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278 Best Movies in Genre Drama
Ran ( 1985 )
Genre: Action | Drama | War
Runtime: 160
Country: Japan | France
Language: Japanese
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa | Hideo Oguni | Masato Ide | William Shakespeare
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai | Akira Terao | Jinpachi Nezu | Daisuke Ryû
Plot: In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
The Elephant Man ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama
Runtime: 124
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | French
Director: David Lynch
Writer: Christopher De Vore | Eric Bergren | David Lynch | Frederick Treves | Ashley Montagu
Stars: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud
Plot: 'A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.'
The Deer Hunter ( 1978 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 183
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | Vietnamese | French
Director: Michael Cimino
Writer: Michael Cimino | Deric Washburn | Louis Garfinkle | Quinn K. Redeker | Deric Washburn | Meryl Streep
Stars: Robert De Niro | John Cazale | John Savage | Christopher Walken
Plot: An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
Höstsonaten ( 1978 )
Genre: Drama | Music
Runtime: 99
Country: West Germany | United Kingdom
Language: Swedish | English
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Ingrid Bergman | Liv Ullmann | Lena Nyman | Halvar Björk
Plot: A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
Rocky ( 1976 )
Genre: Drama | Sport
Runtime: 120
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish | Italian
Director: John G. Avildsen
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Stars: Sylvester Stallone | Talia Shire | Burt Young | Carl Weathers
Plot: A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Network ( 1976 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 121
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Stars: Faye Dunaway | William Holden | Peter Finch | Robert Duvall
Plot: A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about mass media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
The Message ( 1976 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Runtime: 177
Country: Lebanon | Libya | Kuwait
Language: Arabic | English
Director: Moustapha Akkad
Writer: H.A.L. Craig | Abdel Hamid Gouda El Sahhar | Tewfik El-Hakim | A.B. Rahman El-Sharkawi | Mohammad Ali Maher
Stars: Anthony Quinn | Irene Papas | Michael Ansara | Johnny Sekka
Plot: Historical fresco recounting the life and times of the Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Abrahamic religion, in the sense that, according to Islam, he completed and sealed the monotheistic revelation made to Abraham.
Jaws ( 1975 )
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Runtime: 124
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Peter Benchley | Carl Gottlieb | Peter Benchley
Stars: Roy Scheider | Robert Shaw | Richard Dreyfuss | Lorraine Gary
Plot: When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Barry Lyndon ( 1975 )
Genre: Adventure | Drama | War
Runtime: 185
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | German | French
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick | William Makepeace Thackeray
Stars: Ryan O'Neal | Marisa Berenson | Patrick Magee | Hardy Krüger
Plot: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Chinatown ( 1974 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 130
Country: United States
Language: English | Cantonese | Spanish
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Robert Towne | Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | John Huston | Perry Lopez
Plot: A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Paper Moon ( 1973 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Runtime: 102
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writer: Joe David Brown | Alvin Sargent
Stars: Ryan O'Neal | Tatum O'Neal | Madeline Kahn | John Hillerman
Plot: During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Dead Poets Society ( 1989 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 128
Country: United States
Language: English | Latin | French
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Tom Schulman
Stars: Robin Williams | Robert Sean Leonard | Ethan Hawke | Josh Charles
Plot: Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Dom za vesanje ( 1988 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Fantasy
Runtime: 142
Country: Yugoslavia | Italy | United Kingdom
Language: Romany | Serbo-Croatian | Italian
Director: Emir Kusturica
Writer: Emir Kusturica | Gordan Mihic
Stars: Davor Dujmovic | Bora Todorovic | Ljubica Adzovic | Husnija Hasimovic
Plot: In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
Stand by Me ( 1986 )
Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 89
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Rob Reiner
Writer: Stephen King | Raynold Gideon | Bruce A. Evans
Stars: Wil Wheaton | River Phoenix | Corey Feldman | Jerry O'Connell
Plot: A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.
Platoon ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 120
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | Vietnamese
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone
Stars: Keith David | Forest Whitaker | Francesco Quinn | Kevin Dillon
Plot: Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Jean de Florette ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 120
Country: Switzerland | France | Italy
Language: French | English
Director: Claude Berri
Writer: Marcel Pagnol | Claude Berri | Gérard Brach
Stars: Yves Montand | Gérard Depardieu | Daniel Auteuil | Elisabeth Depardieu
Plot: A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.
Paris, Texas ( 1984 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 145
Country: West Germany | France | United Kingdom
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: L.M. Kit Carson | Sam Shepard | Walter Donohue
Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Sam Berry | Bernhard Wicki | Dean Stockwell
Plot: Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Blade Runner ( 1982 )
Genre: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 117
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English | German | Cantonese
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Hampton Fancher | David Webb Peoples | Philip K. Dick
Stars: Harrison Ford | Sean Young | Rutger Hauer | Edward James Olmos
Plot: A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Fanny och Alexander ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 188
Country: Sweden | France | West Germany
Language: Swedish | German | Yiddish
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Kristina Adolphson | Börje Ahlstedt | Pernilla Allwin | Kristian Almgren
Plot: Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Raging Bull ( 1980 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport
Runtime: 129
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Jake LaMotta | Joseph Carter | Peter Savage | Paul Schrader | Mardik Martin
Stars: Robert De Niro | Cathy Moriarty | Joe Pesci | Frank Vincent
Plot: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.