Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Rossano Brazzi, Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly...

Actors : Cornel Wilde, Burr DeBenning, Patrick Wolfe, Rip Torn,
Directors : Cornel Wilde,

As a US marine unit fight against the defenders of a Japanese held island, both sides are haunted by their own thoughts and memories.

Actors : Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Trevor Howard, Mary Ure,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Jack Cardiff received a 1960 Oscar Nomination as Best Director for this lush, engaging film starring Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell and Donald Pleasence, which was adapted from D.H. ...

Actors : Glynne Morris, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood, Sandy Dennis,
Directors : Mark Rydell,

Based on D.H. Lawrence's novella about two young women - sickly, chattering Jill Banford and quiet, strong Ellen March - who are trying, hopelessly, to run a chicken farm in Canada. A ...

Actors : Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, James Garner,
Directors : Delbert Mann,

An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Willie Nelson, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Doc Jenkins is a singer/songwriter who tries to leave his singer/songwriter roots to be a music "mogul", and gets tangled up in a bad publishing deal. He enlists a team of cronies, ...

Actors : Susan Hayward, Joey Heatherton, Mike Connors, Bette Davis,
Directors : Edward Dmytryk,

A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.

Actors : Nina Wayne, Aldo Ray, James Coburn, Camilla Sparv,
Directors : Bernard Girard,

A paroled conman co-ordinates the robbery of an L. A. Airport bank with the arrival of the Soviet premier.

Actors : Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Elena Tasisto, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : María Luisa Bemberg,

In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ...

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yves Montand,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

An actress disguises herself as a geisha in order to land the lead role in her director husband's film version of 'Madam Butterfly'.

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid, Bobby Darin,

A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Stephen Boyd, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker,
Directors : Russell Rouse,

Snotty Hollywood actor becomes even more full of himself after he's nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Actors : Nick Adams, Michael Callan, James MacArthur, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : David Swift,

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals. John Paul Otis destroys his medical career when he...

Actors : Diane McBain, Polly Bergen, Joan Crawford, Robert Stack,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to ...

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Robert Loggia, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Chagall,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

Actors : Robert Fields, Paulina Porizkova, Gibby Brand, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Yurek Bogayevicz,

Anna is a middle-aged actress looking for work in New York City, with the help of her sometime lover, Daniel. She used to be a Czech film star married to the director Tonda, who is now ...

Actors : Nan Martin, Marilyn Hassett, Belinda Montgomery, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Actors : Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jane Fonda, Shelley Winters, Claire Bloom,
Directors : George Cukor,

Based on the best-selling novel by Irving Wallace that was inspired by the Kinsey Report on the sexual mores of suburban women, the film follows the personal (read sexual) lives of four ...

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Paul Sorvino, Richard Gere, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.

Actors : Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Michael Douglas, Will Geer,
Directors : Bernard McEveety,

Two young children, who, rather than part with an old pet lion who was once a circus performer, go on a perilous mountain trek to stay with a recluse friend.