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Best Drama Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
293 drama films from the 2010s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Interstellar (2014), at 8.7 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 8.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Bohemian Rhapsody, 7.9 on IMDb against 49 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Interstellar '2014 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 8.7 | 73% | 74 | 8.5 | Christopher Nolan |
| 2 | Django Unchained '2012 | Drama / Western | 8.5 | 87% | 81 | 8.2 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 3 | Parasite '2019 | Comedy / Thriller / Drama | 8.5 | 99% | 97 | 8.5 | Bong Joon Ho |
| 4 | Whiplash '2014 | Drama / Musical / Thriller | 8.5 | 94% | 89 | 8.4 | Damien Chazelle |
| 5 | The Intouchables '2011 | Drama / Comedy | 8.5 | 75% | 57 | 8.3 | Éric Toledano |
| 6 | Joker '2019 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.3 | 68% | 59 | 8.1 | Todd Phillips |
| 7 | The Wolf of Wall Street '2013 | Crime / Drama / Comedy | 8.2 | 79% | 75 | 8.0 | Martin Scorsese |
| 8 | Shutter Island '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 8.2 | 69% | 63 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 9 | Prisoners '2013 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.2 | 81% | 70 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 10 | 1917 '2019 | War / Drama | 8.2 | 88% | 78 | 8.0 | Sam Mendes |
| 11 | Gone Girl '2014 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 88% | 79 | 7.9 | David Fincher |
| 12 | Green Book '2018 | Drama / Comedy | 8.2 | 77% | 69 | 8.2 | Peter Farrelly |
| 13 | Your Name. '2016 | Animation / Romance / Drama | 8.4 | 98% | 81 | 8.5 | Makoto Shinkai |
| 14 | Logan '2017 | Action / Drama / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 93% | 77 | 7.8 | James Mangold |
| 15 | The Grand Budapest Hotel '2014 | Comedy / Drama | 8.1 | 92% | 88 | 8.0 | Wes Anderson |
| 16 | Inside Out '2015 | Animation / Drama / Comedy | 8.1 | 98% | 94 | 7.9 | Pete Docter |
| 17 | Hacksaw Ridge '2016 | Drama / War | 8.1 | 84% | 71 | 8.2 | Mel Gibson |
| 18 | 12 Years a Slave '2013 | Drama | 8.1 | 95% | 96 | 7.9 | Steve McQueen |
| 19 | The Martian '2015 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 8.0 | 91% | 80 | 7.7 | Ridley Scott |
| 20 | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri '2017 | Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 90% | 88 | 8.1 | Martin McDonagh |
| 21 | The Revenant '2015 | Western / Drama | 8.0 | 78% | 76 | 7.5 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 22 | The Imitation Game '2014 | Drama / Thriller / War | 8.0 | 89% | 71 | 8.0 | Morten Tyldum |
| 23 | La La Land '2016 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 91% | 94 | 7.9 | Damien Chazelle |
| 24 | Ford v Ferrari '2019 | Drama / Action | 8.1 | 92% | 81 | 8.0 | James Mangold |
| 25 | Blade Runner 2049 '2017 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 8.0 | 88% | 81 | 7.6 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 26 | Black Swan '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 8.0 | 85% | 79 | 7.7 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 27 | The Hunt '2012 | Drama | 8.3 | 92% | 77 | 8.1 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 28 | Rush '2013 | Drama / Action | 8.1 | 89% | 74 | 7.7 | Ron Howard |
| 29 | Spotlight '2015 | Drama | 8.1 | 97% | 93 | 7.8 | Tom McCarthy |
| 30 | Arrival '2016 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.9 | 94% | 81 | 7.6 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 31 | The King's Speech '2010 | Drama | 8.0 | 94% | 88 | 7.7 | Tom Hooper |
| 32 | Room '2015 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 93% | 86 | 8.0 | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 33 | Warrior '2011 | Drama / Action | 8.1 | 84% | 71 | 7.8 | Gavin O'Connor |
| 34 | The Help '2011 | Drama | 8.1 | 75% | 62 | 8.2 | Tate Taylor |
| 35 | Bohemian Rhapsody '2018 | Musical / Drama | 7.9 | 60% | 49 | 7.9 | Bryan Singer |
| 36 | Her '2013 | Romance / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.9 | 95% | 91 | 7.8 | Spike Jonze |
| 37 | Life of Pi '2012 | Drama | 7.9 | 86% | 79 | 7.4 | Ang Lee |
| 38 | The Perks of Being a Wallflower '2012 | Drama | 7.9 | 85% | 67 | 7.8 | Stephen Chbosky |
| 39 | Jojo Rabbit '2019 | Comedy / War / Drama | 7.9 | 81% | 58 | 8.0 | Taika Waititi |
| 40 | The Social Network '2010 | Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 95 | 7.4 | David Fincher |
| 41 | Nightcrawler '2014 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 95% | 76 | 7.7 | Dan Gilroy |
| 42 | Dallas Buyers Club '2013 | Drama | 7.9 | 92% | 77 | 7.9 | Jean-Marc Vallée |
| 43 | The Hateful Eight '2015 | Drama / Mystery / Western | 7.8 | 74% | 68 | 7.8 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 44 | Incendies '2010 | Drama / War / Mystery | 8.3 | 91% | 80 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 45 | Drive '2011 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.8 | 93% | 79 | 7.6 | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 46 | Gravity '2013 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | 96 | 7.2 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 47 | Boyhood '2014 | Drama | 7.9 | 97% | 100 | 7.5 | Richard Linklater |
| 48 | The Big Short '2015 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 89% | 81 | 7.4 | Adam McKay |
| 49 | Marriage Story '2019 | Drama | 7.9 | 95% | 94 | 7.7 | Noah Baumbach |
| 50 | Lion '2016 | Drama | 8.0 | 84% | 69 | 8.0 | Garth Davis |
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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