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.

Dancing Machine (1990)

Dare (2009)

Fatale (2020)

Summering (2022)

Meadowland (2015)

The Last Paradiso (2021)

Holy Rollers (2010)

Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)

Demonlover (2002)

Public Enemies (1996)

Connemara (2025)

The Lazarus Project (2008)

Chocolate City (2015)

The Job (2003)

The Haunted Airman (2006)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

Cobrador: In God We Trust (2007)

Paradise Highway (2022)

Marguerite & Julien (2015)

Mary, Queen of Scots (2013)

Children of the Night (2016)

Born to Be Wild (1995)

The Cat's Meow (2001)

Tennessee (2008)

Henry Poole Is Here (2008)

Hide Away (2011)

The Big Cube (1969)

Desolation (2017)

Search and Destroy (1995)

Sollers Point (2017)

Little Birds (2011)

The Match (2020)

96 Minutes (2011)

Burn Country (2016)

True Heart (1999)

At a Glance (2008)

Low Down (2014)

I Do (2012)

The Women of Quiet Country (1980)

Dark Hearts (2014)

Semi-Tough (1977)

The Chateau Meroux (2011)

Jackrabbit (2015)

The Philly Kid (2012)

Boundaries (2018)

Handling the Undead (2024)

A Perfect Christmas List (2014)

Miles from Home (1988)

Not Since You (2009)

Resurrection (2022)

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)

A Perfect Day (2006)

Amsterdam (2022)

Ida Red (2021)

Perfume (2001)

Byleth: The Demon of Incest (1972)

The Inheritance (2011)

Whitney (2015)

Chosen (2016)

Viva (2008)