Top Drama Movies


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

331. Kagemusha

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Otaki, Daisuke Ryu
Plot: When a powerful warlord dies, it is up to a low-born thief, who looks exactly like the late lord, to take his place. With this power comes a great burden and the facade cannot hold up forever.

332. American Graffiti

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Lucas
Actors: Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Harrison Ford
Plot: A group of graduating high school students enjoy their last time together as they eat at the drive in, drive around, and woo the local girls.

333. A Ghost Story

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lowery
Actors: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Kesha, Jonny Mars, Will Oldham, Kenneisha Thompson
Plot: Life, loss, love and legacy - a recently deceased man reappears as a white-sheeted ghost, hoping to comfort his bereft wife in their suburban home.

334. The King of Comedy

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Shelley Hack, Ed Herlihy
Plot: A neurotic, imbalanced would-be comic and his equally imbalanced friend go to criminal lengths to gain the attention of the host of a popular late night talk show and his audience in this pitch black comedy.

335. The Long Goodbye

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin
Plot: Detective Phillip Marlowe investigates the murder of a friend's wife.

336. Dersu Uzala

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Yuri Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vladimir Kremena, Suimenkul Chokmorov , Dmitri Korshikov
Plot: A Russian military officer betrays Dersu and must take responsibility to a
tragedy. He takes it upon himself to give Dersu a rifle which could give
insight to the end of the film.

337. 3 Idiots

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Actors: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Omi Vaidya, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani
Plot: Two buddies, on a quest to track down their old college friend, manage to get caught up in 10-year-old bet, crash a wedding and then a funeral.

338. The Descendants

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Robert Forster, Beau Bridges, Matthew Lillard
Plot: Two teenage daughters push their father to his limit when they reveal their mother was having an affair before she had an accident.

339. Call Me by Your Name

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Actors: Amira Casar, Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois
Plot: In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio Perlman lives a life of sophistication and comfort in Northern Italy. While an old soul in a young man's body, Elio is still innocent, especially when it comes to matters of love. A visiting college graduate student working with his father forms an immediate bond and it will awaken something in him.

340. Wind River

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Taylor Sheridan
Actors: Elizabeth Olsen, Jeremy Renner, Graham Greene, Gil Birmingham, Kelsey Asbille, Jon Bernthal
Plot: When a murder occurs on a Native American Reservations, an FBI agent teams up with a local veteran game tracker in order to solve the crime.

Are you sure you want to delete this comment?