Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Ryan's Daughter(1970)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.



The Mambo Kings(1992)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 17

Musician brothers Cesar and Nestor leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, hoping to hit the top of the Latin music scene. Cesar is the older brother, the business manager, and the ladies' man...



The Day of the Locust(1975)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 19

An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.



Equus(1977)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.



Ridicule(1996)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 13

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.



Harry and Tonto(1974)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 18

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.



Passion Fish(1992)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

May-Alice Culhane was a successful soap opera star, but a car accident has left her bound to a wheelchair. She returns to her now-empty family home in the bayous of Louisiana which she had ...



The Flight of the Phoenix(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a plane crash in the Sahara, one of the survivors says he's an airplane designer and they can make a flyable plane from the wreckage.



This Sporting Life(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.



Murphy's Romance(1985)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Emma is a divorced woman with a teen-aged son who moves into a small town and tries to make a go of a horse ranch. Murphy is the widowed town druggist who steers business her way. Things ...



Tommy(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.



Hud(1963)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.



Under Fire(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.



The Wind and the Lion(1975)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

In early 20th century Morocco, a Sharif kidnaps an American woman and her children, forcing President Theodore Roosevelt to send in forces to conduct a rescue mission.



Endless Love(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A high school student's love for a 15-year-old girl is thwarted by parental disapproval, circumstance and accident.



In Harm's Way(1965)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A naval officer reprimanded after Pearl Harbor is later promoted to rear admiral and gets a second chance to prove himself against the Japanese.



Ju Dou(1990)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without ...



Never Cry Wolf(1983)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 12

A government researcher, sent to research the "menace" of wolves in the north, learns about the true beneficial and positive nature of the species.



Nobody's Fool(1994)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A stubborn man past his prime reflects his life of strict independence and seeks more out of himself.



'Round Midnight(1986)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

In 'Round Midnight, real-life jazz legend Dexter Gordon brilliantly portrays the fictional tenor sax player Dale Turner, a musician slowly losing the battle with alcoholism, estranged from ...




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