Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

The Remains of the Day(1993)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer.



Saturday Night Fever(1977)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A Brooklyn teenager feels his only chance to succeed is as the king of the disco floor. His carefree youth and weekend dancing help him to forget the reality of his bleak life.



The Full Monty(1997)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 62

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.



Natural Born Killers(1994)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 59

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.



Short Cuts(1993)

Combined Rating:
72
Combined Critics Rating: 66

The day-to-day lives of several suburban Los Angeles residents.



Cabaret(1972)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.



Broadcast News(1987)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 68

Take two rival TV reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well and watch the sparks fly.



Roma(2018)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 96

A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.



Quartet(2012)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 71

At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is disrupted by the arrival of Jean, an eternal diva and the former wife of one of the residents.



Hillbilly Elegy(2020)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 64

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.



Albert Nobbs(2011)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.



That Thing You Do!(1996)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.



Risky Business(1983)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand.



Clear and Present Danger(1994)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 60

CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.



Danny Collins(2015)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 67

An aging rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old letter written to him by John Lennon.



Stepmom(1998)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 62

A terminally ill woman has to settle on her former husband's new lover, who will be their children's stepmother.



While You Were Sleeping(1995)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

A hopeless romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient.



Excalibur(1981)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 61

Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the round table of Camelot even as forces conspire to tear it apart



Primary Colors(1998)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for president of the USA.



Birth(2004)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.




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