Home / Movies / Best Drama Movies The 25 best drama movies, ranked by critics Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Tomatometer), then Metacritic score. Only movies with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70% or higher make the list. Scores as recorded in Wikidata.
1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982
Rotten Tomatoes 99% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Steven Spielberg
2 Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 95
Directed by Steven Spielberg
3 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 100
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
4 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 95
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
5 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 71
Directed by Gus Van Sant
6 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 96
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
7 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 95
Directed by David Fincher
8 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 90
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
9 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 75
Directed by Steven Spielberg
10 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 96
Directed by Steve McQueen
11 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 91
Directed by Sofia Coppola
12 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 89
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius
13 The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 86
Directed by Jonathan Demme
14 Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Roman Polanski
15 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 91
Directed by Steven Spielberg
16 Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 1977
Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 90
Directed by George Lucas
17 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 90
Directed by Peter Weir
18 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 88
Directed by Tom Hooper
19 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Christopher Nolan
20 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 83
Directed by Christopher Nolan
21 No Country for Old Men 2007
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
22 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Martin Scorsese
23 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 90
Directed by Christopher Nolan
24 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 83
Directed by Sam Raimi
25 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 76
Directed by Patty Jenkins
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