Drama
Genre. 173 film(s) in this sample, spanning 1972–2023.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Films in sample | 173 |
| Mean TMDB rating | 7.70 / 10 |
| Mean runtime | 128 min |
| Total votes | 2,312,959 |
Directors
Rating distribution
6.0–6.9 | ### 12
7.0–7.9 | ############################## 111
8.0–8.9 | ############## 50
Best-rated: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (8.73). Lowest-rated: Elysium (2013) (6.53).
Filmography
| Year | Film | Rating | Runtime | Directors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | The Godfather (1972) | 8.69 | 175 min | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1974 | The Godfather Part II (1974) | 8.57 | 202 min | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1975 | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) | 8.41 | 135 min | Miloš Forman |
| 1976 | Rocky (1976) | 7.8 | 120 min | John G. Avildsen |
| 1976 | Taxi Driver (1976) | 8.12 | 114 min | Martin Scorsese |
| 1979 | Apocalypse Now (1979) | 8.26 | 147 min | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1982 | Blade Runner (1982) | 7.93 | 118 min | Ridley Scott |
| 1983 | Scarface (1983) | 8.15 | 170 min | Brian De Palma |
| 1985 | The Breakfast Club (1985) | 7.72 | 98 min | John Hughes |
| 1986 | Top Gun (1986) | 7.07 | 110 min | Tony Scott |
| 1987 | Full Metal Jacket (1987) | 8.12 | 117 min | Stanley Kubrick |
| 1989 | Dead Poets Society (1989) | 8.3 | 129 min | Peter Weir |
| 1990 | Edward Scissorhands (1990) | 7.7 | 105 min | Tim Burton |
| 1990 | GoodFellas (1990) | 8.45 | 145 min | Martin Scorsese |
| 1991 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | 8.34 | 119 min | Jonathan Demme |
| 1993 | Schindler’s List (1993) | 8.57 | 195 min | Steven Spielberg |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump (1994) | 8.46 | 142 min | Robert Zemeckis |
| 1994 | The Lion King (1994) | 8.25 | 89 min | Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | 8.73 | 142 min | Frank Darabont |
| 1995 | Braveheart (1995) | 7.95 | 178 min | Mel Gibson |
| 1995 | Heat (1995) | 7.94 | 170 min | Michael Mann |
| 1995 | The Usual Suspects (1995) | 8.16 | 106 min | Bryan Singer |
| 1996 | Fargo (1996) | 7.85 | 98 min | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen |
| 1996 | Trainspotting (1996) | 7.96 | 94 min | Danny Boyle |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting (1997) | 8.2 | 127 min | Gus Van Sant |
| 1997 | Titanic (1997) | 7.9 | 194 min | James Cameron |
| 1998 | American History X (1998) | 8.33 | 119 min | Tony Kaye |
| 1998 | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | 8.23 | 169 min | Steven Spielberg |
| 1998 | The Truman Show (1998) | 8.2 | 103 min | Peter Weir |
| 1999 | 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | 7.6 | 97 min | Gil Junger |
| 1999 | American Beauty (1999) | 8.0 | 122 min | Sam Mendes |
| 1999 | Fight Club (1999) | 8.44 | 139 min | David Fincher |
| 1999 | The Green Mile (1999) | 8.51 | 189 min | Frank Darabont |
| 1999 | The Sixth Sense (1999) | 8.0 | 107 min | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2000 | American Psycho (2000) | 7.4 | 102 min | Mary Harron |
| 2000 | Cast Away (2000) | 7.67 | 143 min | Robert Zemeckis |
| 2000 | Gladiator (2000) | 8.23 | 155 min | Ridley Scott |
| 2000 | Requiem for a Dream (2000) | 8.01 | 102 min | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2000 | Unbreakable (2000) | 7.15 | 106 min | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2001 | A Beautiful Mind (2001) | 7.85 | 135 min | Ron Howard |
| 2001 | Donnie Darko (2001) | 7.76 | 114 min | Richard Kelly |
| 2002 | 8 Mile (2002) | 7.15 | 111 min | Curtis Hanson |
| 2002 | Catch Me If You Can (2002) | 7.98 | 141 min | Steven Spielberg |
| 2002 | The Pianist (2002) | 8.37 | 150 min | Roman Polanski |
| 2003 | Big Fish (2003) | 7.75 | 125 min | Tim Burton |
| 2003 | Lost in Translation (2003) | 7.38 | 102 min | Sofia Coppola |
| 2003 | The Last Samurai (2003) | 7.61 | 154 min | Edward Zwick |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | 8.09 | 108 min | Michel Gondry |
| 2004 | Mean Girls (2004) | 7.23 | 97 min | Mark Waters |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby (2004) | 7.95 | 132 min | Clint Eastwood (director) |
| 2004 | The Bourne Supremacy (2004) | 7.33 | 108 min | Paul Greengrass |
| 2004 | The Notebook (2004) | 7.89 | 123 min | Nick Cassavetes |
| 2004 | The Terminal (2004) | 7.36 | 128 min | Steven Spielberg |
| 2005 | Batman Begins (2005) | 7.73 | 140 min | Christopher Nolan |
| 2005 | Brokeback Mountain (2005) | 7.78 | 134 min | Ang Lee |
| 2005 | King Kong (2005) | 6.9 | 188 min | Peter Jackson |
| 2005 | Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) | 6.69 | 120 min | Doug Liman |
| 2005 | Pride & Prejudice (2005) | 8.05 | 128 min | Joe Wright |
| 2006 | Blood Diamond (2006) | 7.56 | 143 min | Edward Zwick |
| 2006 | Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | 7.69 | 102 min | Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris |
| 2006 | The Departed (2006) | 8.16 | 151 min | Martin Scorsese |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada (2006) | 7.4 | 109 min | David Frankel |
| 2006 | The Fast and the Furious - Tokyo Drift (2006) | 6.55 | 104 min | Justin Lin |
| 2006 | The Prestige (2006) | 8.2 | 130 min | Christopher Nolan |
| 2006 | The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) | 7.88 | 117 min | Gabriele Muccino |
| 2007 | I Am Legend (2007) | 7.22 | 101 min | Francis Lawrence |
| 2007 | Into the Wild (2007) | 7.79 | 148 min | Sean Penn |
| 2007 | Juno (2007) | 7.06 | 96 min | Jason Reitman |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | 7.44 | 115 min | Paul Greengrass |
| 2008 | Gran Torino (2008) | 7.99 | 116 min | Clint Eastwood (director) |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | 7.73 | 121 min | Danny Boyle |
| 2008 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008) | 7.82 | 94 min | Mark Herman |
| 2008 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | 7.6 | 166 min | David Fincher |
| 2009 | (500) Days of Summer (2009) | 7.3 | 95 min | Marc Webb |
| 2009 | Inglourious Basterds (2009) | 8.22 | 153 min | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2009 | The Proposal (2009) | 7.18 | 108 min | Anne Fletcher |
| 2010 | 127 Hours (2010) | 7.09 | 94 min | Danny Boyle |
| 2010 | Black Swan (2010) | 7.68 | 108 min | Darren Aronofsky |
| 2010 | Shutter Island (2010) | 8.2 | 138 min | Martin Scorsese |
| 2010 | The King’s Speech (2010) | 7.73 | 118 min | Tom Hooper |
| 2010 | The Social Network (2010) | 7.38 | 121 min | David Fincher |
| 2011 | Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) | 7.28 | 118 min | Glenn Ficarra, John Requa |
| 2011 | Drive (2011) | 7.58 | 100 min | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 2011 | Hugo (2011) | 7.17 | 126 min | Martin Scorsese |
| 2011 | Real Steel (2011) | 7.14 | 127 min | Shawn Levy |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) | 7.35 | 105 min | Rupert Wyatt |
| 2011 | The Help (2011) | 8.2 | 146 min | Tate Taylor |
| 2012 | Argo (2012) | 7.29 | 120 min | Ben Affleck (director) |
| 2012 | Django Unchained (2012) | 8.19 | 165 min | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher (2012) | 6.68 | 130 min | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 2012 | Life of Pi (2012) | 7.41 | 127 min | Ang Lee |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook (2012) | 7.15 | 122 min | David O. Russell |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises (2012) | 7.8 | 165 min | Christopher Nolan |
| 2012 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) | 7.8 | 103 min | Stephen Chbosky |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave (2013) | 7.93 | 134 min | Steve McQueen |
| 2013 | About Time (2013) | 7.9 | 123 min | Richard Curtis |
| 2013 | American Hustle (2013) | 6.85 | 138 min | David O. Russell |
| 2013 | Dallas Buyers Club (2013) | 7.91 | 117 min | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 2013 | Elysium (2013) | 6.53 | 109 min | Neill Blomkamp |
| 2013 | Gravity (2013) | 7.17 | 91 min | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 2013 | Her (2013) | 7.84 | 126 min | Spike Jonze |
| 2013 | Prisoners (2013) | 8.11 | 153 min | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2013 | Rush (2013) | 7.74 | 123 min | Ron Howard |
| 2013 | The Great Gatsby (2013) | 7.35 | 143 min | Baz Luhrmann |
| 2013 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) | 7.23 | 114 min | Ben Stiller (director) |
| 2013 | The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) | 8.03 | 180 min | Martin Scorsese |
| 2014 | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) | 7.44 | 120 min | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 2014 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) | 7.34 | 130 min | Matt Reeves |
| 2014 | Fury (2014) | 7.55 | 135 min | David Ayer |
| 2014 | Gone Girl (2014) | 7.89 | 149 min | David Fincher |
| 2014 | Interstellar (2014) | 8.48 | 169 min | Christopher Nolan |
| 2014 | Nightcrawler (2014) | 7.71 | 118 min | Dan Gilroy |
| 2014 | The Fault in Our Stars (2014) | 7.59 | 126 min | Josh Boone |
| 2014 | The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) | 8.03 | 100 min | Wes Anderson |
| 2014 | The Imitation Game (2014) | 7.98 | 113 min | Morten Tyldum |
| 2014 | The Theory of Everything (2014) | 7.83 | 123 min | James Marsh |
| 2014 | Whiplash (2014) | 8.38 | 107 min | Damien Chazelle |
| 2015 | Creed (2015) | 7.41 | 133 min | Ryan Coogler |
| 2015 | Ex Machina (2015) | 7.57 | 108 min | Alex Garland |
| 2015 | Inside Out (2015) | 7.91 | 95 min | Pete Docter |
| 2015 | Room (2015) | 7.99 | 118 min | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 2015 | Spotlight (2015) | 7.81 | 129 min | Tom McCarthy |
| 2015 | The Big Short (2015) | 7.37 | 131 min | Adam McKay |
| 2015 | The Hateful Eight (2015) | 7.76 | 188 min | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2015 | The Martian (2015) | 7.71 | 141 min | Ridley Scott |
| 2015 | The Revenant (2015) | 7.54 | 157 min | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 2016 | 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) | 7.01 | 104 min | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 2016 | Arrival (2016) | 7.63 | 116 min | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2016 | Hacksaw Ridge (2016) | 8.19 | 139 min | Mel Gibson |
| 2016 | Hidden Figures (2016) | 8.05 | 127 min | Theodore Melfi |
| 2016 | La La Land (2016) | 7.9 | 129 min | Damien Chazelle |
| 2016 | Me Before You (2016) | 7.93 | 110 min | Thea Sharrock |
| 2016 | Moonlight (2016) | 7.36 | 111 min | Barry Jenkins |
| 2016 | Nocturnal Animals (2016) | 7.4 | 116 min | Tom Ford |
| 2016 | Passengers (2016) | 6.96 | 116 min | Morten Tyldum |
| 2016 | Sully (2016) | 7.21 | 96 min | Clint Eastwood (director) |
| 2016 | The Witch (2016) | 7.0 | 92 min | Robert Eggers |
| 2017 | Blade Runner 2049 (2017) | 7.6 | 164 min | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2017 | Call Me by Your Name (2017) | 8.08 | 132 min | Luca Guadagnino |
| 2017 | Dunkirk (2017) | 7.45 | 107 min | Christopher Nolan |
| 2017 | It (2017) | 7.24 | 135 min | Andy Muschietti |
| 2017 | Lady Bird (2017) | 7.2 | 94 min | Greta Gerwig |
| 2017 | Logan (2017) | 7.82 | 137 min | James Mangold |
| 2017 | Murder on the Orient Express (2017) | 6.71 | 114 min | Kenneth Branagh (director) |
| 2017 | The Greatest Showman (2017) | 7.85 | 105 min | Michael Gracey |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water (2017) | 7.23 | 123 min | Guillermo del Toro |
| 2017 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) | 8.05 | 115 min | Martin McDonagh |
| 2017 | War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) | 7.22 | 140 min | Matt Reeves |
| 2017 | Wonder (2017) | 8.1 | 113 min | Stephen Chbosky |
| 2018 | A Quiet Place (2018) | 7.39 | 91 min | John Krasinski |
| 2018 | A Star Is Born (2018) | 7.49 | 136 min | Bradley Cooper (director) |
| 2018 | Bird Box (2018) | 6.82 | 124 min | Susanne Bier |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman (2018) | 7.49 | 136 min | Spike Lee |
| 2018 | Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) | 7.95 | 135 min | Bryan Singer |
| 2018 | Fifty Shades Freed (2018) | 6.67 | 105 min | James Foley |
| 2018 | Green Book (2018) | 8.22 | 130 min | Peter Farrelly |
| 2019 | 1917 (2019) | 7.98 | 119 min | Sam Mendes |
| 2019 | After (2019) | 7.1 | 106 min | Jenny Gage |
| 2019 | Ford v Ferrari (2019) | 8.01 | 153 min | James Mangold |
| 2019 | Glass (2019) | 6.66 | 129 min | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 2019 | It Chapter Two (2019) | 6.83 | 169 min | Andy Muschietti |
| 2019 | Jojo Rabbit (2019) | 7.97 | 108 min | Taika Waititi |
| 2019 | Joker (2019) | 8.12 | 122 min | Todd Phillips |
| 2019 | Midsommar (2019) | 7.14 | 147 min | Ari Aster |
| 2019 | Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019) | 7.42 | 162 min | Quentin Tarantino |
| 2019 | The Irishman (2019) | 7.57 | 209 min | Martin Scorsese |
| 2019 | The Lion King (2019) | 7.09 | 118 min | Jon Favreau |
| 2020 | Soul (2020) | 8.09 | 101 min | Pete Docter |
| 2021 | Cruella (2021) | 7.97 | 134 min | Craig Gillespie |
| 2021 | Don’t Look Up (2021) | 7.06 | 138 min | Adam McKay |
| 2021 | Luca (2021) | 7.78 | 95 min | Enrico Casarosa |
| 2022 | Top Gun - Maverick (2022) | 8.16 | 131 min | Joseph Kosinski |
| 2023 | Oppenheimer (2023) | 8.02 | 181 min | Christopher Nolan |