List of drama films

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List of drama films is a chronological listing of films in the drama genre.

Contents 1 1900s 1.1 1909 2 1910s 2.1 1910 2.2 1911 2.3 1912 2.4 1914 2.5 1916 2.6 1917 2.7 1918 2.8 1919 3 1920s 3.1 1920 3.2 1921 3.3 1922 3.4 1923 3.5 1924 3.6 1925 3.7 1926 3.8 1927 3.9 1928 3.10 1929 4 1930s 4.1 1930 4.2 1931 4.3 1932 4.4 1933 4.5 1934 4.6 1935 4.7 1936 4.8 1937 4.9 1938 4.10 1939 5 1940s 5.1 1940 5.2 1941 5.3 1942 5.4 1943 5.5 1944 5.6 1945 5.7 1946 5.8 1947 5.9 1948 5.10 1949 6 1950s 6.1 1950 6.2 1951 6.3 1952 6.4 1953 6.5 1954 6.6 1955 6.7 1956 6.8 1957 6.9 1958 6.10 1959 7 1960s 7.1 1960 7.2 1961 7.3 1962 7.4 1963 7.5 1964 7.6 1965 7.7 1966 7.8 1967 7.9 1968 7.10 1969 8 1970s 8.1 1970 8.2 1971 8.3 1972 8.4 1973 8.5 1974 8.6 1975 8.7 1976 8.8 1977 8.9 1978 8.10 1979 9 1980s 9.1 1980 9.2 1981 9.3 1982 9.4 1983 9.5 1984 9.6 1985 9.7 1986 9.8 1987 9.9 1988 9.10 1989 10 1990s 10.1 1990 10.2 1991 10.3 1992 10.4 1993 10.5 1994 10.6 1995 10.7 1996 10.8 1997 10.9 1998 10.10 1999 11 2000s 11.1 2000 11.2 2001 11.3 2002 11.4 2003 11.5 2004 11.6 2005 11.7 2006 11.8 2007 11.9 2008

1900s

1909

• At the Altar
• Corner in Wheat, A
• Country Doctor, The
• Drunkard's Reformation, A
• Fools of Fate
• Golden Louis, The
• Hessian Renegades, The
• Lonely Villa, The
• Midsummer Night's Dream, A
• Resurrection
• Sealed Room, The
• Trap for Santa Claus, A

1910s

1910

• Christmas Carol, A
• Fugitive, The
• House with Closed Shutters, The
• In Old California
• In the Border States
• Lad from Old Ireland, A
• Ramona
• Unchanging Sea, The

1911

• Battle, The
• Brown of Harvard
• Buddhist Priestess, The
• Cally's Comet
• Colonel and the King, The
• Flames and Fortune
• For Her Sake
• Her Awakening
• Higher Law, The
• His Trust
• His Trust Fulfilled
• Inferno, L'
• Lonedale Operator, The
• Pasha's Daughter, The
• Railroad Builder, The
• Smuggler, The
• Sweet Memories
• Tale of Two Cities, A
• That's Happiness
• Voice of the Child, The
• What Shall We Do with Our Old?

1912

• Aurora Floyd
• Baby Hands
• Battle of Wits, A
• Brutality
• Burglar's Dilemma, The
• County Fair, The
• Cry for Help, A
• Deserter, The
• From the Manger to the Cross
• God Within, The
• Gold and Glitter
• Heredity
• In Nacht und Eis
• In the Aisles of the Wild
• Informer, The
• It Happened Thus
• Land Beyond the Sunset, The
• Little Girl Next Door, The
• Maud Muller
• Musketeers of Pig Alley, The
• New Cure for Divorce, A
• New York Hat, The
• Painted Lady, The
• Please Help the Pore
• Power of Melody, The
• Primitive Man's Career to Civilization, A
• Put Yourself in His Place
• Richard III
• Saved from the Titanic
• Street Singer, The
• Tell-Tale Message, The
• Thunderbolt, The
• Two Daughters of Eve
• Voice of Conscience, The
• Young Millionaire, The

1914

• The Mother and the Law
• The Squaw Man
• What's-His-Name?

1916

• The Abandonment
• Lights of New York
• Romeo and Juliet

1917

• Berg-Ejvind och Hans Hustru
• Great Expectations
• Tale of Two Cities, A

1918

• The Embarrassment of Riches

1919

• Blind Husbands
• Sir Arne's Treasure

1920s

1920

• Within Our Gates

1921

• Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• The Sheik

1922

• The Frozen North
• Oliver Twist

1923

• A Woman of Paris
• Ashes of Vengeance
• Merry-Go-Round
• White Rose

1924

• Dante's Inferno
• The Enchanted Cottage
• Greed
• Janice Meredith
• The Last Laugh
• The Saga of Gosta Berling
• Strike
• Tess of the d'Urbervilles

1925

• Battleship Potemkin
• The Big Parade
• Die freudlose Gasse
• Variété

1926

• Mother
• Sparrows
• Torrent

1927

• Jazz Singer, The
• King of Kings, The
• Konets Sankt-Peterburga
• Love of Jeanne Ney
• Oktyabr
• Seventh Heaven
• Sunrise
• The Way of All Flesh

1928

• 4 Devils
• The Crowd
• The Last Command
• The Man Who Laughs
• The Patriot
• The Storm Over Asia
• The Trail of '98
• The Wedding March
• Thérèse Raquin
• The Wind

1929

• Arsenal
• Diary of a Lost Girl
• Disraeli
• Pandora's Box
• Valiant

1930s

1930

• Blue Angel
• Earth
• Morocco
• Under the Roofs of Paris

1931

• The Champ
• La Chienne
• Kameradschaft
• Mädchen in Uniform

1932

• Freaks
• Grand Hotel
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
• The Mouthpiece
• Rain
• Shanghai Express

1933

• Counsellor at Law
• Ecstasy
• Taki No Shiraito
• Wild Boys of the Road
• Zéro de conduite

1934

• L'Atalante
• Barretts of Wimpole Street, The
• Manhattan Melodrama
• Les Misérables
• Of Human Bondage
• Toni

1935

• A Tale of Two Cities
• David Copperfield

1936

• Camille
• Dodsworth
• Fury
• Osaka Elegy
• La Belle Équipe
• Romeo and Juliet
• The Petrified Forest
• San Francisco
• Sisters of the Gion

1937

• A Star is Born
• Dead End
• The Good Earth
• Grand Illusion
• J'accuse
• Life of Emile Zola
• Pépé le Moko
• Stella Dallas
• Topper

1938

• Angels with Dirty Faces
• La Bête Humaine
• Boys Town
• The Citadel
• Jezebel
• Old Chicago

1939

• Dark Victory
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips
• Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Of Mice and Men
• The Stars Look Down
• Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
• Wuthering Heights

1940s

1940

• Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
• Grapes of Wrath, The
• Kitty Foyle
• Knute Rockne, All American
• The Letter
• The Man I Married
• The Mortal Storm
• Our Town

1941

• Back Street
• Citizen Kane
• H.M. Pulham, Esq.
• How Green Was My Valley
• Little Foxes

1942

• Casablanca
• Joan of Paris
• The Magnificent Ambersons
• Mrs. Miniver
• The Pied Piper
• Pride of the Yankees
• Random Harvest

1943

• Day of Wrath
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
• Ossessione
• Sanshiro Sugata
• So Proudly We Hail!
• Song of Bernadette
• Watch on the Rhine

1944

• The Children Are Watching Us
• Going My Way
• Jane Eyre
• Lifeboat
• Mr. Skeffington
• Passage to Marseilles
• Secret Command
• Since You Went Away
• Till We Meet Again
• To Have and Have Not
• Wilson

1945

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• The Bells of St. Mary's
• Brief Encounter
• Children of Paradise
• Corn Is Green
• I Know Where I'm Going!
• Lost Weekend
• Mildred Pierce
• The Southerner
• Week-End at the Waldorf

1946

• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Brief Encounter
• Gilda
• Great Expectations
• Humoresque
• Leave Her to Heaven
• No Regrets for Our Youth
• Paisà
• Utamaro and His Five Women

1947

• A Double Life
• Black Narcissus
• Gentleman's Agreement
• Mourning Becomes Electra
• Sea of Grass
• Shoeshine

1948

• Letter from an Unknown Woman
• Bicycle Thieves
• Corridor of Mirrors
• Fallen Idol, The
• Hamlet
• I Remember Mama
• Johnny Belinda
• Oliver Twist
• Red Shoes, The
• Snake Pit
• Terra trema, La

1949

• All the King's Men
• Daleká cesta
• File on Thelma Jordon, The
• Intruder in the Dust
• Heiress, The
• Late Spring
• Ostani Etap
• They Live by Night

1950s

1950

• Capture
• Diary of a Country Priest
• Flowers of St. Francis
• In a Lonely Place
• Olvidados, Los
• Seven Days to Noon
• Sunset Blvd.
• Ways of Love

1951

• Browning Version, The
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Early Summer
• Olivia
• Place in the Sun, A
• Rashomon
• River, The
• Streetcar Named Desire, A

1952

• 5 Fingers
• Affair in Trinidad
• Bad and the Beautiful
• Casque D'Or
• Come Back, Little Sheba
• Forbidden Games
• Ikiru
• Life of Oharu
• Member of the Wedding
• Mother
• Othello
• Umberto D.
• Viva Zapata!

1953

• A`isha
• The Earrings of Madame de...
• Gate of Hell
• A Geisha
• Nihon No Higeki
• The Thick-Walled Room
• Tokyo Story

1954

• Caine Mutiny, The
• Chikamatsu Monogatari
• The Country Girl
• A Generation
• Late Chrysanthemums
• Magnificent Obsession
• On the Waterfront
• Sansho the Bailiff
• Seven Samurai
• La strada
• The Wild One

1955

• Blackboard Jungle
• Der Letzte Akt
• East of Eden
• I'll Cry Tomorrow
• Lola Montès
• Ordet
• Rebel Without a Cause
• Man with the Golden Arm, The

1956

• And God Created Woman
• A Man Escaped
• Anastasia
• Friendly Persuasion
• Giant
• The Great Man
• Lust for Life
• Requiem for a Heavyweight
• Somebody Up There Likes Me

1957

• Cranes Are Flying, The
• Face in the Crowd, A
• Hatful of Rain, A
• Man of a Thousand Faces
• Nights of Cabiria
• Seventh Seal, The
• Sweet Smell of Success
• The Three Faces of Eve
• Throne of Blood
• Twelve Angry Men
• Wild Strawberries

1958

• Al-Tareeq al-Masdood
• Alto Paraná
• Les Amants
• Les Amants de Montparnasse
• Amor prohibido
• Another Time, Another Place
• Ashes and Diamonds
• Auntie Mame
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Defiant Ones, The
• Human Condition, Part 1: No Greater Love
• I Want to Live!
• Look Back in Anger
• A Night to Remember
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Rikisha-Man, The
• Run Silent, Run Deep
• Separate Tables

1959

• -30-
• 400 Blows, The
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Fires on the Plain
• Floating Weeds
• Imitation of Life
• Hiroshima Mon Amour
• Kapo
• Room at the Top
• World of Apu, The

1960s

1960

• L'avventura
• Ballad of a Soldier
• Breathless
• Cruel Story of Youth
• Devi
• Elmer Gantry
• Human Condition, Part 2: The Road to Eternity, The
• Entertainer, The
• Inherit the Wind
• Late Autumn
• Night and Fog in Japan
• Rocco and His Brothers
• Sun's Burial, The
• The Sundowners
• Sunrise at Campobello
• Trou, Le
• Two Women
• Virgin Spring, The
• When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

1961

• Accattone
• Ada
• Children's Hour, The
• Connection
• Human Condition, Part 3: A Soldier's Prayer
• Hustler, The
• Island, The
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Last Year at Marienbad
• Lola
• Misfits, The
• Raisin in the Sun, A
• Splendor in the Grass
• Taste of Honey, A
• Through a Glass Darkly
• We Were Young

1962

• Advise and Consent
• Billy Budd
• Birdman of Alcatraz
• Cleo from 5 to 7
• Days of Wine and Roses
• L'eclisse
• Harakiri
• The Intruder
• Jules and Jim
• Knife in the Water
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
• Lolita
• Lonely are the Brave
• Long Day's Journey into Night
• The Miracle Worker
• My Life to Live
• Requiem for a Heavyweight
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Winter Light

1963

• America, America
• An Actor's Revenge
• Contempt
• Feu Follet, Le
• High and Low
• Hud
• Leopard, The
• Lilies of the Field
• Lord of the Flies
• Muriel
• Raven's End
• Servant, The
• Shock Corridor
• Silence, The
• Smrt Si Rika Engelchen
• This Sporting Life
• Vidas Secas

1964

• Black God, White Devil
• The Carpetbaggers
• Charulata
• Gamlet
• Gate of Flesh
• Gospel According to St. Matthew, The
• I Am Cuba
• Intentions of Murder
• Night of the Iguana, The
• Nothing But a Man
• One Potato, Two Potato
• Pawnbroker, The
• Pumpkin Eater, The
• Red Desert
• Séance on a Wet Afternoon
• Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
• Zorba the Greek

1965

• The Agony and the Ecstasy
• Chimes at Midnight
• Cincinnati Kid, The
• Othello
• Round-Up, The
• Ship of Fools
• Shop on Main Street, The

1966

• 7 Women
• Akai Tenshi
• The Battle of Algiers|Battle of Algiers, The
• Hasard Bathhazar, Au
• Masculin, féminin
• Persona
• Two or Three Things I Know About Her
• Violence at Noon
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Young Torless

1967

• A Man Vanishes
• The ABC of Love
• Accident
• Belle de jour
• Commissar, The
• Cool Hand Luke
• Far From the Madding Crowd
• In Cold Blood
• Marat/Sade
• Mouchette
• Rece do Góry
• Skupljaci Perja
• Trip, The

1968

• Faces
• Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The
• If....
• Lost Sex
• Memories of Underdevelopment
• Nanami, The Inferno of First Love
• Rachel, Rachel
• Romeo and Juliet
• Shame
• Swimmer, The
• Unfaithful Wife, The
• Witchfinder General

1969

• Blind Beast
• Double Suicide
• Easy Rider
• Fellini Satyricon
• Gentle Woman, A
• Kes
• Learning Tree
• Medium Cool
• Prayer for Katarina Horovitzova, The
• Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The
• Shōnen
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
• This Man Must Die
• Touch of Zen, A
• Women in Love
• Anne of the Thousand Days

1970s

1970

• The Butcher
• The Conformist

1971

• A Clockwork Orange
• Love

1972

• Across 110th Street
• The Final Comedown
• The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
• Last Tango in Paris

1973

• Adiós, Alejandra, Andrea
• Homecoming, The
• Serpico

1974

• The Clockmaker
• A Woman Under the Influence

1975

• Barry Lyndon
• Nashville
• Picnic at Hanging Rock
• A Woman's Decision
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1976

• 1900
• All the President's Men
• Man of Marble
• Rocky
• Taxi Driver

1977

• 3 Women
• The Last Wave
• Saturday Night Fever

1978

• You Are Not Alone

1979

• The Marriage of Maria Braun
• Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness

1980s

1980

• Breaker Morant
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• Elephant Man, The
• Germany Pale Mother
• Great Santini, The
• Honeysuckle Rose
• Last Metro, The
• Ordinary People
• Playing for Time
• Raging Bull
• Resurrection, The
• Urban Cowboy
• Who's That Singing Over There
• Zigeunerweisen

1981

• Absence of Malice
• Adaptatziya
• Chariots of Fire
• Circle of Deceit
• Man of Iron
• Marianne and Juliane
• Masada
• Mephisto
• On Golden Pond
• Pixote
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Prince of the City
• Ragtime
• Skokie
• Smash Palace
• Three Brothers
• Zigeunerweisen

1982

• Another Way
• Boat People
• Fanny and Alexander
• First Blood
• Grey Fox, The
• Little Gloria... Happy at Last
• Missing
• Moonlighting
• Napló gyermekeimnek
• Night of the Shooting Stars, The
• Przesluchanie
• Question of Silence, A
• Sophie's Choice
• That Night in Varennes
• Verdict, The
• Veronika Voss
• Wend Kuuni
• Year of Living Dangerously, The
• Yol

1983

• À nos amours
• L'Argent
• Ballad of Narayama, The
• Betrayal
• Entre Nous
• Makioka Sisters
• Mur, Le
• Norte, El
• One Deadly Summer
• Right Stuff, The
• Scarface
• Silkwood
• Tender Mercies
• Testament
• WarGames

1984

• Home and the World, The
• Killing Fields, The
• Legend of Suram Fortress, The
• Moi Drug Ivan Lapshin
• Paris, Texas
• Passage to India, A
• Places in the Heart
• Secret Honor
• Soldier's Story, A
• Sunday in the Country, A
• Threads
• Year of the Quiet Sun, The
• Yellow Earth

1985

• Adiós, Roberto
• Color Purple, The
• Man Hunt
• Witness

1986

• Blood & Orchids (TV)
• Jean de Florette
• Loyalties
• Ménage
• Mona Lisa
• Round Midnight
• Salvador

1987

• 84 Charing Cross Road
• Babette's Feast
• Bagdad Café
• Business as Usual

1988

• 1969
• A Dos Aguas
• A sega nakade?
• The Accidental Tourist
• The Accused
• Action Jackson
• The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
• Celia
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Dead Ringers
• Cinema Paradiso
• Fun Down There
• Open from 18 to 24
• Pelle the Conqueror
• Story of Women
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Rain Man

1989

• Black Rain
• City of Sadness
• Do the Right Thing
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Monsieur Hire
• sex, lies, and videotape

1990s

1990

• 100 Days Before the Command
• Angel at My Table, An
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Ju Dou
• Longtime Companion
• Memories of a River
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
• Reise der Hoffnung
• Song of the Exile
• Tilaï
• Vincent and Theo

1991

• The Adjuster
• Amantes
• Belle Noiseuse, La
• Boern Natturunnar
• Boyz 'N the Hood
• Days of Being Wild
• Double Life of Veroni, The
• Europa, Europa
• Fisher King, The
• The Hours and Times
• Hoyat Gwan Tsoi Loi
• My Own Private Idaho
• Raise the Red Lantern
• Rambling Rose
• Stranger, The
• Together Alone

1992

• Bad Lieutenant
• Bridge, The
• Centre Stage
• Coeur en Hiver, Un
• Crying Game, The
• Daens
• Daughters of the Dust
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Howards End
• Love Field
• Lorenzo's Oil
• Malcolm X
• Player, The
• River Runs Through It, A
• Scene at the Sea, A
• Urga
• Radio Flyer

1993

• Actor
• Ad Fundum
• The Age of Innocence
• Blue
• Blue Kite, The
• Bronx Tale, A
• Calendar
• Farewell My Concubine
• Fearless
• In the Name of the Father
• Menace II Society
• My Favorite Season
• Naked
• Piano, The
• Remains of the Day, The
• Ruby in Paradise
• Scent of Green Papaya
• Schindler's List
• Searching for Bobby Fischer
• Seopyonjae
• Shadowlands
• Short Cuts
• Speak Up! It's So Dark
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape

1994

• Above the Rim
• Before the Rain
• Borrowed Life, A
• Chungking Express
• Eden Valley
• Exotica
• Fresh
• Forrest Gump
• Heart's Cry, The
• Heavenly Creatures
• I Like You, I Like You Very Much
• Last Supper, The
• Little Women
• Once Were Warriors
• Pom Poko
• Postino, Il
• Quiz Show
• Red
• Satantango
• Shawshank Redemption
• Strawberry and Chocolate
• Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould
• Through the Olive Trees
• To Live
• Vanya on 42nd Street
• Wild Reeds

1995

• The Addiction
• Apollo 13
• Bridges of Madison County
• Clockers
• Cry, the Beloved Country
• Cérémonie, La
• Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
• Cyclo
• Dead Homiez
• Dead Man Walking
• Fallen Angels
• Good Men, Good Women
• Haine, La
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Maborosi
• Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud
• Safe
• Summer Snow
• Whisper of the Heart
• White Balloon

1996

• L'Appartement
• Breaking the Waves
• Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
• Gabbeh
• English Patient
• Floating Life
• Forgotten Silver
• Goodbye South, Goodbye
• Hard Eight
• Kolya
• Lone Star
• Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
• Pillow Book
• Ponette
• Portrait of a Lady, The
• Prisoner of the Mountains
• Ridicule
• Secrets & Lies
• Shine
• Sleepers
• Single Spark, A
• SLC Punk!
• Sling Blade

1997

• 9 millimeter
• Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)
• All Over Me
• Apostle, The
• Boxer, The
• Butcher Boy, The
• Buud Yam
• Character
• Dakan (Destiny)
• Eel, The
• Good Will Hunting
• Hana-bi (Fireworks)
• Happy Together
• Heunggong Chaichou
• Hold You Tight
• The Ice Storm
• In the Company of Men
• Kini and Adams
• Lawn Dogs
• Live Flesh
• Lost Paradise
• Mother and Son
• River, The
• A River Made to Drown In
• Sweet Hereafter, The
• Taste of Cherry
• Under the Lighthouse Dancing

1998

• Afrodita, el Jardín de Los Perfumes
• After Life
• Alegria
• Alice and Martin
• American History X
• Apple, The
• Central Station
• Flowers of Shanghai
• Gods and Monsters
• Happy Birthday
• Harmonists, The
• My Name Is Joe
• Ratcatcher
• Red Violin
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Silence
• Simple Plan, A

1999

• American Beauty
• Beau Travail
• Boys Don't Cry
• Charisma
• Color of Paradise
• The End of the Affair
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Insider, The
• Lies
• Magnolia
• Moonlight Whispers
• October Sky
• A Slipping-Down Life
• Straight Story, The
• Virgin Suicides, The
• Wind Will Carry Us, The

2000s

2000

• 28 Days
• Aberdeen
• Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
• Adanggaman
• Before Night Falls
• Blackboards
• Cast Away
• The Circle
• Dancer in the Dark