Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Murphy's Romance(1985)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...



This Sporting Life(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.



Never Cry Wolf(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.



Ju Dou(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...



The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.



Under Fire(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.



Passion Fish(1992)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had ...



The Wind and the Lion(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.



In Harm's Way(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.



Endless Love(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.



Save the Tiger(1973)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A disillusioned aging decent man and once proud WWII veteran is dealing with midlife crisis as well as a tough moral dilemma. If he wants his small near-bankrupt clothing company to survive, he has two days to let go of his shaken morals.



The Collector(1965)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 9

A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.



Nobody's Fool(1994)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.



The Longest Yard(1974)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.



Sweet Bird of Youth(1962)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown after many years of trying to make it in the movies. Arriving with him is a faded film star he picked up along the way, Alexandra Del Lago. ...



Le Mans(1971)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Almost in breadth and depth of a documentary, this movie depicts an auto race during the 70s on the world's hardest endurance course: Le Mans in France. The race goes over 24 hours on 14.5 ...



The Evening Star(1996)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together, but has one grandson in jail, a rebellious ...



'Round Midnight(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...



King of Kings(1961)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

The temporary physical life of everyone's Savior, Jesus Christ.



The Shop on Main Street(1965)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Slovakia during WW2. Tono lives a poor life, but the authorities offer him to take over the Jewish widow Lautman's little shop for sewing material. She is old and confused and thinks that ...




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