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.

Nearing Grace (2006)

Cousin Bette (1998)

The Hottest State (2007)

She's So Lovely (1997)

Judas Kiss (1998)

Half Light (2006)

Cold Heaven (1992)

Scorchers (1991)

Hotel (2004)

Freche Mädchen 2 (2010)

A Stranger in Town (1967)

Chirutha (2007)

Daddy and Them (2001)

Desire (2002)

Down Twisted (1987)

Miss Marx (2020)

The Cat and the Moon (2019)

The Amaranth (2018)

Frat Star (2017)

The Decoy Bride (2011)

Allelujah (2023)

Halla Bol (2008)

Femme Fatale (1991)

The Mermaid Chair (2006)

Too Much Flesh (2000)

Purgatorio (2009)

Moving On (2023)

Pray for Rain (2017)

Thief of Hearts (1984)

Up at the Villa (2000)

Jayne Mansfield's Car (2013)

10 Days in a Madhouse (2015)

The Woman (2011)

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

Mad Dog and Glory (1993)

Mid-Love Crisis (2022)

Easy Living (2017)

The Big Man (1990)

The Sunlit Night (2020)

Adultery (A User's Guide) (1995)

The Christmas Gift (2015)

Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)

March or Die (1977)

Hello I Must Be Going (2012)

The Masque of the Red Death (1989)

Cooking With Stella (2010)

The People Garden (2016)

Scenes of the Crime (2002)

Confess (2005)

The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)

Plastic (2014)

Two Bits (1995)

Pink Punch (2004)

Gold (2022)

Amar (2009)

Between the Temples (2024)

Wish Upon a Christmas (2015)

Five Senses of Eros (2009)

End of the Game (1978)

Shoplifters of the World (2021)