Best Dramas by Title
2648
2223
1959
Val Guest
Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley, Richard Pasco
War / Drama / Action
UK
English
202
156
2000
Edward Yang
Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Kelly Lee, Jonathan Chang
Drama
Taiwan / Japan
Mandarin
2648
2223
1956
J. Lee Thompson
Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Marie Ney, Olga Lindo, Joan Miller
Drama / Crime
UK
English
387
303
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
938
757
1982
Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney
Tarik Akan, Serif Sezer, Halil Ergün
Drama
Turkey / Switzerland / France
Turkish
2758
2316
1938
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Drama / Comedy / Crime / Romance
USA
English
2758
2316
1981
Sara Driver
Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante
Horror / Drama
USA
English
2783
2338
1974
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
1297
1050
2000
Kenneth Lonergan
Laura Linney, Matthew Broderick, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin
Drama
USA
English
2534
2123
2023
Nicole Holofcener
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Tobias Menzies, Michaela Watkins, Arian Moayed, Owen Teague
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
1501
1220
1937
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Barton MacLane, Jean Dixon
Pre-Noir / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2124
1752
2007
Roy Andersson
Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Björn Englund, Leif Larsson, Olle Olson
Comedy / Drama / Music
Sweden / Germany / France / Denmark / Norway
Swedish
2455
2054
2017
Lynne Ramsay
Joaquin Phoenix, Dante Pereira-Olson, Larry Canady, Vinicius Damasceno, Neo Randall
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
UK / France
English
2725
2290
2010
Woody Allen
Gemma Jones, Pauline Collins, Anthony Hopkins, Rupert Frazer, Kelly Harrison
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA / Spain
English
2775
2331
2022
Goran Stolevski
Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Anamaria Marinca, Sara Klimoska, Carloto Cotta
Drama / Horror
UK / Serbia / Australia
Macedonian
2479
2076
2003
David Mackenzie
Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir / Period Film
UK / France
English
2718
2285
2011
Jason Reitman
Charlize Theron, Patton Oswalt, Patrick Wilson, Elizabeth Reaser, Collette Wolfe
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2734
2297
2007
Stephen Walker
Bob Cilman, Stan Goldman, Jeanne Hatch, Patricia Linderme, Steve Martin
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
UK
English
2713
2281
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2647
2222
1961
Phil Karlson
Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert
Drama
USA
English
2630
2209
1938
Harold S. Bucquet
Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton, Jo Ann Sayers
Drama
USA
English
2607
2189
1979
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Poland / France
Polish
2725
2290
1988
Christopher Cain
Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Action / Drama / Western / Adventure / Crime
USA
English
1925
1583
1938
Richard Wallace
Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Billie Burke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1386
1124
1958
Edward Dmytryk
Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange, Barbara Rush, May Britt
Drama / War
USA
English
2637
2215
1950
Michael Curtiz
Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
USA
English
574
459
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2155
1780
1960
Luis Buñuel
Zachary Scott, Bernie Hamilton, Key Meersman, Crahan Denton
Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2718
2285
1995
Benjamin Ross
Tobias Arnold, Ruth Sheen, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Hugh O'Conor, Norman Caro
Crime / Drama / Comedy
UK / Germany / France
English
2725
2290
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2630
2209
1985
Barry Levinson
Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller / Action / Detective / Drama
USA
English
2725
2290
2009
Jean-Marc Vallée
Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK / USA
English
2685
2253
1972
Richard Attenborough
Robert Shaw, Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Jack Hawkins
Adventure / War / Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2697
2265
1998
Neil LaBute
Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2522
2113
2016
Makoto Shinkai
Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Mone Kamishiraishi, Ryô Narita, Aoi Yuki
Animation / Drama / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2591
2176
1973
Douglas Schwartz
Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Janet Margolin, Kathleen Freeman, David Ketchum
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2375
1978
1966
Francis Ford Coppola
Elizabeth Hartman, Geraldine Page, Peter Kastner, Rip Torn
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2545
2133
1968
Melville Shavelson
Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy
Comedy / Family / Drama
USA
English
2350
1953
2015
Paolo Sorrentino
Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda, Mark Kozelek
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France / Switzerland / UK
English
2630
2209
1952
Aleksander Ford
Czeslaw Wollejko, Zbigniew Lobodzinski, J. Nieweglowski, Jerzy Duszynski
Drama / Music
Poland
Polish
2647
2222
1935
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Boris Chirkov, Valentina Kibardina, Mikhail Tarkhanov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2706
2274
2021
Kamila Andini
Arawinda Kirana, Asmara Abigail, Sekar Sari, Marissa Anita, Dimas Aditya
Drama
Indonesia / France / Singapore / Australia
Indonesian
277
215
1969
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
1345
1088
1970
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin
Drama
USA
English
2404
2007
2017
Lucrecia Martel
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
Drama
Argentina / Brazil / Spain / Dominican Republic / France / Netherlands / Mexico / Switzerland / USA / Portugal / Lebanon
Spanish
1674
1370
2003
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ookusu, Gadarukanaru Taka
Action / Drama / Crime / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2703
2271
2012
Eran Riklis
Stephen Dorff, Alice Taglioni, Ashraf Barhom, Ali Suliman, Abdallah El Akal
Drama
UK / Israel
English
2607
2189
2003
Ondrej Trojan
Anna Geislerová, György Cserhalmi
Romance / Drama / War
Czech Republic / Slovakia / Austria
Czech
485
388
2012
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
189
147
1933
Jean Vigo
Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive
Comedy / Short / Drama
France
French
2725
2290
1957
Hall Bartlett
Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden, Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch
Thriller / Drama / Action / Cult
USA
English
2307
1917
1995
Hans Petter Moland
Stellan Skarsgård, Gard B. Eidsvold, Bjørn Sundquist
Drama / Adventure / Period Film
Norway / Sweden
Norwegian
2702
2270
2013
Terry Gilliam
Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon, Mélanie Thierry, David Thewlis, Lucas Hedges
Drama / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
UK / USA / Romania
English
1268
1022
2007
David Fincher
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
2698
2266
2007
Rodrigo Plá
Daniel Giménez Cacho, Maribel Verdú, Daniel Tovar, Carlos Bardem
Drama
Mexico
Spanish
598
477
2023
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
2280
1894
1933
Rowland V. Lee
Loretta Young, Gene Raymond, O.P. Heggie, Wally Albright
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2466
2064
1981
Luis Valdez
Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, Charles Aidman, Tyne Daly
Drama / Musical / Period Film
USA
English
1292
1045
1964
Michael Cacoyannis
Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates
Drama / Romance
USA / UK / Greece
English
1821
1496
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
2630
2209
1979
Douglas Hickox
Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, John Mills, Bob Hoskins, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War
USA / South Africa / Netherlands
English
2607
2189
2001
Paula van der Oest
Monic Hendrickx, Anneke Blok, Sylvia Poorta, Jacob Derwig
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Netherlands
Dutch
2625
2206
1928
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2647
2222
1930
Erich Waschneck
Charlotte Susa, Gustav Fröhlich, Friedrich Kayßler
Drama / Religion
Germany
German
