Underrated Drama Movies
Drama films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Drama Films
- 1
12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet·1957·CrimeTML 96★ 9$4.4M box officeStarring
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
- 2
City Lights
Charles Chaplin·1931·ComedyTML 95★ 8.5$19K box officeStarring
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers
- 3
Shichinin no samurai
Akira Kurosawa·1954·ActionTML 95★ 8.6$269K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
- 4
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa·1954·ActionTML 95★ 8.6$820K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
- 5
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz·1942·DramaTML 95★ 8.5$1.0M box officeStarring
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
- 6
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles·1941·DramaTML 94★ 8.3$1.6M box officeStarring
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
- 7
Modern Times
Charles Chaplin·1936·ComedyTML 93★ 8.5$163K box officeStarring
Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
- 8
Grave of the Fireflies
Isao Takahata·1988·AnimationTML 93★ 8.5$517K box officeStarring
Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Shinohara
- 9
Metropolis
Fritz Lang·1927·DramaTML 93★ 8.3$1.2M box officeStarring
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
- 10
Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$3.6M box officeStarring
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit
- 11
Trois couleurs: Rouge
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$4.0M box officeStarring
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit
- 12
All About Eve
Joseph L. Mankiewicz·1950·DramaTML 92★ 8.2$10K box officeStarring
Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
- 13
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 92★ 8.1$22K box officeStarring
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
- 14
Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné·1945·DramaTML 92★ 8.3$37K box officeStarring
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir
- 15
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa·1950·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$47K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
- 16
Du rififi chez les hommes
Jules Dassin·1955·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$57K box officeStarring
Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey
- 17
Rashômon
Akira Kurosawa·1950·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$97K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
- 18
Il conformista
Bernardo Bertolucci·1970·DramaTML 92★ 8$542K box officeStarring
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
- 19
The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton·1955·CrimeTML 92★ 8.0$654K box officeStarring
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason
- 20
Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville·1969·DramaTML 92★ 8.1$862K box officeStarring
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret
- 21
Touch of Evil
Orson Welles·1958·CrimeTML 92★ 8$2.2M box officeStarring
Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia
- 22
Ran
Akira Kurosawa·1985·ActionTML 92★ 8.2$4.1M box officeStarring
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryû
- 23
Bronenosets Potemkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 91★ 8.0$51K box officeStarring
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
- 24
Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa·1952·DramaTML 91★ 8.3$55K box officeStarring
Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko, Shin'ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka
- 25
La battaglia di Algeri
Gillo Pontecorvo·1966·DramaTML 91★ 8.1$56K box officeStarring
Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
- 26
The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch·1940·ComedyTML 91★ 8.1$203K box officeStarring
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut
- 27
The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci·1970·DramaTML 91★ 7.9$239K box officeStarring
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio
- 28
The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir·1939·ComedyTML 91★ 7.9$274K box officeStarring
Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély
- 29
The Best of Youth
Marco Tullio Giordana·2003·DramaTML 91★ 8.5$274K box officeStarring
Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
- 30
Rififi
Jules Dassin·1955·CrimeTML 91★ 8.1$518K box officeStarring
Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Janine Darcey