Best Drama movies of recent years that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Marlon Joubert, Filippo Scotti, Teresa Saponangelo, Toni Servillo,
Directors : Paolo Sorrentino,

In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.

Actors : J.K. Simmons, Nicole Kidman, Nina Arianda, Javier Bardem,
Directors : Aaron Sorkin,

Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Bradley Cooper,
Directors : Guillermo del Toro,

An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Actors : Reika Kirishima, Yoo-rim Park, Tôko Miura, Hidetoshi Nishijima,
Directors : Ryûsuke Hamaguchi,

Yusuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.

Actors : Alex Hassell, Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington, Bertie Carvel,
Directors : Joel Coen,

A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.

Actors : Herbert Nordrum, Anders Danielsen Lie, Maria Grazia Di Meo, Mia McGovern Zaini, Renate Reinsve,
Directors : Joachim Trier,

The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

Actors : Cherry Jones, Andrew Garfield, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jessica Chastain,
Directors : Michael Showalter,

An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.

Actors : Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit, Rossy de Palma, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

The story of two mothers who give birth the same day.

Actors : Brian Tyree Henry, Danny Wolohan, Jennifer Lawrence, Linda Emond,
Directors : Lila Neugebauer,

A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.

Actors : Francisco Bertín, Ricardo Darín, Santiago Armas Estevarena, Gina Mastronicola,
Directors : Santiago Mitre,

A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Actors : Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Kate Hudson,
Directors : Rian Johnson,

Famed Southern detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece for his latest case.

Actors : Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Judd Hirsch, Gabriel LaBelle,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Actors : Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand,
Directors : Sarah Polley,

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Noémie Merlant,
Directors : Todd Field,

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.

Actors : Adrian Rawlins, Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp,
Directors : Oliver Hermanus,

An English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s.

Actors : Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Ben Mendelsohn, Kelvin Harrison Jr.,
Directors : Joe Wright,

Too self-conscious to woo Roxanne himself, wordsmith Cyrano de Bergerac helps young Christian nab her heart through love letters.

Actors : Émilie Dequenne, Léa Drucker, Gustav De Waele, Eden Dambrine,
Directors : Lukas Dhont,

The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility.

Actors : Harris Dickinson, Thobias Thorwid, Jiannis Moustos, Charlbi Dean,
Directors : Ruben Östlund,

A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.

Actors : Paul Mescal, Kayleigh Coleman, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Frankie Corio,
Directors : Charlotte Wells,

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Actors : Micheal Ward, Olivia Colman, Toby Jones, Colin Firth,
Directors : Sam Mendes,

A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.