Top Drama Movies


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

261. Road, The ( strada, La )

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Livia Venturini
Plot: A free spirited girl is sold by her poor mother to a cruel traveling entertainer.

262. The Outlaw Josey Wales

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Sam Bottoms
Plot: Set after the end of the Civil War, Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), joins a
rebel group that continues to wage war against the Union after a group of
Union soldiers murder his wife and son. He soon finds him self on his own
and running from the same group of Union soldiers chasing him to bring him
to justice. All the while Josey continues to kill (or spit tobacco) on any
man or thing that gets in his way.

263. All About My Mother ( Todo sobre mi madre )

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Rosa Maria Sardà
Plot: A boy's mother who is a former prostitute seeks redemption again, after a terrible accident.

264. Oslo, August 31st ( Oslo, 31. august )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joachim Trier
Actors: Hans Olav Brenner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Renate Reinsve, Andreas Braaten, Emil Lund, Ingrid Olava
Plot: In which we follow a young man named Anders for one day: a recovering addict who decides to take leave of his treatment center in order to make it to a job interview and catch up with some old friends in Oslo.

265. Once

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Carney
Actors: Alaistair Foley, Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Geoff Minogue, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick
Plot: The Guy (Glen Hansard of The Frames) and the Girl (Marketa Irglova) meet as they each try and make a living on the streets of Dublin, he playing his guitar and she selling flowers. They find a connection through their musical instruments, and by playing around in a store, they find that they, quite literally, make beautiful music together.

266. The Town

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Blake Lively, Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall
Plot: A man who robs banks for a living finds his life complicated when he falls in love with a bank manager he just robbed and took hostage, along with dealing with his crew and the encroaching FBI.

267. Beasts of the Southern Wild

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Jonshel Alexander, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes, Nicholas Clark
Plot: Six-year-old Hushpuppy grows up in "the Bathtub" a southern Delta community where her father, Wink, seems harsh but is only preparing her for life on her own. A storm and a sudden illness brings on this life much sooner than expected and as beasts menace her, growing ever closer and larger, she will have face down her fears.

268. Red Beard ( Akahige )

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Yuzo Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyôko Kagawa
Plot: In 19th-century Japan, a young doctor reluctantly goes to work at a rural hospital. There, he first rebels against, then comes to respect and learn from, "Red Beard," the head doctor.

269. Good Night, and Good Luck

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George Clooney
Actors: David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels, Alex Borstein, Alex Borstein, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney
Plot: A telvision station uses it's news anchors to try and bring down Joseph McCarthy using truthful information and the public while trying not to get pulled from the air.

270. Joker

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Phillips
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Robert De Niro, Bryan Callen, Shea Whigham, Frances Conroy
Plot: After his stand-up career goes nowhere, Arthur Fleck turns to crime in order to support his mother, a turn that leads him down a path of insanity, ultimately transforming into the supervillain known as The Joker.

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