Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Pride(2014)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.



Allied(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.



Florence Foster Jenkins(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 79

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.



Richard Jewell(2019)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 80

American security guard Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely reported that he was a terrorist.



On the Rocks(2020)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.



Midnight Cowboy(1969)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process, finds himself a new friend.



Network(1976)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.



Close Encounters of the Third Kind(1977)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Following an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.



The Deer Hunter(1978)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.



Driving Miss Daisy(1989)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 75

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.



Thelma & Louise(1991)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Two best friends set out on an adventure but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the American police as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed!



The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.



Boogie Nights(1997)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 73

The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.



The Sixth Sense(1999)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.



Greyhound(2020)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.



The Banshees of Inisherin(2022)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 88

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.



Mudbound(2017)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 85

Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.



Bohemian Rhapsody(2018)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's legendary appearance at the Live Aid (1985) concert.



Billy Elliot(2000)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.



Love Actually(2003)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.




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