The best drama movies you should watch

How many times have you heard that “life is drama”? The truth is that even the beginning of cinema was accompanied by drama and has continued to accompany us in different directions ever since: courthouse dramas, melodramas, teen dramas, prison dramas… If, like us, you like to watch other people’s misfortunes more than a sweet, We bring you a list of the best drama films in history. Go preparing the paper handkerchiefs, because today we cry here.

Boyhood

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood project was very ambitious. It follows the life of Mason, a teenager whom the camera follows for a full 12 years, watching him grow and change. The film explores the difficult terrain of childhood and adolescence like no other. In addition, it has a soundtrack that changes depending on the years, representing its evolution during the feature film.

12 Years a Slave

This Oscar-winning film is an adaptation of a true story. The narrator is Solomon Northrup, a free black man. While on a journey, he is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 19th century epic. From here, the film turns into a violent and unbearable nightmare, with a constant element of injustice. This will make the viewer wonder if Solomon really ends up being a free man, and if that is a truly happy ending to so much tragedy. It is one of the crudest films when portraying the time of slavery.

There Will Be Blood

This film follows the rise of Daniel Plainview, a silver miner who becomes an infamous oil prospector. Moving to California, he starts a business using his son’s image to project family confidence, buying land from impoverished families. When he eventually becomes a tycoon, his true personality begins to blossom, alienating everyone in his life.

Manchester by the Sea

Lee Chandler is a frustrated blue-collar worker with no significant friendships or emotional connections. When Lee gets the news that his brother Joe has passed away, he will have to take care of his niece. Both Lee and his nephew, Patrick, will have to adjust to a new life, and the protagonist will have to face his stormy past that separated him from his wife and the community that saw him grow up.

Spotlight

This feature film tells the true story behind the Spotlight group, some investigators for the Boston Globe newspaper. The newspaper has been around since the 1970s, and this group is so particular about their work that they can spend months or even years covering a story. After a Globe reporter investigates a case of child abuse against a Catholic priest, and how the archdiocese covered it up, the Spotlight team digs deeper. What they discover is a Pandora’s box full of horrors, a case of systematic abuse and the almost superhuman efforts of the institution to cover up and hide everything related to the subject.

Moonlight

This story tries to portray the complicated childhood, adolescence and puberty of Chiron, a young African-American. His mother was abusive and lived in a dangerous neighborhood in Miami. Because of this, Chiron is not well fed, and his clothes are not in good shape. He receives constant abuse from his classmates. However, the young man has a sanctuary with Teresa, the girlfriend of a neighborhood dealer who acts as his father figure.

Whiplash

Andrew Neiman is 19 years old and has a dream to fulfill. He is determined to become a renowned drummer, and his stage is one of the most important conservatories in the country. Plagued by his father’s failure as a writer, Andrew is a determined young man who has the will and talent to keep improving. The problem turns out to be his instructor, the renowned Terence Fletcher. Fletcher is famous for his corrosive methods, but at the same time, he is also recognized as training true artists. Logically, Andre begins to have an antagonistic relationship with Fletcher after constant encounters that question his talent and dedication to the instrument.

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Charlie Kaufman’s film reflects on how culture shapes our concerns as it slices through toxic masculinity and fantasies refuse to be manipulated. A nightmare turned mind maze that quickly became one of those rare movies that are too crazy to believe, but grip us from the very first frame.

A Monster Calls

J.A. Bayona made a name for himself in Hollywood with this fantastic (and tear-jerking) story about a boy who begins to receive visits from a giant monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) while dealing with his mother’s cancer, the absence of his father and the school bullying.

Wonder

August Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) is a boy born with facial malformations that, until now, have prevented him from going to school. Auggie becomes the unlikeliest of heroes when he enters the fifth grade at the local school, with the support of his parents (Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson). His compassion and acceptance of his new companions and the rest of the community will be tested, but Auggie’s extraordinary journey will unite them all and prove that you can’t disguise yourself when you’re born to do something great.

Okja

In ‘Okja’, one of Bong Joon-ho’s best films, Mija (Ahn Seo-Hyun) is a girl who does everything on her part to prevent a multinational from kidnapping her best friend Okja, a gigantic animal . During her adventure, she will discover scourges such as experimentation with genetically modified foods, eco-terrorism or the human obsession with image and brands, traveling an arid path towards maturity.

The Impossible

Thailand, December 2004. Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three children suffer the terrible consequences of the tsunami that devastated several countries along the Indian Ocean. From that moment on, Maria and her eldest son, Lucas (Tom Holland), will fight to preserve their lives and be reunited with the rest of the family.