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Drama movies

Emotional and character-driven narratives that explore the complexities of the human condition and relationships.

Subgenres include: Psychological Drama, Professional Drama, Entertainment Industry Drama.

Miller's Crossing

2421. Miller's Crossing

Drama Thriller Crime
7.7

19901h 55min

United States

Director: Joel Coen

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.


Dreams

2422. Dreams

Fantasy Drama
7.7

19901h 59min

Japan, United States

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.


True Crime

2423. True Crime

Drama Crime Thriller Mystery
6.6

19992h 7min

United States

Director: Clint Eastwood

Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.


For Love of the Game

2424. For Love of the Game

Drama Romance
6.6

19992h 18min

United States

Director: Sam Raimi

A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years.


Natural Born Killers

2425. Natural Born Killers

Crime Thriller Drama
7.2

19941h 59min

United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.


The Hudsucker Proxy

2426. The Hudsucker Proxy

Comedy Drama Fantasy
7.2

19941h 51min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Joel Coen

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.


Muriel's Wedding

2427. Muriel's Wedding

Comedy Drama Romance
7.2

19941h 46min

Australia, France

Director: P.J. Hogan

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, due to her oppressive politician father, Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracized by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda Epinstalk, and the two move from their small Australian town to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel changes her name and begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.


Death and the Maiden

2428. Death and the Maiden

Drama Thriller
7.2

19941h 43min

France, United Kingdom

Director: Roman Polanski

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.


The Madness of King George

2429. The Madness of King George

Comedy Drama History
7.2

19941h 47min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales, from usurping the throne.


City of Angels

2430. City of Angels

Romance Drama Fantasy
6.7

19981h 54min

Germany, United States

Director: Brad Silberling

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.