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title: "Drama films"
canonical: "https://film.one/films/genre/drama"
region: "US"
total: 808
shown: 60
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# Drama films

Every drama film we have reviewed, newest release first.

For US. 808 titles; 60 listed here. Add `?region=XX` for another country.

- [*The Uprising*](https://film.one/film/the-uprising.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 62 · R · 2h 08m · Drama/Action
  Paul Greengrass’s historical drama has a persuasive lead in Andrew Garfield and a convincing medieval setting. Its relentless action is harder to recommend: the movement does too much of the storytelling.
- [*By Any Means*](https://film.one/film/by-any-means.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 52 · R · 1h 47m · History/Crime
  Elegance Bratton’s crime drama gives Yahya Abdul-Mateen II a compromised partnership worth exploring, then lets Mark Wahlberg’s excesses dominate it. The occasional jolt cannot compensate for thin characters and a reluctance to question the violence.
- [*Tony*](https://film.one/film/tony.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 76 · R · 1h 46m · Drama/Comedy
  Dominic Sessa gives *Tony* its bite, playing a young Anthony Bourdain whose confidence exceeds his usefulness. Matt Johnson makes the kitchen work funny and affecting, though the familiar growing-up story leaves too little space for its women.
- [*Late Fame*](https://film.one/film/late-fame.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 78 · NR · 1h 37m · Drama
  Willem Dafoe gives this gentle drama about a rediscovered poet a warmth its younger characters do not always earn. We recommend it for the performances, with patience required for the mildness of its literary satire.
- [*The Invite*](https://film.one/film/the-invite.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 77 · R · 1h 47m · Comedy/Drama
  Olivia Wilde puts two couples in one flat for one night and lets four good actors go at each other. It is funny, often sharply so, and Seth Rogen has never been better. It also feels like a play, and its middle sags.
- [*The Death of Robin Hood*](https://film.one/film/the-death-of-robin-hood.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 66 · R · 2h 03m · Adventure/Drama
  Hugh Jackman and Jodie Comer give Michael Sarnoski’s sombre Robin Hood drama enough humanity to justify the grimness. The performances make it worth considering, though the script keeps returning to remorse long after we have understood the problem.
- [*Rose of Nevada*](https://film.one/film/rose-of-nevada.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 79 · NR · 1h 54m · Mystery/Drama
  Mark Jenkin’s Cornish time-slip tale is his handsomest and most watchable film, with a first hour that put us right on the deck. The middle drifts while it decides what its mystery is for, but the sea and the two men hold.
- [*Pressure*](https://film.one/film/pressure.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 78 · PG-13 · 1h 41m · Thriller/History · on Peacock
  Andrew Scott makes *Pressure* a tense, rewarding account of the weather decisions before D-Day. The drama is tightly handled and the acting persuasive, though the script makes its case for professional expertise a little too neatly.
- [*Giant*](https://film.one/film/giant.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 55 · 1h 50m · Drama/History
  Rowan Athale’s biopic of Prince Naseem Hamed is really a film about his trainer, and Pierce Brosnan’s Brendan Ingle is the best thing in it. Around him the fights are short, the script is familiar and the boxer himself never quite comes into focus.
- [*Tuner*](https://film.one/film/tuner.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 74 · R · 1h 48m · Crime/Drama
  Daniel Roher’s first fiction film puts a piano tuner’s ears to work on locks, and the sound design makes every click count. The story is one we have heard before, but Woodall, Hoffman and Liu play it as if nobody had.
- [*The Devil Wears Prada 2*](https://film.one/film/the-devil-wears-prada-2.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 64 · PG-13 · 1h 59m · Comedy/Drama · on Disney+, Hulu
  Twenty years on, the old team is back, dressed better than ever and given rather less to do. It is amiable, well acted and easy company for two hours, and it says nothing about the death of magazines that a magazine has not already said.
- [*Michael*](https://film.one/film/michael.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 47 · PG-13 · 2h 08m · Music/Drama · on Starz
  Jaafar Jackson moves like his uncle and the stage numbers are the real thing; around them, Antoine Fuqua has made an authorised biography that stops the moment the story gets difficult. Watch it for the dancing and expect to argue about the rest.
- [*The Drama*](https://film.one/film/the-drama.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 65 · R · 1h 45m · Romance/Comedy · on HBO Max
  Kristoffer Borgli’s wedding comedy has one scene that will make you want to walk out and two leads who make you stay. What follows is smaller and safer than the thing that set it off, and the film seems to know it.
- [*My Father's Shadow*](https://film.one/film/my-fathers-shadow.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 81 · NR · 1h 33m · Drama · on MUBI
  Akinola Davies Jr.’s first film gives two boys a single day in Lagos with the father who has not been there, and it is patient, plain and finally moving. The middle drifts while everyone waits for news. The ending earns the wait.
- [*Dead Man's Wire*](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md) — 2026 · Fi1m 70 · R · 1h 46m · Crime/Drama · on Netflix
  Gus Van Sant’s account of the 1977 Kiritsis siege is a tight, sweaty, funny two-hander, and Bill Skarsgård is the reason to see it. What it thinks about the man and the country that made him, it mostly leaves to us.
- [*Song Sung Blue*](https://film.one/film/song-sung-blue.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 68 · PG-13 · 2h 13m · Music/Romance · on Netflix
  Craig Brewer’s true story of a Milwaukee couple and their Neil Diamond tribute act is warmer and sadder than its wigs suggest. Jackman and Hudson sing it honestly; the script keeps piling on misfortune until we found we had stopped feeling each blow.
- [*The Testament of Ann Lee*](https://film.one/film/the-testament-of-ann-lee.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 73 · R · 2h 17m · History/Drama · on Hulu
  Fastvold’s musical life of the Shaker founder is at its best when the congregation is singing and stamping, and Amanda Seyfried is remarkable throughout. Between the hymns it explains itself, at length, through a narrator who does not trust the pictures.
- [*Marty Supreme*](https://film.one/film/marty-supreme.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 82 · R · 2h 30m · Drama/Thriller · on HBO Max
  Josh Safdie’s table tennis film is loud, fast and built around Timothée Chalamet, who is up to it. It runs half an hour too long and loves its hustler more than we could, but the matches alone are worth the ticket.
- [*Is This Thing On?*](https://film.one/film/is-this-thing-on.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 71 · R · 2h 01m · Comedy/Drama · on Hulu
  Bradley Cooper’s third film as director is a small, kind and often funny account of a marriage coming apart and a man finding his voice at an open mic. Arnett and Dern are excellent; the script is softer than they are.
- [*The Voice of Hind Rajab*](https://film.one/film/the-voice-of-hind-rajab.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 81 · NR · 1h 29m · Drama/History
  The real voice of a child trapped in a car in Gaza runs through Kaouther Ben Hania’s drama. See it, though its first half hour is as hard to watch as anything we have seen, and the actors are less sure than she is.
- [*Hamnet*](https://film.one/film/hamnet.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 76 · PG-13 · 2h 05m · Drama/Romance · on Netflix
  Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel is a grief film first and a Shakespeare film a distant second, and Jessie Buckley carries it. The middle hour cries too much and too prettily; the last act, in London, earns most of what the rest asks for.
- [*H Is for Hawk*](https://film.one/film/h-is-for-hawk.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 64 · PG-13 · 2h 00m · Drama · on Amazon Prime Video
  Claire Foy and the bird are worth the evening, and Brendan Gleeson gets to us in about four scenes. Around them Philippa Lowthorpe has made a careful, tasteful film about grief that runs half an hour long and is too polite to hurt.
- [*The Secret Agent*](https://film.one/film/the-secret-agent.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 84 · R · 2h 41m · Thriller/Drama
  Kleber Mendonça Filho’s thriller about a hunted man in Recife in 1977 is funny, frightening and made with great care, and Wagner Moura holds it together by hardly moving. It is also long, and the present-day scenes are where you feel it.
- [*Rental Family*](https://film.one/film/rental-family.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 58 · PG-13 · 1h 50m · Comedy/Drama · on Hulu
  Hikari’s second feature takes a strange, real Tokyo trade and Brendan Fraser at his gentlest and makes something soft, well acted and pleasant that will not touch the hard questions its own premise keeps asking. Fraser and the young Shannon Mahina Gorman nearly carry it anyway.
- [*Jay Kelly*](https://film.one/film/jay-kelly.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 64 · R · 2h 12m · Drama/Comedy · on Netflix
  Noah Baumbach has made a warm, handsome comedy about a film star who notices, late, what his fame has cost him. Adam Sandler is quietly wonderful and the memory sequences are the best idea in it; the film likes Jay Kelly rather more than it should.
- [*Sirāt*](https://film.one/film/sirat.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 83 · R · 1h 55m · Drama/Thriller
  Oliver Laxe sends a father and son looking for a missing daughter into a convoy of ravers and across the desert. It is loud, patient and frightening, and it earns nearly all of it; only a late surprise felt written rather than fated.
- [*Die My Love*](https://film.one/film/die-my-love.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 71 · R · 1h 59m · Drama · on MUBI
  Lynne Ramsay’s film about a new mother coming apart in a farmhouse is loud, fearless and often striking, and Jennifer Lawrence is as good as you have heard. But Ramsay keeps us outside Grace’s head, and the second hour repeats the first.
- [*Sentimental Value*](https://film.one/film/sentimental-value.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 79 · R · 2h 13m · Drama/Comedy · on Hulu
  Joachim Trier’s family drama is patient, well acted and funny in the way real families are, and Skarsgård and Reinsve are as good as everyone says. We recommend it. We also found it neater than it needed to be.
- [*Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere*](https://film.one/film/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 61 · PG-13 · 2h 00m · Drama/Music
  Scott Cooper shrinks the Springsteen story to one year and one cassette recorder, which is the right idea. Jeremy Allen White is quietly good and the recording scenes are the best thing here; the rest is a biopic being careful with a living man.
- [*Frankenstein*](https://film.one/film/frankenstein.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 74 · R · 2h 30m · Drama/Fantasy · on Netflix
  Del Toro has plainly been planning this for years, and half of it is worth the wait. Jacob Elordi’s Creature is patient and sad and holds the picture together; Oscar Isaac’s Victor spends his half shouting at machinery.
- [*Battle Royale*](https://film.one/film/battle-royale.md) — 2000 · Fi1m 83 · R · 1h 53m · Drama/Thriller · on Tubi
  Kinji Fukasaku’s *Battle Royale* makes its teenage killing contest frightening by taking the teenagers seriously. The flashbacks labour the point, but the cruelty, foolishness and stubborn affection are hard to shake.
- [*After the Hunt*](https://film.one/film/after-the-hunt.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 57 · R · 2h 19m · Drama · on Amazon Prime Video
  Luca Guadagnino gives Julia Roberts her best role in years, as a philosophy professor who would rather not choose between an accused friend and an accusing student. The film shares her reluctance, and at 139 minutes it has a long time to be undecided in.
- [*A House of Dynamite*](https://film.one/film/a-house-of-dynamite.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 73 · R · 1h 52m · Thriller/Drama · on Netflix
  Kathryn Bigelow returns with a nuclear procedural that plays the same eighteen minutes three times over. The first pass is as frightening as anything she has made; by the third, the structure is costing her tension she cannot spare. Worth your evening, and you will not sleep well.
- [*The Smashing Machine*](https://film.one/film/the-smashing-machine.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 70 · R · 2h 03m · Drama/History · on HBO Max
  Benny Safdie’s portrait of the fighter Mark Kerr is quiet, careful and better acted than we had any right to expect, with Dwayne Johnson unrecognisable and good. It is also slower than it needs to be, and more ordinary than its manner lets on.
- [*Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale*](https://film.one/film/downton-abbey-the-grand-finale.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 61 · PG · 2h 03m · Drama/Romance · on Netflix
  Simon Curtis and Julian Fellowes close the doors on the Crawleys with good manners, beautiful clothes and a dozen small stories that each end in a reconciliation. It is comfortable and it is thin, and Michelle Dockery carries what weight there is.
- [*F1*](https://film.one/film/f1.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 66 · PG-13 · 2h 36m · Action/Drama · on Apple TV
  Joseph Kosinski puts a camera inside a real Formula One car and the racing is as thrilling as any we have seen on screen. Everything between the races is a sports film we have watched a dozen times, with better tailoring and a longer running time.
- [*Materialists*](https://film.one/film/materialists.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 63 · R · 1h 56m · Romance/Drama · on HBO Max
  Celine Song’s second film treats dating as a marketplace and says so, in dialogue sharper than most romances manage. It is clever, well cast and a little cold, and when it finally asks us to feel something, it has not done the groundwork.
- [*The Ballad of Wallis Island*](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-wallis-island.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 78 · PG-13 · 1h 40m · Comedy/Drama · on Peacock
  Tim Key and Tom Basden stretch their 2007 short into a small, funny, damp film about a folk duo reunited on a Welsh island for an audience of one. The chatter wears in places; the songs and Carey Mulligan hold it together.
- [*Black Bag*](https://film.one/film/black-bag.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 78 · R · 1h 34m · Drama/Mystery · on Peacock
  Soderbergh’s mole hunt among married spies is brisk, sharp and beautifully dressed, and it plays its 94 minutes like a parlour game. Fassbender and Blanchett make the marriage worth believing in; the mystery underneath is neater than it is gripping.
- [*Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy*](https://film.one/film/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boy.md) — 2025 · Fi1m 70 · R · 2h 04m · Romance/Comedy · on Peacock
  The fourth Bridget Jones film is the saddest and, for a while, the best since the first, with Zellweger and Grant doing careful work about getting older. It is also baggy, cushioned by money, and funnier in memory than while it was on.
- [*Better Man*](https://film.one/film/better-man.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 74 · R · 2h 15m · Music/Drama · on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+
  Michael Gracey’s Robbie Williams biopic casts a CGI chimpanzee as its star and stages its musical numbers with real nerve. The story around them is the one every pop biopic tells, and it is told at length.
- [*A Complete Unknown*](https://film.one/film/a-complete-unknown.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 68 · R · 2h 21m · Drama/Music
  James Mangold’s Dylan film is well made, well sung and well cast, and it has decided, honourably, that it cannot get inside its subject. The songs carry it; the drama between them mostly waits for the next one.
- [*The Count of Monte Cristo*](https://film.one/film/the-count-of-monte-cristo.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 80 · NR · 2h 58m · Adventure/Action
  Delaporte and de La Patellière’s Dumas is handsome, brisk for its length, and held together by Pierre Niney, who plays revenge as a long illness. The second half is all schemes and the villains are thin, but go.
- [*The Room Next Door*](https://film.one/film/the-room-next-door.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 68 · PG-13 · 1h 46m · Drama/Comedy · on Netflix
  Almodóvar’s first film in English puts Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in a mid-century house in upstate New York to talk about dying, and the house is the best thing in it. Swinton is plain and level and gets to us; the dialogue never stops sounding written.
- [*The Brutalist*](https://film.one/film/the-brutalist.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 76 · R · 3h 35m · Drama · on HBO Max
  Brady Corbet’s story of an émigré architect and his American patron has a first half as sure of itself as anything we have seen in years, an Adrien Brody performance that carries it, and a second half that loses its way. Worth the evening.
- [*Nickel Boys*](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 85 · PG-13 · 2h 20m · Drama/History · on Amazon Prime Video, MUBI
  RaMell Ross films Colson Whitehead’s novel about a Florida reform school entirely through the eyes of its two boys, and the gamble mostly pays. It is tender where it could have been brutal, exactly made, long, and a little in love with its own method.
- [*The Order*](https://film.one/film/the-order.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 75 · R · 1h 56m · Crime/Drama · on Hulu
  Justin Kurzel’s account of the 1983 hunt for a white-supremacist gang in the Pacific Northwest is a lean, well-made procedural with a frightening Nicholas Hoult at its centre. Jude Law’s agent is a type we have met many times, and the film knows it.
- [*Hard Truths*](https://film.one/film/hard-truths.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 84 · R · 1h 37m · Drama/Comedy
  Marianne Jean-Baptiste is ferocious and then unbearably sad as a woman who cannot stop attacking everyone she meets. Mike Leigh’s film around her is spare, funny and honest, and a little thin where the men are concerned. We recommend it warmly.
- [*Queer*](https://film.one/film/queer.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 68 · R · 2h 18m · Drama/Romance · on HBO Max
  Daniel Craig does the best work of his career as a drunk who wants a young man who will not quite want him back. For ninety minutes Guadagnino’s Burroughs adaptation is sharp and sad; then it takes a turn and loses its way.
- [*Maria*](https://film.one/film/maria.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 57 · R · 2h 03m · History/Drama · on Netflix
  Pablo Larraín closes his run of films about famous women with the most handsome and the coldest. Angelina Jolie is composed and exact as Callas, Edward Lachman lights her like a painting, and the film keeps her behind glass for two hours.
- [*Gladiator II*](https://film.one/film/gladiator-ii.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 64 · R · 2h 28m · Action/Adventure · on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount+
  Ridley Scott has made his own film again, louder and with sharks. It is handsome and rarely dull, but Paul Mescal is given a grudge where a character should be, and only Denzel Washington seems to know what kind of film he is in.
- [*Bird*](https://film.one/film/bird.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 73 · R · 1h 59m · Drama · on MUBI
  Andrea Arnold’s Kent drama has a remarkable first performance from Nykiya Adams and a Barry Keoghan on fine, feckless form. The fairy tale Arnold wraps round them is less sure of itself, and the last act reaches for more than it has earned. Worth your evening.
- [*Small Things Like These*](https://film.one/film/small-things-like-these.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 79 · PG-13 · 1h 39m · Drama · on Hulu
  Cillian Murphy barely speaks in Tim Mielants’s adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella, and he does not need to. The film around him is cold, careful and well built, though it explains his past more often than Keegan did, or than we needed.
- [*The Piano Lesson*](https://film.one/film/the-piano-lesson.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 65 · PG-13 · 2h 07m · Drama · on Netflix
  Malcolm Washington’s first film puts a fine cast in a cramped Pittsburgh parlour and lets August Wilson do the talking. Danielle Deadwyler is remarkable, the middle hour is slow, and the ghost, when it finally comes, is the best thing here.
- [*Here*](https://film.one/film/here.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 40 · PG-13 · 1h 44m · Drama
  Robert Zemeckis parks a camera in one living room for a century and finds a good idea with almost no story to go with it. Robin Wright and one late scene are worth something; the de-aged faces and the announcing dialogue are not.
- [*Emilia Pérez*](https://film.one/film/emilia-perez.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 58 · R · 2h 12m · Drama/Thriller · on Netflix
  Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language musical about a cartel boss who changes her body and her life is alive for an hour and then turns into the telenovela it had been mocking. Zoe Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón keep it watchable; the songs mostly do not.
- [*Blitz*](https://film.one/film/blitz.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 63 · PG-13 · 2h 00m · War/Drama · on Apple TV
  Steve McQueen’s Blitz film is built with real skill, from the firehose that opens it onward, and it never settles on whether it is a fable, an argument or an adventure. See it for Clementine and the first half hour.
- [*Juror #2*](https://film.one/film/juror-2.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 75 · PG-13 · 1h 54m · Drama/Thriller · on HBO Max
  Clint Eastwood’s courtroom drama puts a juror on trial inside his own head, and Nicholas Hoult carries it with a face that keeps trying to stay still. The premise creaks in places. The final shot is the best thing in it.
- [*A Real Pain*](https://film.one/film/a-real-pain.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 76 · R · 1h 30m · Comedy/Drama · on Disney+, Hulu
  Jesse Eisenberg’s second film sends two cousins on a Holocaust tour of Poland and lets Kieran Culkin loose on it. It is funny, short and sadder than it lets on; it is also thinner around the edges than the performance at its centre.
- [*Conclave*](https://film.one/film/conclave.md) — 2024 · Fi1m 76 · PG · 2h 00m · Drama/Thriller
  Edward Berger’s papal election thriller is handsome, quick and well acted, with Ralph Fiennes doing careful work as the cardinal who has to run it. It is a potboiler that wants to be taken for a meditation, and the ending gives the game away.

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