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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The Silence of the Lambs is Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Tubi
Plot / 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
Plot / 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
Plot / 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
Plot / 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...
Let the Right One in (Lat den ratte komma in) is Streaming on Hulu, Tubi
Plot / 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
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
Plot / 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
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
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
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...
Plot / 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
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...
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
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
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