DRAMA FILMS

Selection of Greatest Drama Films:

Greatest Dramas From Silent Era Through 1960:
Broken Blossoms (1919)
Way Down East
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Seventh Heaven (1927)
Sunrise (1927)
Anna Christie (1930)
Min and Bill (1930)
The Champ (1931)
Grand Hotel (1932)
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)
Red Dust (1932)
Little Women (1933)
Morning Glory (1933)
Great Expectations (1935)
The Informer (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Dodsworth (1936)
Fury (1936)
Dead End (1937)
The Good Earth (1937)
The Hurricane (1937)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
A Star is Born (1937)
Boys Town (1938)
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Knute Rockne: All-American (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Casablanca (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Hitler's Children (1943)
The Human Comedy (1943)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Since You Went Away (1944)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Body and Soul (1947)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Hamlet (1948)
I Remember Mama (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
All the King's Men (1949)
Champion (1949)
The Heiress (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
All About Eve (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Rashomon (Jp.) (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The Wild One (1953)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
The Country Girl (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
Marty (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Baby Doll (1956)
Giant (1956)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
I Want to Live! (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Compulsion (1959)
The Nun's Story (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The Apartment (1960)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
Inherit the Wind (1960)

Greatest Bette Davis Drama Films:
Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Jezebel (1938)
Dark Victory (1939)
The Old Maid (1939)
The Letter (1940)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Now, Voyager (1942)
All About Eve (1950)

Greatest Dramas After 1960:
The Hustler (1961)
The Misfits (1961)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Hud (1963)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
The Graduate (1967)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Easy Rider (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Candidate (1972)
Mean Streets (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
Nashville (1975)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Network (1976)
Rocky (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Ordinary People (1980)
Raging Bull (1980)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Frances (1982)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Verdict (1982)
Amadeus (1984)
The Killing Fields (1984)
Rain Man (1988)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
JFK (1991)
A Few Good Men (1992)
Malcolm X (1992)
The Player (1992)
Philadelphia (1993)
The Piano (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
Blue Sky (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Quiz Show (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Nixon (1995)
The English Patient (1996)
Shine (1996)
Sling Blade (1996)
As Good As It Gets (1997)
Good Will Hunting (1997)
The Ice Storm (1997)
The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Elizabeth (1998)
Life is Beautiful (1998, It.)
American Beauty (1999)
October Sky (1999)
Summer of Sam (1999)
Traffic (2000)

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