Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

I, Tonya(2017)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 86

Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the activity is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.



War Horse(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.



50/50(2011)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.



A Most Violent Year(2014)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 83

In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.



Ran(1985)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 81

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.



The Silence of the Lambs(1991)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.



Gladiator(2000)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

When a Roman General is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.



Ray(2004)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.



The Squid and the Whale(2005)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 81

Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.



Cinderella Man(2005)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.



The Prestige(2006)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

After a tragic accident two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion whilst sacrificing everything they have to outwit the other.



Babel(2006)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.



Animal Kingdom(2010)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A seventeen year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.



Enough Said(2013)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband.



Still Alice(2014)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.



Rosemary's Baby(1968)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.



Jaws(1975)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 77

A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers, until a local sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.



One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.



Do the Right Thing(1989)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 80

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.



Rushmore(1998)

Combined Rating:
84
Combined Critics Rating: 78

The extracurricular king of Rushmore preparatory school is put on academic probation.




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