Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Pennies from Heaven(1981)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.



Rachel, Rachel(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.



Morituri(1965)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A war pacifist is blackmailed to pose as an SS officer and to disable the scuttling explosives on freighter carrying rubber cargo to be captured by the Allies.



The Shoes of the Fisherman(1968)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 5

Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after two decades as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Fr. David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. ...



Joe(1970)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at ...



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 Secret of Santa Vittoria(1969)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 7

During WWII in Italy, a wine producing village hide a million bottles from the Germans



King Rat(1965)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 3

A fast-taking wheeler-dealer corporal in a Malaysian POW camp during WWII uses bribery and larceny to take de facto control of the camp from his senior officers.



Jonathan Livingston Seagull(1973)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

A skilled flyer but very rebellious young seagull is kicked out of his clan. However, instead of being sad or lonely, he decides to enjoy and explore his newfound freedom.



David and Lisa(1962)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 8

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...



The Landlord(1970)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his ...



The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz(1974)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 10

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...



Paris Blues(1961)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 9

During the 1960s, two American ex-pat jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in-love with two American tourist girls.



The Pumpkin Eater(1964)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 11

Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo's eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo's three...



An Unmarried Woman(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.



The Europeans(1979)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 13

It's the mid-nineteenth century. Adult siblings Felix Young and Eugenia Munster were born and raised in Europe and have a somewhat bohemian lifestyle reflective of their travels throughout ...



The Brink's Job(1978)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 6

Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.



The Seven-Per-Cent Solution(1976)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.



Long Day's Journey Into Night(1962)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...



Mon oncle d'Amérique(1980)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.




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