CRAIG'S TOP 10 GENRE SERIES - DRAMA

"A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes."

#1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - 1994

Director: Frank Darabont

Starring: Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, William Sadler

#2. CASABLANCA - 1942

 Director: Michael Curtiz

Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains

#3. THE ELEPHANT MAN - 1980

 Director: David Lynch

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft

#4. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - 1962

 Director: Robert Mulligan

Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Robert Duvall

#5. SCENT OF A WOMAN - 1992

 Director: Martin Brest

Starring: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Phillip Seymour Hoffman

#6. THIS IS ENGLAND - 2006

 Director: Shane Meadows

Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Joe Gilgun

#7. CRASH - 2004

Director: Paul Haggis

Starring: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton

#8. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - 1975

Director: Milos Forman

Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito

#9. RAIN MAN - 1988

 Director: Barry Levinson

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise

#10. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - 2005

 Director: Ang Lee

Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams

This was a very tough list to compose, simply as I couldn't think of any proper human emotion films. Instead I looked at how each issue in these films I nominated were beneficial to the actual films themselves e.g. Elephant Man - cruelty, This Is England - race, Brokeback Mountain - sexuality. Nonetheless there are some excellent films on this list but I feel that in the future if I do remake this list, then there may be more focus on the dramatic aspect on the film's aim.