Top Drama Movies


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

271. 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.

272. Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Margaret Qualley, Emile Hirsch, Timothy Olyphant
Plot: A fading, serious TV star Rick Dalton along with his stunt double Cliff Booth, who look to break into the film industry during the Golden Age of Hollywood. But the summer of '69 also faces the counter-culture revolution along with the rise of the Manson Family.

273. 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.

274. Paper Moon

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, P.J. Johnson, Jessie Lee Fulton
Plot: A Depression-era con man, who hustles widows by selling them Bibles, picks
up an orphaned girl who may or may not be his daughter. Their colorful
trip to deliver her to her aunt is chronicled in this wistful comedy-
drama.

275. 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.

276. Big Fish

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman
Plot: Edward Bloom is a sales man who is dying and wants to talk to his son. The son doesn't want to hear his tales and wants to know the facts about his father's life but finds out in his fiction there really is truth, in an adventure that only Tim Burton can create.

277. Menace II Society

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Actors: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Johnson, Glenn Plummer, Jada Pinkett Smith
Plot: Caine Lawson is a young man in an urban nightmare. Following his graduation, he tries to free himself from the violence and drugs in Watts, CA.

278. A Bronx Tale

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert De Niro
Actors: Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Joe Pesci, Lillo Brancato, Francis Capra, Taral Hicks
Plot: A boy grows up with two very diverse heroes: his hard-working father and the neighborhood capo.

279. Road to Perdition

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Liam Aiken, Tyler Hoechlin, Jude Law, Daniel Craig
Plot: As a professional hit man's son witnesses his futhers operation as they murder someone, the hit man must betray his boss to save his son.

280. The Ten Commandments

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Yul Brynner, Nina Foch, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo
Plot: One of Charlton Hesston's great roles as Moses along side Yul Brynner as Ramsey. An epic tale of Moses being cast away by the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramese and trying to fulfill his destiny of freeing the Jews from bondage.

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