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Best Drama Movies

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25. Hoop Dreams

Oct 14, 1994 • Rated PG-13

Two inner-city Chicago boys with hopes of becoming professional basketball players struggle to become college players.

26. Rashomon

Dec 26, 1951 • Rated Not Rated

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

27. The Passion of Joan of Arc

Mar 28, 1929 • Rated Passed

In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

28. All About Eve

Oct 27, 1950 • Rated Approved

An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

29. Metropolis (re-release)

Jul 12, 2002 • Rated Not Rated

Possibly the crowning achievement of silent cinema, Fritz Lang's 1927 blockbuster fuses the frenetic storytelling of twenties pulp fiction with Lang's personal fascination with the darker side of human nature. (Kino International)

30. Jules and Jim

Apr 23, 1962 • Rated Not Rated

Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.

31. My Left Foot

Nov 10, 1989 • Rated R

True story of cerebral palsied Christy Brown, who overcame his illness and poverty to become an accomplished artist, poet and writer.

32. The Night of the Hunter

Jul 27, 1955 • Rated Approved

A traveling preacher's (Robert Mitchum) nefarious motives for marrying a fragile widow (Shelley Winters) are uncovered by her terrified young children.

33. Ran

Dec 20, 1985 • Rated R

An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Ran considers the disastrous consequences of Lord Hidetora Ichimonji’s (Tatsuya Nakadai) decision to split his kingdom among his three sons.

34. Gone with the Wind

Jan 17, 1940 • Rated Approved

A Southern belle struggles with the devastation of the Civil War and Reconstruction. This classic won 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

35. Quo Vadis, Aida?

Mar 5, 2021 • Rated Approved

Bosnia, July 11th 1995. Aida is a translator for the United Nations in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people - rescue or death? Which move should she take? [Super LTD]

36. Rififi (re-release)

Jul 21, 2000 • Rated Not Rated

A reissue of a classic French caper thriller in which Tony, fresh out of prison, teams with three cohorts to pull off a major jewel heist which goes awry. The film's title is slang for "rough stuff," and it's robbery sequence is famous for its exciting, completely silent robbery scene.

37. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Jan 23, 2008 • Rated Not Rated

During the final days of communism in Romania, two college roommates Otilia and Gabita are busy preparing for a night away. But rather than planning for a holiday, they are making arrangements for Gabita's illegal abortion and unwittingly, both find themselves burrowing deep down a rabbit hole of unexpected revelations. [IFC Films]

38. Parasite

Oct 11, 2019 • Rated R

Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. [Neon]

39. Battleship Potemkin

Dec 5, 1926 • Rated TV-14

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

40. A Streetcar Named Desire

Sep 19, 1951 • Rated Approved

Disturbed Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law (Marlon Brando) while her reality crumbles around her.

41. American Graffiti

Aug 11, 1973 • Rated PG

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

42. 12 Angry Men

Apr 1, 1957 • Rated Approved

12 Angry Men, by Sidney Lumet, is a behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system. This iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose’s teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the dissenting member on a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. The result is a saga of epic proportions that plays out over a tense afternoon in one sweltering room.

43. Dumbo

Oct 31, 1941 • Rated Approved

This simple animated tale is set in a circus and spotlights a baby elephant, Dumbo, who is mocked and ridiculed because his ears are too big, only to be assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.

44. Roma

Nov 21, 2018 • Rated R

Roma follows Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City. Delivering an artful love letter to the women who raised him, Cuarón draws on his own childhood to create a vivid and emotional portrait of domestic strife and social hierarchy amidst political turmoil of the 1970s. [Netflix]

45. The Shop Around the Corner

Jan 12, 1940 • Rated Approved

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

46. Rosemary's Baby

Jun 12, 1968 • Rated R

A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.

47. 12 Years a Slave

Oct 18, 2013 • Rated R

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man living in upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

48. Manchester by the Sea

Nov 18, 2016 • Rated R

After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 15-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.

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