Best Drama Movies

Drama movies present an analogy to different spheres of life; the best and the worst, specifically. Themes or issues which are taken up in such movies encompass subjects like racial prejudice, religious intolerance, drug addiction, poverty, political upheavals, corruption at the hands of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, war heroes, mental illness, conflicts in romance, corrupt societal institutions and violence toward women, to name a few.

The genre of drama movies presents an actor with a whole new platform where he/she is expected to be buried into the character to be portrayed to the audience. As understandable it is, drama movies stand on higher grounds when compared to most other genres, simply because such movies try to showcase the deeper meanings of life and every factor associated with it. So based on all such factors, are the following names which have been applauded as some of the greatest drama movies of all time.

Top Drama Movies

In no particular order, the list follows as...

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) The World According to Garp (1982) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather: Part II (1974) Pulp Fiction (1994) Schindler's List (1993) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) The Dark Knight (2008) Casablanca (1942) Sunset Blvd. (1950) North by Northwest (1959) Citizen Kane (1941) Apocalypse Now (1979) American History X (1998) Paths of Glory (1957) Taxi Driver (1976 City Lights (1931) Muhsin Bey (1987) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Das Leben der Anderen (2006) Zügürt Aga (1985) Kibar Feyzo (1978) The Pianist (2002) Cidade de Deus (2002) Goodfellas (1990) Se7en (1995) Forrest Gump (1994) American Beauty (1999) Kibar Feyzo (1978) Lawrence of Arabia (1962) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Modern Times (1936) Gone with the Wind (1939) Chinatown (1974) All About Eve (1950) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) French Connection, The (1971) Oliver! (1968) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Requiem for a Dream (2000) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Rashômon (1950) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Ladri di biciclette (1948) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Morometii (1988) Dances With Wolves (1990) Cinderella Man (2005) Persona (1966) Romeo and Juliet (1968) Cast Away (2000) Punch Drunk Love (2002) Gosford Park (2001) Le Divorce (2003) Wonder Boys (2000)

Scent of a Woman (1992) American Splendor (2003) The Third Miracle (1999) Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) Boys Don't Cry (1999) Titus (1999 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) Ben-Hur (1959) Double Indemnity (1944) Spirit of the Beehive (1973) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, (2001) Wings of Desire (1987) Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) The Third Man (1949) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Working Girl (1988) American Graffiti (1973) The Seventh Seal (1957) Lost in Translation (2003) The Searchers (1956) The Red Shoes (1948) The Right Stuff (1983) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Majestic (2001) Life As a House (2001) Spanglish (2004) Mulholland Drive (2001) The Notebook (2004) Sleepless In Seattle (1993) Fever Pitch (2005) Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993) Spartacus (1960) The Exorcist (1973) Rebecca (1940) Notorious (1946) Planet of the Apes (1968) On the Waterfront (1954) Titanic (1997) Apollo 13 (1995) Braveheart (1995) The Manchurian Candidate (1962 The Maltese Falcon (1941) United 93 (2006) Manhattan (1979) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Million Dollar Baby (2004) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Vertigo (1958) Touch of Evil'\ (1958) The Snake Pit (1948) Fritz Lang's Fury (1936) Hell's Highway (1932) Wild Boys of the Road (1933) Each Dawn I Die (1939)

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977) Kings Row (1942) The Lost Weekend (1945) The Country Girl (1954) I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Home of the Brave (1949) Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) In the Heat of the Night (1967) The Queen (2006) The Wild Bunch (1969) Unforgiven (1992) Raging Bull (1980) Strangers on a Train (1951) Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die (1924) The Truman Show (1998) Straw Dogs (1971) Do the Right Thing (1989) Gentleman's Agreement (1947) Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Compulsion (1959) The Caine Mutiny (1954) Inherit the Wind (1960) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) The Departed (2006) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Memento (2000) Amarcord (1973) The Graduate (1967) All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Breaker Morant (1980) The Verdict (1982) Philadelphia (1993) All the King's Men (1949) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Advise and Consent (1962) The Candidate (1972) All the President's Men (1976) The Guns of Navarone (1961) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Living Dangerously (1962) Mrs. Miniver (1942) The Human Comedy (1943) Since You Went Away (1944) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Before Sunset (2004) Napoleon (1927) Cat People (1942)

Great Drama Movies of 2011

• Drive
• Hanna
• Hugo
• Immortals
• Like Crazy
• Moneyball
• Season of the Witch
• Sucker Punch
• The Artist
• The Descendants
• The Ides of March
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

So there you have a long list of drama movies which were applauded, appreciated, admired and watched for multiple of times by many. So, get some of these DVDs, get lost in the drama, and feel it taking over your thoughts.