Best Drama Movies
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1. In the Best Interest of the Children (1992 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Sally Struthers, Lexi Randall, Gary Graham
Votes: 499
2. Butterbox Babies (1995)
94 min | Drama
A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Susan Clark, Peter MacNeill, Catherine Fitch, Michael Riley
Votes: 181
3. Million Dollar Babies (1994)
200 min | Drama
The true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second in taking over the family. He helps to take ... See full summary »
Stars: Beau Bridges, Roy Dupuis, Céline Bonnier, Sean McCann
Votes: 334
4. Child of Rage (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Horror
A pastor and his wife adopt a brother and a sister, but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage. They get her in treatment and try to find out the reason for this.
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Mel Harris, Dwight Schultz, Ashley Peldon, Rosanna DeSoto
Votes: 845
5. For the Love of Nancy (1994 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 100 min | Drama
The parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: Tracey Gold, Jill Clayburgh, Cameron Bancroft, Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Votes: 1,088
6. Gregory K (1993 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
Gregory Kingsley is placed in a boys' ranch after his mother can't take care of him and his two brothers; there he meets a lawyer who wants to adopt him.
Director: Linda Otto | Stars: Bill Smitrovich, Kathleen York, Robert Joy, Kristin Griffith
Votes: 231
7. Something About Amelia (1984 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Counseling helps a family deal with the discovery that their daughter was sexually abused by a close relative.
Director: Randa Haines | Stars: Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Olivia Cole, Roxana Zal
Votes: 618
8. Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1993 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A young Canadian girl accuses her father of child molestation. She's upset to discover that most of the people in her life believe that she's lying about it, and struggles with the public backlash.
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Art Hindle, Rosemary Dunsmore, Susan Hogan, Michelle St. John
Votes: 468
9. Secret Cutting (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
Dawn Cottrell (Peterson) seems like a typical sixteen-year-old girl, but she has a very dangerous secret. Unable to express her true feelings, whenever Dawn is upset she grabs a knife and cuts herself.
Director: Norma Bailey | Stars: Sean Young, Kimberlee Peterson, Robert Wisden, Taylor Stanley
Votes: 1,088
10. Hurt (2003)
Drama
One night at a party, three teenagers start a friendship that becomes the most important of their lives. As the they grow closer to each other, we begin to see the root of each of their hurts. Stevie's father refuses to deal with the suicide of Stevie's mother and ignores Stevie's need to deal with it. Darla is forced to deal with surviving on her own after her mother abandons them and her sister... See full summary »
Director: Steve DiMarco | Stars: Terra Vnesa, Andrew Martin-Smith, Stephanie Nikolaidis, Sabrina Grdevich
Votes: 118
11. Different (1999 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Different is the story of a woman with a traumatic brain injury, (Annabeth Gish), and her mentally challenged husband, who have a child of normal intelligence, and how the larger family ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Cecilley Carroll, Ben Siegler, Nigel Bennett, Annabeth Gish
Votes: 142
12. Mysterious Skin (2004)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama
Two pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
Director: Gregg Araki | Stars: Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue, Chase Ellison
Votes: 76,304 | Gross: $0.70M
13. Terms of Endearment (1983)
PG | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Votes: 65,465 | Gross: $108.42M
14. The People Next Door (1996 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Thriller
A young and busy mother places her trust in the friendly next-door neighbors, unaware that there's something sinister at work behind their deceiving kindness.
Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Nicollette Sheridan, Michael O'Keefe, Ernie Lively, Tracey Ellis
Votes: 394
15. Her Desperate Choice (1996 TV Movie)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama
Jody is convinced, but unable to prove, that her ex-husband has been molesting their daughter Samantha. When the courts order joint custody for Samantha, Jody takes her and heads ... See full summary »
Director: Michael M. Scott | Stars: Faith Ford, Kyle Secor, Hanna Hall, Nigel Bennett
Votes: 239
16. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 2,256,411 | Gross: $330.25M
17. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
R | 97 min | Drama, Romance
A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner
Votes: 169,160 | Gross: $4.86M
18. Palindromes (2004)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Matthew Faber
Votes: 12,867 | Gross: $0.55M
19. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
Director: Todd Solondz | Stars: Heather Matarazzo, Christina Brucato, Victoria Davis, Christina Vidal
Votes: 37,164 | Gross: $4.77M
20. Lolita (1997)
R | 137 min | Drama, Romance
An English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
Director: Adrian Lyne | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Dominique Swain, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella
Votes: 66,523 | Gross: $1.40M
21. An American Crime (2007)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Director: Tommy O'Haver | Stars: Elliot Page, Hayley McFarland, Nick Searcy, Romy Rosemont
Votes: 36,971
22. A Home of Our Own (1993)
PG | 104 min | Biography, Drama
An overwhelmed but persevering mother relocates her many children to a safe but extremely humble home that will hopefully eventually provide them with a better life
Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong, Clarissa Lassig, Sarah Schaub
Votes: 3,776 | Gross: $1.70M
23. Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 104 min | Biography, Drama
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Thora Birch, Michael Riley, Robert Bockstael, Makyla Smith
Votes: 4,399
24. This Boy's Life (1993)
R | 115 min | Biography, Drama
The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Barkin, Jonah Blechman
Votes: 58,340 | Gross: $4.10M
25. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama
A directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy
Votes: 211,266 | Gross: $28.87M
26. Odd Girl Out (2005 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 84 min | Drama
A teenager is bullied by her former friends when they discover that she has a crush on the same boy as the most popular girl in school does.
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Alexa PenaVega, Lisa Vidal, Leah Pipes, Elizabeth Rice
Votes: 3,675
27. Speak (2004)
PG-13 | 89 min | Drama
After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.
Director: Jessica Sharzer | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Richard Hagerman, Allison Siko
Votes: 29,434
28. To Be Fat Like Me (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Drama
As part of a film project, a physically fit teenager dons a fat suit to gain experience of the hardships facing overweight high school students.
Director: Douglas Barr | Stars: Kaley Cuoco, Melissa Halstrom, Michael Phenicie, Rachel Cairns
Votes: 2,692
29. Sharing the Secret (2000 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Mare Winningham, Alison Lohman, Lawrence Monoson, Mary Crosby
Votes: 1,102
30. Small Sacrifices (1989)
159 min | Crime, Drama, History
A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea
Votes: 1,390
31. Switched at Birth (1991)
PG | 176 min | Drama
This is the story of two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later, when one of the girls dies, tests reveal that she was not the child of the couple who raised her.
Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, John M. Jackson, Eve Gordon
Votes: 844
32. No Child of Mine (1997 TV Movie)
82 min | Crime, Drama
A British schoolgirl struggles to come to terms with the horrific and disgusting sexual abuse inflicted upon her by the adults in her life. When she resorts to self-harm to escape her troubles, a caring teacher tries to get her some help.
Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Brooke Kinsella, Colin Salmon, Billy Geraghty, Sharon Small
Votes: 666
33. Ellen Foster (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Director: John Erman | Stars: Julie Harris, Jena Malone, Ted Levine, Glynnis O'Connor
Votes: 583
34. Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 97 min | Drama
A troubled foster child with an affinity for drawing and artwork, becomes attached to her eccentric and forgetful new foster mother, also an artist.
Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard, Jodelle Ferland, Ridge Canipe
Votes: 1,156
35. White Oleander (2002)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright, Alison Lohman
Votes: 34,071 | Gross: $16.35M
36. Flowers in the Attic (1987)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Children are hidden away under an attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
Director: Jeffrey Bloom | Stars: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams
Votes: 11,269 | Gross: $15.15M
37. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
R | 114 min | Drama
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff
Votes: 28,459 | Gross: $4.89M
38. Mother and Child (2009)
R | 125 min | Drama, Romance
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
Director: Rodrigo García | Stars: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Kerry Washington, Alexandria M. Salling
Votes: 12,785 | Gross: $1.11M
39. Rabbit Hole (2010)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Miles Teller
Votes: 51,117 | Gross: $2.23M
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