Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Cinderella Liberty(1973)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.



Taras Bulba(1962)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In the 16th century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and the Cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.



Buster(1988)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

This movie is based on the story of Buster Edwards, one of the thieves involved in "The Great Train Robbery" of 1963.



Madame Bovary(1991)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love ...



Last Summer(1969)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly ...



Daisy Miller(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 9

In this comedy of manners, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.



The Fixer(1968)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.



Captain Newman, M.D.(1963)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.



Macario(1960)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 3

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him...



Darling Lili(1970)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.



Heart Like a Wheel(1983)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 7

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...



The Best Man(1964)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former President's endorsement.



Claudine(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 6

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.



The Chalk Garden(1964)

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Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! ...



Carmen(1983)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then ...



Goodbye, Mr. Chips(1969)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.



Tango(1998)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.



The Slender Thread(1965)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A college volunteer at the crisis phone gets a call from a suicide caller.



Cimarron(1960)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier family and its friends.



The Entertainer(1960)

Combined Rating:
8
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.




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