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Best Drama Movies

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Filmaffinity's Ranking of the best Drama Movies in the history of film with +1000 votes

1

The Godfather The Godfather

1972

Francis Ford Coppola

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton ...

9.0

177,123
2

The Godfather: Part II The Godfather: Part II

1974

Francis Ford Coppola

Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, John Cazale ...

8.9

141,510
3

12 Angry Men 12 Angry Men

1957

Sidney Lumet

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam ...

8.7

73,383
4

Schindler's List Schindler's List

1993

Steven Spielberg

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall ...

8.6

177,356
5

Witness for the Prosecution Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Billy Wilder

Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams ...

8.6

46,450
6

The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Frank Darabont

Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, James Whitmore, Gil Bellows ...

8.6

171,972
7

The Sting The Sting

1973

George Roy Hill

Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston ...

8.5

102,647
8

Harakiri Harakiri

1962

Masaki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba ...

8.5

14,897
9

Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard

1950

Billy Wilder

William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Lloyd Gough ...

8.5

48,392
10

Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful

1997

Roberto Benigni

Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Marisa Paredes, Giustino Durano ...

8.5

193,664
11

Paths of Glory Paths of Glory

1957

Stanley Kubrick

Kirk Douglas, George Macready, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, Wayne Morris ...

8.4

57,827
12

All About Eve All About Eve

1950

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe ...

8.4

36,747
13

Seven Samurai Seven Samurai

1954

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki ...

8.4

44,034
14

High and Low High and Low

1963

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yutaka Sada, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi ...

8.4

11,061
15

Sunrise Sunrise

1927

F.W. Murnau

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald

8.4

15,079
16

The Apartment The Apartment

1960

Billy Wilder

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Edie Adams ...

8.4

83,761
17

City of God City of God

2002

Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Seu Jorge ...

8.4

130,766
18

The Kid The Kid

1921

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Tom Wilson ...

8.4

34,124
19

The Hole (The Night Watch) The Hole (The Night Watch)

1960

Jacques Becker

Philippe Leroy, Marc Michel, Michel Constantin, Jean Kéraudy, Raymond Meunier, André Bervil

8.4

13,824
20

Goodfellas Goodfellas

1990

Martin Scorsese

Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino ...

8.4

116,369
21

The Gold Rush The Gold Rush

1925

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale, Tom Murray, Malcom Waite ...

8.4

28,762
22

Casablanca Casablanca

1942

Michael Curtiz

Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt ...

8.4

100,219
23

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

Milos Forman

Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield, Mews Small ...

8.3

113,048
24

Cinema Paradiso Cinema Paradiso

1988

Giuseppe Tornatore

Philippe Noiret, Marco Leonardi, Salvatore Cascio, Jacques Perrin, Agnese Nano ...

8.3

95,201
25

American History X American History X

1998

Tony Kaye

Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould ...

8.3

155,506
26

The Young and the Damned The Young and the Damned

1950

Luis Buñuel

Estela Inda, Miguel Inclán, Alfonso Mejía, Roberto Cobo, Alma Delia Fuentes ...

8.3

15,132
27

Red Beard Red Beard

1965

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara ...

8.3

5,814
28

The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath

1940

John Ford

Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon ...

8.3

24,429
29

Dersu Uzala Dersu Uzala

1975

Akira Kurosawa

Maksim Munzuk, Yuriy Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Vladimir Kremena, Dmitriy Korshikov, Suymenkul Chokmorov

8.3

34,453
30

To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Robert Mulligan

Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Brock Peters, Phillip Alford, John Megna ...

8.3

49,812

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