Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)(2014)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A washed-up actor, who once played a famous superhero, attempts to revive his career by writing and starring in a Broadway play.



Chaplin(1992)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 49

A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charlie Chaplin.



Winter's Bone(2010)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 45

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.



The Big Chill(1983)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 53

A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina winter house after the funeral of one of their friends.



Silverado(1985)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.



Tucker: The Man and His Dream(1988)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 61

The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.



Little Voice(1998)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 58

A shy reclusive lady is convinced by an invisible entity to sing. Subsequently, she finds herself noticed by a sleazy talent agent and her talent being showcased on-stage. She also meets a kind but nervous man who becomes her best friend.



Capote(2005)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.



Traffic(2000)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.



Green Book(2018)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 82

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.



Brazil(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error, and becomes an enemy of the state.



Ajami(2009)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 70

Ajami is the religiously mixed community of Muslims and Christians in Tel Aviv. These are five stories about the everyday life in Ajami.



Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 59

A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.



Superman(1978)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 43

An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.



Tristana(1970)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 65

When the young woman Tristana's mother dies, she is entrusted to the guardianship of the well-respected though old Don Lope. Don Lope is well-liked and well-known because of his honorable ...



Once(2007)

Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.



Rumble Fish(1983)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
61
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.



Desperately Seeking Susan(1985)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A bored suburban housewife, seeking escape from her life, suffers amnesia after an accident, wakes up, and is mistaken for a free-spirited New York City drifter named Susan.



Grace Is Gone(2007)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 63

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.



Argentina, 1985(2022)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 63

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.




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