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Displaying Search Results: 278 Best Movies in Genre Drama

The Right Stuff ( 1983 )

Genre:   Adventure | Biography | Drama | History

Runtime:  193

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Russian | Spanish

Director:  Philip Kaufman

Writer:   Philip Kaufman | Tom Wolfe

Stars:   Sam Shepard | Scott Glenn | Ed Harris | Dennis Quaid

Plot:    The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

The King of Comedy ( 1982 )

Genre:   Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  109

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Martin Scorsese

Writer:   Paul D. Zimmerman

Stars:   Robert De Niro | Jerry Lewis | Diahnne Abbott | Sandra Bernhard

Plot:    Rupert is an aspiring stand-up comedian, who is willing to go the extra mile in his attempt to appear in the late night show hosted by his idol.

'Breaker' Morant ( 1980 )

Genre:   Drama | History | War

Runtime:  107

Country:  Australia

Language:  English | Afrikaans

Director:  Bruce Beresford

Writer:   Jonathan Hardy | David Stevens | Bruce Beresford | Harold Lander | Kenneth G. Ross | Kit Denton

Stars:   Edward Woodward | Jack Thompson | John Waters | Bryan Brown

Plot:    Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Breaking Away ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Sport

Runtime:  101

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian | French

Director:  Peter Yates

Writer:   Steve Tesich

Stars:   Dennis Christopher | Dennis Quaid | Daniel Stern | Jackie Earle Haley

Plot:    A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.

Die Ehe der Maria Braun ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  120

Country:  West Germany

Language:  German | English | French

Director:  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer:   Pea Fröhlich | Peter Märthesheimer | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Pea Fröhlich | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Peter Märthesheimer | Kurt Raab

Stars:   Hanna Schygulla | Klaus Löwitsch | Ivan Desny | Gisela Uhlen

Plot:    Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany\'s "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

Days of Heaven ( 1978 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  94

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian

Director:  Terrence Malick

Writer:   Terrence Malick

Stars:   Richard Gere | Brooke Adams | Sam Shepard | Linda Manz

Plot:    A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Sorcerer ( 1977 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  121

Country:  United States | Mexico

Language:  English | Spanish | French

Director:  William Friedkin

Writer:   Walon Green | Georges Arnaud | William Friedkin

Stars:   Roy Scheider | Bruno Cremer | Francisco Rabal | Amidou

Plot:    Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.

3 Women ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Robert Altman

Writer:   Robert Altman | Patricia Resnick

Stars:   Shelley Duvall | Sissy Spacek | Janice Rule | Robert Fortier

Plot:    Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.

Stroszek ( 1977 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  115

Country:  West Germany

Language:  German | English | Turkish

Director:  Werner Herzog

Writer:   Werner Herzog

Stars:   Bruno S. | Eva Mattes | Clemens Scheitz | Wilhelm von Homburg

Plot:    In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.

The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | War

Runtime:  129

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Arabic | Urdu

Director:  John Huston

Writer:   John Huston | Gladys Hill | Rudyard Kipling

Stars:   Sean Connery | Michael Caine | Christopher Plummer | Saeed Jaffrey

Plot:    In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

The Conversation ( 1974 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  113

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:   Francis Ford Coppola

Stars:   Gene Hackman | John Cazale | Allen Garfield | Frederic Forrest

Plot:    A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Serpico ( 1973 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  130

Country:  United States | Italy

Language:  English | Italian | Spanish

Director:  Sidney Lumet

Writer:   Peter Maas | Waldo Salt | Norman Wexler

Stars:   Al Pacino | John Randolph | Jack Kehoe | Biff McGuire

Plot:    An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Badlands ( 1973 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama

Runtime:  94

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Terrence Malick

Writer:   Terrence Malick

Stars:   Martin Sheen | Sissy Spacek | Warren Oates | Ramon Bieri

Plot:    An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

The French Connection ( 1971 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  104

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | Italian

Director:  William Friedkin

Writer:   Ernest Tidyman | Robin Moore | William Friedkin

Stars:   Gene Hackman | Fernando Rey | Roy Scheider | Tony Lo Bianco

Plot:    A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.

When Harry Met Sally... ( 1989 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  95

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Rob Reiner

Writer:   Nora Ephron

Stars:   Billy Crystal | Meg Ryan | Carrie Fisher | Bruno Kirby

Plot:    Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.

Dip huet seung hung ( 1989 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  111

Country:  Hong Kong SAR China

Language:  Cantonese | Mandarin | Japanese

Director:  John Woo

Writer:   John Woo

Stars:   Chow Yun-Fat | Danny Lee | Sally Yeh | Kong Chu

Plot:    A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore the vision of a singer he accidentally blinded.

Empire of the Sun ( 1987 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  153

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Japanese | Mandarin

Director:  Steven Spielberg

Writer:   Tom Stoppard | J.G. Ballard | Menno Meyjes

Stars:   Christian Bale | John Malkovich | Miranda Richardson | Nigel Havers

Plot:    A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

The Last Emperor ( 1987 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | History

Runtime:  163

Country:  China | Italy | United Kingdom

Language:  English | Mandarin | Japanese

Director:  Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer:   Enzo Ungari | Mark Peploe | Bernardo Bertolucci | Puyi

Stars:   John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying

Plot:    Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatization of China's eleventh and final monarch of the Qing dynasty: Emperor Puyi.

Blue Velvet ( 1986 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  120

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  David Lynch

Writer:   David Lynch

Stars:   Isabella Rossellini | Kyle MacLachlan | Dennis Hopper | Laura Dern

Plot:    The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

The Name of the Rose ( 1986 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  130

Country:  West Germany | Italy | France

Language:  English | Latin

Director:  Jean-Jacques Annaud

Writer:   Umberto Eco | Andrew Birkin | Gérard Brach | Howard Franklin | Alain Godard

Stars:   Sean Connery | Christian Slater | Helmut Qualtinger | Elya Baskin

Plot:    An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

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