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Best Drama Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
250 drama films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Top Gun: Maverick (2022), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.6. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Sound of Freedom, 7.6 on IMDb against 36 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Top Gun: Maverick '2022 | Action / Drama | 8.2 | 96% | 78 | 8.2 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 2 | Oppenheimer '2023 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 93% | 90 | 8.0 | Christopher Nolan |
| 3 | The Punisher: One Last Kill '2026 | Action / Drama / Crime | - | 73% | - | 8.3 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 4 | The Father '2020 | Drama | 8.2 | 98% | 88 | 8.1 | Florian Zeller |
| 5 | Soul '2020 | Animation / Drama / Musical / Fantasy | 8.0 | 95% | 83 | 8.1 | Pete Docter |
| 6 | CODA '2021 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 8.0 | 94% | 72 | 7.9 | Sian Heder |
| 7 | All Quiet on the Western Front '2022 | War / Drama | 7.8 | 90% | 76 | 7.7 | Edward Berger |
| 8 | The Holdovers '2023 | Drama / Comedy | 7.9 | 97% | 82 | 7.6 | Alexander Payne |
| 9 | I'm Still Here '2024 | Drama | 8.1 | - | 85 | 7.9 | Walter Salles |
| 10 | Another Round '2020 | Drama | 7.7 | 93% | 79 | 7.6 | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 11 | RRR '2022 | Action / Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 83 | 7.7 | S. S. Rajamouli |
| 12 | The Trial of the Chicago 7 '2020 | Drama | 7.7 | 89% | 76 | 7.7 | Aaron Sorkin |
| 13 | Sound of Metal '2020 | Drama / Musical | 7.7 | 97% | 82 | 7.7 | Darius Marder |
| 14 | F1 '2025 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.8 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 15 | The Whale '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 64% | 60 | 7.8 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 16 | The Banshees of Inisherin '2022 | Drama / Comedy | 7.6 | 96% | 87 | 7.5 | Martin McDonagh |
| 17 | Past Lives '2023 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 94 | 7.7 | Celine Song |
| 18 | Society of the Snow '2023 | Drama | 7.8 | 90% | 72 | 8.0 | J. A. Bayona |
| 19 | Promising Young Woman '2020 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 72 | 7.4 | Emerald Fennell |
| 20 | The Whisper Man '2026 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | - | 46% | - | 6.8 | James Ashcroft |
| 21 | Hamnet '2025 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 86% | 84 | 7.7 | Chloé Zhao |
| 22 | Killers of the Flower Moon '2023 | Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 89 | 7.4 | Martin Scorsese |
| 23 | The Worst Person in the World '2021 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Joachim Trier |
| 24 | Perfect Days '2023 | Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 80 | 7.8 | Wim Wenders |
| 25 | Frankenstein '2025 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.4 | 85% | 78 | 7.6 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 26 | Marty Supreme '2025 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 93% | 89 | 7.4 | Josh Safdie |
| 27 | A Man Called Otto '2022 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 70% | 51 | 7.7 | Marc Forster |
| 28 | King Richard '2021 | Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 76 | 7.6 | Reinaldo Marcus Green |
| 29 | Anora '2024 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 93% | 91 | 7.1 | Sean Baker |
| 30 | The Social Dilemma '2020 | Documentary / Drama | 7.6 | 84% | 78 | 7.5 | Jeff Orlowski |
| 31 | Michael '2026 | Musical / Drama | 7.4 | 38% | 39 | 8.6 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 32 | Conclave '2024 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 93% | 79 | 7.2 | Edward Berger |
| 33 | Aftersun '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 95 | 7.7 | Charlotte Wells |
| 34 | Luca '2021 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 91% | 71 | 7.8 | Enrico Casarosa |
| 35 | Sound of Freedom '2023 | Action / Drama | 7.6 | 57% | 36 | 7.9 | Alejandro Monteverde |
| 36 | Thirteen Lives '2022 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 66 | 7.8 | Ron Howard |
| 37 | Minari '2020 | Drama | 7.4 | 98% | 89 | 7.3 | Lee Isaac Chung |
| 38 | Sentimental Value '2025 | Drama | 7.7 | 95% | 86 | 7.5 | Joachim Trier |
| 39 | American Fiction '2023 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | 93% | 81 | 7.2 | Cord Jefferson |
| 40 | The Fabelmans '2022 | Drama | 7.5 | 92% | 85 | 7.5 | Steven Spielberg |
| 41 | Elvis '2022 | Musical / Drama | 7.3 | 77% | 64 | 7.4 | Baz Luhrmann |
| 42 | tick, tick... BOOM! '2021 | Drama / Musical | 7.5 | 87% | 74 | 7.6 | Lin-Manuel Miranda |
| 43 | Air '2023 | Drama | 7.4 | 93% | 73 | 7.3 | Ben Affleck |
| 44 | Nomadland '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 93% | 87 | 7.2 | Chloé Zhao |
| 45 | Train Dreams '2025 | Drama / Western | 7.5 | 93% | 88 | 7.3 | Clint Bentley |
| 46 | The Last Duel '2021 | Drama | 7.3 | 85% | 67 | 7.4 | Ridley Scott |
| 47 | Wicked '2024 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 73 | 6.9 | Jon M. Chu |
| 48 | Riders of Justice '2020 | Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| 49 | The Iron Claw '2023 | Drama | 7.5 | 89% | 73 | 7.5 | Sean Durkin |
| 50 | Don't Look Up '2021 | Comedy / Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.1 | - | 49 | 7.1 | Adam McKay |
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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Directors on this list
Joseph Kosinski Christopher Nolan Pete Docter Alexander Payne Darren Aronofsky Martin McDonagh J. A. Bayona Martin Scorsese Wim Wenders Guillermo del Toro Marc Forster Antoine Fuqua
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Tom Cruise Miles Teller Cillian Murphy Emily Blunt Jon Bernthal Anthony Hopkins Olivia Colman Jamie Foxx Paul Giamatti Mads Mikkelsen Eddie Redmayne Sacha Baron Cohen