Top Drama Movies


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

41. There Will Be Blood

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Ciarán Hinds, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor
Plot: During the early oil discovery days, a Texas farmer discovers oil only to be swallowed by its greed.

42. Sunset Boulevard

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Nancy Olson, Erich von Stroheim
Plot: A screenwriter is desperate for a job, when he finds himself in front of a legendary silent film era movie star. He writes script for her, but will it be good enough to make him famous? Or does he even want to be famous?

43. Rashômon

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Plot: A crime is told from four different points of view, through different people - but which version is the truth?

44. Lawrence of Arabia

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Lean
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Plot: A British officer leads a charge in Africa to discuss politics. While he was once British, is he now part of the African culture he tried to create?

45. On the Waterfront

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger
Plot: A man who is now dock help, used to be a great boxer. As he quarrels with the union bosses

46. Amadeus

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Milos Forman
Actors: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham ., Elizabeth Berridge, Jeffrey Jones
Plot: Amadeus is an up and coming composer, but the powers that be never allow him to receive recognition, as told by Antonio Salieri, the man who claims he murdered Amadeus.

47. Oppenheimer

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon
Plot: Follows the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his contribution in developing the atomic bomb and the mark it left on his life both professional and personal.

48. Platoon

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Forest Whitaker
Plot: A young man is sent to the Vietnam War where he explores the reality of moral dilemmas, friends dying, and searching for a reason for it all.

49. Beasts of No Nation

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Actors: Idris Elba, Ama Abebrese, Abraham Attah, Richard Pepple
Plot: Follows the life of Agu, a child soldier forced into fighting a civil war in an African nation.

50. The Deer Hunter

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Cimino
Actors: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John Savage
Plot: A bunch of hunting friends must go to Vietnam, who are all from a small town, change, and don't come back the same.

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