The Tony Award For Best Play
by tonytv | created - 03 Jun 2018 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicBroadway Productions That Won The Tony Award For Best Play - Later Adapted To Film
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1. National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt (2022)
150 min | Drama
Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family and endurance. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz... See full summary »
Stars: Noa Alberts, Sebastian Armesto, Jenna Augen, Rhys Bailey
Votes: 61
Tony Award For Best Play (2023)
2. The Lehman Trilogy (2019)
223 min | Drama
The story of Lehman Brothers, from their beginnings as cotton brokers before the Civil War to the company's involvement in the financial crisis of 2008.
Directors: Sam Mendes, Matthew Amos | Stars: Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley, Ben Miles, Alice Bounsall
Votes: 391
Tony Award For Best Play (2022)
3.
Theater Talk (1996– )
Episode:
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"
(2018)
Talk-Show
Director: Audra D. West | Stars: Gordon Cox, Malcolm Fuller, Susan Haskins, Steven Hoggett
Tony Award For Best Play (2018)
4. Oslo (2021 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 118 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Recounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Director: Bartlett Sher | Stars: Ruth Wilson, Jeff Wilbusch, Andrew Scott, Karel Dobrý
Votes: 5,487
Tony Award For Best Play (2017)
5. The Humans (2021)
R | 108 min | Drama
During one evening, the Blake family gathers to celebrate thanksgiving in a broken-down flat newly rented by the daughter and her new man. As the darkness falls, we find that all have less to be thankful about.
Director: Stephen Karam | Stars: Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell, Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein
Votes: 10,819
Tony Award For Best Play (2016)
6. National Theatre Live: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2012 TV Movie)
160 min | Drama
Christopher has an extraordinary brain - exceptional at maths while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. When his neighbour's dog is murdered, he ventures on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
Directors: Marianne Elliott, Scott Graham, Steven Hoggett, Nick Wickham | Stars: Luke Treadaway, Niamh Cusack, Paul Ritter, Nicola Walker
Votes: 379 | Gross: $68.32M
Tony Award For Best Play (2015)
7. All the Way (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination, and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act.
Director: Jay Roach | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, Melissa Leo, Frank Langella
Votes: 15,247
Tony Award For Best Play (2014)
8. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (2021 Video)
Comedy
Two siblings who still live in the family home have their lives turned upside down by the arrival of another sibling
Stars: Genevieve Angelson, Shalita Grant, David Hyde Pierce, Billy Magnussen
Votes: 12
Tony Award For Best Play (2013)
9. Clybourne Park (II)
Pre-production
Follows events in 1959 and then 50 years later in 2009. Centering on Clybourne Park, a sleepy, "status quo" suburb of Chicago, which is sparked to life when a group of "well-meaning" neighbors convene a meeting to voice their concerns.
Director: Pam Mackinnon | Stars: Sarah Paulson, Nick Robinson, Martin Freeman, Anthony Mackie
Tony Award For Best Play (2012)
10. War Horse (2011)
PG-13 | 146 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young farm boy enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. His hopeful journey takes him out of England and onto the front lines as the war rages on.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch
Votes: 165,668 | Gross: $79.88M
Tony Award For Best Play (2011)
11. MGC Presents Red (VII) (2018)
90 min | Drama
Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant, the artist Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work of art for an extraordinary setting.
Directors: Michael Grandage, Nick Morris | Stars: Alfred Molina, Alfred Enoch
Votes: 173
Tony Award For Best Play (2010)
12. Carnage (2011)
R | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Votes: 133,049 | Gross: $2.55M
Tony Award For Best Play (2009)
13. August: Osage County (2013)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Director: John Wells | Stars: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 95,350 | Gross: $37.74M
Tony Award For Best Play (2008)
14.
Working in the Theatre (1976– )
Episode:
The Coast of Utopia
(2007)
Documentary, Talk-Show
Four actors from the 42-member The Coast of Utopia company -- Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, Ethan Hawke and Amy Irving -- talk about the experience of appearing in Tom Stoppard's triptych ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Walker | Stars: Ted Chapin, Jennifer Ehle, Josh Hamilton, Ethan Hawke
Tony Award For Best Play (2007)
15. The History Boys (2006)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson
Votes: 21,423 | Gross: $2.71M
Tony Award For Best Play (2006)
16. Doubt (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Mystery
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
Votes: 136,101 | Gross: $33.42M
Tony Award For Best Play (2005)
17. I Am My Own Woman (1992)
91 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, born Lothar Berflede. Miss Charlotte survived the Nazi reign and the repression of the Communists as a transvestite and helped start the German ... See full summary »
Director: Rosa von Praunheim | Stars: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Jens Taschner, Ichgola Androgyn, Robert Dietl
Votes: 200
Tony Award For Best Play (2004)
18. Take Me Out (2005 Video)
Drama
a young baseball star comes out as being homosexual.
Director: Kirk Jackson | Stars: Tug Coker, M.D. Walton, Tom Quinn, Matthew Deiss
Tony Award For Best Play (2003)
19. The goat or, who is Sylvia (2005 Video)
Drama
Professionally successful, happily married, middle-aged man falls in love with a goat.
Director: Richard E.T. White | Stars: Pamela Reed, Don McManus, Charles Shaw Robinson, Joseph J. Parks
Tony Award For Best Play (2002)
20. Proof (2005)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama, Mystery
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Hope Davis, Jake Gyllenhaal
Votes: 46,321 | Gross: $7.52M
Tony Award For Best Play (2001)
21. Copenhagen (2002 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, History, War
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the... See full summary »
Director: Howard Davies | Stars: Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, Francesca Annis
Votes: 1,137
Tony Award For Best Play (2000)
22. Side Man (1999 Video)
124 min | Drama
Two sides of a dysfunctional family -- a father oblivious to everything but his life as a jazz musician, and a neglected mother who takes refuge in alcohol and rage.
Director: Michael Mayer | Stars: Kevin Geer, Edie Falco, Michael Mastro, Robert Sella
Tony Award For Best Play (1999)
23. Arte (1999 TV Movie)
107 min | Comedy
The friendship of three men is tested when one buys a white-on-white painting.
Stars: António Feio, José Pedro Gomes, Miguel Guilherme
Votes: 10
Tony Award For Best Play (1998)
24. The Last Night of Ballyhoo (1997 Video)
Drama
Alfred Uhry's Tony Award-winning look at anti-semitism in the South centers on the planning of the Atlanta Jewish community's annual Ballyhoo ball during the excitement surrounding the premiere of Gone with the Wind.
Director: Ron Lagomarsino | Stars: Arija Bareikis, Terry Beaver, Jessica Hecht, Dana Ivey
Tony Award For Best Play (1997)
25. Maria Callas: Life and Art (1987 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Music
Maria Callas: Life and Art is a brilliant documentary of opera diva Maria Callas. The documentary includes extensive interviews with her friends and colleagues, as well as performance footage.
Directors: Alan Lewens, Alastair Mitchell | Stars: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Carlo Maria Giulini, Franco Zeffirelli
Votes: 64
Tony Award For Best Play (1996)
26. Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Gregory invites seven friends to spend the summer at his large, secluded 19th-century home in upstate New York. The seven are: Bobby, Gregory's "significant other," who is blind but who ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Mantello | Stars: Jason Alexander, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Bogardus, Randy Becker
Votes: 3,699 | Gross: $2.87M
Tony Award For Best Play (1995)
27. National Theatre Live: Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika (2017)
220 min | Drama
America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
Directors: Marianne Elliott, Bridget Caldwell | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane
Votes: 654
Tony Award For Best Play (1994)
28. Angels in America (2003)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Several disparate but connected individuals go through the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s.
Stars: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 29,804
Tony Award For Best Play (1993)
29. Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Gerard McSorley, Catherine McCormack
Votes: 4,033 | Gross: $2.29M
Tony Award For Best Play (1992)
30. Lost in Yonkers (1993)
PG | 114 min | Comedy, Drama
In the summer of 1942, two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother and their childlike aunt in Yonkers, New York.
Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, Brad Stoll
Votes: 3,688 | Gross: $9.29M
Tony Award For Best Play (1991)
31. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Passed | 129 min | Drama
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 99,992 | Gross: $0.06M
Tony Award For Best Play (1990)
32. The Heidi Chronicles (1995 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Heidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Hulce, Peter Friedman, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 276
Tony Award For Best Play (1989)
33. M. Butterfly (1993)
R | 101 min | Drama, Romance
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson
Votes: 10,960 | Gross: $1.50M
Tony Award For Best Play (1988)
34. Fences (2016)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo
Votes: 118,087 | Gross: $57.68M
Tony Award For Best Play (1987)
35. I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
PG-13 | 135 min | Comedy, Drama
Two old men - a white former radical, and a black retired janitor - strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.
Director: Herb Gardner | Stars: Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson
Votes: 1,860 | Gross: $0.22M
Tony Award For Best Play (1986)
36. Biloxi Blues (1988)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker
Votes: 16,515 | Gross: $43.18M
Tony Award For Best Play (1985)
37. The Real Thing (2000 Video)
Drama
Playwright Henry and actress Annie fall in love while cheating on their spouses, then marry and cheat on each other.
Director: David Leveaux | Stars: Stephen Dillane, Jennifer Ehle, Ian Ross-Henderson, Nigel Lindsay
Tony Award For Best Play (1984)
38. Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin
Votes: 7,823 | Gross: $4.87M
Tony Award For Best Play (1983)
39. Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-heartedly grasping uncle.
Director: Douglas McGrath | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Jamie Bell, Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 13,675 | Gross: $1.59M
Tony Award For Best Play (1982)
40. Amadeus (1984)
R | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice
Votes: 428,268 | Gross: $51.97M
Tony Award For Best Play (1981)
41. Children of a Lesser God (1986)
R | 119 min | Drama, Romance
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
Director: Randa Haines | Stars: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco
Votes: 18,685 | Gross: $31.85M
Tony Award For Best Play (1980)
42. The Elephant Man (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Votes: 258,563
Tony Award For Best Play (1979)
43. Da (1988)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Fantasy
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father (his "Da"). While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Director: Matt Clark | Stars: Barnard Hughes, Martin Sheen, William Hickey, Karl Hayden
Votes: 513 | Gross: $0.60M
Tony Award For Best Play (1978)
44. The Shadow Box (1980 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Three terminally-ill cancer patients dwell in separate cottages on a hospital's grounds, where they are attended and visited by both family and close friends.
Director: Paul Newman | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Christopher Plummer, Valerie Harper, James Broderick
Votes: 243
Tony Award For Best Play (1977)
45. Travesties (1978 TV Movie)
Drama
An elderly man reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, interacting with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Directors: Hans Lietzau, Hans W. Reichel | Stars: Martin Benrath, Nikolaus Paryla, Klaus Guth, Kurt Meisel
Tony Award For Best Play (1976)
46. Equus (1977)
R | 137 min | Drama, Mystery
A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright
Votes: 8,749
Tony Award For Best Play (1975)
47. The River Niger (1976)
R | 105 min | Drama
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But ... See full summary »
Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr., Glynn Turman
Votes: 296
Tony Award For Best Play (1974)
48. That Championship Season (1982)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sport
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their former basketball coach and ended up revealing the truth about their relationship. The meeting forces the five men to ... See full summary »
Director: Jason Miller | Stars: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen
Votes: 710
Tony Award For Best Play (1973)
49. Sticks and Bones (1973 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
A young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends. This movie deals with the aftermath of war and how people react to it both veterans and their families.
Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: Tom Aldredge, Anne Jackson, Alan Cauldwell, Joe Fields
Votes: 72
Tony Award For Best Play (1972)
50. Sleuth (1972)
PG | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
Votes: 50,182 | Gross: $4.08M
Tony Award For Best Play (1971)
51. Borstal Boy (2000)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Irish teenager political activist and future writer Brendan Behan is befriended in a British borstal (reformatory) by a liberal warden.
Director: Peter Sheridan | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Danny Dyer, Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney
Votes: 2,571 | Gross: $0.09M
Tony Award For Best Play (1970)
52. The Great White Hope (1970)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen
Votes: 2,806 | Gross: $2.70M
Tony Award For Best Play (1969)
53. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.
Director: Tom Stoppard | Stars: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Livio Badurina
Votes: 23,861 | Gross: $0.74M
Tony Award For Best Play (1968)
54. The Homecoming (1973)
PG | 111 min | Drama
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Paul Rogers, Terence Rigby
Votes: 859
Tony Award For Best Play (1967)
55. Marat/Sade (1967)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, History, Music
In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Ian Richardson
Votes: 2,671
Tony Award For Best Play (1966)
56. The Subject Was Roses (1968)
G | 107 min | Drama
A young man returning home from World War II finds himself caught up in his parents' turbulent relationship.
Director: Ulu Grosbard | Stars: Patricia Neal, Jack Albertson, Martin Sheen, Don Saxon
Votes: 1,830
Tony Award For Best Play (1965)
57. Luther (1974)
PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama
During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Director: Guy Green | Stars: Peter Cellier, Leonard Rossiter, Stacy Keach, Patrick Magee
Votes: 481
Tony Award For Best Play (1964)
58. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Not Rated | 131 min | Drama
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
Votes: 79,938
Tony Award For Best Play (1963)
59. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
G | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Votes: 37,169 | Gross: $28.35M
Tony Award For Best Play (1962)
60. Becket (1964)
PG-13 | 148 min | Biography, Drama, History
King Henry II of England comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant Thomas Becket, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the King's.
Director: Peter Glenville | Stars: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi
Votes: 15,853
Tony Award For Best Play (1961)
61. The Miracle Worker (1962)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Votes: 20,514 | Gross: $5.45M
Tony Award For Best Play (1960)
62. The Book of Job (I)
Comedy | Announced
A successful family man with everything to lose scrambles to save the life he always wanted when he becomes the subject of a bet between God and the Devil.
Tony Award For Best Play (1959)
63. Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Not Rated | 144 min | Biography, Drama
After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
Director: Vincent J. Donehue | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen
Votes: 1,509
Tony Award For Best Play (1958)
64. Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
Not Rated | 174 min | Drama
At the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 5,931
Tony Award For Best Play (1957)
65. The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Approved | 180 min | Biography, Drama, Family
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut, Richard Beymer
Votes: 13,696 | Gross: $5.01M
Tony Award For Best Play (1956)
66. The Desperate Hours (1955)
Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott
Votes: 10,885
Tony Award For Best Play (1955)
67. The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Approved | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyô, Eddie Albert
Votes: 3,778
Tony Award For Best Play (1954)
68. The Crucible (1996)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, History
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen
Votes: 40,195 | Gross: $7.34M
Tony Award For Best Play (1953)
69. The Four Poster (1952)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from 1897, until he dies some time after she has died... See full summary »
Directors: Irving Reis, John Hubley | Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 234
Tony Award For Best Play (1952)
70. The Rose Tattoo (1955)
Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Anna Magnani, Burt Lancaster, Marisa Pavan, Ben Cooper
Votes: 4,601
Tony Award For Best Play (1951)
71. The Cocktail Party (1952 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Troubled married couple who, through the intervention of a mysterious stranger, settle their problems and move on with their lives.
Director: Michael Barry | Stars: Grey Blake, Edward Chapman, Ursula Howells, Prudence Nesbitt
Tony Award For Best Play (1950)
72. Death of a Salesman (1951)
115 min | Drama
An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Fredric March, Mildred Dunnock, Kevin McCarthy, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 1,193
Tony Award For Best Play (1949)
73. Mister Roberts (1955)
Passed | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, War
In the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritations.
Directors: John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan | Stars: Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon
Votes: 18,247 | Gross: $21.20M
Tony Award For Best Play (1948)
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