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:
Pearl(2022) , Joy(2015) , The Walk(2015) , Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her(2000) , Girl, Interrupted(1999) , Panic Room(2002) , Miracles from Heaven(2016) , The Shack(2017) , Lovisa och Carl Michael(2005) , Imagine That(2009) , American Dreamz(2006) , My Sister's Keeper(2009) , Skydog(2020) , Creed(2015) , Little Wing(2024) , Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1(2024) , I Saw the TV Glow(2024) , Transcendence(2014) , The Revenant(2015) , American Star(2024) , Before Night Falls(2022) , Heist 88(2023) , Gravity(2013) , The Other Zoey(2023) , Where the Crawdads Sing(2022) , The Little Things(2021) , The Old Way(2023) , The Bad Batch(2017) , As Good as It Gets(1997) , The Judge(2014)
List of Best Movies
Pearl (2022)
7
R
Duration: 102min
Country: US
Plot: Pearl is an ambitious young farm girl obsessed with dance and the film industry. She can't wait to leave home and pursue her dreams. She married Howard, an upper-class member, thinking that this would give her freedom. Unexpectedly, Howard enlisted in the army not long after the marriage and went to the front line to fight. As time went by, the correspondence between them was cut off. So Pearl still lived with her father and mother. Every day, she had to deal with countless farm chores on the farm and take care of her paralyzed father, who could not take care of himself. Long-term frustration, violent tendencies, and repressed emotions began to emerge.
Director: Ti West
Cast: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro
Joy (2015)
6.6
PG-13
Duration: 124min
Country: US
Plot: Joy Mangano was an Eastern Airlines reservations worker and a divorced mother of two in 1990. She resides with her two young children, her ex-husband Tony and her grandma Mimi. Every time Joy's father, Rudy, visited her home, her divorced parents would quarrel. The only people who support Joey in following her creative goals are Mimi and her best friend, Jackie. Joy decided to improve her life by creating a new item she designed—a self-wringing mop. She eventually became the mop queen and made a fortune selling miracle mops.
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd
The Walk (2015)
7.3
PG
Duration: 123min
Country: US
Plot: Philip Pat has had a talent for acrobatics since he was a child. By chance, Philip learned that the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York were about to be completed. From then on, Philip desired to walk a tightrope between the two skyscrapers. However, this crazy "art crime" was met with a series of doubts and misunderstandings, but this did not defeat Philip's firm belief that his in-depth investigation and careful deployment had been the tightrope walking experience of Rudy's father directed, as well as Jean-Louis and Jeff and other people's help. Philip began his tightrope walk in 110 layers of 412 meters of cloud.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Clément Sibony
Duration: 109min
Country: US
Plot: The film consists of five seemingly unrelated stories: Doctor Elaine Keener's mother is frail and sick, and her health is getting worse day by day; professional bank manager Rebecca is unexpectedly pregnant and faces challenges at work; Rose is a single mother who is struggling with whether to start a relationship with a dwarf who moved into the house across the street from her; Christine Taylor's lesbian partner has cancer and is dying; Kathy Faber is a detective who lives with her blind sister. They originally faced the challenges of life alone until a suicide occurred. The girl who committed suicide appeared in five different stories, and these five strange stories had a surprising intersection.
Director: Rodrigo García
Cast: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
7.3
R
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1999-12-21
Duration: 127min
Country: US
Plot: Though Susanna was an ordinary girl in her prime, her diagnosis of borderline insanity led to her being committed to a mental hospital, where she suffered greatly from being deeply trapped in the mental pressure of the outside world. She made a group of unusual but perverse friends who always made the hospital administrators laugh with their antics. Susanna gradually became integrated into the activities of the other girls, and her wild and rebellious adventures led her on a spiritual quest to discover who she was.
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss
Panic Room (2002)
6.8
R
Duration: 111min
Country: US
Plot: Meg Altman has just divorced her husband. She and her 11-year-old daughter Sarah have just moved into a strange house with a hidden secret room. There are 16 cameras, eight monitors, a telephone line not connected to the outside line, and an indestructible door. The mother and daughter, who never expected to use this secret room one day, encountered uninvited guests on the first night - Burnham, the builder of the house; Junior, the grandson of the previous owner; and Raoul, his helper. They wanted the large inheritance of Junior's grandfather, so they broke into the house while Meg was sleeping at night to find and take away the inheritance. Meg took her daughter to hide in the secret room. As they approached the secret room where Meg was hiding, a game of wits and courage began. Can Sarah, who has asthma, survive this struggle?
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto
Miracles from Heaven (2016)
7.1
PG
Duration: 119min
Country: US
Plot: The Beam family is a devout believer who often attends church on Sundays to listen to the pastor's teachings on keeping faith at all times. Their 10-year-old daughter Anna has been suffering from an unknown disease in the past few weeks, causing her to vomit constantly and be unable to eat. After several examinations, Anna was diagnosed with an incurable digestive disease that is gradually endangering her life. But Anna suffered an accident. After being rescued, she miraculously recovered her health.
Director: Patricia Riggen
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson, Brighton Sharbino, Courtney Fansler
The Shack (2017)
6.3
PG-13
Duration: 132min
Country: US
Plot: Mack Phillips is happily married to Nan, and they have three children: Kate, Josh, and Missy Phillips. Mike's life is turned upside down when Missy is kidnapped and murdered while camping with her family over the weekend. Her body is later found in a remote hamlet. Years later, Mack receives a note from God asking him to visit the cabin where his daughter was killed. After reading the message, the man returns to the cabin, and what he finds there will change his life forever.
Director: Stuart Hazeldine
Cast: Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Aviv Alush, Sumire
Duration: 120min
Country: SE
Plot: Bellman is a sensitive artist amid a disintegrating society. He is regarded as an entertainer who performs as a "stand-up" artist, usually without payment. Wine and spirits are always free, which makes him addicted to alcohol and exhausted. Although happily married, he and his wife, Lovisa, live in extreme poverty. They struggle to support their family, and Lovisa tries to convince Bellman to perform to earn a living. Meanwhile, Bellman is trying to publish the "Collection of the Friedman Letters," but in vain.
Director: Leif Magnusson
Cast: Tomas von Brömssen, Tanja Lorentzon, Gunilla Abrahamsson, Morgan Alling, Anna Björk
Imagine That (2009)
5.6
PG
Duration: 107min
Country: US
Plot: Due to years of neglect of the family, his wife, Lori, who could no longer bear it, chose to leave. Evan repeatedly promised to take time out daily to care for the family, saving the custody of his daughter, Oliva. However, Evan's recent unstable work and the reduction of the company's income have doubled Evan's pressure. By chance, Oliva opened a magical door to a quiet and mysterious realm, where Evan found the meaning of life and was freed from the pressure of work and life.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi
American Dreamz (2006)
5.5
PG-13
Duration: 107min
Country: US
Plot: The negative news depressed President Staton and his behavior became increasingly strange. As Staton's right-hand man, Sutter was very anxious. With the election coming up, Sutter had no choice but to get Staton to be a special judge on the most popular reality show, "American Dreamz," to save his support rate. After layers of selection, two contestants, Omer and Sally, stood in front of Staton, and one of them turned out to be a dangerous terrorist. Who will win? The decision is in Staton's hands and will directly affect the country's safety.
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe, Chris Klein
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
7.3
PG-13
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2009-06-26
Duration: 109min
Country: US
Plot: To keep Kate, who was suffering from blood cancer, alive, her parents used genetic technology to have a little daughter, Anna, who was a perfect match with Kate's genes. For 11 years, whenever Kate needed it, she had to provide Kate with umbilical cord blood, white blood cells, and bone marrow. However, Kate's condition was getting worse and worse, and her kidney failure required Anna, who was only 11 years old, to donate one of her kidneys. This time, Anna refuses and finds lawyer Campbell to sue her mother in court. She wanted to defend her body. In court, her brother Jesse revealed another truth.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Alec Baldwin, Jason Patric
Skydog (2020)
3.2
Duration: 109min
Country: US
Plot: When Colt Lifestone, a high school student studying for his pilot's license, saves a stray dog named Oreo, the two immediately become closest friends. However, his calm life is upended when he realizes his mother is an undercover CIA agent working for Director Neil Glasswell. When she is kidnapped and held captive, it is up to him to work with Oreo and his new friend Alice to locate his mother, expose the CIA's double agent, and rescue the day.
Director: Daniel Knudsen
Cast: Dean Cain, Mimi Sagadin, Tim Kaiser, Jeannine Thompson, Tiffany Burns
Creed (2015)
7.6
PG-13
Duration: 133min
Country: US
Plot: The father of Adonis Johnson, the boxing champion Apollo Creed, lost his life in a fight. Adonis wanted to box like his father, even though he was born after his father passed away. Retired heavyweight boxing champion and friend of Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa, was the guru he was looking for. Finally, Loki consented to coach Adonis. He goes up against a rival more lethal than his father for the crown with Rocky's assistance. However, nobody knows if he is a real fighter.
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashād, Andre Ward
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2024-03-13
Duration: 100min
Country: US
Plot: Kaitlyn wants to help her mother financially. When she and her friend discovered a local pigeon breeder had a valuable racing pigeon, they began studying pigeon racing. Finally, they stole the pigeon and sold it to the Russian Pigeon Mafia. However, the pigeon's owner found her bag on his roof and used it to locate her. Surprisingly, the owner decided to assist Kaitlyn in retrieving the pigeon instead of giving her over to the authorities. The three people start to establish a special bond.
Director: Dean Israelite
Cast: Brooklynn Prince, Che Tafari, Brian Cox, Kelly Reilly, Trinity Bliss
Duration: 182min
Country: US
Plot: The film Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 recounts the complex story of the American West's colonization and growth in the fifteen years preceding and following the Civil War. Many people view this history as dangerous and mysterious because of the relentless weather, contacts with the local indigenous population, and the tenacity and brutality of those attempting to find a solution.
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
5.8
PG-13
Duration: 100min
Country: US
Plot: I Saw the TV Glow focuses on two teenagers, Owen and Maddy. When Maddy exposes Owen to a mystery late-night television program—a glimpse of a supernatural world—he attempts to make sense of his life in the suburbs. Owen feels his sense of reality disintegrating in the twilight of the television. The two youngsters who like TV shows get together and start comprehending their hazy world.
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Cast: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan
Transcendence (2014)
6.2
PG-13
Release Date: 2014-04-17
Duration: 119min
Country: US
Plot: As a leading expert in artificial intelligence research, Dr. Will Custer is attempting to build the most compassionate, sentient robot ever made. However, he became a source of irritation for anti-tech activists, who started trying to stop him. They didn't anticipate that by unintentionally ruining Will, they contributed to his "transcendence" and helped his artificial intelligence experiment succeed.
Director: Wally Pfister
Cast: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara
Duration: 157min
Country: US
Plot: The narrative describes a 19th-century fur hunter who suffered injuries at the hands of a bear. His ship's captain attempted to return him to civilization, but the circumstances made it impossible. As a result, he was compelled to pay two men to stay to allow them to send the hunter on his final voyage. These two men, though, were greedy with money. After robbing the poor injured man, they left him to perish by himself in the icy woods. But by some miracle, the hunter lived and started looking for the two guys to get revenge.
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck
American Star (2024)
5.4
R
Duration: 107min
Country: US
Plot: Wilson is a veteran assassin who just got to Fuerteventura. Going on a final assignment, he kills a man he has never met by traveling to the island. He presumably chooses to stay and unwind until his target returns after learning that the target has left the island. Wilson makes friends with Gloria, the bartender, while he is waiting and aimlessly strolling around. He also has bonded with Max, a small child who stays at his resort. He is pulled to the island, its residents, and an eerie shipwreck.
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Cast: Ian McShane, Nora Arnezeder, Adam Nagaitis, Thomas Kretschmann, Fanny Ardant
Duration: 102min
Country: ID
Plot: Talia, Erlan, and Ahmad, psychology students, encountered Nina, a patient with mental illness when they were doing research for their thesis. The students produced a documentary about her. Three phases of psychological development occur in Nina. In the morning and afternoon, she continued to seem chilly and unsettling. Nina started experiencing emotional outbursts throughout the second part of the night. It is the third stage when Nina no longer recognizes her own body. Nina's ancient ghost from hundreds of years ago has taken possession of her. Thalia's investigation team has to cope with mysteries that defy common sense.
Director: Helfi C.H. Kardit
Cast: Annette Edoarda
Heist 88 (2023)
5.3
Duration: 83min
Country: US
Plot: Based on real events, HEIST 88 is a gripping tale of Jeremy Horne, a skilled criminal with the natural ability to persuade anyone to do anything. Before heading to prison, he decided to quit one last job. He enlisted the help of four youthful bank workers and launched a daring and obnoxious attack on the American financial system, making off with around $80 million.
Director: Menhaj Huda
Cast: Courtney B. Vance, Keesha Sharp, Keith David, Xavier Clyde, Bentley Green
Gravity (2013)
7.7
PG-13
Release Date: 2013-10-04
Duration: 91min
Country: US
Plot: Two astronauts, Matt Kowalski and Ryan Stone, walked outside the U.S. Space Station to fix the telescope. Finding themselves outdoors and without power, the two individuals had to figure out a route back to Earth when the space station was struck by debris from the satellite explosion. Ryan was able to approach additional space stations with Matt's sacrifice despite the hazards he faced.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Cast: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma
The Other Zoey (2023)
5.9
PG-13
Duration: 91min
Country: US
Plot: Zoe Miller is a super-smart high school senior who wasn't originally interested in romantic love. However, her life is turned upside down when Zach, the most popular boy in school, mistakes her for his girlfriend due to memory loss. As the series unfolds, viewers will see how Zoe deals with this sudden change and how an unexpected comedic love story develops between her and Zach.
Director: Sara Zandieh
Cast: Josephine Langford, Drew Starkey, Archie Renaux, Mallori Johnson, Andie MacDowell
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
7.2
PG-13
Duration: 126min
Country: US
Plot: Kya was raised by herself in a hazardous marsh in North Carolina after her family abandoned her. Barkley Bay has been plagued by a tale of the "Swamp Girl" for many years, leading the intelligent and resilient Kya to face rejection from the locals. When two young guys from the area caught Kya's attention one day, she opened up to a startling new world. However, she is quickly named the main suspect by the community once the body of one of the young guys is found. The truth is harder to find as the case investigation goes on. The swamp holds many mysteries that are soon to come to light.
Director: Olivia Newman
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson, Michael Hyatt, Sterling Macer Jr.
The Little Things (2021)
6.3
R
Duration: 128min
Country: US
Plot: Denzel Washington is a police thriller. John Lee Hancock may direct this TV series. Denzel plays Kern County Sheriff Deke, who works with Detective Baxter of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to solve a cunning serial killer case. Deke has a keen and accurate eye for "small details," but his willingness to abandon the rules gets Baxter into trouble.
Director: John Lee Hancock
Cast: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Chris Bauer, Michael Hyatt
The Old Way (2023)
5.5
R
Duration: 95min
Country: US
Plot: Furious gunman James McAllister and his jackal pack, who have been secretly harboring resentment against his father's murderer for almost twenty years, pay an elderly frontier storekeeper in 1898 in Montana Territory. Colton Briggs is a family man. Blood is, after all, blood. The innocent must pay for his misdeeds now that Briggs's past is returning with a vengeance. However, 12-year-old Brooke, the daughter of the previously vicious bounty hunter, is entangled in a long-running feud. Is Briggs prepared to make one final go at the corporate world?
Director: Brett Donowho
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Noah Le Gros, Clint Howard, Shiloh Fernandez
The Bad Batch (2017)
5.2
R
Release Date: 2017-06-23
Duration: 119min
Country: US
Plot: The Bad Batch narrates the tale of Arlen, who gets abandoned in a remote Texas desert. A gang of vicious cannibals headed by the enigmatic Miami Man kidnaps Arlen as he tries to escape this harsh territory. She started along the path to her aspirations, taking a risk with her life. You are only as good as the person standing next to you, Arlen learns as she gets used to life among the "Bad Batch."
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Cast: Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Yolonda Ross, Keanu Reeves, Giovanni Ribisi
As Good as It Gets (1997)
7.7
PG-13
Duration: 139min
Country: US
Plot: The film As Good as It Gets tells the story of Melvin's life, which begins to change after he meets his neighbor Simon, restaurant waitress Carol Connelly, and others. He gradually loses his dislike for Simon and begins to examine his feelings for Carol. He also goes from a man who advocates racism and sexism to a man of charity.
Director: James L. Brooks
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Shirley Knight
The Judge (2014)
7.4
R
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2014-10-10
Duration: 141min
Country: US
Plot: The film tells the story of Hank, a successful lawyer working in Chicago, who is forced to return to his hometown in Indiana after his mother dies unexpectedly. There, he meets again his long-lost and strained father, Joseph, a stubborn older man who has served as a magistrate all his life. Hank originally planned to leave the place as soon as possible, which was full of the past he did not want to recall, but a sudden traffic accident caused Joseph to be involved in a complex lawsuit.
Director: David Dobkin
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong