Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Cleopatra(1963)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.



California Suite(1978)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.



The Lion in Winter(1968)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.



Days of Wine and Roses(1962)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 10

An alcoholic marries a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.



The Last Tycoon(1976)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 15

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.



Blue Sky(1994)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Jessica Lange stars in a period drama about a family moving to a military base, and she quickly becomes part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.



A Man for All Seasons(1966)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.



Prince of the City(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.



El Cid(1961)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 9

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.



The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.



Fat City(1972)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.



Husbands and Wives(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.



Indochine(1992)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 12

This story is set in 1930, at the time when French colonial rule in Indochina is ending. A widowed French woman who works in the rubber fields, raises a Vietnamese princess as if she was ...



Summer of '42(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 15

During his summer vacation on Nantucket Island in 1942, a youth eagerly awaiting his first sexual encounter finds himself developing an innocent love for a young woman awaiting news on her soldier husband's fate in WWII.



The Children's Hour(1961)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A troublemaking student at a girls' school accuses two teachers of being lesbians.



1776(1972)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.



Sunday Bloody Sunday(1971)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

Divorced working woman Alex and well-to-do Jewish family doctor Daniel Hirsh share not only the same answering service but also the favours of young Bob Elkin who bed-hops between them as ...



Cyrano de Bergerac(1990)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.



Jesus Christ Superstar(1973)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.



The Electric Horseman(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...




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