Best Dramas by Rank
2790
2338
1975
Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa
Philippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa
Drama
Cameroon
French
2790
2338
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2790
2338
1955
Edgar G. Ulmer
Arthur Kennedy, Betta St. John, Eugene Iglesias, Charlita
Crime / Drama / Western / Action / Romance
USA
English
2790
2338
1989
Tracey Moffatt
Akira Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gentle, Agnes Hardwick, Marcia Langton
Short / Drama
Australia
English
2790
2338
1991
David Greene
Richard Chamberlain, Diana Scarwid, Amy Bebout, Reid Binion
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
USA
English
2790
2338
1949
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
Sally Forrest, Keefe Brasselle, Leo Penn, Dorothy Adams
Drama
USA
English
2790
2338
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2790
2338
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
2790
2338
1982
Jane Campion
Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Short / Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
2790
2338
1970
Manoj Kumar
Ashok Kumar, Saira Banu, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Bharti, Nirupa Roy
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
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2790
2338
1995
Tong Wang
Tao shu, Lu zhi, Shi jun, Zhang Shi
Drama / Documentary
Taiwan
Mandarin
2790
2338
1977
John Flynn
William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2790
2338
1933
Phil Goldstone
Zita Johann, Paul Cavanagh, Alan Dinehart, Claire Du Brey
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2790
2338
1990
Ann Hui
Maggie Cheung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee, Zi Xiong Li
Drama
Hong Kong / Taiwan
Cantonese
2790
2338
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2790
2338
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2790
2338
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2790
2338
1971
John G. Avildsen
Bob Brady, Gordon Felio, Roz Kelly, Nancy Salmon
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2790
2338
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2790
2338
1956
Douglas Sirk
Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Joan Bennett, William Reynolds
Drama
USA
English
2790
2338
1983
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Jean Badin
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Adventure
France
French
2790
2338
1997
John Greyson
Michael Achtman, Matthew Ferguson, Damon D'Oliveira
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Canada
English
2790
2338
1965
Ken Loach
Geraldine Sherman, Carol White, Vickery Turner, Michael Standing
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
2790
2338
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
2790
2338
1980
Slobodan Sijan
Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic
Comedy / Drama / War
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2790
2338
1978
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama
Poland / France
Polish
2790
2338
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
NR
-
1997
Wolfgang Petersen
Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews
Action / Thriller / Drama
USA / Germany
English
NR
-
2009
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Religion
USA
English
NR
-
1962
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte
Drama / Romance
France
French
NR
-
2009
Todd Graff
Vanessa Hudgens, Lisa Kudrow, Alyson Michalka, David Bowie, Scott Porter
Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1988
Luc Besson
Rosanna Arquette, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Paul Shenar, Sergio Castellitto
Adventure / Drama / Romance
France / USA / Italy
English
NR
-
2012
Neil Jordan
Saoirse Ronan, Barry Cassin, Gemma Arterton, David Heap, Warren Brown
Drama / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror
UK / USA / Ireland
English
NR
-
2010
Louis Leterrier
Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Gemma Arterton
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
NR
-
2006
Frank Coraci
Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, David Hasselhoff, Henry Winkler
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
-
2006
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Arif Asçi
Drama
Turkey / France
Turkish
NR
-
2005
Hans Canosa
Aaron Eckhart, Helena Bonham Carter, Yury Tsykun, Brian Geraghty, Brianna Brown
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK / USA
English
NR
-
2006
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Religion
USA
English
NR
-
1978
E.W. Swackhamer
James Coburn, Hector Elizondo, Jason Miller, Jean Simmons, Paul Stewart
Mystery / Drama / Detective
USA
English
NR
-
2016
Nitesh Tiwari
Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurana
Action | Biography | Drama | Sports
India
Hindi
NR
-
1968
Bryan Forbes
Michael Caine, Vladek Sheybal, Emilio Rodríguez, David Buck, Carmen Dene
Crime / Drama / Caper
UK
English
NR
-
1998
Mimi Leder
Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
2005
Neil Marshall
Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder
Adventure / Horror / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
NR
-
2000
Ron Howard
Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin
Family / Fantasy / Comedy / Drama / Comic
USA / Germany
English
NR
-
1940
Clarence Brown
Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
2011
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Elena Lyadova, Aleksey Rozin, Evgeniya Konushkina
Drama
Russia
Russian
NR
-
1996
Diarmuid Lawrence
Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton, Mark Strong, Samantha Bond, James Hazeldine
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
NR
-
2012
Mark Webber
Issac Love, Mark Webber, Amanda Seyfried, Jason Ritter, Shannyn Sossamon
Drama
USA
English
NR
-
2012
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Forest Whitaker, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, Mackenzie Foy, William H. Macy
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
France / Belgium / Luxembourg
English
NR
-
2012
Radu Jude
Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu
Drama / Comedy
Romania / Netherlands
Romanian
NR
-
2009
Justin Lin
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, John Ortiz
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
2011
Justin Lin
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson, Tyrese Gibson
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
2017
James Foley
Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Bella Heathcote
Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
2018
James Foley
Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Rita Ora, Luke Grimes
Drama / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1995
Jerry Zucker
Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, Liam Cunningham
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
2013
Baz Luhrmann
Leonardo Dicaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Isla Fisher, Joel Edgerton
Drama / Romance
Australia / USA
English
NR
-
1959
Charles Guggenheim, John Stix
Steve McQueen, Crahan Denton, David Clarke, James Dukas, Molly McCarthy
Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
NR
-
1979
Michael Crichton
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris
Drama / Action / Comedy / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Caper / Period Film
UK
English
NR
-
2008
Peter Berg
Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, Jae Head, Eddie Marsan, David Mattey
Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Crime
USA
English
NR
-
1968
Ted Post
Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley, Pat Hingle, Ben Johnson, Charles McGraw
Western / Crime / Drama
USA
English
NR
-
2006
Neil Burger
Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Jake Wood
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Fantasy / Period Film
Czech Republic / USA
English
NR
-
2017
Andy Muschietti
Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs
Drama | Horror | Thriller
USA / Canada
English
NR
-
2001
Dover Koshashvili
Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov, Lili Koshashvili, Aya Steinovitz
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Israel / France
Hebrew
NR
-
1971
Lee H. Katzin
Steve McQueen, Siegfried Rauch, Elga Andersen, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Fred Haltiner
Action / Adventure / Sports / Drama / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
2016
David Yates
Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
2012
Abbas Kiarostami
Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Denden, Reiko Mori, Kaneko Kubota
Drama / Romance
France / Japan
Japanese
NR
-
2019
Jon Favreau
Chiwetel Ejiofor, John Oliver, James Earl Jones, John Kani, Alfre Woodard
Animation / Adventure / Drama / Family / Musical / Action / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
-
2011
Julia Loktev
Gael García Bernal, Hani Furstenberg, Bidzina Gujabidze
Thriller / Drama / Romance
USA / Germany
English
NR
-
2012
Cate Shortland
Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel, Kai-Peter Malina
Drama / Thriller / War / Adventure
Germany / Australia / UK
German
NR
-
1934
Alfred E. Green, Phil Rosen
Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, Phillip Reed
Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1953
Carol Reed
James Mason, Claire Bloom, Geoffrey Toone, Hildegard Knef, Aribert Wäscher
Drama / Thriller / Action / Spy
UK
English
NR
-
2016
Stephen Chow
Chao Deng, Yun Lin, Show Luo, Yuqi Zhang, Pierre Bourdaud
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Comedy
China
Mandarin
NR
-
2011
Gerardo Naranjo
Stephanie Sigman, Juan Carlos Galván, Noé Hernández
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action
Mexico
Spanish
NR
-
1970
Martin Ritt
Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Anthony Zerbe
Drama / History / Detective
USA
English
NR
-
2017
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA / UK / Malta / Canada
English
NR
-
2012
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia
Drama / Thriller / Action
Brazil
Portuguese
NR
-
2007
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ellen Barkin, Al Pacino, Elliott Gould
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
NR
-
2018
Dante Lam
Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing, Jiang Du, Luxia Jiang, Sanâa Alaoui
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Adventure / Spy
China / Morocco
Mandarin
NR
-
2012
Susanna White
Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett
Action / Drama / Romance / War / Period Film
UK
English
NR
-
2016
Morten Tyldum
Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne, Andy Garcia
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Action
USA
English
NR
-
1983
Eric Rohmer
Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
NR
-
2009
Richard Curtis
Michael Hadley, Charlie Rowe, Lucy Fleming, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge
Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance
UK / Germany / USA / France
English
NR
-
2001
Tim Burton
Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan
Action / Sci-Fi / Adventure / Action / Drama
USA
English
NR
-
1947
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1996
Ron Howard
Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Brawley Nolte, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
2011
Rupert Wyatt
James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton, David Oyelowo
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1991
Kevin Reynolds
Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Christian Slater
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English
NR
-
1985
Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen
Action / Drama / Sports
USA
English
NR
-
2015
Brad Peyton
Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archie Panjabi
Action / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA / Australia
English
NR
-
2024
Claude Barras
Babette De Coster, Martin Verset, Laetitia Dosch, Benoît Poelvoorde
Animation / Family / Action / Adventure / Drama
Switzerland / France / Belgium
French
NR
-
2006
David Von Ancken
Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Angelica Houston, Michael Wincott, Jimmi Simpson
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Western / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1941
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
NR
-
2006
John Cameron Mitchell
Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker
Drama / Adult / Comedy
USA
English
NR
-
2010
Baran bo Odar
Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Sebastian Blomberg
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany
German
NR
-
2016
Christophe Lourdelet, Garth Jennings
Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical / Fantasy
USA / UK / Japan
English
NR
-
1980
Jeannot Szwarc
Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin
Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
1957
Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
NR
-
2023
Isabel Herguera
Miren Arrieta, Ranjitha Rajeevan, Manu Khurana, Arunima Bhattacharya
Animation / Drama / Musical / Fantasy
Spain / Germany
English
NR
-
2023
Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba
Jeff Goldblum, Tony Ramos, Abel Ayala, Roberta Wallach, Ângela Rabello
Animation / Drama / History
Spain / France / Netherlands / Portugal / Peru / UK / USA / Brazil
English
NR
-
2011
Kenneth Branagh
Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
-
2014
Noam Murro
Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey, Hans Matheson, Callan Mulvey
Action / Drama / Fantasy / War / Epic / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
NR
-
2012
Frank V. Ross
Anthony J. Baker, Allison Latta, Megan Mercier, Frank V. Ross, Rebecca Spence
Drama
USA
English
NR
-
2001
Antoine Fuqua
Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, Harris Yulin
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA / Australia
English
NR
-
2011
Bill Condon
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
2012
Bill Condon
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Peter Facinelli
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
2010
David Slade
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Bryce Dallas Howard
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
2009
Chris Weitz
Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Ashley Greene
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
NR
-
2012
Juan Solanas
Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall, Jayne Heitmeyer, Neil Napier
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi
Canada / France
English
NR
-
2012
Michel Gondry
Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz
Drama / Comedy
UK / USA / France
English
NR
-
2017
Jing Wu
Jing Wu, Frank Grillo, Celina Jade, Gang Wu, Hans Zhang, Qian Yu, Nan Yu
Action / Drama / War / Adventure / Thriller
China
Mandarin
