Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Reuben, Reuben(1983)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.



It Started in Naples(1960)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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...



King of the Gypsies(1978)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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.



Plácido(1961)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...



Isadora(1968)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...



The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds(1972)

Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

From the Pullizer Prize winning play by Paul Zindel, this is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters, Ruth and Matilda. A middle-aged widowed eccentric, Beatrice is looking for ...



The Glass Menagerie(1987)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
7
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.



The Whisperers(1967)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...



The Angry Silence(1960)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 3

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his work-mates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.



Toys in the Attic(1963)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...



I Never Promised You a Rose Garden(1977)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.



Summer and Smoke(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.



For Love of Ivy(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...



Fanny(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.



Hell to Eternity(1960)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.



A Majority of One(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.



Honeysuckle Rose(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.



Country(1984)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...



Wuthering Heights(1970)

Golden Globe 1
Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Doomed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff are torn apart by their own selfishness and hate.



A Handful of Dust(1988)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.




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