Top rated Drama movies with a gripping start
Check out today’s highest ranked Drama movies with a gripping start! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best Drama movies with a gripping start, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Lawrence After Arabia (2020)
This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring to his cottage in Dorset he hopes to escape his past but is pulled into political intrigue. While he has powerful friends, with his uncompromising manner he has made dangerous enemies. As they plot against him he dies in a tragic motorcycle accident. However, with such enemies was his untimely death an assassination and cover up by the British Secret Service?
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- 2020-05-19 | Drama
Cast
- Brian Cox, Hugh Fraser
Rating
- 5.5
2 The Stranger (2022)
Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.
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- 2022-10-06 | Thriller / Crime
Cast
- Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris
Rating
- 6.133
3 Thirteen Lives (2022)
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.
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- 2022-07-18 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell
Rating
- 7.898
4 Lapwing (2021)
Mute young woman Patience, from an isolated community in rural England in 1555, struggles with her controlling brother-in-law and leader, David, who is gradually unraveling after the failure of his idyllic community. The Egyptian Act has been passed, stipulating that all ‘gypsies’ must vacate England immediately and anyone found aiding them could be executed. In exchange for a fee, David agrees to help an Egyptian family who must stay a month on their land until a ship comes to take them away. But when Patience pursues an affair with one of the outsiders, she is thrust into a violent and vicious psychological battle with David.
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- 2021-11-26 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Hannah Douglas, Emmett Scanlan
Rating
- 6.4
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5 American Skin (2019)
A Marine veteran working as a school janitor tries to mend his relationship with his son after a divorce. When his son is killed by a police officer found innocent without standing trial, he takes matters into his own hands.
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- 2019-09-01 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi
Rating
- 7.199
6 Greyhound (2020)
A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the "Black Pit" to the front lines of WWII. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.
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- 2020-07-09 | War / Action
Cast
- Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham
Rating
- 7.407
7 The Captain (2019)
Based on the true story of a pilot who had to ensure the safety of 128 passengers and crew members on the plane when its windshield became damaged mid-flight. The incident is regarded as one of the miracles in aviation history.
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- 2019-09-30 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Zhang Hanyu, Oho Ou
Rating
- 7.041
8 Mope (2019)
The tragic true story of best friends Steve Driver and Tom Dong, two low end porn actors who sought fame but gained infamy.
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- 2019-06-15 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kelly Sry
Rating
- 4.8
9 The Sanctuary (2019)
Edna and Harley Whalen, an elderly couple, give shelter to Wade, a suspected murderer on the run. The Whalens do all that they can to protect Wade but evil begets evil in this world, and even more so in Sanctuary.
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- 2019-11-22 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Lawrene Denkers, Dylen Michael Guiry
Rating
- 5.5
10 The Immortal (2019)
After reuniting with his first mentor Bruno and receiving his latest mission, an exiled Ciro is left to fearlessly confront whatever comes his way, navigating a new chapter of gang warfare while grappling with devastating memories of loss and trauma. Weaving between his past as an orphan in Naples' cruel underworld and present as a hardened, cunning assassin with nothing left to lose, Ciro is plunged into the cold, dark depths of a world where immortality is just another form of damnation.
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- 2019-12-05 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Marco D'Amore, Giuseppe Aiello
Rating
- 6.644