Drama Movies (Top Rated From 1980 to Today), a list by HD Movie Lists

8.7

/6039/

79

/34/

70

/1/

3.6

/7915/

86

/7/

Audience

95

/237/

The real-life incident of an Indian migrant worker, Najeeb Muhammad, who goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds himself living a slave-like existence, herding goats in the middle of the desert.

66

6.3

/4192/

66

/229/

65

/81/

2.9

/8065/

83

/36/

Audience

70

/98/

60

/10/

age 13+

Advocates to end homelessness, organize an annual tournament for Homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.

62

6.3

/1958/

72

/132/

67

/43/

3.1

/3269/

73

/71/

Audience

71

/77/

57

/20/

1.5

age 14+

Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

70

7.1

/4753/

68

/142/

65

/34/

3.1

/12307/

69

/77/

Audience

97

/1102/

54

/18/

3.0

age 13+

Over the course of ten days and 435 miles, an unbreakable bond is forged between pro adventure racer Michael Light and a scrappy street dog companion dubbed Arthur. As the team is pushed to their outer limits of endurance in the race, Arthur redefines what victory, loyalty and friendship truly mean.

76

7.9

/3615/

74

/48/

73

/15/

3.4

/4094/

91

/90/

Audience

98

/2023/

51

/14/

3.0

age 13+

Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

58

5.7

/11409/

66

/2346/

64

/423/

2.6

/10160/

69

/16/

Audience

58

/229/

40

/4/

2.5

age 14+

In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.

87

8.7

/363982/

84

/11769/

83

/3264/

4.5

/1340993/

93

/412/

Audience

95

/6264/

79

/62/

3.5

age 13+

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

61

5.7

/31513/

60

/2016/

68

/555/

2.9

/76596/

50

/130/

Audience

65

/1555/

55

/35/

3.0

age 14+

During a research mission, an astronaut discovers that his marriage is in trouble. Luckily, he has the help of a mysterious creature hidden in his ship.

76

7.4

/4238/

81

/587/

75

/47/

3.2

/4581/

84

/90/

Audience

99

/1174/

57

/15/

3.0

age 11+

In Louisville, Kentucky, hairdresser Sharon Stevens rallies the masses to help widowed father Ed Schmitt save his critically ill 5 year old daughter Michelle after their community is hit by a major snowstorm from the 1994 North American cold wave.

68

64

5.8

/3625/

68

/225/

68

/34/

3.0

/522/

71

/7/

Audience

84

/83/

age 15+

Based on the true story of Quawntay “Bosco” Adams. Sentenced to 35 years for attempted possession of marijuana, Adams miraculously escaped from a Federal maximum-security prison while under 24-hour surveillance in solitary confinement with the help of an older woman he met through a lonely-hearts ad.

67

6.6

/4980/

70

/422/

68

/74/

3.4

/15811/

76

/97/

Audience

83

/155/

61

/23/

2.0

age 15+

While caring for her brother along with her audacious mother, a teenager strikes up an unlikely friendship with an eccentric activist who is protesting one of the most landmark medical cases of all time.

60

5.6

/4586/

67

/400/

57

/49/

3.1

/17283/

67

/100/

Audience

80

/466/

57

/27/

1.5

age 14+

Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and His apostles, he risks everything to carve his own path to a divine life, and ultimately discovers that the redemptive power of belief may be his only way out.

69

6.4

/82240/

73

/9280/

74

/2086/

2.7

/114611/

71

/170/

Audience

92

/2832/

54

/37/

3.0

age 16+

One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.

72

6.9

/14981/

75

/975/

73

/141/

3.2

/46970/

58

/156/

Audience

97

/3148/

54

/35/

3.5

age 13+

The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

76

6.9

/15172/

71

/738/

69

/177/

3.5

/71310/

82

/251/

Audience

95

/4606/

72

/49/

3.5

age 14+

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

71

6.6

/3497/

67

/192/

71

/47/

3.4

/8842/

85

/110/

Audience

71

/128/

71

/31/

3.0

age 16+

Sylvia is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life: her daughter, her job, her AA meetings. This is blown open when Saul follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

83

7.7

/42610/

74

/1199/

75

/381/

4.0

/361787/

96

/255/

Audience

91

/240/

90

/53/

3.5

age 15+

One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

78

7.7

/55093/

75

/2364/

76

/443/

4.1

/450123/

89

/261/

Audience

94

/1574/

73

/55/

2.5

age 15+

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports.

63

6.4

/9883/

65

/319/

63

/92/

3.0

/34933/

76

/74/

Audience

70

/521/

59

/19/

2.0

age 15+

When his husband unexpectedly dies, Marc's world shatters, sending him and his two best friends on a soul-searching trip to Paris that reveals some hard truths they each needed to face.

70

6.5

/41783/

66

/2374/

64

/667/

3.2

/153249/

72

/252/

Audience

74

/836/

73

/55/

3.5

age 16+

Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous marriage struggles with the mourning for one son and the acknowledgement of another.

78

7.2

/4224/

72

/186/

62

/27/

3.5

/15722/

81

/184/

Audience

97

/514/

75

/45/

4.0

age 13+

While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, writer Isabel Wilkerson sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery.

69

6.2

/19097/

67

/1134/

62

/96/

2.7

/3186/

83

/29/

Audience

87

/482/

65

/6/

3.0

age 16+

When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

67

5.9

/3736/

62

/328/

58

/36/

3.3

/11565/

88

/73/

Audience

64

/115/

65

/25/

3.0

age 14+

As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.

84

7.9

/246351/

76

/7478/

78

/3130/

4.1

/1393143/

92

/367/

Audience

79

/1679/

88

/62/

4.0

age 17+

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a debauched lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

84

8.0

/1647/

76

/115/

81

/11/

4.1

/11689/

100

/17/

Audience

98

/471/

74

/5/

3.5

age 14+

A waitress and expert pie-maker dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.

65

6.5

/1612/

63

/70/

68

/25/

3.5

/23600/

78

/55/

Audience

52

/31/

62

/20/

2.5

age 17+

A high school senior from South Carolina gets her first glimpse of the wider world, picturesque cities, and woods of the Eastern seaboard on a class trip to Washington, D.C.

67

6.0

/10833/

57

/559/

62

/120/

3.2

/69249/

83

/192/

Audience

53

/109/

72

/44/

3.5

age 15+

During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca Saint John, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.

69

6.0

/1971/

61

/92/

51

/10/

3.3

/3267/

94

/53/

Audience

61

/54/

65

/11/

4.0

An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.

61

6.5

/195341/

64

/7410/

65

/2094/

2.9

/506006/

74

/159/

Audience

35

/8854/

68

/35/

2.5

age 15+

A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.

67

6.5

/60524/

63

/1428/

64

/620/

3.1

/278277/

79

/327/

Audience

57

/2886/

77

/62/

3.0

age 15+

A towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. A love letter to life and art, Maestro at its core is an emotionally epic portrayal of family and love.

70

7.0

/203814/

71

/5602/

70

/1917/

3.4

/1668196/

71

/288/

Audience

79

/361/

61

/53/

3.0

age 16+

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

77

6.8

/52144/

66

/1537/

67

/519/

3.7

/443333/

91

/316/

Audience

65

/1860/

86

/53/

4.0

age 15+

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

70

6.8

/115829/

69

/6953/

71

/2098/

3.6

/811605/

64

/237/

Audience

89

/2437/

54

/52/

3.0

age 14+

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

78

7.5

/74501/

75

/3069/

73

/720/

3.7

/360446/

93

/280/

Audience

96

/1295/

81

/54/

2.5

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

71

61

6.5

/2394/

62

/101/

76

/48/

3.0

/10356/

75

/24/

Audience

94

/567/

age 8+

A young woman carrying an unimaginable responsibility. A young man torn between love and honor. A jealous king who will stop at nothing to keep his crown.

67

59

6.0

/6432/

63

/282/

64

/56/

2.9

/728/

64

/11/

Audience

97

/521/

age 15+

Set in the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta, where a former bare-knuckle fighter must win one last fight to pay off his debts to the local mob boss and save his childhood home—the stakes nothing less than life or death.

68

6.5

/12463/

66

/412/

66

/150/

3.1

/45994/

84

/167/

Audience

83

/551/

68

/39/

2.0

age 13+

Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

59

5.8

/7987/

56

/418/

59

/132/

3.0

/29753/

60

/140/

Audience

47

/292/

63

/30/

3.0

age 14+

Anna and Ryan have found true love together. It’s been proven by a controversial test. There’s just one problem: Anna still isn’t sure. Then she meets Amir.

72

6.5

/34421/

64

/1214/

69

/545/

3.6

/583694/

84

/291/

Audience

63

/545/

79

/59/

3.5

age 14+

When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend.

84

7.9

/136726/

77

/4731/

77

/1140/

4.2

/706324/

97

/354/

Audience

92

/1214/

82

/61/

3.5

age 15+

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.

67

6.5

/2201/

63

/100/

61

/33/

3.6

/13061/

81

/114/

Audience

67

/67/

68

/26/

2.5

Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.

72

6.2

/3404/

67

/83/

61

/19/

3.1

/6142/

84

/80/

Audience

93

/42/

61

/21/

3.5

age 14+

When a large Iranian-American family gathers in New York City for the patriarch’s heart transplant, a family secret is uncovered and catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past.

65

58

5.8

/3314/

65

/363/

67

/80/

3.0

/915/

64

/14/

Audience

80

/87/

age 17+

Ex-con Russell Gaines is attempting to rebuild his life with the help of his father, Mitchell. However, the arrival of Maben sends his new life into chaos, leading the pair to go on the run - as their violent pasts catch up to them, the pair must learn to trust each other if they hope to live out the rest of their days.

67

5.9

/8929/

65

/576/

70

/300/

2.4

/54313/

80

/15/

Audience

81

/341/

age 13+

Highly intelligent computer major Zoey Miller is uninterested in romantic love, but her life is turned upside down when Zack, the school's soccer star, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey for his girlfriend.

83

7.8

/3945/

79

/197/

84

/345/

3.9

/15245/

94

/66/

Audience

99

/320/

70

/15/

3.5

age 13+

In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential… and maybe even their genius.

72

7.1

/36668/

72

/1028/

70

/370/

3.3

/97887/

85

/161/

Audience

87

/962/

63

/36/

2.5

age 14+

Athlete Diana Nyad sets out at 60 to achieve a nearly impossible lifelong dream: to swim from Cuba to Florida across more than 100 miles of open ocean.

83

7.6

/237473/

73

/7704/

74

/2784/

4.1

/797377/

93

/462/

Audience

84

/3035/

89

/63/

4.0

age 16+

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

48

5.3

/3484/

59

/315/

63

/57/

2.5

/4863/

58

/12/

Audience

41

/46/