Top Drama Movies


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

211. Knives Out

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rian Johnson
Actors: Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Daniel Craig, Katherine Langford
Plot: When the head of a family turn up dead, detective Benoit Blanc finds himself on the case - and in the middle of a feuding eccentric, combative family.

212. Philadelphia

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas
Plot: A man with AIDS seeks a lawyer to help him sue his old employer (who happens to be a lawyer) when he knows they fired him just because he has aids.

213. Spartacus

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Nina Foch, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Plot: A slave by the name of Spartacus is trained like a gladiator only to escape to lead a revolt against the Romans.

214. Mississippi Burning

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif
Plot: Two FBI agents are sent to investigate the murders of civil rights workers in the south during the 1960's.

215. Little Miss Sunshine

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Dayton
Actors: Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano
Plot: An extended family tries to make the trek to Little Olive's beauty pageant in their bus. They encounter mishap after mishap in their journey to California.

216. In Bruges

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin McDonagh
Actors: Rudy Blomme, Olivier Bonjour, Mark Donovan, Colin Farrell
Plot: Two hitmen find themselves living in Bruges, Belgium where they disagree on life's final consequences: death and happiness.

217. I, Tonya

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Craig Gillespie
Actors: Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Bobby Cannavale, Mckenna Grace
Plot: From an early age, Tonya Harding seemed destined for skating glory, putting in the work and time necessary to hone her skills. But her rising star in U.S. Figure Skating is threatened when her ex-husband becomes involved.

218. Manchester by the Sea

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Actors: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler
Plot: Following the death of his father, a teen boy finds himself in the care of his closest relative, an uncle who is not prepared to take on this responsibility.

219. The Florida Project

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Baker
Actors: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, Mela Murder
Plot: A precocious six-year-old and her ragtag group of friends spend their Florida days full of childhood wonder, adventure and endless possibility - meanwhile, the adults in their lives struggle to merely get by.

220. Mommy

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Xavier Dolan
Actors: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Alexandre Goyette
Plot: A single mom's drama about raising her son, who's behavior deteriorates into violence, due to a mild mental illness.

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