Category
page 1English-language drama films

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003 film by Peter Jackson

Citizen Kane
1941 American drama film directed by Orson Welles

All About Eve
1950 film by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Spartacus
1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick

Babel
2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

Room
2015 film by Lenny Abrahamson

A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 film directed by Elia Kazan

Grand Hotel
1932 film directed by Edmund Goulding

The Lost Weekend
1945 film by Billy Wilder

The Ring
2002 film directed by Gore Verbinski

Magnolia
1999 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

The Ten Commandments
1956 American film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Billy Elliot
2000 film directed by Stephen Daldry

Bridge to Terabithia
2007 film directed by Gábor Csupó

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks

Cavalcade
1933 film by Frank Lloyd

The Cat Returns
2002 anime film directed by Hiroyuki Morita

The Last Temptation of Christ
1988 film by Martin Scorsese

The Greatest Show on Earth
1952 film by Cecil B. DeMille

Ordinary People
1980 film by Robert Redford

Hachi: A Dog's Tale
2009 film directed by Lasse Hallström

Manchester by the Sea
2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

Hamlet
1948 film directed by Laurence Olivier

Anatomy of a Fall
2023 film directed by Justine Triet

Intolerance
1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith

The Power of the Dog
2021 film directed by Jane Campion

Doubt
2008 film by John Patrick Shanley

Gentleman's Agreement
1947 film by Elia Kazan

Giant
1956 American epic Western drama film

East of Eden
1955 film directed by Elia Kazan

I Am Sam
2001 film directed by Jessie Nelson

The Whale
2022 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

Marvin's Room
1996 film by Jerry Zaks

Z
1969 French-Algerian film by Costa-Gavras

Boogie Nights
1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

Paris, Texas
1984 film directed by Wim Wenders

The Nun's Story
1959 film by Fred Zinnemann

The Edge
1997 film by Lee Tamahori

On Golden Pond
1981 film by Mark Rydell

Awakenings
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.

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969 film directed by Sydney Pollack

North Country
2005 film by Niki Caro

Sex, Lies, and Videotape
1989 film directed by Steven Soderbergh

Breaking the Waves
1996 film by Lars von Trier

We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011 film by Lynne Ramsay

Fences
2016 film by Denzel Washington

Zabriskie Point
1970 film by Michelangelo Antonioni

Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 film directed by James Foley

Ace in the Hole
1951 film directed by Billy Wilder

25th Hour
2002 film by Spike Lee

The Bad and the Beautiful
1952 film

The Little Foxes
1941 film by William Wyler

Great Expectations
1946 film by David Lean

Free Willy
1993 film directed by Simon Wincer

Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 film directed by Héctor Babenco

The Horse Whisperer
1998 film by Robert Redford

Sweet Smell of Success
1957 film by Alexander Mackendrick

Greed
1924 film by Erich von Stroheim

The Magnificent Ambersons
1942 film by Orson Welles

The Damned
1969 film by Luchino Visconti