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Displaying Search Results: 278 Best Movies in Genre Drama

Sophie's Choice ( 1982 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  150

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Polish | German

Director:  Alan J. Pakula

Writer:   William Styron | Alan J. Pakula

Stars:   Meryl Streep | Kevin Kline | Peter MacNicol | Rita Karin

Plot:    Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

The Secret of NIMH ( 1982 )

Genre:   Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  82

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Don Bluth

Writer:   Robert C. O'Brien | Don Bluth | John Pomeroy | Gary Goldman | Will Finn | Ken Anderson

Stars:   Derek Jacobi | Elizabeth Hartman | Arthur Malet | Dom DeLuise

Plot:    To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.

The Long Good Friday ( 1980 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  114

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English | French

Director:  John Mackenzie

Writer:   Barrie Keeffe

Stars:   Paul Freeman | Leo Dolan | Kevin McNally | Patti Love

Plot:    An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.

Coal Miner's Daughter ( 1980 )

Genre:   Biography | Drama | Music

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Michael Apted

Writer:   Loretta Lynn | George Vecsey | Thomas Rickman

Stars:   Sissy Spacek | Tommy Lee Jones | Levon Helm | Phyllis Boyens

Plot:    The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.

Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Horror

Runtime:  107

Country:  West Germany | France

Language:  German | English | Romany

Director:  Werner Herzog

Writer:   Werner Herzog | Tom Shachtman | Martje Grohmann | Bram Stoker

Stars:   Klaus Kinski | Isabelle Adjani | Bruno Ganz | Roland Topor

Plot:    Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

...And Justice for All ( 1979 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  119

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Norman Jewison

Writer:   Valerie Curtin | Barry Levinson

Stars:   Al Pacino | Jack Warden | John Forsythe | Lee Strasberg

Plot:    A lawyer is forced to defend a judge, while defending other clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.

The China Syndrome ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  122

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  James Bridges

Writer:   Mike Gray | T.S. Cook | James Bridges

Stars:   Jane Fonda | Jack Lemmon | Michael Douglas | Scott Brady

Plot:    A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

A Bridge Too Far ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | History | War

Runtime:  175

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English | German | Dutch

Director:  Richard Attenborough

Writer:   Cornelius Ryan | William Goldman

Stars:   Siem Vroom | Marlies van Alcmaer | Erik van 't Wout | Wolfgang Preiss

Plot:    Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

The Goodbye Girl ( 1977 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  111

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Japanese | German

Director:  Herbert Ross

Writer:   Neil Simon

Stars:   Richard Dreyfuss | Marsha Mason | Quinn Cummings | Paul Benedict

Plot:    After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, unemployed dancer Paula McFadden and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy are forced to live with struggling off-Broadway actor Elliot Garfield, who is subletting their apartment.

Cross of Iron ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | War

Runtime:  132

Country:  United Kingdom | West Germany

Language:  English | Russian | French

Director:  Sam Peckinpah

Writer:   Julius J. Epstein | Walter Kelley | James Hamilton | Willi Heinrich

Stars:   James Coburn | Maximilian Schell | James Mason | David Warner

Plot:    German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.

Der amerikanische Freund ( 1977 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  128

Country:  West Germany | France

Language:  German | English | French

Director:  Wim Wenders

Writer:   Patricia Highsmith | Wim Wenders

Stars:   Dennis Hopper | Bruno Ganz | Lisa Kreuzer | GĂ©rard Blain

Plot:    Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Marathon Man ( 1976 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  125

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | German

Director:  John Schlesinger

Writer:   William Goldman | William Goldman

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Laurence Olivier | Roy Scheider | William Devane

Plot:    After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.

Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery

Runtime:  115

Country:  Australia

Language:  English | French

Director:  Peter Weir

Writer:   Cliff Green | Joan Lindsay

Stars:   Rachel Roberts | Vivean Gray | Helen Morse | Kirsty Child

Plot:    During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.

Professione: reporter ( 1975 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  126

Country:  Italy | France | Spain

Language:  English | Spanish | German

Director:  Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer:   Mark Peploe | Mark Peploe | Enrico Sannia | Michelangelo Antonioni | Miguel de Echarri | Peter Wollen

Stars:   Jack Nicholson | Maria Schneider | Jenny Runacre | Ian Hendry

Plot:    Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ( 1974 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western

Runtime:  112

Country:  United States | Mexico

Language:  English | Spanish | Latin

Director:  Sam Peckinpah

Writer:   Gordon T. Dawson | Sam Peckinpah | Frank Kowalski | Sam Peckinpah

Stars:   Warren Oates | Isela Vega | Robert Webber | Gig Young

Plot:    An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

American Graffiti ( 1973 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  110

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  George Lucas

Writer:   George Lucas | Gloria Katz | Willard Huyck

Stars:   Richard Dreyfuss | Ron Howard | Paul Le Mat | Charles Martin Smith

Plot:    A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle ( 1973 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama

Runtime:  102

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Peter Yates

Writer:   George V. Higgins | Paul Monash

Stars:   Robert Mitchum | Peter Boyle | Richard Jordan | Steven Keats

Plot:    After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.

Frenzy ( 1972 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  116

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Alfred Hitchcock

Writer:   Arthur La Bern | Anthony Shaffer

Stars:   Jon Finch | Barry Foster | Barbara Leigh-Hunt | Anna Massey

Plot:    A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

The Cowboys ( 1972 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Western

Runtime:  134

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Mark Rydell

Writer:   William Dale Jennings | Irving Ravetch | Harriet Frank Jr. | William Dale Jennings

Stars:   John Wayne | Roscoe Lee Browne | Bruce Dern | Colleen Dewhurst

Plot:    Rancher Wil Andersen is forced to hire inexperienced boys as cowhands in order to get his cattle herd to market on time but the rough drive is full of dangers and a gang of rustlers is trailing them.

Straw Dogs ( 1971 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  113

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Sam Peckinpah

Writer:   David Zelag Goodman | Sam Peckinpah | Gordon Williams

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Susan George | Peter Vaughan | T.P. McKenna

Plot:    A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

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