Best Drama Movies & Films Genre
Top 37 must-see best drama movies from drama movies, including The Silence of the Lambs, Jaws, Zodiac, Train to Busan, Let the Right One in (Lat den ratte komma in), 127 Hours, Hereditary, Ex Machina, The Innocents, and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ranked and rated by score.
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Drama Movies List
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1). The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.94/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,647,472 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 8.6/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $130,742,922
The Silence of the Lambs is Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, TubiPlot / Synopsis: A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Tagline: Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Brilliant. Cunning. Psychotic. In his mind lies the clue to a ruthless killer. - Clarice Starling, FBI. Brilliant. Vulnerable. Alone. She must trust him to stop the killer...
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Jodie Foster, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, Lawrence T. Wrentz, Scott Glenn
2). Jaws (1975) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.89/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 701,036 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.7/10 | Metascore: 8.7/10 | MPAA Rating: PG | Gross: $267,263,625
Jaws is Streaming on Netflix, TubiPlot / Synopsis: A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers, until a part-time sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.
Tagline: Amity Island had everything. Clear skies. Gentle surf. Warm water. People flocked there every summer. It...
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
3). Zodiac (2007) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.48/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 641,566 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.0/10 | Metascore: 7.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $33,080,084
Zodiac is Streaming on NetflixPlot / Synopsis: In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.Tagline: There's more than one way to lose your life to a killer...
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox
4). Train to Busan (2016) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.44/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 290,003 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 7.3/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $2,129,768
Train to Busan is Streaming on Netflix, TubiPlot / Synopsis: Writer/director Sang-ho Yeon delivers Train to Busan (2016) as a South Korean zombie film where a zombie virus breaks out, and survivors try to survive on a train from Seoul to Busan. Train to Busan opened in US movie theaters on July 22, 2017, grossing a total $2.1 million off of KRW 10,000,000,000. Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, and Yu-mi Jung...
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Stars: Yoo Gong, Jung Yu-mi, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma, Ma Dong-seok
5). Let the Right One in (Lat den ratte komma in) (2008) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.39/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 233,403 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.8/10 | Metascore: 8.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $2,122,065
Let the Right One in (Lat den ratte komma in) is Streaming on Hulu, TubiPlot / Synopsis: The film takes place in a wintry and rather miserable suburb of Stockholm in the early 1980s. Oskar Eriksson is a very normal and lonely 12-year-old. He undergoes the annoying bullying of his classmates as best he can. Back home, where he lives alone with his mother, he collects newspaper cuttings about serial killers and things like that. On a...
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Stars: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist
6). 127 Hours (2010) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 8.33/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 416,379 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 8.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $18,335,230
Plot / Synopsis: An adventurous mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Tagline: Every Second Counts...
Director: Danny Boyle
Stars: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger
7). Hereditary (2018) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.22/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 427,748 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.0/10 | Metascore: 8.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $44,069,456
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Hereditary is Streaming on Netflix, TubiPlot / Synopsis: The Graham family starts to unravel following the death of their reclusive grandmother. Even after she's gone, the matriarch still casts a dark shadow over the family, especially her loner teenage granddaughter, Charlie, whom she always had an unusual fascination with. As an overwhelming terror takes over their household, their peaceful existence is ripped apart, forcing their mother to...
Director: Ari Aster
Stars: Alex Wolff, Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Christy Summerhays
8). Ex Machina (2014) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.15/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 617,283 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.2/10 | Metascore: 7.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $25,442,958
Plot / Synopsis: A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I.Tagline: To erase the line between man and machine is to obscure the line between men and gods...
Director: Alex Garland
Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Corey Johnson
9). The Innocents (2021) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 8.13/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 29,442 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.5/10 | Metascore: 7.9/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $30,053
Plot / Synopsis: Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen...
Director: Eskil Vogt
Stars: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf, Mina Yasmin Bremseth Asheim, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
10). A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Detailed Review: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Score: 8.13/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 40,209 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.6/10 | Metascore: 8.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $491,910
Plot / Synopsis: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are...Tagline: The first Iranian Vampire Western...
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Stars: Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Mozhan Marnò, Dominic Rains
11). Black Swan (2010) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.09/10 | IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 863,278 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.5/10 | Metascore: 7.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $106,954,678
Black Swan is Streaming on Netflix, HuluPlot / Synopsis: A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity...
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder
12). One Cut of the Dead (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
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Score: 8.07/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 33,492 | Rotten Tomatoes: 10.0/10 | Metascore: 8.6/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated | Gross: $52,406
Plot / Synopsis: Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies...
Director: Shin''ichirô Ueda
Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Hiroshi Ichihara
13). Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 8/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 | IMDB Votes: 2,298 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.8/10 | Metascore: 8.4/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $55,365
Plot / Synopsis: A ballet rendition of Bram Stoker's gothic novel DRACULA, presented in a style reminiscent of the silent expressionistic cinema of the early 20th Century. This work employs the subtle and sometimes bold use of color to emphasize its themes, but mainly is presented in black-and-white, or tinted in monochrome. No spoken dialogue can be heard, and the story of...
Director: Guy Maddin
Stars: Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, CindyMarie Small, Johnny A. Wright
14). You Wont Be Alone (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.97/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 13,539 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | Metascore: 8.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $264,055
Plot / Synopsis: Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, You Won't Be Alone follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit. Curious about life as a human, the young witch accidentally kills a peasant in the nearby village and then takes her victim's shape to live life in her...
Director: Goran Stolevski
Stars: Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Anamaria Marinca, Sara Klimoska, Félix Maritaud
15). X (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)
Score: 7.97/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 208,594 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.4/10 | Metascore: 8.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $11,769,469
Plot / Synopsis: Set in 1979, adult movie actors and a small film crew arrive to a farmhouse occupied by an elderly couple in the desolate Texas countryside to film an adult movie. As the day shifts to night, the visitors slowly realize that they are not safe, and are being targeted by a nearby enemy.
Tagline: dy**g to Show You a...
Director: Ti West
Stars: Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson
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