Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Defiance(2008)

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Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.



The Blind Side(2009)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.



The Way Back(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.



Hereafter(2010)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A drama centered on three people -- a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy -- who are touched by death in different ways.



Big Eyes(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.



Song of the Sea(2014)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 76

Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.



The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.



Late Night(2019)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 81

A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.



The Graduate(1967)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

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



Cool Hand Luke(1967)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.



The Conversation(1974)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.



Manhattan(1979)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 71

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.



Chariots of Fire(1981)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 75

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.





The Untouchables(1987)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team.



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 Piano(1993)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.



The Usual Suspects(1995)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.



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.



The Lost Daughter(2021)

Combined Rating:
79
Combined Critics Rating: 83

A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.




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