Top Drama Movies


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

411. 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.

412. 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.

413. 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.

414. 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.

415. Onibaba

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kaneto Shindô
Actors: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno, Taiji Tonoyama
Plot: As a feudal war ravages Japan, a soldier leaves behind his wife and mother. Together they scrounge by waylaying tired and wounded soldiers and selling their arms to a greedy merchant. An old friend returns and spells out the fate of the missing husband and son - soon the young widow gives into lust and the mother is left lonely, jealous and plotting her revenge.

416. World of Apu , The ( Apur Sansar )

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Soumitra Chatterjee, Alok Chakravarty, Sharmila Tagore, Dhiresh Majumdar
Plot: Apu is an aimless young man is invited to a wedding by an old college friend. This is a life-altering event, for after arriving and finding the bridegroom to be quite mad, Apu is offered as a substitute. Although not so keen on the idea, he accepts and takes his beautiful bride with him to Calcutta. But the bliss is not to last, as she dies in childbirth and, in a fit of grief, Apu leaves his child, and much of the world, behind. It takes years before he is able to face worldly responsibilities again.

417. 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.

418. 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.

419. Finding Neverland

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell
Plot: The biography of the creator of Peter Pan and the inspirations that helped
him.

420. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Actors: Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Jon Bernthal, Matt Bennett, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon
Plot: During his senior year, a classmate is goaded by his mother to befriend a
girl who has been diagnosed with Leukemia setting the stage for a life-
changing relationship.

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