Best dramas of all time filmaffinity - Page 4
In the following page, you will see a ranking of the bests dramas of all time. We have gathered the ratings of Imdb, Metacritic, Filmaffinity and crafted our own algorithm and generated the following ratings.
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61. Taxi Driver (1976)
Taxi Driver: Travis Bickle, an alienated 1970s NYC cabbie, obsesses over Betsy and a child prostitute Iris, spiraling into vigilante violence. Intense, unsettling film. Warnings: child sexual exploitation, graphic violence. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama
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62. Casino (1995)
Martin Scorsese's Casino (1995) plunges into 1970s–80s Las Vegas, following mob-run casino boss Ace, enforcer Nicky and volatile Ginger as greed, violence and betrayal destroy their empire. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama
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63. The Elephant Man (1980)
Set in Victorian London, The Elephant Man follows Dr. Treves rescuing the disfigured Joseph Merrick, revealing his intelligence and dignity while examining society’s cruelty, exploitation and compassion. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama
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64. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Argentine drama-mystery: retired legal counselor revisits a decades-old rape-murder while confronting unreturned love. A slow-burning, haunting study of obsession, grief and flawed justice. read more
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance
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65. Rashomon (1950)
Rashomon (1950) is a stark crime drama that shows a murder through conflicting eyewitness accounts, revealing how memory, ego and self-preservation distort truth. Sparse, haunting, philosophically unsettling. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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66. Ran (1985)
Ran (1985) is Kurosawa’s operatic samurai tragedy: an ageing warlord divides his realm, triggering betrayal, civil war and madness. Visually stunning, brutal and emotionally devastating, with strong themes of ambition and loss. read more
Genres: Action, Drama, War
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67. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Two desperate Americans and a prospector find gold in 1925 Sierra Madre; riches breed fear, paranoia and greed that destroy their friendship. A tense, gritty moral drama. read more
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Western
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68. Trainspotting (1996)
Trainspotting (1996) follows Mark Renton’s struggle in Edinburgh’s heroin scene: darkly comic, violent, hallucinatory — exploring addiction, friendship, betrayal and the wrenching choices to escape. read more
Genre: Drama
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69. Raging Bull (1980)
Raging Bull portrays two turbulent decades of boxer Jake LaMotta: brilliant in the ring, self-destructive and jealous off it. Scorsese and De Niro deliver a visceral, intimate, morally complex study of rage, fame and isolation. read more
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport
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70. The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957) follows knight Antonius Block who plays chess with Death amid the Black Death. Through symbolic, austere scenes and a traveling troupe, it probes faith, mortality, cruelty and small kindnesses. read more
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, History
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71. Mary and Max (2009)
Mary and Max: a darkly comic stop-motion drama about a 20-year pen-pal bond between a lonely Aussie girl and a middle-aged New Yorker, blending dry humor with grief, mental illness and compassion. read more
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
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72. On the Waterfront (1954)
On the Waterfront is a gritty 1950s drama: ex-boxer Terry Malloy, haunted by a coworker's murder, faces corrupt union bosses and must choose between silence and moral courage. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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73. Persona (1966)
Persona (1966) is a stark, hypnotic drama where nurse Alma tends mute actress Elisabet in isolation; identities blur as silence, confession and obsession merge into unsettling, unresolved visual poetry. read more
Genres: Drama, Thriller
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74. The 400 Blows (1959)
Truffaut’s The Four Hundred Blows (1959) is a French New Wave coming‑of‑age drama about 14‑year‑old Antoine’s petty crimes, parental neglect and longing for connection, culminating in a stark, open finale. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama
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75. Wild Strawberries (1957)
Wild Strawberries follows aging Dr. Isak Borg on a road trip that triggers flashbacks, dreams and roadside encounters, forcing him to confront regret, lost love and the chance for reconciliation. read more
Genres: Drama, Romance
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76. The Wages of Fear (1953)
The Wages of Fear dumps four desperate men in a scorched outpost who must haul unstable nitroglycerin over treacherous mountain roads to a burning oilfield. A relentless, claustrophobic thriller about fear, greed and survival. read more
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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77. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Depression-era thriller where a fake preacher marries a widow to find $10,000 hidden by her children in a doll. Laughton’s expressionistic, noirish film is a hymn-tinged nightmare about corrupted faith and innocence. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
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78. Throne of Blood (1957)
Throne of Blood adapts Macbeth to medieval Japan: warlord Washizu, urged by his ruthless wife after a prophecy, resorts to murder and power, then descends into paranoia and doom. read more
Genres: Drama, History
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79. Rope (1948)
Rope (1948): Hitchcock’s claustrophobic thriller in which two young men kill a classmate, hide the body in a chest and hold a dinner — a tense, single-take study of arrogance, guilt and moral nihilism. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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80. High Noon (1952)
High Noon follows Marshal Will Kane, who on his wedding day must face returning outlaw Frank Miller. Abandoned by the town, Kane confronts fear, betrayal and moral duty in a tense, real-time showdown. read more
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western
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