Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Fredric March, Dick York, Spencer Tracy,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

Actors : Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter III, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.

Actors : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Cher, Bob Hoskins, Michael Schoeffling, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.

Actors : Ellie Raab, Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Steve Kloves,

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

Actors : Giancarlo Esposito, Ray Wise, Tim Robbins, Alan Rickman,
Directors : Tim Robbins,

A right-wing folk singer becomes a corrupt politician and runs a crooked election campaign. Only one independent muck-raking reporter is trying to stop him.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Ian McKellen, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

An affluent New York couple find their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.

Actors : Loren Dean, Sigourney Weaver, Armand Assante, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Fernando Rey,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.

Actors : Marlee Matlin, William Hurt, Philip Bosco, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Randa Haines,

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands, Peter Falk,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.

Actors : Oprah Winfrey, Yada Beener, Danny Glover, Emil Pinnock,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of her deceased daughter.

Actors : Janet McTeer, Jay O. Sanders, Kimberly J. Brown, Gavin O'Connor,
Directors : Gavin O'Connor,

A woman constantly runs from town to town with her 12 year old daughter to escape failed relationships. The film opens with one escape and the shift into a new start in San Diego. There Mom...

Actors : Sandra Drzymalska, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.

Actors : John Savage, James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.