Top Drama Movies


The Top Drama Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Drama List". Lists are calculated daily.

361. Secrets & Lies

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook
Plot: Adopted as a child, the now-grown up and successful Hortense thinks it is time to track down her birth mother. It leads to a the rather lonely, isolated working-class Cynthia - who does everything she can to deny the lineage even as it exposes secrets long buried.

362. That Obscure Object of Desire ( Cet obscur objet du désir )

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Plot: An aging man finds himself in love with an infuriating but captivating younger woman, played interchangeably by two actresses, one a cool, icy Frenchwoman, the other a fiery Spaniard.

363. Mudbound

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dee Rees
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Jonathan Banks

364. Days of Heaven

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke
Plot: After accidentally killing his foreman, a young man must flee Chicago with his young sister and his girlfriend. Going to Texas, the young lovers pretend to be siblings and secure employment as farmhands. But when the farmer takes an interest in the girlfriend, a triangle is formed that will lead to tragedy.

365. God's Own Country

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Francis Lee
Actors: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart

366. Inside Llewyn Davis

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Garrett Hedlund
Plot: A trip through New York's folk music scene in the 1960s as a singer-songwriter does his best to make it through these times.

367. Interview with the Vampire

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Neil Jordan
Actors: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater
Plot: A story of a vampire's life. He explains his hunger, his love, his lust and his loneliness.

368. Juno

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jason Reitman
Actors: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Allison Janney
Plot: A young girl is pregnant and doesn't want the baby. She decides to give it up for an adoption, but meets the future parents before the baby is even born. She struggles with the adoption as do the possible future parents.

369. When Marnie Was There ( Omoide no Mânî )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Actors: Geena Davis, Kiernan Shipka, Hailee Steinfeld, Vanessa Williams
Plot: Anna is a young girl who is a misfit with no friends, when illness has her move away from her foster parents out to the country, she befriends Marnie - a girl with long, flowing gold hair, among the sand dunes. But when a new family moves in, Marnie suddenly disappears and Anna learns the truth about her new friend.

370. The Defiant Ones

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr.
Plot: Two men on a chain gang - one white, one black - hate each other. Yet after an accident, they finds themselves free - but still chained together. The two men will have to learn to work together to avoid capture.

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