Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Uma Thurman, Fred Ward, Maria de Medeiros,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June ...

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Dustin Hoffman, Loren Dean, Bruce Willis,
Directors : Robert Benton,

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Fredric March, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Actors : Albert Finney, William Daniels, Audrey Hepburn, Eleanor Bron,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A couple in the south of France non-sequentially spin down the highways of infidelity in their troubled ten-year marriage.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Steve McQueen, Richard Crenna, Richard Attenborough,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and...

Actors : Rossie Harris, Roxana Zal, Jane Alexander, William Devane,
Directors : Lynne Littman,

The life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.

Actors : Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Leonard Termo, Ariane,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Keith Carradine, Frances Faye, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Louis Malle,

A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.

Actors : Oskar Werner, Richard Burton, Sam Wanamaker, Claire Bloom,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Actors : Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, James Earl Jones,
Directors : John Sayles,

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Actors : Keanu Reeves, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Actors : Harve Presnell, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Joshua Logan,

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

Actors : Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Tess Harper, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together.

Actors : Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin, Nehemiah Persoff,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

Actors : Conrad Janis, Gary Busey, Charles Martin Smith, Don Stroud,
Directors : Steve Rash,

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.

Actors : Graham Beckel, John Houseman, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner,
Directors : James Bridges,

A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.

Actors : Gena Rowlands, John Marley, Seymour Cassel, Lynn Carlin,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other.

Actors : Julia Ormond, Greg Kinnear, Harrison Ford, Nancy Marchand,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Wallace Shawn,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell, and while ...

Actors : Mae Whitman, George Clooney, Alex D. Linz, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Michael Hoffman,

The lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.