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Drama Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
131 drama films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with critics than with audiences by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Journey to Italy (1954), 7.2 on IMDb against 100 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Journey to Italy '1954 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 96% | 100 | 7.2 | Roberto Rossellini | -28 |
| 2 | Moonlight '2016 | Drama | 7.4 | 98% | 99 | 7.4 | Barry Jenkins | -25 |
| 3 | Mean Streets '1973 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 92% | 96 | 7.0 | Martin Scorsese | -25 |
| 4 | Don't Look Now '1973 | Thriller / Drama / Horror | 7.1 | 93% | 95 | 6.9 | Nicolas Roeg | -24 |
| 5 | American Graffiti '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 95% | 97 | 7.1 | George Lucas | -23 |
| 6 | Alphaville '1965 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.9 | 92% | 92 | 6.9 | Jean-Luc Godard | -23 |
| 7 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages '1916 | Drama | 7.6 | 98% | 99 | 7.1 | D.W. Griffith | -23 |
| 8 | The Power of the Dog '2021 | Drama / Western | 6.8 | 94% | 89 | 6.7 | Jane Campion | -21 |
| 9 | Boyhood '2014 | Drama | 7.9 | 97% | 100 | 7.5 | Richard Linklater | -21 |
| 10 | Zero Dark Thirty '2012 | Thriller / Drama | 7.4 | 91% | 95 | 7.0 | Kathryn Bigelow | -21 |
| 11 | Carol '2015 | Romance / Drama | 7.3 | 94% | 94 | 7.5 | Todd Haynes | -21 |
| 12 | L'Argent '1983 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 95 | 6.9 | Robert Bresson | -21 |
| 13 | The Conformist '1971 | Drama | 7.9 | 98% | 100 | 7.6 | Bernardo Bertolucci | -21 |
| 14 | Jules and Jim '1962 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 94% | 97 | 7.5 | François Truffaut | -21 |
| 15 | The Leopard '1963 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | 100 | 7.7 | Luchino Visconti | -21 |
| 16 | Au Hasard Balthazar '1966 | Drama | 7.7 | 100% | 98 | 7.5 | Robert Bresson | -21 |
| 17 | Notorious '1946 | Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 100 | 7.7 | Alfred Hitchcock | -21 |
| 18 | The Green Knight '2021 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.5 | 88% | 85 | 6.6 | David Lowery | -20 |
| 19 | The Lost Daughter '2021 | Drama | 6.6 | 94% | 86 | 6.4 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | -20 |
| 20 | Roma '2018 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 96 | 7.6 | Alfonso Cuarón | -20 |
| 21 | Under the Skin '2014 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Drama | 6.3 | 84% | 83 | 6.1 | Jonathan Glazer | -20 |
| 22 | The Hurt Locker '2008 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.5 | 96% | 95 | 7.2 | Kathryn Bigelow | -20 |
| 23 | Three Colors: Red '1994 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 8.0 | 100% | 100 | 7.9 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | -20 |
| 24 | Nashville '1975 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.6 | 89% | 96 | 7.3 | Robert Altman | -20 |
| 25 | Breathless '1960 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.6 | 95% | 96 | 7.5 | Jean-Luc Godard | -20 |
| 26 | Masculin Féminin '1966 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 96% | 93 | 7.2 | Jean-Luc Godard | -20 |
| 27 | Touch of Evil '1958 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 99 | 7.7 | Orson Welles | -20 |
| 28 | Sweet Smell of Success '1957 | Drama | 8.0 | 98% | 100 | 7.6 | Alexander Mackendrick | -20 |
| 29 | Going My Way '1944 | Drama / Comedy / Musical | 7.0 | 85% | 90 | 6.7 | Leo McCarey | -20 |
| 30 | The Rules of the Game '1939 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.9 | 97% | 99 | 7.5 | Jean Renoir | -20 |
| 31 | Licorice Pizza '2021 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 90 | 6.9 | Paul Thomas Anderson | -19 |
| 32 | The Zone of Interest '2023 | Drama / War | 7.3 | 93% | 92 | 7.0 | Jonathan Glazer | -19 |
| 33 | Aftersun '2022 | Drama | 7.6 | 96% | 95 | 7.7 | Charlotte Wells | -19 |
| 34 | The Brutalist '2024 | Drama | 7.2 | 93% | 91 | 6.9 | Brady Corbet | -19 |
| 35 | TÁR '2022 | Musical / Drama | 7.4 | - | 93 | 7.1 | Todd Field | -19 |
| 36 | May December '2023 | Drama | 6.7 | 91% | 86 | 6.6 | Todd Haynes | -19 |
| 37 | Gravity '2013 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | 96 | 7.2 | Alfonso Cuarón | -19 |
| 38 | Lady Bird '2017 | Drama / Comedy | 7.4 | 99% | 93 | 7.2 | Greta Gerwig | -19 |
| 39 | Uncut Gems '2019 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 91% | 93 | 7.2 | Benny Safdie | -19 |
| 40 | Sideways '2004 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | 94 | 7.1 | Alexander Payne | -19 |
| 41 | My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown '1989 | Drama | 7.8 | 98% | 97 | 7.5 | Jim Sheridan | -19 |
| 42 | Fanny and Alexander '1982 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 100% | 100 | 7.8 | Ingmar Bergman | -19 |
| 43 | Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles '1976 | Drama | 7.5 | 95% | 94 | 7.4 | Chantal Akerman | -19 |
| 44 | Tristana '1970 | Drama | 7.4 | 97% | 93 | 7.2 | Luis Buñuel | -19 |
| 45 | Tokyo Story '1953 | Drama | 8.1 | 100% | 100 | 8.2 | Yasujirō Ozu | -19 |
| 46 | Red River '1948 | Western / Drama | 7.7 | 100% | 96 | 7.3 | Howard Hawks | -19 |
| 47 | Meet Me in St. Louis '1944 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 99% | 94 | 7.0 | Vincente Minnelli | -19 |
| 48 | The Boy and the Heron '2023 | Animation / Fantasy / Drama | 7.3 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Hayao Miyazaki | -18 |
| 49 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom '2020 | Drama / Musical | 6.9 | 97% | 87 | 6.6 | George C. Wolfe | -18 |
| 50 | American Hustle '2013 | Drama / Crime | 7.2 | 92% | 90 | 6.9 | David O. Russell | -18 |
| 51 | Manchester by the Sea '2016 | Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 96 | 7.5 | Kenneth Lonergan | -18 |
| 52 | The Babadook '2014 | Drama / Horror | 6.8 | 98% | 86 | 6.5 | Jennifer Kent | -18 |
| 53 | A Serious Man '2009 | Comedy / Drama | 7.0 | 89% | 88 | 6.7 | Joel Coen | -18 |
| 54 | Free Willy '1993 | Drama | 6.1 | 71% | 79 | 6.2 | Simon Wincer | -18 |
| 55 | The Age of Innocence '1993 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 88% | 90 | 7.0 | Martin Scorsese | -18 |
| 56 | To Die For '1995 | Drama / Comedy / Crime | 6.8 | 88% | 86 | 6.6 | Gus Van Sant | -18 |
| 57 | The Crying Game '1992 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 95% | 90 | 6.8 | Neil Jordan | -18 |
| 58 | My Fair Lady '1964 | Comedy / Musical / Drama | 7.7 | 94% | 95 | 7.5 | George Cukor | -18 |
| 59 | Army of Shadows '1969 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 97% | 99 | 7.9 | Jean-Pierre Melville | -18 |
| 60 | Ride the High Country '1962 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 89% | 92 | 7.1 | Sam Peckinpah | -18 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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