Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll, Michael Caine, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Peter Gallagher, Paul Land, Tovah Feldshuh,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marcucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.

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 : Lloyd Bridges, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, John Forsythe,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.

Actors : Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Khambula, Harriet Lenabe,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
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 : Maria Schell, Glenn Ford, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Baxter,

The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier family and its friends.

Actors : Edmon Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Fraser, Shirley MacLaine,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from ...

Actors : Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Elizabeth Taylor, Keith Baxter,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...

Actors : Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Actors : Jack Albertson, Patricia Neal, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Barbara Rütting, E.G. Marshall, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.

Actors : Clark Gable, Marietto, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old...

Actors : Elizabeth Ercy, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...

Actors : Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, John Cassavetes, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek ...

Actors : Jill St. John, Warren Beatty, Vivien Leigh, Coral Browne,
Directors : José Quintero,

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.

Actors : George Hamilton, Albert Finney, Vince Edwards, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Carl Foreman,

Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Sissy Spacek, Ed Berke, Carol Robbins,
Directors : Tom Moore,

What would you do if someone you loved sat down with you one night and calmly told you that they were going to end their life before morning? This is Thelma Cates' dilemma. Her daughter, ...