Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Parenthood(1989)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 68

The Buckmans are a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.



The People vs. Larry Flynt(1996)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.



The Age of Innocence(1993)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.



Howards End(1992)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 73

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.



The Lady in the Van(2015)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 74

A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.



Burlesque(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.



Pieces of April(2003)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 75

A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.



Scarface(1983)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.



Barney's Version(2010)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.



Labor Day(2013)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.



The Hundred-Foot Journey(2014)

Combined Rating:
74
Combined Critics Rating: 67

The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.



Secrets & Lies(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is a underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone's secrets are exposed.



Nine(2009)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.



Barton Fink(1991)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.



Star Trek: First Contact(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 63

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.



Breaking the Waves(1996)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.



Gattaca(1997)

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Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 60

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.



The Ice Storm(1997)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 65

In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut , 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.



What's Eating Gilbert Grape(1993)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 62

After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.



You've Got Mail(1998)

Combined Rating:
73
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Two business rivals who despise each other in real life unwittingly fall in love over the Internet.




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