Best Drama Films

Pulse of Cinema's drama catalogue holds 19031 films, ranked by the Pulse Score blended from IMDb, Letterboxd and TMDB. The highest Pulse-rated are The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, Schindler's List, a good place to start.

8.7

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

8.7

The Godfather

1972

8.6

Schindler's List

1993

8.6

The Godfather Part II

1974

8.6

12 Angry Men

1957

8.5

GoodFellas

1990

8.4

Seven Samurai

1954

8.4

Harakiri

1962

8.5

Forrest Gump

1994

8.4

Fight Club

1999

8.4

Life Is Beautiful

1997

8.4

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

1975

8.4

Grave of the Fireflies

1988

8.4

Cinema Paradiso

1988

8.3

The Silence of the Lambs

1991

8.3

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

8.5

The Green Mile

1999

8.4

City of God

2002

8.4

High and Low

1963

8.4

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

1961

8.3

Apocalypse Now

1979

8.3

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

8.2

Oldboy

2003

8.1

The World of Apu

1959

8.1

Decalogue I

1989

8.7

Attack on Titan: THE LAST ATTACK

2024

8.5

Interstellar

2014

8.4

The Pianist

2002

8.3

The Lion King

1994

8.3

Rear Window

1954

8.3

Modern Times

1936

8.3

Sunset Boulevard

1950

8.3

Paths of Glory

1957

8.3

City Lights

1931

8.3

Le Trou

1960

8.2

Saving Private Ryan

1998

8.2

Good Will Hunting

1997

8.2

Bicycle Thieves

1948

8.2

Come and See

1985

8.2

Witness for the Prosecution

1957

8.1

Casablanca

1943

8.1

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

1959

8.0

Amadeus

1984

8.0

The Chaos Class

1975

8.5

Parasite

2019

8.4

Once Upon a Time in America

1984

8.3

Léon: The Professional

1994

8.3

American History X

1998