Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Flashdance(1983)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.



Ulee's Gold(1997)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.



Maurice(1987)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 56

After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.



Punch-Drunk Love(2002)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.



Postcards from the Edge(1990)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 54

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.



Little Women(1994)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 44

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.



The Fly(1986)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.



High Fidelity(2000)

Combined Rating:
58
Combined Critics Rating: 40

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.



The Prince of Tides(1991)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 52

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.



W.E.(2011)

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Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 55

The affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.



Silkwood(1983)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 51

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.



Dead Man Walking(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 40

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.



The Fabelmans(2022)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 78

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.



Casino(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast living and fast loving woman.



The Last of the Mohicans(1992)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 38

Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.



Warrior(2011)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 36

The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother.



Happiness(1998)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 41

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.



French Exit(2020)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 70

An aging Manhattan socialite living on what's barely left of her inheritance moves to a small apartment in Paris with her son and cat.



To Die For(1995)

Combined Rating:
57
Combined Critics Rating: 43

A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.



Witness(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.




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