Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Greer Garson, Ralph Bellamy, Jean Hagen, Hume Cronyn,
Directors : Vincent J. Donehue,

In 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt contracts poliomyelitis and, with the help of his wife Eleanor Roosevelt and close friend Louis Howe, battles his newfound disability.

Actors : Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Marsha Mason, James Caan,
Directors : Robert Moore,

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory...

Actors : Edmon Ryan, Robert Mitchum, Elisabeth Fraser, Shirley MacLaine,
Directors : Robert Wise,

Jerry Ryan is wandering aimlessly around New York, having given up his law career in Nebraska when his wife asked for a divorce. He meets up with Gittel Mosca, an impoverished dancer from ...

Actors : Lloyd Bridges, Jean Simmons, Shirley Jones, John Forsythe,
Directors : Richard Brooks,

A middle-aged woman walks out on her husband and family in an desperate attempt to find herself.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Anne Bancroft, Sidney Poitier, Steven Hill,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A college volunteer at the crisis phone gets a call from a suicide caller.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Roberts Blossom, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

Edna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ...

Actors : Maria Schell, Glenn Ford, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Baxter,

The Oklahoma Land Run of April 1889 sets the stage for an epic saga of a frontier family and its friends.

Actors : Dorothy Malone, Robert Stack, Edmond O'Brien, George Sanders,
Directors : Andrew L. Stone,

After a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four-year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink.

Actors : Leleti Khumalo, Lihle Mvelase, Kenneth Khambula, Harriet Lenabe,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school.

Actors : Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Kelly McGillis, Tom Conti, Joel Fabiani,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman.

Actors : Clark Gable, Marietto, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Melville Shavelson,

Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old...

Actors : Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton, Jane Fonda, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

On December 23rd, Korean War veteran George Haverstick and nurse Isabel Crane - who George lovingly refers to as "Little Bit" - get married in a civil ceremony. They met when George was ...

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Barbara Rütting, Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall,
Directors : Gottfried Reinhardt,

Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.

Actors : Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey,
Directors : Henri-Georges Clouzot,

Dominique Marceau is on trial for the murder of Gilbert Tellier. The counsels duel relentlessly, elaborating explanations for why the pretty, idle and fickle girl killed the talented and ...

Actors : Elizabeth Ercy, Raf Vallone, Anthony Perkins, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a ...

Actors : James Fox, Jason Robards, Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free ...

Actors : Manuel Alexandre, Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Quintillá,
Directors : Luis García Berlanga,

In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person...

Actors : Jack Albertson, Patricia Neal, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon,
Directors : Ulu Grosbard,

A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.

Actors : Jill St. John, Warren Beatty, Vivien Leigh, Coral Browne,
Directors : José Quintero,

An aging actress travels to Rome with her husband; after he suddenly dies during the flight, she begins a passionate affair with a young gigolo.