Top 100 Drama Movies List

#40 Drama Movie

Mud (2012) PG-13

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Director:

Jeff Nichols

Writers:

Jeff Nichols

Stars:

Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland

#39 Drama Movie

Requiem for a Dream (2000) R

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

Director:

Darren Aronofsky

Writers:

Hubert Selby Jr.

Stars:

Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind movie dvd

#38 Drama Movie

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) R

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

Director:

Michel Gondry

Writers:

Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry

Stars:

Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson

#37 Drama Movie

Catch Me If You Can (2002) PG-13

The true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars' worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Writers:

Jeff Nathanson, Frank Abagnale Jr.

Stars:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken

#36 Drama Movie

Her (2013) R

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need.

Director:

Spike Jonze

Writers:

Spike Jonze

Stars:

Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson

#35 Drama Movie

Gone Girl (2014) R

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Director:

David Fincher

Writers:

Gillian Flynn

Stars:

Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

#34 Drama Movie

Almost Famous (2000) R

A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.

Director:

Cameron Crowe

Writers:

Cameron Crowe

Stars:

Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson

#33 Drama Movie

The Game (1997) R

Nicholas Van Orton is a wealthy San Francisco banker. On his 48th birthday his brother Conrad suddenly returns and gives Nicholas a card giving him entry to unusual entertainment provided by something called Consumer Recreation Services. Nicholas visits CRS and all kinds of weird and bad things start to happen to him.

Director:

David Fincher

Writers:

John Brancato, Michael Ferris

Stars:

Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn

#32 Drama Movie

Forrest Gump (1994) PG-13

Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.

Director:

Robert Zemeckis

Writers:

Winston Groom (novel), Eric Roth

Stars:

Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise

#31 Drama Movie

Good Will Hunting (1997) R

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Director:

Gus Van Sant

Writers:

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

Stars:

Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

#30 Drama Movie

Fight Club (1999) R

An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more...

Director:

David Fincher

Writers:

Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls

Stars:

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf

#29 Drama Movie

The Wrestler (2008) R

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

Director:

Darren Aronofsky

Writers:

Robert D. Siegel

Stars:

Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood

#28 Drama Movie

The Basketball Diaries (1995) R

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Director:

Scott Kalvert

Writers:

Jim Carroll (novel), Bryan Goluboff

Stars:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol

#27 Drama Movie

The Hunt (2012) R

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Director:

Thomas Vinterberg

Writers:

Thomas Vinterberg

Stars:

Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp

#26 Drama Movie

Malèna (2000) R

A woman provokes sensual awakenings in a group of adolescent boys.

Director:

Giuseppe Tornatore

Writers:

Giuseppe Tornatore, Luciano Vincenzoni

Stars:

Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico

#25 Drama Movie

Mystic River (2003) R

With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are reunited by circumstance when one has a family tragedy.

Director:

Clint Eastwood

Writers:

Brian Helgeland, Dennis Lehane

Stars:

Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon

#24 Drama Movie

21 Grams (2003) R

A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.

Director:

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Writers:

Guillermo Arriaga

Stars:

Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts

#23 Drama Movie

The Pianist (2002) R

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

Director:

Roman Polanski

Writers:

Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman

Stars:

Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay

#22 Drama Movie

Children of Heaven (1997) PG

After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.

Director:

Majid Majidi

Writers:

Majid Majidi

Stars:

Mohammad Amir Naji, Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi

#21 Drama Movie

Crash (2004) R

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

Director:

Paul Haggis

Writers:

Paul Haggis

Stars:

Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton

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