Best Drama Movies: Moving, Deep, Unforgettable

Great drama movies stay with you after the credits roll. This page shows films that deliver emotionally – with characters that develop, conflicts that get under your skin and stories you think about days later. No slow arthouse films without plot, just dramas that genuinely move you.





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The Grand Budapest Hotel

2014
100 Min
MOVIE
ComedyDrama
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissa…
Netflix Disney+

The Wolf of Wall Street

2013
180 Min
MOVIE
CrimeDramaComedy
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

HundraÃ¥ringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann

2013
115 Min
MOVIE
AdventureComedyDrama
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

Filth

2013
97 Min
MOVIE
CrimeDramaComedy
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.

About Time

2013
123 Min
MOVIE
DramaRomanceFantasy
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened…
Prime Video

Elysium

2013
109 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionActionDramaThriller
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will…
Netflix

The Great Gatsby

2013
143 Min
MOVIE
DramaRomance
An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche…

Django Unchained

2012
165 Min
MOVIE
DramaWestern
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Les Misérables

2012
158 Min
MOVIE
Drama
An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men'…

Jagten

2012
116 Min
MOVIE
Drama
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Chronicle

2012
84 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionDramaThriller
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of cont…
Disney+

Intouchables

2011
113 Min
MOVIE
DramaComedy
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Netflix

Crazy, Stupid, Love.

2011
118 Min
MOVIE
ComedyDramaRomance
Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divo…

The Social Network

2010
121 Min
MOVIE
Drama
In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his…
Netflix

Shutter Island

2010
138 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerMystery
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Dorian Gray

2009
112 Min
MOVIE
FantasyDramaThriller
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains …

Middle Men

2009
105 Min
MOVIE
DramaComedyCrime
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

Valkyrie

2008
121 Min
MOVIE
DramaThriller
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becom…
Netflix

Body of Lies

2008
128 Min
MOVIE
ActionDramaThriller
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – wa…

Burn After Reading

2008
96 Min
MOVIE
ComedyDrama
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control…

The Dark Knight

2008
152 Min
MOVIE
DramaActionCrimeThriller
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effect…
HBO Max

Die Welle

2008
107 Min
MOVIE
DramaThriller
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show …
Netflix

In Bruges

2008
108 Min
MOVIE
ComedyDramaCrime
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

I Am Legend

2007
101 Min
MOVIE
DramaScience FictionThriller
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, …

99 Francs

2007
104 Min
MOVIE
DramaComedy
Paris, France, 2001. Octave Parango, a young advertiser working at the Ross & Witchcraft advertising agency, lives a suicidal existence, ruled by cynicism, irresponsibility and debauchery. The obstacles he will encounter in developing a ca…

Death at a Funeral

2007
91 Min
MOVIE
ComedyDrama
A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

2007
97 Min
MOVIE
DramaActionThrillerCrime
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son i…

The Prestige

2006
130 Min
MOVIE
DramaMysteryScience Fiction
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

El laberinto del fauno

2006
118 Min
MOVIE
FantasyDrama
In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an undergrou…

The Departed

2006
151 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrime
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises t…

Children of Men

2006
109 Min
MOVIE
DramaActionThrillerScience Fiction
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

2006
147 Min
MOVIE
CrimeFantasyDrama
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search …
Netflix

Lucky Number Slevin

2006
110 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrimeMystery
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current …

Lord of War

2005
122 Min
MOVIE
CrimeDramaThriller
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's …

Revolver

2005
115 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrimeMystery
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his acc…

Thank You for Smoking

2005
92 Min
MOVIE
ComedyDrama
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on …

Green Street Hooligans

2005
109 Min
MOVIE
CrimeDrama
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld …

친절한 금자씨

2005
115 Min
MOVIE
DramaThriller
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

Hitch

2005
118 Min
MOVIE
ComedyDramaRomance
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques fail to work on Sara …
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The Aviator

2004
170 Min
MOVIE
Drama
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessi…
Netflix

After the Sunset

2004
97 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedyCrimeDrama
An FBI agent is suspicious of two master thieves, quietly enjoying their retirement near what may - or may not - be the biggest score of their careers.

Primer

2004
77 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionDramaThriller
Two fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

Collateral

2004
120 Min
MOVIE
DramaCrimeThriller
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

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