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278 Best Movies in Genre Drama
Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 )
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 125
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Frank Pierson | P.F. Kluge | Thomas Moore
Stars: Penelope Allen | Sully Boyar | John Cazale | Beulah Garrick
Plot: Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
A Woman Under the Influence ( 1974 )
Genre: Drama | Romance
Runtime: 155
Country: United States
Language: English | Italian
Director: John Cassavetes
Writer: John Cassavetes
Stars: Peter Falk | Gena Rowlands | Fred Draper | Lady Rowlands
Plot: Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
Papillon ( 1973 )
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama
Runtime: 151
Country: France | United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Dalton Trumbo | Lorenzo Semple Jr. | Henri Charrière | William Goldman
Stars: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon
Plot: A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
La nuit américaine ( 1973 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Runtime: 116
Country: France | Italy
Language: French | English | Italian
Director: François Truffaut
Writer: François Truffaut | Jean-Louis Richard | Suzanne Schiffman
Stars: Jacqueline Bisset | Valentina Cortese | Dani | Alexandra Stewart
Plot: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Fiddler on the Roof ( 1971 )
Genre: Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Runtime: 181
Country: United States
Language: English | Hebrew | Russian
Director: Norman Jewison
Writer: Sholom Aleichem | Arnold Perl | Joseph Stein | Joseph Stein
Stars: Topol | Norma Crane | Leonard Frey | Molly Picon
Plot: In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
The Last Picture Show ( 1971 )
Genre: Drama | Romance
Runtime: 118
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Writer: Larry McMurtry | Peter Bogdanovich | Larry McMurtry
Stars: Timothy Bottoms | Jeff Bridges | Cybill Shepherd | Ben Johnson
Plot: In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
Do the Right Thing ( 1989 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 120
Country: United States
Language: English | Italian | Spanish
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Spike Lee
Stars: Danny Aiello | Ossie Davis | Ruby Dee | Richard Edson
Plot: On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Rain Man ( 1988 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 133
Country: United States
Language: English | Italian
Director: Barry Levinson
Writer: Barry Morrow | Ron Bass | Barry Morrow
Stars: Dustin Hoffman | Tom Cruise | Valeria Golino | Gerald R. Molen
Plot: After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Au revoir les enfants ( 1987 )
Genre: Drama | War
Runtime: 104
Country: France | West Germany | Italy
Language: French | German | English
Director: Louis Malle
Writer: Louis Malle
Stars: Gaspard Manesse | Raphael Fejtö | Francine Racette | Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Plot: A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
Gandhi ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Runtime: 191
Country: United Kingdom | India
Language: English | Hindi
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Stars: Ben Kingsley | Rohini Hattangadi | Roshan Seth | Candice Bergen
Plot: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Pink Floyd: The Wall ( 1982 )
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Music
Runtime: 95
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Alan Parker
Writer: Roger Waters | Roger Waters
Stars: Bob Geldof | Christine Hargreaves | James Laurenson | Eleanor David
Plot: A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Being There ( 1979 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 130
Country: United States
Language: English | Russian | Italian
Director: Hal Ashby
Writer: Jerzy Kosinski | Jerzy Kosinski | Robert C. Jones
Stars: Peter Sellers | Shirley MacLaine | Melvyn Douglas | Jack Warden
Plot: After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
All the President's Men ( 1976 )
Genre: Drama | History | Thriller
Runtime: 138
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Carl Bernstein | Bob Woodward | William Goldman
Stars: Dustin Hoffman | Robert Redford | Jack Warden | Martin Balsam
Plot: "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon\'s resignation.
Harold and Maude ( 1971 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Runtime: 91
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Hal Ashby
Writer: Colin Higgins
Stars: Ruth Gordon | Bud Cort | Vivian Pickles | Cyril Cusack
Plot: Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
Patton ( 1970 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | War
Runtime: 172
Country: United States
Language: English | German | French
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Francis Ford Coppola | Edmund H. North | Ladislas Farago | Omar N. Bradley
Stars: George C. Scott | Karl Malden | Stephen Young | Michael Strong
Plot: The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
The Holdovers ( 2023 )
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Runtime: 133
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: David Hemingson
Stars: Paul Giamatti | Dominic Sessa | Da'Vine Joy Randolph | Carrie Preston
Plot: In 1970, a curmudgeonly history teacher at a New England boarding school remains on campus during Christmas break to supervise held over students, and ends up forming an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker.
Der Himmel über Berlin ( 1987 )
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Runtime: 128
Country: West Germany | France
Language: German | English | French
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Wim Wenders | Peter Handke | Richard Reitinger | Bernard Eisenschitz
Stars: Bruno Ganz | Solveig Dommartin | Otto Sander | Curt Bois
Plot: An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.
Threads ( 1984 )
Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 112
Country: United Kingdom | Australia
Language: English
Director: Mick Jackson
Writer: Barry Hines
Stars: Karen Meagher | Reece Dinsdale | David Brierly | Rita May
Plot: The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 )
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 105
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Robert Benton
Writer: Avery Corman | Robert Benton | Meryl Streep | Jay Christian
Stars: Dustin Hoffman | Meryl Streep | Jane Alexander | Justin Henry
Plot: After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
All That Jazz ( 1979 )
Genre: Drama | Music | Musical
Runtime: 123
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Bob Fosse
Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur | Bob Fosse
Stars: Roy Scheider | Jessica Lange | Ann Reinking | Leland Palmer
Plot: Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.