Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Eddie Albert, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : David Miller,

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

Actors : Lance Percival, Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Set during WWI, this movie is a cute spin on the Mata Hari legend.

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Hayley Mills, John Mills, Edith Evans,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! ...

Actors : Leo Rossi, Bruce Barlow, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ...

Actors : George Baker, Michael Redgrave, Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.

Actors : Dirk Bogarde, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Stanley Baker,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

At Oxford, Austrian student Anna is dating fellow student William whom she plans to marry but she ends up sleeping with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.

Actors : Catherine Burns, Richard Thomas, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Frank Perry,

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly ...

Actors : Pat Hingle, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Marlon Brando,
Directors : George Englund,

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country...

Actors : Pina Pellicer, Ignacio López Tarso, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, Enrique Lucero,
Directors : Roberto Gavaldón,

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him...

Actors : Edie Adams, Henry Fonda, Margaret Leighton, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

The two front runners for their party's presidential nomination, one principled and the other ruthless, vie for the former President's endorsement.

Actors : Miguel Ángel Solá, Cecilia Narova, Juan Carlos Copes, Mía Maestro,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Mario Suarez is a forty-something tango artist, whose wife Laura has left him. He leaves his apartment and starts preparing a film about tango.

Actors : Greer Garson, Ralph Bellamy, Jean Hagen, Hume Cronyn,
Directors : Vincent J. Donehue,

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Actors : Walter Matthau, Charles Aidman, Deborah Winters, Felicia Farr,
Directors : Jack Lemmon,

Avoiding to settle in a nursing home, Joseph Kotcher, a retired salesman, is obliged to leave his son's family. He embarks on a road trip during which he strikes up a friendship with a ...

Actors : Gene Hackman, Julie Andrews, Richard Harris, Max von Sydow,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.

Actors : Valerie Harper, Joseph Bologna, James Caan, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Robert Moore,

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

Actors : Richard Boone, Stuart Whitman, Wende Wagner, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

A former Confederate officer and a Mexican try to prevent a former Confederate colonel from selling stolen rifles to renegade Apaches in Mexico.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, William Sanderson, Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Jack Fisk,

It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to...

Actors : Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Edmond O'Brien, George Sanders,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

After a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four-year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Ellen Burstyn,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Wendy Hiller, Harry Hamlin,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction ...