Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

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.



Vera Drake(2004)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 82

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.



Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps(2010)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire.



My Week with Marilyn(2011)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 74

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).



Joy(2015)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Joy is the story of the title character, who rose to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty.



Youth(2015)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip's birthday.



Judy(2019)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 80

Legendary performer Judy Garland (Renée Zellweger) arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.



Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.



Full Metal Jacket(1987)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.



The Cider House Rules(1999)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.



Pieces of a Woman(2020)

Combined Rating:
80
Combined Critics Rating: 77

When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.



Hedwig and the Angry Inch(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.



No Man's Land(2001)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier becomes a living booby trap.



In the Valley of Elah(2007)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A retired military investigator works with a police detective to uncover the truth behind his son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.



The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.





The Last Temptation of Christ(1988)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.



The Green Mile(1999)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.



Don't Look Up(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.




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