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Best Drama Movies of the 1900s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
29 drama films from the 1900s are in our catalog; the 29 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Bluebeard (1901), at 6.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 5.9.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bluebeard '1901 | Drama / Horror / Fantasy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.3 | Georges Méliès |
| 2 | A Corner in Wheat '1909 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | D.W. Griffith |
| 3 | Rescued by Rover '1905 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Lewin Fitzhamon |
| 4 | Joan of Arc '1900 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.9 | Georges Méliès |
| 5 | The Little Match Seller '1902 | Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | James Williamson |
| 6 | The Country Doctor '1909 | Drama | 6.4 | - | - | 6.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 7 | The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ '1903 | Drama | 6.5 | - | - | 6.6 | Lucien Nonguet |
| 8 | The Story of the Kelly Gang '1906 | Crime / Drama / Action | 6.0 | 80% | - | 5.3 | Charles Tait |
| 9 | The Airship Destroyer '1909 | Drama / War / Sci-Fi / Action | 6.1 | - | - | 5.8 | Walter R. Booth |
| 10 | The Lonely Villa '1909 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 6.1 | - | - | 6.0 | D.W. Griffith |
| 11 | The Sealed Room '1909 | Romance / Drama / Horror | 6.0 | - | - | 5.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 12 | Fire! '1901 | Action / Drama | 6.2 | - | - | 5.9 | James Williamson |
| 13 | History of a Crime '1901 | Drama / Crime | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Ferdinand Zecca |
| 14 | Edgar Allen Poe '1909 | Drama | 5.9 | - | - | 5.4 | D.W. Griffith |
| 15 | Cyrano de Bergerac '1900 | Comedy / Drama | 6.2 | - | - | 5.8 | Clément Maurice |
| 16 | Grandma's Reading Glass '1900 | Drama | 6.0 | - | - | 6.2 | George Albert Smith |
| 17 | A Trap for Santa Claus '1909 | Drama | 5.6 | - | - | 5.5 | D.W. Griffith |
| 18 | Rescued from an Eagle's Nest '1908 | Drama / Action / Thriller | 5.8 | - | - | 5.5 | J. Searle Dawley |
| 19 | The Devil and the Statue '1901 | Romance / Horror / Fantasy / Drama | 5.8 | - | - | 5.4 | Georges Méliès |
| 20 | The Adventures of Dollie '1908 | Drama / Thriller | 5.7 | - | - | 5.3 | D.W. Griffith |
| 21 | Prussian Culture '1908 | Drama | 5.3 | - | - | 4.7 | Mojżesz Towbin |
| 22 | Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost '1901 | Drama / Fantasy | 5.6 | - | - | 5.6 | Walter R. Booth |
| 23 | The Assassination of the Duke de Guise '1908 | Drama | 5.5 | - | - | 5.4 | André Calmettes |
| 24 | Nero, or The Fall of Rome '1909 | Drama | 5.2 | - | - | 5.5 | Luigi Maggi |
| 25 | Attack on a China Mission '1900 | Action / Drama / War | 5.5 | - | - | 5.1 | James Williamson |
| 26 | Uncle Tom's Cabin '1903 | Drama | 5.2 | - | - | 4.9 | Edwin S. Porter |
| 27 | The Terrible Eruption of Mount Pelee and Destruction of St. Pierre, Martinique '1902 | Drama | 5.3 | - | - | 5.4 | Georges Méliès |
| 28 | Stenka Razin '1908 | Drama | 4.8 | - | - | 4.5 | Vladimir Romashkov |
| 29 | Ben Hur '1907 | Drama | 4.7 | - | - | 4.4 | Sidney Olcott |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Georges Méliès D.W. Griffith James Williamson Walter R. Booth Ferdinand Zecca George Albert Smith Edwin S. Porter