Top 10 Favorite Drama Movies of All Time

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Same as the other thread, not saying these are the best of all time, but movies that I really like. Probably not even fair to have some of these listed in my top 10 - but I was having a tough time thinking about it and just decided on these. What are yours?

10. A Time To Kill

9. Gone Girl

8. The Departed

7. Prisoners

6. Saving Private Ryan

5. Rocky

4. Forrest Gump

3. Spotlight

2. Good Will Hunting

1. A Few Good Men
 
Off the top of my head: Papillon, Braveheart, Shawshank Redemption, Jeremiah Johnson, Schindlers List, My Boy Jack, so many more!
 
HammerDown said:
Off the top of my head: Papillon, Braveheart, Shawshank Redemption, Jeremiah Johnson, Schindlers List, My Boy Jack, so many more!
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Yeah it is difficult to narrow it down. I thought about Shawshank and Braveheart, and those are excellent movies and rightfully deserving of top 10 status, the movies I listed are just more of my preference for one reason or another. Never saw Papillion or Jeremiah Johnson
 
1. Braveheart
2. The Shining
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Fight Club
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Thin Red Line
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Interstellar


I could probably give you 10 different lists if I did this 10 different times.
 
RememberTheKoy said:
1. Braveheart
2. The Shining
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Fight Club
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Thin Red Line
9. Saving Private Ryan
10. Interstellar


I could probably give you 10 different lists if I did this 10 different times.
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Oh for sure. I tried thinking about my comedy lists... that was even harder. So many good ones throughout the years.

Saving Private Ryan... twice, huh? It is really good lol. I have never seen Apocalypse Now or Thin Red Line.
 
Good catch, let me fix that then.


1. Braveheart
2. The Shining
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Fight Club
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Thin Red Line
9. The Pianist
10. Interstellar



Both Apocalypse Now and Thin Red Line are must watches. Two very very different kind of war movies. Apocalypse Now journey up the river into the deep jungle of the warzone of Vietnam as the characters are all slowly going mad and I always felt as the viewer you also sort of start to go insane as you lose yourself in the journey of this movie. Same director as the Godfather movies but I always felt this movie was way superior to those and by far his best movie.

Thin Red Line is a very slow movie following one marine as he has sort of an existential crisis while he is apart of this long futile battle for control of an island out in the pacific ocean. While there are some scenes of action it has nowhere near the high level and mostly constant action as Saving Private Ryan, another WW2 movie from that same era of the 90s. I feel like that is why Thin Red Line kind of got overlooked despite its brilliance is because it was such a dramatically different type and pace of a WW2 movie. Also the score is done by Hans Zimmer and is one of the best Zimmer scores. A really great ensemble of great actors giving really good performances too.


 
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RememberTheKoy said:
Good catch, let me fix that then.


1. Braveheart
2. The Shining
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Fight Club
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Eyes Wide Shut
8. Thin Red Line
9. The Pianist
10. Interstellar



Both Apocalypse Now and Thin Red Line are must watches. Two very very different kind of war movies. Apocalypse Now journey up the river into the deep jungle of the warzone of Vietnam as the characters are all slowly going mad and I always felt as the viewer you also sort of start to go insane as you lose yourself in the journey of this movie. Same director as the Godfather movies but I always felt this movie was way superior to those and by far his best movie.

Thin Red Line is a very slow movie following one marine as he has sort of an existential crisis while he is apart of this long futile battle for control of an island out in the pacific ocean. While there are some scenes of action it has nowhere near the high level and mostly constant action as Saving Private Ryan, another WW2 movie from that same era of the 90s. I feel like that is why Thin Red Line kind of got overlooked despite its brilliance is because it was such a dramatically different type and pace of a WW2 movie. Also the score is done by Hans Zimmer and is one of the best Zimmer scores. A really great ensemble of great actors giving really good performances too.


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I'll have to check them out. I haven't seen The Pianist either, a friend told me to check it out, but never got around to it.
 
Another great movie taking place during war.

By far my favorite Polanski movie. No matter how many times I watch the movie it glues me. Absolute must watch. I could probably also put it higher on my list.
 
Kburjr said:
I see Braveheart on most lists. I always watch it as a double feature along with Rob Roy.
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Yup.

Neither makes my best 10 ever drama list though.
 
Hank Kingsley said:
Not many that have been listed. Lots of movies were made before 1990.
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K.

I feel like you are making this weird lol. What are they? I don't care when they were made. I was born in 87, hence a lot of the 90's movies resonating with me as I was growing up. I suspect that to be somewhat similar for others.
 
12 Angry Men
The Searchers
Little Big Man
Lawrence of Arabia
Godfather Part II
Aliens
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Unforgiven
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
LA Confidential
 
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