Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

The Paper Chase(1973)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 18

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



Paint Your Wagon(1969)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 13

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



Agnes of God(1985)

Combined Rating:
28
Combined Critics Rating: 19

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.



A Soldier's Story(1984)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.



The Greatest Story Ever Told(1965)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 15

The life of Jesus Christ.



Geronimo: An American Legend(1993)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 14

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the US Government's subjugation of his people.



The Crucible(1996)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.



Opening Night(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 17

An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.



The Milagro Beanfield War(1988)

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Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 19

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom ...



The Front(1976)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.



Ironweed(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, NY after returning there for the first time in decades.



White Palace(1990)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Max Baron (James Spader) is a 27-year-old high-flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon), ...



The Commitments(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When Jimmy Rabbitte wants to start a band, he has open auditions at his house.



Looking for Mr. Goodbar(1977)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively violent sexual encounters.



Still Crazy(1998)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

"Strange Fruit" had everything that makes a legendary rockband: Money, Fame, Success, Groupies, a Singer who died of drugs and even a divine ending, when lightning struck the stage during ...



The Champ(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...



The Dead(1987)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them.



Shock Corridor(1963)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.



Mediterraneo(1991)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.



The Accused(1988)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.




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