American drama films

1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles

2012 film by Quentin Tarantino

1984 film directed by Miloš Forman

1950 film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

1950 film by Billy Wilder

The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-produced and directed by Mel Gibson from a screenplay he wrote with Benedict Fitzgerald. It is the first installment of The Passion of the Christ film series. The film stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as his mother Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It depicts the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus, largely according to the canonical gospels as well as additional accounts such as the purported mystical visions by Anne Catherine Emmerich and the Friday of Sorrows.

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1941 film by John Ford

2014 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

2015 film by Lenny Abrahamson

1932 film directed by Edmund Goulding

1951 film directed by Elia Kazan

2011 film directed by Terrence Malick

1945 film by Billy Wilder

2018 film directed by Alfonso Cuarón

1999 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

1956 American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

2007 film directed by Gábor Csupó

1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks

1933 film by Frank Lloyd

1980 film by Robert Redford

1988 film by Martin Scorsese

1952 film by Cecil B. DeMille

2009 film directed by Lasse Hallström

1951 film by George Stevens

1999 film directed by Lasse Hallström

1947 film by Elia Kazan

2006 film directed by Neil Burger

1956 American epic Western drama film

2008 film by John Patrick Shanley

1955 film directed by Elia Kazan

2008 film by Gabriele Muccino

2023 historical drama film by Jonathan Glazer

2019 film directed by Noah Baumbach

2001 film directed by Jessie Nelson

1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

1993 film directed by James Ivory

1996 film by Jerry Zaks

1982 film directed by Alan J. Pakula

K-PAX is a 2001 American science fiction mystery film starring Kevin Spacey as a psychiatric patient who claims to be an alien from the planet K-PAX and Jeff Bridges as the doctor who investigates his case. It also stars Alfre Woodard and Mary McCormack. It is directed by Iain Softley based on Gene Brewer's 1995 novel K-PAX.

2012 film by Robert Zemeckis

1959 film by Fred Zinnemann

2005 film by David Cronenberg

Awakenings is a 1990 American biographical drama film written by Steven Zaillian, directed by Penny Marshall, and starring Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Stormare and Max von Sydow. It is based on Oliver Sacks's 1973 nonfiction memoir Awakenings. The film tells the story of the fictional neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Williams), whose character is based on Sacks.

1981 film by Mark Rydell

2014 film directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

1981 film by John Huston

Train Dreams is a 2025 American period drama film directed by Clint Bentley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Greg Kwedar, based on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson. The film stars Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy, with narration from Will Patton.

1993 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

2010 film by Oliver Stone

1989 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

2000 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

2007 film directed by Marc Forster

2017 film directed by Sebastián Lelio

1992 film directed by James Foley

2002 film by Spike Lee

2000 film directed by George Tillman Jr.

Minari (; ) is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s.

1952 film