Julie Carmen, Tony Knesich, Buck Henry,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.

Actors : Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Natalie Wood, Herschel Bernardi,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Angie Rossini is an innocent Italian Catholic Macy's salesgirl, who discovers she's pregnant from a fling with Rocky, a musician. Angie finds Rocky (who doesn't remember her at first) to ...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Bernie Kuby, Ivan Bonar, Alan Alda,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have ...

Actors : Frank Wolff, Stathis Giallelis, Harry Davis, Elena Karam,
Directors : Elia Kazan,

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to the United States.

Actors : Richard Burton, Michael Hordern, Elizabeth Taylor, Cyril Cusack,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.

Actors : Gailard Sartain, Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin,
Directors : Ron Shelton,

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Actors : Carol Kane, Mel Howard, Dorrie Kavanaugh, Steven Keats,
Directors : Joan Micklin Silver,

It's 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many of his background have, namely on Hester Street on the Lower East ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, John Cassavetes, Charlton Heston, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT ...

Actors : Geraldine Page, Richard Bradford, Carlin Glynn, John Heard,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

In 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time.

Actors : Richard Harris, Dorothy Tutin, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.

Actors : Dennis Price, John Mills, Alec Guinness, Susannah York,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the ...

Actors : Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus,
Directors : John Sturges,

Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Kathy Baker, Jay Patterson, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Sammy Davis Jr., Ricardo Montalban,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her ...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Donald Moffat, Jessica Lange, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.

Actors : Helen Morse, Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie is presented. On a cold winter day, her damaged car with ...