Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

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), ...



Cleopatra(1963)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.



Havana(1990)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, ...



The Lion in Winter(1968)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.



A Man for All Seasons(1966)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.



Days of Wine and Roses(1962)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.



California Suite(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.



Prince of the City(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.



The Night of the Iguana(1964)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.



Blue Sky(1994)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.



El Cid(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.



The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.



Fat City(1972)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.



Husbands and Wives(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.



Airport 1975(1974)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.



Indochine(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...



The Last Tycoon(1976)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 15

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.



Magic(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.



The Getaway(1972)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.



The Children's Hour(1961)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.




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