Top rated 20 brilliant directing movies with Drama

Check out today’s highest ranked brilliant directing Drama movies! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best brilliant directing Drama movies, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 By the Grace of God (2019)

Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.

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2019-02-20 | Drama

Cast

Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    directorial flourish
  2. Ranked #1 for
    formal
  3. Ranked #1 for
    concurrent

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2 The Quiet Girl (2022)

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

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2022-05-12 | Drama

Cast

Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley

Rating

rating icon 7.527
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    quiet
  2. Ranked #1 for
    slow beginning
  3. Ranked #1 for
    acclaimed director

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3 Trees of Peace (2021)

In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Rwandan genocide. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.

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2021-04-01 | Drama

Cast

Charmaine Bingwa, Eliane Umuhire

Rating

rating icon 7.188
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    versatile actor
  2. Ranked #1 for
    wonderfully put together
  3. Ranked #1 for
    definitely recommending

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4 All Eyes Off Me (2022)

A party in Tel Aviv, Israel. Danny is looking for Max to share that she is pregnant with his child; but Max has just started a new relationship with Avishag whose rough sexual fantasy he is trying to make come true.

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2022-06-08 | Drama

Cast

Elisheva Weil, Leib Levin

Rating

rating icon 4.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    brilliant directing
  2. Ranked #1 for
    skillful directing
  3. Ranked #1 for
    stylish directing

Trailer

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5 Wolf (2021)

Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the enigmatic Wildcat, with whom he roams the hospital in the dead of night. The two form an improbable friendship that develops into infatuation.

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2021-12-03 | Drama

Cast

George MacKay, Lily-Rose Depp

Rating

rating icon 5.237
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    challenging role
  2. Ranked #1 for
    one-dimensional villain
  3. Ranked #1 for
    existential question

Trailer

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6 A Shattered Diamond (2021)

A story of a group friends as they deal with the loss of one of their own, and learn how to move on.

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2021-01-01 | Drama

Cast

Lou DeNardo, Jenny Boswell

Rating

rating icon 0.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    talented cast
  2. Ranked #1 for
    expert
  3. Ranked #1 for
    capturing the essence

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7 The Endless Trench (2019)

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

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2019-10-31 | Drama / History

Cast

Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta

Rating

rating icon 6.863
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    never-ending
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pacifism
  3. Ranked #2 for
    endless

Trailer

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8 Lapsis (2021)

In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.

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2021-02-12 | Science Fiction / Thriller

Cast

Dean Imperial, Madeline Wise

Rating

rating icon 6.121
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    bringing closure
  2. Ranked #3 for
    skillful directing
  3. Ranked #4 for
    stylish directing

Trailer

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9 Nomadland (2021)

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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2021-01-29 | Drama

Cast

Frances McDormand, David Strathairn

Rating

rating icon 7.206
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rootless character
  2. Ranked #2 for
    shortlisted
  3. Ranked #2 for
    overrated

Trailer

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10 White Lie (2019)

Katie Arneson is faking cancer. A university dance major, Katie's falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus celebrity surrounded by the supportive community she's always dreamed of. But now dependent on a bursary for sick students to maintain her ruse, Katie learns the funding is in jeopardy unless she can provide copies of her medical records within the week.

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2019-09-07 | Drama

Cast

Kacey Rohl, Amber Anderson

Rating

rating icon 6.606
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    multitalented director
  2. Ranked #1 for
    talented
  3. Ranked #1 for
    highly talented director

Trailer

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