Best Drama Movies

Drama is where cinema does its heaviest lifting — the breakups, verdicts, families and quiet ruinations that stay with you for years. These are the highest-rated dramas on Filmtally, from towering classics to recent award winners. Track what you've seen and find your next gut-punch.

Snake and Whip (1986)

Flame of My Love (1949)

Alien Thunder (1974)

Swing High, Swing Low (1937)

Blackrock (1997)

Death Sentence (1974)

Sweet Bird of Youth (1989)

Subway Stories (1997)

Female Jungle (1956)

Doomsday Gun (1994)

Cry of a Prostitute (1974)

High Moon (2014)

Solitary Fragments (2007)

Blame It on Mum (2009)

Portland Street Blues (1998)

Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)

Chocolate City: Vegas Strip (2016)

Julius Caesar (1970)

Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)

India Sweets and Spices (2021)

Love, etc. (1996)

Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)

A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (2008)

The Escapist (2002)

The Hireling (1973)

The Rachels (2017)

Speaking Parts (1990)

Perfect Body (1997)

Siruthai (2011)

Playing God (2021)

13: The Musical (2022)

The Challenges (1969)

The Christ of the Ocean (1971)

The Squaw Man (1931)

Cafe Hostess (1940)

My Daughter Hildegart (1977)

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)

Walkout (2006)

Tere Ishk Mein (2025)

Pournami (2006)

The File of the Golden Goose (1969)

The Jericho Mile (1980)

The Opportunists (2000)

Ninja (2009)

Vengeance is Mine (2012)

She, a Chinese (2009)

Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)

Cobalt Blue (2022)

Carrie (2002)

Fierce People (2006)

Young People (1940)

The Return of the Dancing Master (2004)

By Love Possessed (1961)

Fire Down Below (1957)

Mad to Be Normal (2017)

The Grass Harp (1996)

Where Have All the People Gone (1974)

So Big (1953)

In Praise of Older Women (1997)

Listen to My Song (1959)