Best Dramas Movies

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures
IMDb: 7.8
127 min

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations…

Miss Sloane

Miss Sloane

Miss Sloane
IMDb: 7.5
132 min

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Lion

Lion

Lion
IMDb: 8.0
118 min

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years…

The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen

The Edge of Seventeen
IMDb: 7.3
104 min

Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other’s older brother, who is totally his sister’s nemesis.

Manchester by the Sea

Manchester by the Sea

Manchester by the Sea
IMDb: 7.8
135 min

After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that…

Arrival

Arrival

Arrival
IMDb: 7.9
116 min

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

The Red Turtle

The Red Turtle

The Red Turtle
IMDb: 7.5
80 min

The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

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Demolition

Demolition

Demolition
IMDb: 7.0
101 min

An emotionally desperate investment banker finds hope through a woman he meets in Chicago.

The Witch

The Witch

The Witch
IMDb: 6.9
92 min

In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies…

The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight

The Hateful Eight
IMDb: 7.8
167 min

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

The Revenant

The Revenant

The Revenant
IMDb: 8.0
156 min

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

The Big Short

The Big Short

The Big Short
IMDb: 7.8
131 min

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

Creed

Creed

Creed
IMDb: 7.6
133 min

The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.

Concussion

Concussion

Concussion
IMDb: 7.2
123 min

A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a…

Spotlight

Spotlight

Spotlight
IMDb: 8.1
129 min

In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys….

Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn
IMDb: 7.5
111 min

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

Room

Room

Room
IMDb: 8.1
117 min

Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the…

Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies
IMDb: 7.6
141 min

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers’ only hope is…

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs
IMDb: 7.2
122 min

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint…

The Martian

The Martian

The Martian
IMDb: 8.0
141 min

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded…

Sicario

Sicario

Sicario
IMDb: 7.6
122 min

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

45 Years

45 Years

45 Years
IMDb: 7.1
95 min

There is just one week until Kate Mercer’s 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body…

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The End of the Tour

The End of the Tour

The End of the Tour
IMDb: 7.3
106 min

The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic…

The Gift

The Gift

The Gift
IMDb: 7.0
108 min

A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a ”friend” from the husband’s past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their…

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford Prison Experiment
IMDb: 6.9
122 min

This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social…

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd
IMDb: 7.1
119 min

Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy. Bathsheba Everdene, attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and…

Little Boy

Little Boy

Little Boy
IMDb: 7.4
106 min

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father…

The Age of Adaline

The Age of Adaline

The Age of Adaline
IMDb: 7.2
112 min

After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets…

The Longest Ride

The Longest Ride

The Longest Ride
IMDb: 7.1
128 min

The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he’s trapped in an automobile crash.

Woman In Gold

Woman In Gold

Woman In Gold
IMDb: 7.3
120 min

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II, she believes…

Chappie

Chappie

Chappie
IMDb: 6.8
120 min

Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence…

McFarland, USA

McFarland, USA

McFarland, USA
IMDb: 7.4
128 min

A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

Ex Machina

Ex Machina

Ex Machina
IMDb: 7.7
108 min

Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world’s largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO…

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Spare Parts

Spare Parts

Spare Parts
IMDb: 7.3
83 min

With the help of their high school’s newest teacher, four Hispanic students form a robotics club. Although they have no experience, the youths set their sights on a national robotics…

A Most Violent Year

A Most Violent Year

A Most Violent Year
IMDb: 7.0
125 min

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city’s history, and centered on a the lives of…

Still Alice

Still Alice

Still Alice
IMDb: 7.5
101 min

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their…

The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game
IMDb: 8.0
113 min

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain’s top-secret…

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
IMDb: 7.7
119 min

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to…

The Hundred-foot Journey

The Hundred-foot Journey

The Hundred-foot Journey
IMDb: 7.3
122 min

A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.

Boyhood

Boyhood

Boyhood
IMDb: 7.9
164 min

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through…

Mommy

Mommy

Mommy
IMDb: 8.1
139 min

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

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The Physician

The Physician

The Physician
IMDb: 7.2
155 min

The story of Rob Cole, a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become…

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Gravity

Gravity

Gravity
IMDb: 7.7
91 min

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine…

The Place Beyond the Pines

The Place Beyond the Pines

The Place Beyond the Pines
IMDb: 7.3
140 min

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

The Butterfly’s Dream

The Butterfly’s Dream

The Butterfly’s Dream
IMDb: N/A
138

In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty
IMDb: 7.4
157 min

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6…

Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Life of Pi
IMDb: 7.9
127 min

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper’s son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets…

Looper

Looper

Looper
IMDb: 7.4
118 min

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid…

Promised Land

Promised Land

Promised Land
IMDb: 6.6
106 min

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises
IMDb: 8.4
165 min

Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent’s crimes to protect the late attorney’s reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department….

Hugo

Hugo

Hugo
IMDb: 7.5
126 min

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo’s job is to oil and maintain the station’s clocks,…

The Debt

The Debt

The Debt
IMDb: 6.8
113 min

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with…

Beginners

Beginners

Beginners
IMDb: 7.2
105 min

Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the…

Detachment

Detachment

Detachment
IMDb: 7.7
98 min

A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school,…

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Source Code

Source Code

Source Code
IMDb: 7.5
93 min

Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he’s involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He…

Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine

Blue Valentine
IMDb: 7.4
112 min

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of…

True Grit

True Grit

True Grit
IMDb: 7.6
110 min

Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S….

The Fighter

The Fighter

The Fighter
IMDb: 7.8
116 min

The Fighter, is a drama about boxer ”Irish” Micky Ward’s unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded…

Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole
IMDb: 7.0
91 min

Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

Black Swan

Black Swan

Black Swan
IMDb: 8.0
108 min

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days
IMDb: 7.3
133 min

A married couple’s life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument….

Morning Glory

Morning Glory

Morning Glory
IMDb: 6.5
102 min

A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager…

127 Hours

127 Hours

127 Hours
IMDb: 7.5
94 min

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston’s remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

Due Date

Due Date

Due Date
IMDb: 6.5
95 min

Peter Highman must scramble across the US in five days to be present for the birth of his first child. He gets off to a bad start when his wallet…

Hereafter

Hereafter

Hereafter
IMDb: 6.4
129 min

A supernatural thriller centered on three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways.

Elite Squad 2

Elite Squad 2

Elite Squad 2
IMDb: 8.0
115 min

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second…

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The Social Network

The Social Network

The Social Network
IMDb: 7.7
121 min

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury…

Buried

Buried

Buried
IMDb: 7.0
94 min

Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only…

Biutiful

Biutiful

Biutiful
IMDb: 7.5
148

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father…

The Town

The Town

The Town
IMDb: 7.5
125 min

Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the…

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go
IMDb: 7.1
104 min

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity…

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech
IMDb: 8.0
118 min

The King’s Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George (’Bertie’) reluctantly assumes the throne….

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Incendies

Incendies

Incendies
IMDb: 8.3
130 min

A mother’s last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad’s acclaimed play, Incendies tells the…

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The Way Back

The Way Back

The Way Back
IMDb: 7.3
133 min

Peter Weir’s follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man’s struggle for freedom. At the dawn of…

In a Better World

In a Better World

In a Better World
IMDb: 7.6
118 min

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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Flipped

Flipped

Flipped
IMDb: 7.7
89 min

When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it’s true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she’s ready to give up – until…

The Kids Are All Right

The Kids Are All Right

The Kids Are All Right
IMDb: 7.0
106 min

Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers’ backs…

It’s Kind of a Funny Story

It’s Kind of a Funny Story

It’s Kind of a Funny Story
IMDb: 7.1
101 min

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

Unthinkable

Unthinkable

Unthinkable
IMDb: 7.1
97 min

A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less…

Winter’s Bone

Winter’s Bone

Winter’s Bone
IMDb: 7.1
101 min

17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family…