• Bridge on the River Kwai, The - 1957 Oscar-winning movie starring Alec Guiness and William Holden
  • Casablanca - 1942 Oscar-winning movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman
  • Cool Hand Luke - 1967 movie about a nonconformist in a prison chain gang
  • Fountainhead, The - 1949 movie based on Ayn Rand's novel about architect Howard Roark
  • Man for All Seasons, A - 1966 historical drama recounting the story of how Sir Thomas More stood up to King Henry VIII
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - 1939 American dramatic film, Oscar-nominated and winner for Original Story
  • Network - 1976 movie, famous for the line "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore"
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975 Oscar-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Milos Forman
  • Paths of Glory - 1957 Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, set in France during World War I
  • Shenandoah - 1965 movie about life in the middle of the American War Between the States

Reference

Drama film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena. ..."