Drama Movies — NYT Top 100

A struggling family finds work in a wealthy household, setting off a chain of deception and conflict across Seoul's class divide.

An aspiring actor helps an amnesiac stranger in Los Angeles, where identities and Hollywood dreams begin to unravel.

An ambitious oil prospector builds an empire in California while his hunger for power poisons his relationships.

Two neighbors in 1960s Hong Kong discover their spouses' infidelity and form a bond shaped by longing and restraint.

Across three stages of his life, a young man in Miami searches for intimacy, belonging, and a sense of himself.

As memories of a failed relationship are erased, a man discovers how fiercely he wants to hold on to them.

The creation of Facebook brings a young programmer extraordinary success and bitter disputes over friendship, ownership, and betrayal.

An Auschwitz commandant and his family cultivate their comfortable domestic life beside the concentration camp.

In a world without new births, a disillusioned man is drawn into a mission to protect a pregnant refugee.

In occupied France, a cinema owner's revenge converges with a band of soldiers' plan to strike at Nazi leadership.

An aspiring photographer grows up amid escalating gang violence in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood.

Two ranch hands fall in love during a summer in Wyoming, beginning a relationship that shapes their lives for decades.

Two teenage friends and an older woman take a road trip through Mexico that exposes tensions beneath their carefree adventure.

A stockbroker's spectacular rise is fueled by fraud, excess, and a culture of reckless ambition.

Three former child prodigies reunite with their estranged father, reopening old rivalries and disappointments.

A hotel concierge and his young protégé become embroiled in a disputed inheritance, an art theft, and a murder accusation.

Filmed over twelve years, a boy's childhood unfolds through shifting family relationships and everyday experiences in Texas.

A lonely writer develops an intimate relationship with an operating system whose growing consciousness changes their connection.

A meticulous London dressmaker's ordered life is unsettled by a young woman who becomes his muse and partner.

After her husband's fatal fall, a writer faces a trial that places her marriage and her son's testimony under scrutiny.

A screenwriter's struggle to adapt a book about orchids spills into an increasingly tangled story of obsession and invention.

A linguist tries to communicate with alien visitors as international mistrust threatens to turn first contact into conflict.

A fading actor and a young newlywed form an unexpected connection while feeling adrift in Tokyo.

An undercover officer and a criminal planted inside the police race to expose each other in Boston.

A separating couple's dispute becomes entangled with their caregiver's family, creating a web of conflicting loyalties and accusations.

A young prisoner learns to navigate rival factions and gradually builds influence within a French prison.

A professor in 1960s Minnesota seeks guidance as his marriage, career, and family life unravel around him.

A teenager and a visiting graduate student develop a summer romance in northern Italy.

An artist commissioned to paint a reluctant bride's portrait forms an intimate bond with her subject on a remote French island.

A Sacramento teenager pushes against her mother's expectations while imagining a different life beyond her hometown.

Members of a Taipei family confront love, loss, and uncertainty through everyday events seen across three generations.

A troubled veteran falls under the influence of a charismatic leader whose movement promises answers to his inner turmoil.

An actor and his stunt double navigate a changing Hollywood in 1969, crossing paths with a rising star and a violent cult.

A baseball general manager challenges conventional scouting by building a competitive team through statistical analysis.

A domestic worker supports a family in 1970s Mexico City while facing profound changes in her own life.

A teenage music journalist goes on tour with a rock band and discovers the distance between his heroes and their public image.

A Stasi officer assigned to monitor a playwright becomes increasingly affected by the lives he overhears.

Nine years after their first meeting, two former strangers reunite in Paris and reconsider the lives they might have shared.

A free Black musician is kidnapped and sold into slavery, enduring years of brutality while seeking a way home.

Two women compete for influence and affection in Queen Anne's court, turning intimacy into a struggle for political power.

In Franco-era Spain, a young girl enters a mysterious fantasy world while living under the authority of her cruel stepfather.

A socially anxious businessman finds a chance at romance while facing family pressure and an escalating extortion scheme.

A New York jeweler's relentless gambling and risky deals threaten to overwhelm his business and personal life.

An eccentric father uses an elaborate alter ego to disrupt his daughter's tightly controlled corporate life.

A young jazz drummer's pursuit of excellence brings him into an increasingly destructive relationship with his demanding teacher.

A fractured family piles into a van to take their youngest member to a children's beauty pageant.

A woman's disappearance draws suspicion toward her husband as the public story of their marriage begins to shift.

J. Robert Oppenheimer leads the effort to develop the atomic bomb and later faces a hearing that threatens his public standing.

Boston Globe reporters investigate sexual abuse by Catholic priests and the institutional failures that allowed it to continue.

A celebrated conductor's carefully constructed world begins to fracture amid allegations, personal tensions, and professional pressure.

An Army bomb-disposal team in Iraq struggles with the dangerous methods of its new leader.

An alien takes on a woman's appearance and drives through Scotland, luring men into a deadly trap.

A lonely, bullied boy befriends a mysterious child whose presence brings violence to his Swedish neighborhood.

A department-store worker and an older married woman begin a relationship constrained by the expectations of 1950s America.

A young girl finds adventure around a Florida budget motel while her mother struggles to keep their precarious life together.

An elderly couple's bond is tested by illness as a husband's daily life becomes devoted to caring for his wife.

A woman revisits a childhood holiday with her father, searching her memories and home videos for signs of his inner life.

A man's memories of childhood in Texas unfold alongside reflections on family, grief, nature, and the origins of life.

Women in a Spanish family confront buried secrets and a mother's unexpected return while supporting one another through crisis.

A ballerina's drive to embody both halves of Swan Lake's central role blurs the boundary between ambition and delusion.

A struggling folk singer drifts through a winter week in 1961 New York, searching for work, shelter, and a breakthrough.

Two sisters confront a looming planetary collision as a lavish wedding gives way to dread and uncertainty.

Childhood friends separated by emigration reconnect years later, confronting the possibilities and limits of their enduring bond.

An astronaut leaves his family to search beyond the solar system for a habitable world as Earth becomes increasingly unlivable.

An aspiring dancer drifts between apartments and uncertain jobs as a close friendship changes and adulthood comes into focus.

A teenager living on an English housing estate pursues dance and becomes drawn to her mother's new boyfriend.

A betrayed Roman general becomes a gladiator and seeks revenge against the emperor who destroyed his family.

A law firm's fixer investigates a colleague's breakdown and uncovers evidence that threatens a powerful corporate client.

A young woman in Oslo navigates changing ambitions and relationships while trying to decide what kind of life she wants.

After debris destroys their shuttle, astronauts stranded in orbit struggle to find a route back to Earth.

Detectives with clashing methods investigate a series of killings in rural South Korea, struggling against limited evidence and institutional failures.