List of drama films

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

List of drama films is a chronological listing of films in the drama genre.

1910s

1912

• From the Manger to the Cross

1914

• The Mother and the Law
• The Squaw Man
• What's-His-Name?

1916

• Romeo and Juliet

1917

• Berg-Ejvind och Hans Hustru
• A Tale of Two Cities

1919

• Blind Husbands
• Sir Arne's Treasure

1920s

1920

• Within Our Gates

1921

• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• The Sheik

1922

• The Frozen North
• Oliver Twist

1923

• A Woman of Paris
• Ashes of Vengeance
• Merry-Go-Round
• White Rose

1924

• Dante's Inferno
• The Enchanted Cottage
• Greed
• Janice Meredith
• The Last Laugh
• The Saga of Gosta Berling
• Strike
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

1925

• Battleship Potemkin
• The Big Parade
• Die Freudlose Gasse
• Variété

1926

• Mother
• Sparrows
• Torrent

1927

• Jazz Singer, The
• King of Kings, The
• Konets Sankt-Peterburga
• Love of Jeanne Ney
• Oktyabr
• Seventh Heaven
• Sunrise
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Way of All Flesh

1928

• The Crowd
• The Last Command
• The Patriot
• The Storm Over Asia
• The Trail of '98
• The Wedding March
• Thérèse Raquin
• The Wind

1929

• Arsenal
• Diary of a Lost Girl
• Disraeli
• Pandora's Box
• Valiant

1930s

1930

• Blue Angel
• Earth
• Morocco
• Under the Roofs of Paris

1931

• The Champ
• La Chienne
• Kameradschaft
• Mädchen in Uniform

1932

• Freaks
• Grand Hotel
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• Rain
• Shanghai Express

1933

• Ecstasy
• Taki No Shiraito
• Wild Boys of the Road
• Zéro de conduite

1934

• L'Atalante
• Barretts of Wimpole Street
• Manhattan Melodrama
• Les Misérables
• Of Human Bondage
• Toni

1935

• A Tale of Two Cities
• David Copperfield

1936

• Camille
• Dodsworth
• Fury
• Osaka Elegy
• La Belle Équipe
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Petrified Forest
• San Francisco
• Sisters of the Gion

1937

• A Star is Born
• Dead End
• The Good Earth
• Grand Illusion
• J'accuse
• Life of Emile Zola
• Pépé le Moko
• Stella Dallas
• Topper

1938

• Angels With Dirty Faces
• La Bête Humaine
• Boys Town
• The Citadel
• Jezebel
• Old Chicago

1939

• Dark Victory
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Of Mice and Men
• The Stars Look Down
• Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
• Wuthering Heights

1940s

1940

• Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
• Grapes of Wrath
• Kitty Foyle
• Knute Rockne, All American
• The Letter
• The Man I Married
• The Mortal Storm
• Our Town

1941

• Back Street
• Citizen Kane
• H.M. Pulham, Esq.
• How Green Was My Valley
• Little Foxes

1942

• Casablanca
• Joan of Paris
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Pied Piper
• Pride of the Yankees
• Random Harvest

1943

• Day of Wrath
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Ossessione
• Sanshiro Sugata
• So Proudly We Hail!
• Song of Bernadette
• Watch on the Rhine

1944

• The Children Are Watching Us
• Going My Way
• Jane Eyre
• Lifeboat
• Mr. Skeffington
• Passage to Marseilles
• Secret Command
• Since You Went Away
• Till We Meet Again
• To Have and Have Not
• Wilson

1945

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Bells of St. Mary's
• Brief Encounter
• Children of Paradise
• Corn Is Green
• I Know Where I'm Going!
• Lost Weekend
• Mildred Pierce
• The Southerner

1946

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Brief Encounter
• Gilda
• Great Expectations
• Humoresque
• Leave Her to Heaven
• No Regrets for Our Youth
• Paisà
• Utamaro and His Five Women

1947

• A Double Life
• Black Narcissus
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• Sea of Grass
• Shoeshine

1948

• A Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Bicycle Thief
• Corridor of Mirrors
• Fallen Idol, The
• Hamlet
• I Remember Mama
• Johnny Belinda
• Oliver Twist
• Red Shoes
• Snake Pit
• Terra trema, La

1949

• All the King's Men
• Daleká cesta
• File on Thelma Jordon, The
• Intruder in the Dust
• Heiress, The
• Late Spring
• Ostani Etap
• They Live by Night

1950s

1950

• Capture
• Diary of a Country Priest
• Flowers of St. Francis
• In a Lonely Place
• Olvidados, Los
• Sunset Blvd.
• Ways of Love

1951

• Browning Version
• Cry the Beloved Country
• Early Summer
• Place in the Sun, A
• Rashomon
• River, The
• Streetcar Named Desire, A

1952

• Bad and the Beautiful
• Casque D'Or
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• Forbidden Games
• Ikiru
• Life of Oharu
• Member of the Wedding
• Mother
• Othello
• Umberto D.
• Viva Zapata!

1953

• A Geisha
• Gate of Hell
• Nihon No Higeki
• Tokyo Story
• The Thick-Walled Room

1954

• Caine Mutiny, The
• Chikamatsu Monogatari
• Country Girl
• Generation, A
• Late Chrysanthemums
• Magnificent Obsession
• On the Waterfront
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Seven Samurai
• Strada, La
• Wild One, The

1955

• Blackboard Jungle
• Der Letzte Akt
• East of Eden
• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Lola Montès
• Ordet
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Man with the Golden Arm, The

1956

• ... And God Created Woman
• A Man Escaped'
• Anastasia
• Friendly Persuasion
• Giant
• Lust for Life
• Requiem for a Heavyweight
• Somebody Up There Likes Me

1957

• Cranes Are Flying, The
• Face in the Crowd, A
• Hatful of Rain, A
• Man of a Thousand Faces
• Nights of Cabiria
• Seventh Seal, The
• Sweet Smell of Success
• Three Faces of Eve
• Throne of Blood
• Twelve Angry Men
• Wild Strawberries

1958

• Ashes and Diamonds
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Defiant Ones, The
• I Want to Live!
• Look Back in Anger
• Night to Remember
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Rikisha-Man, The
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• Separate Tables

1959

• 400 Blows, The
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Floating Weeds
• Imitation of Life
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Kapo
• Room at the Top
• World of Apu, The

1960s

1960

• L'avventura
• Ballad of a Soldier
• Breathless
• Cruel Story of Youth
• Devi
• Elmer Gantry
• Entertainer, The
• Inherit the Wind
• Night and Fog in Japan
• Rocco and His Brothers
• Sun's Burial, The
• Sundowners
• Sunrise at Campobello
• Trou, Le
• Two Women
• Virgin Spring, The

1961

• Accattone
• Children's Hour, The
• Connection
• Hustler, The
• Island, The
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Lola
• Misfits, The
• Raisin in the Sun, A
• Splendor in the Grass
• Taste of Honey, A
• Through a Glass Darkly

1962

• Advise and Consent
• Billy Budd
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Cleo from 5 to 7
• Days of Wine and Roses
• L'eclisse
• Harakiri
• Intruder, The
• Jules and Jim
• Knife in the Water
• Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The
• Lolita
• Lonely Are the Brave
• Long Day's Journey into Night
• Miracle Worker, The
• My Life to Live
• Requiem for a Heavyweight
• To Kill a Mockingbird

1963

• America, America
• An Actor's Revenge
• Contempt
• Feu Follet, Le
• High and Low
• Hud
• Leopard, The
• Lilies of the Field
• Lord of the Flies
• Muriel
• Raven's End
• Servent, The
• Shock Corridor
• Silence, The
• Smrt Si Rika Engelchen
• This Sporting Life
• Vidas Secas
• Winter Light

1964

• Black God, White Devil
• Carpet Baggers
• Charulata
• Gamlet
• Gate of Flesh
• Gospel According to St. Matthew, The
• I Am Cuba
• Intentions of Murder
• Night of the Iguana, The
• Nothing But a Man
• Pawnbroker, The
• Pumpkin Eater, The
• Red Desert
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon
• Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
• Zorba the Greek

1965

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1966

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1967

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1968

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1969

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• Accident
• The Reluctant Saint

1970s

• The Champ

1980s

1980

• Breaker Morant
• Coal Miner's Daughter, The
• Elephant Man, The
• Great Santini, The
• Ko To Tamo Peva
• Last Metro
• Ordinary People
• Playing for Time
• Raging Bull
• Resurrection, The
• Urban Cowboy

1981

• Absence of Malice
• Chariots of Fire
• Circle of Deceit
• Man of Iron
• Marianne and Juliane
• Masada
• Mephisto
• On Golden Pond
• Pixote
• Postman Always Rings Twice, The
• Prince of the City
• Ragtime
• Skokie
• Smash Palace
• Three Brothers
• Zigeunerweisen

1982

• Another Way
• Boat People
• De Stilte Rond Christine M
• Fanny & Alexander
• Grey Fox, The
• Little Gloria... Happy at Last
• Missing
• Moonlighting
• Napló gyermekeimnek
• Night of the Shooting Stars, The
• Przesluchanie
• Sophie's Choice
• Verdict, The
• Veronika Voss
• Year of Living Dangerously, The
• Yol

1983

• L'Argent
• Ballad of Narayama, The
• Betrayal
• Entre Nous
• Makioka Sisters
• Mur, Le
• Norte, El
• Nos Amours, À
• One Deadly Summer
• Right Stuff, The
• Silkwood
• Tender Mercies
• Testament
• WarGames

1984

• Home and the World, The
• Killing Fields, The
• Legend of Suram Fortress, The
• Moi Drug Ivan Lapshin
• Paris, Texas
• Passage to India, A
• Places in the Heart
• Secret Honor
• Soldier's Story, A
• Sunday in the Country, A
• Threads
• Year of the Quiet Sun, A
• Yellow Earth

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

• Bagdad Café
• Blood & Orchids (TV)
• Inherit the Wind
• Ordinary People
• Sophie's Choice
• The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
• Witness

1990s

1990

• Angel at My Table, An
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Ju Dou
• Longtime Companion
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
• Reise der Hoffnung
• Song of the Exile
• Vincent and Theo

1991

• Belle Noiseuse, La
• Boern Natturunnar
• Boyz 'N the Hood
• Days of Being Wild
• Double Life of Veroni, The
• Europa, Europa
• Fisher King, The
• Hoyat Gwan Tsoi Loi
• My Own Private Idaho
• Raise the Red Lantern
• Rambling Rose
• Stranger, The

1992

• Bad Lieutenant
• Centre Stage
• Coeur en Hiver, Un
• Crying Game, The
• Daens
• Daughters of the Dust
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Howards End
• Lorenzo's Oil
• Malcolm X
• Player, The
• River Runs Through It, A
• Scene at the Sea, A
• Urga

1993

• Age of Innocence
• Blue
• Blue Kite, The
• Bronx Tale, A
• Calendar
• Farewell, My Concubine
• Fearless
• In the Name of the Father
• Menace II Society
• Naked
• Piano, The
• Remains of the Day, The
• Ruby in Paradise
• Scent of Green Papaya
• Schindler's List
• Searching for Bobby Fischer
• Seopyonjae
• Shadowlands
• Short Cuts
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1994

• Before the Rain
• Borrowed Life, A
• Chungking Express
• Exotica
• Fresh
• Heavenly Creatures
• Little Women
• Once Were Warriors
• Pom Poko
• Postino, Il
• Quiz Show
• Red
• Satantango
• Shawshank Redemption
• Strawberry and Chocolate
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
• Through the Olive Trees
• To Live
• Vanya on 42nd Street
• Wild Reeds

1995

• Apollo 13
• Bridges of Madison County
• Clockers
• Cérémonie, La
• Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
• Cyclo
• Dead Man Walking
• Fallen Angels
• Good Men, Good Women
• Haine, La
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Maborosi
• Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud
• Safe
• Whisper of the Heart
• White Balloon

1996

• L'Appartement
• Breaking the Waves
• Gabbeh
• English Patient
• Forgotten Silver
• Goodbye South, Goodbye
• Hard Eight
• Kolya
• Lone Star
• Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
• Pillow Book
• Ponette
• Portrait of a Lady, The
• Prisoner of the Mountains
• Ridicule
• Secrets & Lies
• Shine
• Single Spark, A
• Sling Blade

1997

• Apostle, The
• Boxer, The
• Butcher Boy, The
• Character
• Eel, The
• Fireworks
• Good Will Hunting
• Happy Together
• Heunggong Chaichou
• Ice Storm
• In the Company of Men
• Live Flesh
• Lost Paradise
• Mother and Son
• River, The
• Sweet Hereafter, The
• Taste of Cherry

1998

• After Life
• Apple, The
• Central Station
• Flowers of Shanghai
• Gods and Monsters
• Harmonists, The
• My Name Is Joe
• Ratcatcher
• Red Violin
• The Silence
• Simple Plan, A

1999

• Beau Travail
• Boys Don't Cry
• Charisma
• Color of Paradise
• End of the Affair
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Insider, The
• Lies
• Magnolia
• Moonlight Whispers
• October Sky
• Straight Story, The
• Virgin Suicides, The
• Wind Will Carry Us, The

2000s

2000

• Before Night Falls
• Blackboards
• Cast Away
• The Circle
• Dancer in the Dark
• Day I Became A Woman
• Faithless
• George Washington
• Hamlet
• Our Lady of the Assassins
• Our Song
• Road Home
• Taboo
• Traffic
• Under the Sand
• Where the Heart Is
• Yi Yi
• You Can Count On Me

2001

• A Beautiful Mind
• All About Lily Chou-Chou
• In Praise of Love
• In the Bedroom
• Kandahar
• Lantana
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• Millennium Actress
• Millennium Mambo
• Monster's Ball
• Mulholland Drive
• Nowhere in Africa
• The Son's Room
• Time Out

2002

• 8 Mile
• About Schmidt
• All or Nothing
• Better Luck Tomorrow
• Bloody Sunday
• Catch Me If You Can
• City of God
• Distant
• Far From Heaven
• Frida
• Gangs of New York
• Hours, The
• Lilya 4-Ever
• Magdalene Sisters
• Pianist, The
• Quiet American, The
• Rabbit-Proof Fence
• Son, The
• Springtime in a Small Town
• Talk to Her
• Unfaithful
• Whale Rider

2003

• 21 Grams
• At Five in the Afternoon
• BAADASSSSS!
• Big Fish
• Best of Youth
• Cold Creek Manor
• Cold Mountain
• Crimson Gold
• House of Sand and Fog
• How to Deal
• The Human Stain
• In America
• Le Divorce
• The Last Samurai
• The Life of David Gale
• Lost in Translation
• The Magdalene Sisters
• Maria Full of Grace
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Memories of Murder
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Monster
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• My Life Without Me
• Mystic River
• Osama
• Radio
• The Return
• Rosenstrasse
• Saraband
• Seabiscuit
• Shattered Glass
• Son Frère
• Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...And Spring
• Sylvia
• Tears of the Sun

2004

• The Aviator
• Bad Education
• Being Julia
• Brothers
• Closer
• Finding Neverland
• Forty Shades of Blue
• Garden State
• Gilles' Wife
• Head-On
• Holy Girl, The
• House of Flying Daggers
• Hotel Rwanda
• Innocence
• L'Intrus
• Keane
• Kinsey
• Maria Full of Grace
• Million Dollar Baby
• Moolaadé
• My Summer of Love
• Mysterious Skin
• Nine Lives
• Nobody Knows
• The Notebook
• Ray
• Sea Inside, The
• Tony Takitani
• Turtles Can Fly
• Vera Drake
• Very Long Engagement, A

2005

• Brokeback Mountain
• Broken Flowers
• Capote
• Child, The
• Cinderella Man
• Constant Gardener, The
• Crash
• Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The
• Empire Falls
• Fateless
• Green Street Hooligans
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Hidden
• Hustle & Flow
• Junebug
• Lackawanna Blues
• Lady Vengeance
• Match Point
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Munich
• North Country
• Paradise Now
• Shopgirl
• Sometimes in April
• Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
• Squid and the Whale, The
• Syriana
• Transamerica
• Walk The Line

2006

• Akeelah and the Bee
• Cactuses
• Half Nelson
• Illustionist, The
• Queen, The
• United 93

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