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.

Final (2001)

Jack Goes Boating (2010)

Sheba, Baby (1975)

Old Gringo (1989)

Glass Chin (2014)

The Hessen Affair (2009)

Nightmare at the End of the Hall (2008)

Doctors' Wives (1971)

The Long Duel (1967)

The Russia House (1990)

Kept Husbands (1931)

Beautiful Joe (2000)

Where Life Begins (2022)

Unrelated (2008)

Vacation (1971)

Brother to Brother (2004)

Ripe (1996)

The Apparition (2018)

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003)

Bruc: The Manhunt (2010)

The American Mall (2008)

King Solomon's Mines (1937)

Sometimes the Good Kill (2017)

Máncora (2009)

2 Jacks (2012)

Memoria (2016)

Snitch (2013)

Raggedy Man (1981)

Crazy First Love (2003)

Bug (2007)

Presence (2025)

Alag (2006)

Lost Seamen (2003)

Johns (1996)

Casa de los Babys (2003)

A Lovely Way to Die (1968)

The Blackout (1997)

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006)

A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)

The Confession (1999)

Breakaway (2011)

The Hanged Man (1974)

The Nurse (1997)

Lunatics: A Love Story (1991)

Destination Moon (1950)

Plenty (1985)

Shangri-La Suite (2016)

The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)

Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)

Pretty Thing (2025)

Restless Virgins (2013)

Second Coming (2014)

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)

So Long Billie (2020)

Rebounce (2011)

Initiation (2009)

Dandelion (2024)

Miles (2017)

Sparrows Can't Sing (1963)

December Boys (2007)