Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Shirley Knight, Ed Begley, Paul Newman, Geraldine Page,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

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. ...

Actors : Steve McQueen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Elga Andersen, Siegfried Rauch,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

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 ...

Actors : Julia McKenzie, Pauline Collins, Alison Steadman, Tom Conti,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in ...

Actors : Billy Crystal, Helen Hunt, David Paymer, Julie Warner,
Directors : Billy Crystal,

The life of Buddy Young, a comic legend in flashbacks but an old man looking for work in the present.

Actors : Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, Dina Merrill,
Directors : Daniel Mann,

A Manhattan call girl has a tragic affair with a rich married man.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson,
Directors : Arthur Penn,

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Actors : Richard Harris, Hugh Griffith, Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard,

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

Actors : James Mason, Alec Guinness, Stephen Boyd, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Anthony Mann,

The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.

Actors : Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey, Marie Burke,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.

Actors : Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Tony Curtis, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.

Actors : Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, David Carradine, Ronny Cox,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Lee Grant, Jack Lemmon, Olivia de Havilland,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under 100 feet of water.

Actors : Christopher Bowen, Edward Jewesbury, Ian McKellen, Annette Bening,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.

Actors : Julia Foster, Shelley Winters, Michael Caine, Millicent Martin,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.

Actors : James Garner, Yves Montand, Toshirô Mifune, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

American Grand Prix driver Pete Aron is fired by his Jordan-BRM racing team after a crash at Monaco that injures his British teammate, Scott Stoddard. While Stoddard struggles to recover, ...

Actors : Peter Lukoye, Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Geoffrey Keen,

Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to ...

Actors : Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, Richard Burton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Actors : Elizabeth Cheshire, Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

The story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Martha Gehman, Matt Dillon, Molly McCarthy,
Directors : Garry Marshall,

Set in Brooklyn, 1963, Jeffrey Willis has just finished high school and isn't quite sure what the future holds. His parents expect him to go to college but he is starting to find his ...

Actors : Lukas Haas, Diane Ladd, Robert Duvall, Laura Dern,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.