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Discover popular and highly rated drama movies. This page focuses on useful, popular choices for viewers in the United States.
Updated 2026-08-04 · Ratings from TMDB
Eligible titles are ranked using TMDB popularity, audience rating, and vote count. Streaming availability and ratings can change over time.
2000 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 3,159 votes
In 1973, a precocious 15-year-old aspiring rock journalist lands a dream assignment from Rolling Stone to tour with a rising rock band, embarking on a coming-of-age journey as he discovers the exhilarating and heartbreaking realities behind rock stardom. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2024 · TMDB 6.2/10 · 749 votes
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2001 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 3,437 votes
William Thatcher, a knight's peasant apprentice, gets a chance at glory when the knight dies suddenly mid-tournament. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1985 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 1,892 votes
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1987 · TMDB 7.6/10 · 1,944 votes
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2008 · TMDB 6.7/10 · 2,913 votes
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1950 · TMDB 8.3/10 · 2,976 votes
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2022 · TMDB 7.6/10 · 1,906 votes
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1961 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 885 votes
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1941 · TMDB 8.0/10 · 6,131 votes
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2024 · TMDB 7.6/10 · 702 votes
During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2025 · TMDB 6.1/10 · 777 votes
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2025 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 305 votes
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical, “Oklahoma!” This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1992 · TMDB 6.0/10 · 174 votes
After losing her parents, young flower selling Midori is put up by a fairground group. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2022 · TMDB 7.6/10 · 2,400 votes
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1992 · TMDB 6.7/10 · 3,294 votes
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1936 · TMDB 8.3/10 · 4,130 votes
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time... This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2023 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 1,433 votes
D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2016 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 7,791 votes
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 souls aboard. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1996 · TMDB 7.0/10 · 3,796 votes
Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.