Best 2019 Drama movies
TOP 20: An Officer and a Spy
Original Title: J’accuse
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2019
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.
TOP 19: The Death & Life of John F. Donovan
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces about the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
TOP 18: Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2019
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
TOP 17: Pain and Glory
Original Title: Dolor y gloria
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
TOP 16: The First King: Birth of an Empire
Original Title: Il primo re
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Release: 2019
Two brothers, Romulus and Remus, will have to rely on each other to survive in a hostile world. The city of Rome, one of the greatest empires in history, will be born from their deeds and bloody battles.
TOP 15: The Farewell
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2019
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
TOP 14: The Two Popes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 2019
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
TOP 13: Ford v Ferrari
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Release: 2019
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
TOP 12: The Irishman
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Release: 2019
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
TOP 11: The Lighthouse
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Release: 2019
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
TOP 10: Knives Out
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2019
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
TOP 9: The Traitor
Original Title: Il traditore
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 2019
Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
TOP 8: Marriage Story
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.
TOP 7: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Genre: Drama
Release: 2019
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
TOP 6: Jojo Rabbit
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Release: 2019
A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
TOP 5: Five Feet Apart
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2019
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.
TOP 4: Little Women
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2019
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
TOP 3: 1917
Genre: Drama, History, War
Release: 2019
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake's own brother among them.
TOP 2: Joker
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2019
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
TOP 1: Parasite
Original Title: 기생충
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Release: 2019
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.