Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Tunes of Glory(1960)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 9

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 ...



Street Smart(1987)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 11

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



Music Box(1989)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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



The River(1984)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A farming family battles severe storms, a bank is threatening to repossess their farm, and there are other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.



Charly(1968)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.



Cromwell(1970)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 5

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.



Bang the Drum Slowly(1973)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.





The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 6

When deaf mute Singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital, he grows attached to his landlady's sensitive 16-year-old daughter.



The Cardinal(1963)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.



Avalon(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.



The Field(1990)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

"Bull" McCabe's family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing endlessly for the sake of the land, and when the widow, who owns the field, decides to sell the field in a public ...



Best Friends(1982)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 9

When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon...



Mahogany(1975)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring ...



The Molly Maguires(1970)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish immigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage ...



Midnight Lace(1960)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In London, a newly-wed American woman's sanity comes into question when she claims to be the victim of a stalker.



Voyage of the Damned(1976)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.



Roommates(1995)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.



Gypsy(1962)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.



The Hindenburg(1975)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.




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