Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Big(1988)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 67

After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.



Cold War(2018)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold ...



The Square(2017)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 79

A prestigious Stockholm museum's chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit.



Before Night Falls(2000)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 77

Episodic look at the life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), from his childhood in Oriente province to his death in New York City. He joins Castro's rebels. By 1964, ...



As Good as It Gets(1997)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.



The Player(1992)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?



Boyz n the Hood(1991)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.



Leaving Las Vegas(1995)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.



All the Money in the World(2017)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 81

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.



Sling Blade(1996)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.



Biutiful(2010)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 69

This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move.



In the Name of the Father(1993)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.



Transamerica(2005)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A preoperative transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.



Blonde(2022)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 71

A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.



Poseidon(2006)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 68

On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.



The Judge(2014)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 67

Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.



Monsieur Lazhar(2011)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 78

At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.



The Village(2004)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 66

A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.



Edward Scissorhands(1990)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.



Mongol(2007)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 72

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.




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