Drama Movies Bucket List

Watch Spartacus, the 1960 epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick (the film is often incorrectly attributed to David Lynch; it stars Kirk Douglas as the Thracian gladiator who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic). The film is famous for its massive battle scenes, the iconic 'I am Spartacus' sequence, and a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (a blacklisted writer who received credit, helping break the Hollywood blacklist).

Watch Stanley Kubrick's final film, a psychological drama exploring themes of sexuality, marriage, and secret societies.

Watch Stanley Kubrick's 1975 period drama Barry Lyndon, known for its visual beauty and historical accuracy.

Watch The Straight Story, a 1999 American road drama film directed by David Lynch

Watch Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, the prequel film to the Twin Peaks series

Watch Twin Peaks: The Return (Season 3), the 2017 revival series directed by David Lynch

Watch Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, a collection of deleted scenes from the Twin Peaks universe

James Braddock fights his way out of the Depression, one purse at a time.

The last day of Oscar Grant, before a BART platform in Oakland on New Year’s morning.

A West African boy conscripted into a militia, and the commandant who becomes his father.

Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin, from the London workhouse to the honorary Oscar.

Two girls vanish in Pennsylvania and a father takes the investigation into his own basement.

Three product launches, backstage, in real time; Sorkin dialogue at full speed.

A skier who missed the Olympics runs the highest-stakes poker game in America.

P. T. Barnum as a pop musical; the songs outlived the reviews.

Hugo’s barricades sung live on set, with Hathaway’s one-take I Dreamed a Dream.

A young forger sent to Italy to bring a rich man home decides to become him instead.

A screenwriter goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death and meets someone who lets him.

John Dillinger robbing banks across the Midwest while the FBI invents itself to catch him.

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, paints and writes with the only limb he controls.

Bob Dylan from the Village to Newport 1965, with Chalamet singing it himself.

An FBI agent undercover in the Bonanno family, and the ageing wiseguy who vouches for him.

A German teenager and an older woman, and the trial twenty years later that explains her secret.

The week after Dallas, seen entirely from inside Jacqueline Kennedy.

A lawyer fired for having AIDS sues his firm, in the first big-studio film to say the word out loud.

Ten years of Muhammad Ali, from Liston to the Rumble in the Jungle.

A legal clerk with no training takes on a utility poisoning a California town, and wins.

Neil Armstrong to the Moon, shot from inside the helmet and told through a father who cannot talk about his daughter.