Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Poetic Justice(1993)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 45

In this film, we see the world through the eyes of main character Justice, a young African-American poet. A mail carrier invites a few friends along for a long overnight delivery run.



Emma(1996)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 33

In rural 1800s England things go bad for a young matchmaker after she finds a man for another woman.



Being There(1979)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 28

A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.



The Rose(1979)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 47

The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.



A Dry White Season(1989)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 55

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...



Primal Fear(1996)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 24

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.



The Man Who Sold His Skin(2020)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 57

His own body turned into a living work of art and promptly exhibited in a museum, Sam, a Syrian refugee, will soon realize to have sold away more than just his skin.



Pearl Harbor(2001)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.



The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.





American Graffiti(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.



Rocky III(1982)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 23

After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.



A Chorus Line(1985)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Hopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.



Good Morning, Vietnam(1987)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 23

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.



Heavenly Creatures(1994)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.



Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.



The Last Picture Show(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.



The Ghost and the Darkness(1996)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.



The End of the Affair(1999)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 33

On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. ...



Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.




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