Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

The Perfect Storm(2000)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 68

An unusually intense storm pattern catches some commercial fishermen unaware and puts them in mortal danger.



Concussion(2015)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 70

In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.



Dances with Wolves(1990)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.



Dancer in the Dark(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.



Before Night Falls(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...



The Village(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.



In Her Shoes(2005)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.



Transamerica(2005)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.



Poseidon(2006)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.



Hollywoodland(2006)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).



Mongol(2007)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.



The Great Debaters(2007)

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Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.



The Brave One(2007)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City.



Biutiful(2010)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



Sling Blade(1996)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.



As Good as It Gets(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.



Blonde(2022)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.




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