Top Drama Movies


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

461. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, Elle Fanning, Julia Ormond
Plot: A man born in his 80s in 1918 ages backwards. As the years pass, he grows younger, encounters love and joy, death and sadness, in a most unusual life.

462. To Sir, With Love

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Clavell
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu, Faith Brook
Plot: An idealistic man with hopes of landing an engineering job takes a temporary position as a teacher at an East End London school. His breed of education is different, but as he breaks through to his students, and bonds with them, he must make a touch decision when an engineering job finally appears.

463. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring ( Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Actors: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim, Young-min Kim, Jae-kyeong Seo, Yeo-jin Ha, Jung-young Kim

464. Children of Heaven ( Bacheha-Ye aseman )

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Majid Majidi
Actors: Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Mohammad Amir Naji, Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi, Fereshte Sarabandi, Kamal Mirkarimi
Plot: Ali has lost his younger sister's shoes at the market. He comes up with a solution until he can somehow find a new pair: they will share his shoes.

465. Escape from Alcatraz

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Fred Ward, Bruce M. Fischer, Paul Benjamin, Roberts Blossom , Frank Ronzio
Plot: A group of incarcerated men discover a way to escape from the unescapeable Alcatraz Prison in which they try to dig and decoy their way out.

466. The Longest Day

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton
Actors: Eddie Albert, Paul Anka, Arletty, Red Buttons, Sean Connery, Richard Burton
Plot: The allied invasion of Normandy during WW II is covered on an epic scale, told with an all star cast, and brilliantly recreated historic events.

467. Atonement

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn
Plot: A young girl accuses her sisters boyfriend of a crime he did not commit - which sentences him to years of banishment. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.

468. The Big Short

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam McKay
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Finn Wittrock, John Magaro
Plot: As the US approaches an invetable housing and credit meltdown, a group of calculating and unscrupulous men take advantage before the bubble bursts and make millions off the misery that follows.

469. Coherence

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Actors: Hugo Armstrong, Emily Baldoni, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen, Lauren Maher, Maury Sterling
Plot: A group of eight friends at a dinner party must deal with the aftermath of a cosmic anomaly when a comet passes overhead.

470. Red Circle, The ( cercle rouge, Le )

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, Paul Amiot
Plot: An aristocratic just-paroled thief, an escaped murderer and an alcoholic ex-police sharpshooter form an unlikely trio bent on pulling off a daring jewel heist. Standing in their way is a vengeful mob boss, a persistent police superintendent. In this world, no on is innocent.

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