Drama Movies
The list contains the best, new, and most relevant Drama Movies ordered by relevance. Trendflicks helps you find the most attractive Movies from all kinds of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video, HBO, etc.
Best Movies
Popular Movies:
Gerry(2003) , Redwoods(2009) , The Male Gaze: Nocturnal Instincts(2021) , Otto; or, Up with Dead People(2008) , The Mudge Boy(2003) , Me Without You(2001) , Love Happens(2009) , Buried(2010) , Hurt(2009) , The Night-Time Winds(2017) , The Hours(2002) , Bridget Jones's Diary(2001) , Rent(2005) , Sexy Beast(2001) , Tapped Out(2014) , Cinderella Man(2005) , Tracks(2014) , Whale Rider(2003) , Drive(2011) , The Place Beyond the Pines(2013) , The Lobster(2016) , The Jungle Book(2016) , The Big Short(2015) , Money Monster(2016) , Hell or High Water(2016) , 10 Cloverfield Lane(2016) , Blame(2021) , Only the Brave(2017) , Mud(2013) , Fifty Shades Freed(2018)
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Gerry (2003)
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Duration: 103min
Country: US
Plot: Two buddies who become lost in the woods are the subject of the drama-thriller movie. Gerry is the same name that they both share. They travel to the desert in search of something unique. They are unable to locate it. They attempt to return to their vehicle. They are unable to locate it. They lack food, water, and a map. They stroll endlessly. They're thirsty and exhausted. They converse and dispute.
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Casey Affleck, Matt Damon
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Redwoods (2009)
5.6
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Duration: 82min
Country: US
Plot: The romantic comedy centers on a gay man who is dissatisfied with his spouse. He resides close to the Redwoods in a little town. He meets a writer visiting for a holiday. In addition, the author is homosexual. They get enamored. Their relationship is secretive. Together, they are content. They must make a decision. The movie is lovely and depressing. It depicts the writer's and the homosexual man's love and suffering.
Director: David Lewis
Cast: Matthew Montgomery, Brendan Bradley, Laurie Burke
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Duration: 98min
Country: US
Plot: Karim and Dan, a homosexual couple, make love in the first scene of Spiral, the short film, just before they take out on a journey. Dan states that he has to go—for "one last thing"—from their apartment. Suspecting that Dan has been absent for too long, Karim needs to go into Malmö's nightlife's underbelly to locate Dan. Following many inquiries, he finds himself at Olsson's apartment, where he discovers something horrifying. The strange end of the masculine gaze, fixation, and sadism are all themes in this movie.
Director: Dean Anderson
Cast: Tijmen Govaerts, Piotr Biedroń, Alexander Abdallah, Gabriel Omri Loukas, Aiden Nord
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Duration: 94min
Country: DE
Plot: Until he shows up for an audition for a zombie movie, Otto is a charming, sensitive, neo-Goth zombie living on the city streets out of an identity problem. He is friendly and attractive. He likes gloomy stuff. He is unaware of his identity. He strolls around the metropolis. He gives an audition for a movie one day. The film is about the undead. In the film, he behaves like a zombie. He searches for himself as well.
Director: Bruce LaBruce
Cast: Jey Crisfar, Marcel Schlutt, Katharina Klewinghaus, Stephanie Heinrich
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The Mudge Boy (2003)
7.1
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Duration: 93min
Country: US
Plot: Duncan imitates his deceased mother because he can't fully let her go. He wears her fur coat to bed and speaks in her voice at the dinner table. The aloof sixty-year-old father of Duncan, Edgar, cannot comprehend the peculiar ways in which his son is grieving. Duncan is a regular person, so why can't he suffer like one? Perry Foley, their macho buddy who endures far more hardships on his father's farm, tends to console Duncan and justify his "wimpiness" to their brazenly violent friends, Travis, Scotty, and Brent.
Director: Michael Burke
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Tom Guiry, Richard Jenkins, Pablo Schreiber, Zachary Knighton
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Me Without You (2001)
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Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2001-11-01
Duration: 107min
Country: US
Plot: The film Me Without You centers on Holly and Marina. Since they were little, they had been pals. In the 1970s, they were island dwellers. Drugs and family are two of Marina's issues. She can always rely on Holly. Holly is quiet and enjoys reading. She feels envious of Marina. She also enjoys Nat, Marina's brother. Her secret is him. As the ladies become older, they experience love, sex, and rock 'n roll. Holly, though, feels confined by Marina.
Director: Sandra Goldbacher
Cast: Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler, Marianne Denicourt
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Love Happens (2009)
5.7
PG-13
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Duration: 109min
Country: US
Plot: Burke penned a book about grief. In an accident, his wife perished. To lecture and close a transaction, he travels to Seattle. However, he has issues. He drinks, despises elevators, is irritable, avoids talking to his wife's father, and feels alone. In a motel, he encounters a flower woman, Eloise. At first, she doesn't like him. He persists, and they eat supper together. It's not very good. Burke is trapped; why? Is it possible for him to heal himself?
Director: Brandon Camp
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, Judy Greer, Martin Sheen
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Buried (2010)
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Duration: 95min
Country: US
Plot: In the dead of night, Paul Conroy, an American truck driver employed in Iraq in 2006, slowly comes to terms with the fact that he is buried alive and imprisoned within a wooden coffin. He rapidly understands that there isn't enough air for him to survive long after using his cigarette lighter to notice the trap he is in. His ability to communicate with the outside world is facilitated by the functioning cell phone he discovers within the casket.
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García Pérez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Samantha Mathis
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Hurt (2009)
5.1
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Duration: 96min
Plot: Hurt centers on the Coltrane family. Arizona is where they call home. Robert, their dad, passes away unexpectedly. They must leave their comfortable life behind and move in with Darryl, Robert's brother. He resides in a run-down desert home. There, they are not content. In addition, they have to care for a troubled foster girl named Sarah. Robert pledged to support her. The clan is terrified and depressed. They experience unfortunate events that they cannot understand.
Director: Barbara Stepansky
Cast: Melora Walters, William Mapother, Johanna Braddy, Sofia Vassilieva, Jackson Rathbone
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Duration: 45min
Country: US
Plot: A girl in a windy city rules the night winds and assists others. But all changes when she encounters a fire-wielding boy. With his strength, he intends to devastate the city. The girl confronts him, determined to protect her house. As their conflict progresses, she employs her wind control to frustrate his horrific intentions and spare the city from annihilation.
Director: Ansel Faraj
Cast: Kelly Erin Decker, Nathan Wilson
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The Hours (2002)
7.5
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Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2002-12-27
Duration: 114min
Country: US
Plot: Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours served as the inspiration for the movie. It depicts the lives of three women linked by Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Author Virginia Woolf wrote the story in 1923. She is suicidal and sad. 1951 reader Laura Brown is the one reading the book. She's pregnant and miserable. Clarissa Vaughan, known in 2001 as Mrs. Dalloway. She is planning a party for her AIDS-stricken pal.
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cast: Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson
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Duration: 97min
Country: US
Plot: Bridget Jones is a typical woman battling her flaws, including lack of a partner, age, weight, and occupation. Bridget makes the decision to take charge of her life as a New Year's Resolution, beginning with maintaining a diary in which she will always be completely honest. When her charming but dishonest employer shows interest in the eccentric Miss Jones, the fireworks start. Included in the mix are Bridget's group of slightly odd pals and an unpleasant acquaintance that she can't seem to quit running into or find attractive in a subdued way.
Director: Sharon Maguire
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones
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Rent (2005)
6.8
PG-13
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Duration: 135min
Country: US
Plot: This rock opera chronicles a year in the struggles of a group of bohemians living in East Village, New York, in the present day. The protagonists of the tale are roommates Mark and Roger. Roger is lifeless due to a past tragedy, but Mark strives to capture it in his filmmaking endeavors. The quartet tackles AIDS, love, grief, and contemporary life in a single, incredibly moving tale in the year that follows.
Director: Chris Columbus
Cast: Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia
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Sexy Beast (2001)
7.3
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Duration: 89min
Country: US
Plot: Gal, a former crime leader, resides in a stunning home in Spain with his spouse, Deedee, and has a happy life. Don Logan, a different old colleague, approached him unsolicited for assistance. It comes out that financier Harry and London thug Ted Bass have planned a Bank of England heist, in which Don is complicit. Don intends to enlist Gail's help in carrying out their scheme. To protect his wife and maintain the calm life he has worked so hard to achieve, Gayle has challenged Don and his group to a struggle for strength, courage, and willpower.
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cast: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, James Fox
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Tapped Out (2014)
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Duration: 105min
Country: CA
Plot: Michael Shaw, a former champion in martial arts, is given community service time in a dilapidated karate school, where he resumes his training. He vows to get revenge by preparing for and participating in an upcoming MMA event on his back with his karate teacher after meeting the man who killed his family ten years ago at a local MMA tournament. He doesn't stop until the last blow forces his opponent to the ground and gets back up when he eventually squares up against the murderer of his parents in the ring.
Director: Allan Ungar
Cast: Michael Biehn, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida, Martin Kove, Nick Bateman
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Cinderella Man (2005)
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Duration: 144min
Country: US
Plot: Braddock is a former boxer who has also become a father to three kids. Following the decline of his boxing career, he faced financial hardships and a family struggling to make ends meet. Thankfully, May has a lovely and moral wife who understands and supports her never-complaining and hardworking household, keeping the family alive. There wasn't much food at home, so it was critical to survive.
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Paddy Considine
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Tracks (2014)
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Duration: 112min
Country: AU
Plot: In Tracks, a woman who has always wanted to go alone across the Australian desert with four camels and a devoted dog finally has her wish of seeking wildlife fulfilled in the movie. Following a lone voyage across hundreds of miles of Australian desert, she left Sydney for Alice Springs and eventually reached the country's west coast. There, she begins an adventurous journey.
Director: John Curran
Cast: Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Emma Booth, Jessica Tovey, Lily Pearl
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Whale Rider (2003)
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Duration: 101min
Country: NZ
Plot: The Wangara people live on the east coast of New Zealand, believing their ancestor Paikea escaped a crashed canoe by landing on the back of a whale and that they had lived there for at least a thousand years. Henceforth, Wangara leaders were regarded as the direct descendants of Paikaia, as they were consistently the oldest male sons. A patriarchal tribe in New Zealand has an 11-year-old girl named Pai who feels she will one day take the helm as their new chief.
Director: Niki Caro
Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa
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Drive (2011)
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Duration: 100min
Country: US
Plot: This action thriller centers on a mystery man who works as a getaway driver, a garage mechanic, and a Hollywood stuntman. He appears to be attempting to get away from his questionable background as he falls in love with his neighbor, whose husband is in jail. She is raising their child by herself. Our driver is involved because he will be the primary driver for the race team, but his employer, the garage technician, is attempting to establish a racing team with gangland funds.
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac
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Duration: 140min
Country: US
Plot: Stunt rider Luke departs from the carnival to spend time with his son and his former partner, Romina. He uses his riding prowess to heist banks. Avery is a police officer who aspires to surpass him in rank. They fight inside a dishonest police force. Their boys bear the repercussions of their deeds as they grow up. Both the past and the future cause them difficulty. The area beyond the trees is the only route out.
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne, Ray Liotta
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The Lobster (2016)
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Duration: 119min
Country: NL
Plot: In a world of the future, individuals have 45 days to find love or turn into animals. In search of a mate, David visits a motel. He dates a variety of women while abiding by the guidelines. When he fails, he flees into the wilderness. He encounters singles who feel the same way about the motel. But they also follow their own set of rules.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Léa Seydoux, Michael Smiley
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The Jungle Book (2016)
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Duration: 106min
Country: US
Plot: A child named Mowgli lives in the forest with wolves. Shere Khan, a tiger, is out to get him. He is attempted to be taken to a human community by Bagheera, a panther. Mowgli encounters a bear, a snake, and a monkey king along the route. He learns how to enjoy life from the bear, Baloo. Mowgli encounters several perils and experiences.
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson
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The Big Short (2015)
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Duration: 131min
Country: US
Plot: The 2005 US housing crisis is the subject of the film. Some believe there will be a home market meltdown shortly. They stake their claim against the banks' disbelief. They are the peculiar hedge fund manager Michael Burry. Mark Baum is a disgruntled investor, and Jared Vennett is a banker. Jamie Shipley and Charlie Geller are two modest traders who seek assistance from retired banker Ben Rickert. They discover that the banks are lying and cheating. They feel horrible, but they also want to win.
Director: Adam McKay
Cast: Steve Carell, Christian Bale, John Magaro, Ryan Gosling, Finn Wittrock
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Money Monster (2016)
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Duration: 98min
Country: US
Plot: TV presenter Lee Gates frequently discusses money. He is produced by Patty. A guy who lost his money due to Lee's recommendations takes over their studio. He carries a bomb and a rifle. He's looking for clarification. Millions of people are watching Lee and Patty live on television. They look for the person responsible for the financial loss. They find out about a covert scheme that has an impact on global markets.
Director: Jodie Foster
Cast: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Caitríona Balfe
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Duration: 102min
Country: US
Plot: For his boys, Toby, an impoverished oil worker, wishes to preserve his property. Tanner, his criminal brother, assists him in bank robberies. They owe Texas Midlands Bank money. Marcus, an elderly Texas Ranger, pursues them together with his Native American sidekick Alberto. They try to predict what the brothers will do next. Tanner and Toby robbed the banks for separate reasons.
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, Marin Ireland
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
7.2
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Duration: 104min
Country: US
Plot: 10 Cloverfield Lane: Following an automobile accident, Michelle awakens in a bunker. Emmett and Howard are present. It's said that there is foul air outdoors and that aliens have struck. For her leg, they offer her crutches. She is unsure if what they are saying is true. Is it safer outdoors or inside?
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Cast: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin, Suzanne Cryer
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Blame (2021)
3.7
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Duration: 86min
Country: US
Plot: After a snowfall, five friends are stranded inside a building. There is no phone service there. They leave to seek assistance. One has already passed away when they return. Who did it is mysterious to them. They are distrustful of one another. Both survival and escape are their goals. They come upon a sinister secret. They are up against a formidable foe.
Director: B.J. Rayniak
Cast: Lauren Elyse Buckley, Rachel Lynn David, Richard Blake
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Only the Brave (2017)
7.6
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Duration: 133min
Country: US
Plot: Prescott, Arizona, firefighter Eric Marsh works there. His goal is to form a brand-new firefighting squad. We refer to them as Hotshots. They battle massive forest fires. Brendan McDonough, a young guy in need of change, is hired by him. They work hard in training and gel as a unit. 2013 presents a significant fire. We refer to it as the Yarnell Hill Fire. It is quite risky. They must possess courage and strength.
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly, James Badge Dale
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Mud (2013)
7.4
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Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2013-04-26
Duration: 130min
Country: US
Plot: The lads Ellis and Neckbone are from Arkansas. On an island, they discover a boat in a tree. The boat is occupied by a man. Mud is his name. He is evading the authorities. For his love, Juniper, he killed a guy. The guys assist Juniper and Mud in getting away. They are in danger all the time. Ellis gains knowledge about grief and love. He observes his parents being apart. He has feelings for May Pearl, a girl.
Director: Jeff Nichols
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard
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Duration: 105min
Country: US
Plot: Fifty Shades Freed: Believed to have banished mysterious characters from their history, Christian and Ana, recent brides, completely embrace an unbreakable bond and luxurious shared existence. Yet even as he settles into a strange sense of security and she assumes her new position as Mrs. Grey, fresh dangers can prevent their happy ending from ever happening.
Director: James Foley
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Rita Ora