Top Drama Movies


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

71. The Graduate

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, Murray Hamilton, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton
Plot: A young man, entering the real world meets the sultry wife of his father's
business partner, only to fall in love with her daughter.

72. Seventh Seal, The ( Det Sjunde inseglet )

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Inga Landgre, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe
Plot: During the black plague a man is introduced to the Grim Reaper where he questions the existence of God and life in general.

73. Slumdog Millionaire

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Actors: Mia Drake, Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Freida Pinto, Irfan Khan, Imran Hasnee
Plot: An orphan from the slums is one question short of winning 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" when he is whisked away by police who suspect him of cheating. By telling the story of his life, he explains every answer he has given - but there is much more than money on his mind.

74. The Dark Knight Rises

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman
Plot: Eight years after the fall of The Joker and Harvey Dent, Gotham City is quiet, peaceful - but all that is about to change. Bane has arrived and plans a campaign of terror that will push the city to its limit. Batman will once again take the mantle of hero in order to save his city.

75. Bicycle Thieves ( Ladri di biciclette )

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari
Plot: An unemployed man of 2 years is finally given a job which requires a bicycle. He pawns his way to receive a bicycle only to have it stolen on his first day of work.

76. The Revenant

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson, Forrest Goodluck, Lukas Haas
Plot: Based on a true story: In the 1820s, in the uncharted wilderness of America, Hugh Glass set out with a hunting party on an expedition. Glass was mauled by a bear and left for dead but through sheer will and to get back to his family, Glass survived - but that wasn't the only thing on his mind as he set out to payback the men who left him behind.

77. Spotlight

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Actors: Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James
Plot: The Boston Globe investigates the local Catholic Archdiocese and uncovers
secrets long buried - a massive cover-up of child molestation that shakes
the foundations of the Catholic church to its core.

78. The Elephant Man

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, John Standing
Plot: A freak show person is discovered and then taken care of by a surgeon who discovers a personality and very sensitive man.

79. Dunkirk

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Fionn Whitehead, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Aneurin Barnard, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh
Plot: After landing at Dunkirk, France during the Battle of France in WWII, a group of Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada and France find themselves surrounded by the German army. A fierce battle ensues, leading to one of the most daring and miraculous rescues of the war.

80. The Grapes of Wrath

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Ford
Actors: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Dorris Bowdon, Eddie Quillan, John Qualen
Plot: During the Great Depression, a Midwest family struggles to make it as they make their way to California, only to find it is has the same economic depression.

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