I get all emotional watching these movies - here are my Top 50 dramatic films, in no particular order.
1. Legends of the Fall
2. Philadelphia
3. Steel Magnolias
4. Atonement
5. Beaches
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Dances with Wolves
8. A League of Their Own
9. Mr Holland's Opus
10. Awakenings
11. Shame
12. I Am Sam
13. The Imitation Game
14. Cast Away
15. The Color Purple
16. Good Will Hunting
17. A Beautiful Mind
18. Little Children
19. The Theory of Everything
20. Stand by Me
21. Forever Young
22. The Reader
23. The Good Girl
24. Slumdog Millionaire
25. Catch Me If You Can
26. Fried Green Tomatoes
27. The Descendants
28. Donnie Darko
29. 50/50
30. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
31. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
32. The Help
33. A Time to Kill
34. Rain Man
35. The Horse Whisperer
36. Girl Interrupted
37. Dallas Buyers Club
38. Thelma and Louise
39. Into the Wild
40. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
41. Gallipoli
42. Field of Dreams
43. Wild
44. Million Dollar Baby
45. This Boy's Life
46. Dead Poet's Society
47. Flight
48. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
49. Stepmom
50. Les Miserables
1. Legends of the Fall
2. Philadelphia
3. Steel Magnolias
4. Atonement
5. Beaches
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Dances with Wolves
8. A League of Their Own
9. Mr Holland's Opus
10. Awakenings
11. Shame
12. I Am Sam
13. The Imitation Game
14. Cast Away
15. The Color Purple
16. Good Will Hunting
17. A Beautiful Mind
18. Little Children
19. The Theory of Everything
20. Stand by Me
21. Forever Young
22. The Reader
23. The Good Girl
24. Slumdog Millionaire
25. Catch Me If You Can
26. Fried Green Tomatoes
27. The Descendants
28. Donnie Darko
29. 50/50
30. What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
31. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
32. The Help
33. A Time to Kill
34. Rain Man
35. The Horse Whisperer
36. Girl Interrupted
37. Dallas Buyers Club
38. Thelma and Louise
39. Into the Wild
40. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
41. Gallipoli
42. Field of Dreams
43. Wild
44. Million Dollar Baby
45. This Boy's Life
46. Dead Poet's Society
47. Flight
48. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
49. Stepmom
50. Les Miserables