Best Drama Movies (Rank Ordered)

Submitted by baker on Thu, 02/24/2005 - 10:59
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  1. Drama

  2. GOLD: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  3. SILVER: American Beauty (1999)
  4. BRONZE: The World According to Garp (1982)
  5. HONORABLE MENTION: Forrest Gump (1994)
  6. Being John Malkovich (1999)
  7. Hamlet (1990)
  8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
  9. Dances With Wolves (1990)
  10. Schindler?s List (1993)
  11. Adaptation (2002)
  12. The Red Violin (1998)
  13. Good Will Hunting (1997)
  14. Persona (1966)
  15. Cinderella Man (2005)
  16. American History X (1998)
  17. Romeo and Juliet (1968)
  18. The Majestic (2001)
  19. Spanglish (2004)
  20. Life As a House (2001)
  21. Mulholland Drive (2001)
  22. Cast Away (2000)
  23. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  24. Punch Drunk Love (2002)
  25. Before Sunset (2004)
  26. Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  27. Cruel Intentions (1999)
  28. Othello (1981)
  29. The Notebook (2004)
  30. Sleepless In Seattle (1993)
  31. Les Miserables (1998)
  32. Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
  33. Amistad (1997)
  34. Trainspotting (1996)
  35. Magnolia (1999)
  36. Mumford (1999)
  37. Fever Pitch (2005)
  38. In America (2002)
  39. The Truman Show (1998)
  40. Thirteen Days (2000)
  41. Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993)
  42. What?s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
  43. Rain Man (1988)
  44. The Devil's Advocate (1997)
  45. Vanilla Sky (2001)
  46. Stand and Deliver (1988)
  47. The Doors (1991)
  48. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  49. Primal Fear (1996)
  50. Regarding Henry (1991)
  51. Richard III (1995)
  52. White Men Can't Jump (1992)
  53. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  54. Rudy (1993)
  55. Sling Blade (1995)
  56. Radio (2003)
  57. Original Sin (2001)
  58. I Am Sam (2001)
  59. Sliding Doors (1998)
  60. Boogie Nights (1997)
  61. 12 Angry Men (1997)
  62. A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
  63. As Good as it Gets (1997)
  64. About Schmidt (2002)
  65. The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
  66. Amadeus (1984)
  67. Kiss the Bride (2002)
  68. Beyond the Sea (2004)
  69. The Family Man (2000)
  70. With Honors (1994)
  71. Shakespeare In Love (1998)
  72. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  73. Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972)
  74. Shall We Dance? (2004)
  75. Traffic (2000)
  76. The Green Mile (1999)
  77. The American President (1995)
  78. Unfaithful (2002)
  79. The Hours (2002)
  80. The Hurricane (1999)
  81. Wimbledon (2004)
  82. The Rookie (2002)
  83. Swimming Pool (2003)
  84. Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)
  85. Philadelphia (1993)
  86. Mystic River (2003)
  87. The Elephant Man (1980)
  88. On Golden Pond (1981)
  89. Monsoon Wedding (2001)
  90. Life is Beautiful (1997)
  91. In Good Company (2004)
  92. The Right Stuff (1983)
  93. Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
  94. Frida (2002)
  95. Almost Famous (2000)
  96. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
  97. Always (1989)
  98. Basic Instinct (1992)
  99. If Someone Had Known (1995)
  100. The Ten Commandments (1956)
  101. Three Colors: Blue (1993)
  102. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  103. Indecent Proposal (1993)
  104. Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
  105. King Lear (1982)
  106. Sex and Lucia (2001)
  107. The Terminal (2004)
  108. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
  109. Jerry Maguire (1996)
  110. Finding Neverland (2004)
  111. Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
  112. Big Fish (2003)
  113. The Paper (1994)
  114. Go (1999)
  115. Henry V (1989)
  116. The Tempest (1980)
  117. The Pianist (2002)
  118. Pleasantville (1998)
  119. Phenomenon (1996)
  120. The Rainmaker (1997)
  121. Grease (1978)
  122. 21 Grams (2003)
  123. Vanity Fair (2004)
  124. Chicago (2002)
  125. City of Angels (1998)
  126. Far and Away (1992)
  127. Disclosure (1994)
  128. Lost in Translation (2003)
  129. Chasing Amy (1997)
  130. The Crucible (1996)
  131. Three Colors: Red (1994)
  132. Hamlet (1996)
  133. Meet Joe Black (1998)
  134. The Seventh Seal (1957)
  135. Three Colors: White (1994)
  136. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
  137. Dead Poets Society (1989)
  138. Pay It Forward (2000)
  139. American Graffiti (1973)
  140. Bounce (2000)
  141. Cocktail (1988)
  142. The Player (1992)
  143. Riding in Cars With Boys (2001)
  144. Working Girl (1988)
  145. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
  146. The Rules of Attraction (2002)
  147. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
  148. When Harry Met Sally (1989)
  149. Titanic (1997)
  150. Iceman (1984)
  151. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
  152. Titus (1999)
  153. Boys Don't Cry (1999)
  154. Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
  155. The Third Miracle (1999)
  156. Elizabeth (1998)
  157. You?ve Got Mail (1998)
  158. House of Sand and Fog (2003)
  159. The Scarlet Letter (1995)
  160. Romeo and Juliet (1996)
  161. American Splendor (2003)
  162. Mary Poppins (1964)
  163. Roots (1977)
  164. Tom Jones (1963)
  165. Scent of a Woman (1992)
  166. Focus (2001)
  167. Any Given Sunday (1999)*
  168. Le Divorce (2003)
  169. Wonder Boys (2000)
  170. The Insider (1999)*
  171. The English Patient (1996)
  172. Michael (1996)
  173. Casablanca (1942)
  174. Gosford Park (2001)
  175. The Chamber (1996)
  176. Dirty Dancing (1987)
  177. Far From the Madding Crowd (1915)
  178. Citizen Kane (1941)*
  179. Coyote Ugly (2000)*
  180. My Girl (1991)*
  181. The Shipping News (2001)*
  183. * - Not Recommended
Rushmore05/23/2005

My Girl is a masterpiece! When Culkin gets stund by the bees that was so sad! :( lol it was one of my childhood favourites.

baker05/23/2005

Yeah, I guess I was a little harsh on it. It's been awhile since I've seen it, and I guess I was mostly biased against Mcauley Culkin.

buddy05/24/2005

You're absolutely right about The Shipping News. Utter pants. Even the novel bugged me, though, so I think I was doomed not to like it. Whoever thought it would be a good idea to let Kevin Spacey play Quoyle should be run out of the business.

I'm only mildly surprised to see Citizen Kane ranked so low. The storytelling was a bit overblown, but its importance lay more in its filmic technique than in its plot.

baker05/24/2005

I rank it so low probably because I heard how it was the #1 AFI movie and it had all this praise, but when I saw it I was more bored than by any movie I'd ever seen. I didn't even finish watching it and I never walk out in the middle of a film.

go.to.man01/19/2009

Hi Baker. I stumbled onto your lists today. I wanted to write you a quick note to express my thanks for all your work and say you've done a wonderful job. Two films you might like for the Drama list -- "Five Easy Pieces" with Jack Nicholson and "On the Waterfront" with Marlon Brando. The films have two of the greatest moments in Hollywood history -- Nicholson's "side order of wheat toast" moment at the roadside restaurant and Brando's "I could of been a contender" monologue.

Here are the YouTube and Crackle links:
Five Easy Pieces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wtfNE4z6a8
On the Waterfront: http://crackle.com/c/Screenbites/On_the_Waterfront_I_Coulda_Been_A_Conte...