Hidden Gems
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
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City Lights
Charles Chaplin·1931·ComedyTML 95★ 8.5$19K box officeCharles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill +2
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Shichinin no samurai
Akira Kurosawa·1954·ActionTML 95★ 8.6$269K box officeToshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura +2
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Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa·1954·ActionTML 95★ 8.6$820K box officeToshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura +2
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Modern Times
Charles Chaplin·1936·ComedyTML 93★ 8.5$163K box officeCharles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard +2
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Grave of the Fireflies
Isao Takahata·1988·AnimationTML 93★ 8.5$517K box officeTsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi +2
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Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$3.6M box officeIrène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant +2
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Trois couleurs: Rouge
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$4.0M box officeIrène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant +2
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer·1928·BiographyTML 92★ 8.1$22K box officeMaria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain +2
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Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné·1945·DramaTML 92★ 8.3$37K box officeArletty, Jean-Louis Barrault +2
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Du rififi chez les hommes
Jules Dassin·1955·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$57K box officeJean Servais, Carl Möhner +2
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Il conformista
Bernardo Bertolucci·1970·DramaTML 92★ 8$542K box officeJean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli +2
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The Night of the Hunter
Charles Laughton·1955·CrimeTML 92★ 8.0$654K box officeRobert Mitchum, Shelley Winters +2
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Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville·1969·DramaTML 92★ 8.1$862K box officeLino Ventura, Paul Meurisse +2
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Bronenosets Potemkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 91★ 8.0$51K box officeAleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy +2
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La battaglia di Algeri
Gillo Pontecorvo·1966·DramaTML 91★ 8.1$56K box officeBrahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin +2
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The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch·1940·ComedyTML 91★ 8.1$203K box officeMargaret Sullavan, James Stewart +2
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The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci·1970·DramaTML 91★ 7.9$239K box officeJean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli +2
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The Best of Youth
Marco Tullio Giordana·2003·DramaTML 91★ 8.5$274K box officeLuigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni +2
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