Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Didi Perego, Laurent Terzieff, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.

Actors : Pier Angeli, Michael Craig, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee,
Directors : Guy Green,

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his work-mates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.

Actors : Leslie Caron, Horst Buchholz, Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.

Actors : Geraldine Page, Una Merkel, Rita Moreno, Laurence Harvey,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.

Actors : Alec Guinness, Madlyn Rhue, Rosalind Russell, Ray Danton,
Directors : Mervyn LeRoy,

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.

Actors : Yvette Mimieux, Geraldine Page, Wendy Hiller, Dean Martin,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...

Actors : Harry Baird, Edith Evans, Jack Austin, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...

Actors : Daniel Massey, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Julie Andrews,
Directors : Robert Wise,

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.

Actors : Nan Martin, Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza,
Directors : Anthony Page,

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Actors : Slim Pickens, Amy Irving, Dyan Cannon, Willie Nelson,
Directors : Jerry Schatzberg,

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Actors : Wilford Brimley, Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Matt Clark,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Ann-Margret, Gene Hackman, Amy Madigan,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate....

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, James Wilby, Richard Beale, Jackson Kyle,
Directors : Charles Sturridge,

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.

Actors : Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Barbara Barrie, Harry Bellaver,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed...

Actors : Walter Matthau, Geraldine Page, Barry Nelson, Carol Burnett,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Unassuming and single thirty-three year old Tillie Shlain is at that phase of her life of being known as a soon to be spinster if she doesn't marry soon. She isn't looking forward to ...

Actors : Daniel Massey, Glenda Jackson, Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The life of the great actress, Sarah Bernhardt.

Actors : Didi Conn, Michael Zaslow, Stephen Nathan, Joe Silver,
Directors : Joseph Brooks,

Laurie has been in show business since she was a child. Her dream is to be a singer, songwriter and actress. Her father wants her to be a comedian like him and Laurie only tries because it ...

Actors : Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Teresa Stratas,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned...

Actors : Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

The reviewer above states that 'the entire story is told from the husband's point of view'. This is incorrect - the movie takes an objective point-of-view - the husband is not present in several of the segments.