Best Drama movies that are oscar winners or nominees

The Angry Silence(1960)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 3

A young factory worker decides to stand up against his work-mates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike.



Twice in a Lifetime(1985)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate....



Star!(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A musical biography of Gertrude Lawrence, who led a hustling and bustling life on the stage.



Toys in the Attic(1963)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Julian Berniers and Lily Prine have just gotten married. They have been in Chicago on business before returning to their home town of New Orleans, where they will meet with Julian's older ...



The Whisperers(1967)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The title refers to the creatures a very poor addled old lady (Dame Edith Evans) imagines in her paranoid fantasies. They lurk behind every drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet. They listen ...



Summer and Smoke(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Plain, repressed spinster falls for a dashing young medical student, but he prefers the wilder life, until it's too late.



Country(1984)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife ...



A Handful of Dust(1988)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.



Fanny(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A love triangle between a young woman, a rich 60-something man and an aspiring sailor set in early 20th century Marseilles.



I Never Promised You a Rose Garden(1977)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.



For Love of Ivy(1968)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 5

A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a ...



A Majority of One(1961)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness and forgiveness.



Kapò(1960)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.



Honeysuckle Rose(1980)

Combined Rating:
6
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Willie Nelson is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.



Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 4

Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.



The Other Side of Midnight(1977)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.



The Visit(1964)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a ...



O Quatrilho(1995)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Two couples of Italian immigrants are part of a game that leads to treason and brings serious consequences to those who lose.



Bless the Beasts & Children(1971)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.



Hanussen(1988)

Combined Rating:
5
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of...




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