Top Drama Movies


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

401. The Shape of Water

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones
Plot: Set against the backdrop of the Cold War - Elisa works in a highly
classified and isolated secret government facility. Her days are as cold
and lonely as the place she works but everything changes when she and her
co-worker, Zelda, uncover secret classified experiment.

402. A Quiet Place

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Krasinski
Actors: John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, Millicent Simmonds, Cade Woodward, Evangelina Cavoli
Plot: A family leaves in fear and isolation following a global event that has unleashed a horror that will attack at the slightest sound.

403. Winter's Bone

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Debra Granik
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Casey MacLaren, Tate Taylor
Plot: A 17-year-old Ozark girl must navigate a difficult world while tracking down her drug-dealing father and keeping her own family together.

404. The Aviator

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, John C. Reilly
Plot: The story of Howard Hughes; a Texas tycoon who is an eccentric germaphobe who has spells of genius as well as insanity.

405. Traffic

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Topher Grace, Don Cheadle, Majandra Delfino, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Plot: A pair of semi interlocking stories represent American drug trafficking and the prevention of with a young daughter using, a corrupt cop policing and a judge who has no idea really what is going on in the real world.

406. The Fall

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tarsem Singh
Actors: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Julian Bleach, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow
Plot: A stunt man in 1920's Los Angeles is met in a hospital by a young girl with a broken arm. He begins to tell her a story of 5 mythical people. The story becomes more vivid and more tied together between the two as the film goes on. What was the purpose of the story and how do they relate to the two characters is the real question.

407. The Fabelmans

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Julia Butters, Oakes Fegley
Plot: A semi-autobiographical film based on the childhood of Steven Spielberg from ages 7 - 18 set in post-war Arizona and a look into the people and events that will shape his life.

408. I Saw the Devil ( Akmareul boatda )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Actors: Byung-hun Lee, Gook-hwan Jeon, Ho-jin Jeon, San-ha Oh, Yoon-seo Kim, Min-sik Choi
Plot: After his pregnant fiance is viciously murdered by a serial killer, a detective plots an elaborate and intricate revenge plot for the man responsible.

409. Winter Light ( Nattvardsgästerna )

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow, Allan Edwall, Kolbjörn Knudsen
Plot: A pastor of the village church begins to question his faith, and the people around him, who need him most, suffer the consequences.

410. Milk

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gus Van Sant
Actors: Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, James Franco, Diego Luna, Alison Pill
Plot: Explores the life and career of Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man elected to public office in 1977 as a member San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.

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