Top Drama Movies


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

381. Song of the Little Road ( Pather Panchali )

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Karuna Bannerjee, Kanu Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Subir Bannerjee, Chunibala Devi, Runki Banerjee
Plot: Follows the life of a struggling family in small Bengal village. The father, poet and priest, does not make enough to support them; his sister is constantly stealing guavas from a neighbor's orchard while the mother bickers with her sister - into this world, Apu is born.

382. The Insider

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Debi Mazar, Rip Torn
Plot: A researcher about Tobacco companies comes under scrutiny as his life is threatened because he wants to tell the true story about how the tobacco industry deals with addiction.

383. On Golden Pond

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mark Rydell
Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman, William Lanteau
Plot: An elderly couple wants to enjoy their life with their grandson.

384. Son of Saul ( Saul fia )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: László Nemes
Actors: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Sándor Zsótér
Plot: Saul is a Hungarian prisoner worker in the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. We follow two days in his life - the Sonderkommando leads people to their death, but on this day he takes a young boy, who nearly survived the ordeal, as his own son. He wants to give the boy a proper burial, but even as he seeks his own redemption a group of prisoners plans an escape, but must have Saul's help for any chance of success.

385. East of Eden

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Julie Harris, James Dean, Raymond Massey, Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, Albert Dekker
Plot: In Salinas Valley, California, WWI looms as Cal Trask, a defiant, confused young man comes to terms with his estranged mother, his perfect brother and kind, yet distant father.

386. Winter's Bone

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Debra Granik
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Casey MacLaren, Tate Taylor
Plot: A 17-year-old Ozark girl must navigate a difficult world while tracking down her drug-dealing father and keeping her own family together.

387. Carrie

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Betty Buckley
Plot: Shy, isolated Carrie White has an embarrassing experience in the girls' shower at school, at the same time discovers budding psychic powers. As one girl reaches out to her at school, another plans a bloody revenge at the school prom not realizing the devastating consequences it will have.

388. Miracle on 34th Street

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Seaton
Actors: Gene Lockhart, Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Natalie Wood, Porter Hall
Plot: A department store Santa claims to be the real deal, but Doris Walker, who hired to man and rejects the fantasy behind the claim, begins to investigate his condition. It winds up in a court of law where a lawyer defends Kris Kringle and tried to prove he is indeed the real Santa Claus.

389. Paterson

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Chasten Harmon, William Jackson Harper, Frank Harts, Barry Shabaka Henley
Plot: Paterson the bus driver lives and works in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. He adheres to a simple schedule but has a hidden passion for poetry. While his life is rote, by contrast his wife, Laura, lives in an ever-changing world with a different project popping up seemingly each day. He supports her ambition while she does the same for his hidden poetry. The city, the man, one week in the life of both and how each affects the other.

390. The Aviator

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, John C. Reilly
Plot: The story of Howard Hughes; a Texas tycoon who is an eccentric germaphobe who has spells of genius as well as insanity.

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