Top Drama Movies


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

131. Separation, A ( Jodaeiye Nader az Simin )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Actors: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini
Plot: An Iranian couple face a tough decisions: the wife is determined to leave the country behind in order for their daughter to have a better life, but the husband refused to leave in order to care for his father, who suffers from Alzheimers. Divorce seems like the only option to satisfy both sides.

132. In the Mood for Love ( Fa yeung nin wa )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Rebecca Pan, Zhi-gong Chen
Plot: In Hong Kong, two neighbors find themselves with a mutual when when each suspects their significant other of conducting an extramarital affair.

133. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Plot: A gargoylish former child star, Jane, and her former-movie-star sister, Blanche, now crippled, are isolated in their decaying home. Bodies begin to accumulate as Jane's grip on reality becomes more and more tenuous. Will Blanche survive her sister's delusions?

134. The Social Network

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Joseph Mazzello, Andrew Garfield
Plot: Follows the exploits of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckenberg, Sean Parker and Eduardo Saverin as they create Facebook, which has since become the web's most popular social network.

135. Rope

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: James Stewart, John Dall, Cedric Hardwicke, Farley Granger
Plot: A group of men strangle one of their friends and hide him in a closet, then invite guest over to test how well they committed the crime - think they had achieved the perfect crime.

136. Moonlight

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Jenkins
Actors: Naomie Harris, Mahershala Ali, André Holland, Janelle Monáe
Plot: Follows the life of Kevin from childhood, to adolescents to adulthood as he grows up in the drug-plagued inner-city Miami as he looks to rise above the violence and gangs to find love and change within himself.

137. Harakiri ( Seppuku )

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba
Plot: 17th-century Japan has entered a peaceful period - but it has also put thousands of Samurai out of work and into poverty. An elderly Samurai, looking to die an honorable death, approaches the home of a feudal lord to commit the ritual suicide hara-kiri. But when he hears the tale of his son-in-law - forced to commit the act in a barbaric fashion using a dull bamboo blade - instead of death, he seeks revenge.

138. Stalker

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Frejndlikh, Natasha Abramova, Anatoli Solonitsyn
Plot: A man with mental gifts risks imprisonment by going out at night to the "zone" guarded by barb wire and soldiers from an Alien race.

139. Edward Scissorhands

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Kathy Baker, Anthony Michael Hall
Plot: A man that has scissors for hands tries to fit into a rich suburban neighborhood.

140. Argo

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler
Plot: Six Americans are hiding out at the Canadian Embassy as the Iranian revolution reaches critical mass. It's up to a CIA agent who specialized in "exfiltration" to get the Americans to safety with a risky escape plan.

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