Movies by Lists - Best Picture Winners (93 [93]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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12 Years a SlaveIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. | 2013 | Steve McQueen (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.1 (676K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
All About EveA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends. | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama | 8.2 (128K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
All Quiet on the Western FrontA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror. | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | Drama, War | 8.1 (60.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
All the King's MenThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. | 1949 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.5 (14.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
AmadeusThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. | 1984 | Milos Forman (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 8.3 (388.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
American BeautyA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. | 1999 | Sam Mendes | Drama | 8.3 (1.1M votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
An American in ParisThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (32.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
Annie HallAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages. | 1977 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (260.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Apartment, TheA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. | 1960 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 (175.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
ArgoActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979. | 2012 | Ben Affleck | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (598.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Around The World In 80 DaysA Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. | 1956 | Michael Anderson, John Farrow | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance | 6.8 (26.6K votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
Artist, TheAn egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era. | 2011 | Michel Hazanavicius | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (238K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Beautiful Mind, AAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. | 2001 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama | 8.2 (897.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
Ben HurAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. | 1959 | William Wyler (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 8.1 (232.2K votes) | 212 | 20211228 |
Best Years of Our Lives, TheThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. | 1946 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.1 (62K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
BirdmanA washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production. | 2014 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (610.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
BraveheartScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England. | 1995 | Mel Gibson (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.3 (1M votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
Bridge on the River Kwai, TheBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. | 1957 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 8.1 (214.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
Broadway Melody, TheA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.7 (7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
CasablancaA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.5 (558.2K votes) | 102 | 20220423 |
CavalcadeA portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933. | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (5.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Chariots of FireTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience. | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.2 (58.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
ChicagoTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention. | 2002 | Rob Marshall | Comedy, Crime, Musical | 7.2 (225.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
CimarronA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century. | 1931 | Wesley Ruggles | Drama, Western | 5.9 (6K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
CrashLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. | 2004 | Paul Haggis | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (430.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Dances with WolvesLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Native Americans, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. | 1990 | Kevin Costner (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 8.0 (254.9K votes) | 181 | 20211228 |
Deer Hunter, TheAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania. | 1978 | Michael Cimino (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (329.7K votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
Departed, TheAn undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. | 2006 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (1.3M votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
Driving Miss DaisyAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | Drama | 7.4 (107K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
English Patient, TheAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (186.4K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
Forrest GumpThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweeth | 1994 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.8 (2M votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
From Here To EternityAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair. | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (45.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
GandhiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. | 1982 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (225.5K votes) | 191 | 20211228 |
Gentlemen's AgreementA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred. | 1947 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (15.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
GigiWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (22.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
GladiatorA former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. | 2000 | Ridley Scott (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama | 8.5 (1.4M votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.2 (1.7M votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
Godfather Part II, TheThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.0 (1.2M votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
Going My WayWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member. | 1944 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.1 (11.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
Gone with the WindThe manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.1 (306.3K votes) | 238 | 20211228 |
Grand HotelA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (18.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
Great Ziegfeld, TheThe ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed. | 1936 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Musical | 6.7 (7.9K votes) | 176 | 20211228 |
Greatest Show on Earth, TheThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle. | 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama, Family, Romance | 6.6 (14.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
Green BookA working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music | 8.2 (442K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
HamletPrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king. | 1948 | Laurence Olivier (*) | Drama | 7.6 (16.5K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
How Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. | 1941 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Family | 7.7 (23.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Hurt Locker, TheDuring the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work. | 2008 | Kathryn Bigelow | Drama, Thriller, War | 7.5 (440.1K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
In The Heat of The NightA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case. | 1967 | Norman Jewison (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (73.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
It Happened One NightA renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. | 1934 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.1 (100.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Kings Speech, TheThe story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer. | 2010 | Tom Hooper | Biography, Drama, History | 8.0 (664.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Kramer vs KramerAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation. | 1979 | Robert Benton (*) | Drama | 7.8 (141.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Last Emperor, TheThe story of the final Emperor of China. | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (100.2K votes) | 163 | 20211228 |
Lawrence of ArabiaThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. | 1962 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, War | 8.3 (284.5K votes) | 228 | 20211228 |
Life of Emile Zola, TheThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair. | 1937 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
Lost Weekend, TheThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. | 1945 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.9 (36K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Man For All Seasons, AThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry. | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (33.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
MartyA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other. | 1955 | Delbert Mann (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (23.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Midnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. | 1969 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 7.8 (108.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Million Dollar BabyA determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional. | 2004 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.1 (667.5K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
MoonlightA young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood. | 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Drama | 7.4 (294.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Mrs. MiniverA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II. | 1942 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
Mutiny on the BountyFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny. | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.7 (22.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
My Fair LadyIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. | 1964 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (93K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
No Country For Old MenViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. | 2007 | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (924.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
NomadlandA woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad. | 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Drama | 7.3 (175.2K votes) | 107 | 20231016 |
Oliver!After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London. | 1968 | Carol Reed (*) | Drama, Family, Musical | 7.4 (37.4K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
On The WaterfrontAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims. | 1954 | Elia Kazan (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (150.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
Ordinary PeopleThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. | 1980 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama | 7.7 (50.4K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
Out of AfricaIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. | 1985 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (77.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
Parasite [Gisaengchung]Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. | 2019 | Bong Joon Ho (*) | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 8.6 (700.6K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
PattonThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton. | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.9 (100K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
PlatoonChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. | 1986 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (401.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Rain ManAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritan | 1988 | Barry Levinson (*) | Drama | 8.0 (497.3K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
RebeccaA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.1 (133.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
Return of the KingGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. | 2003 | Peter Jackson (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 8.9 (1.7M votes) | 201 | 20211228 |
RockyA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. | 1976 | John G. Avildsen (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.1 (551.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Schindlers ListIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. | 1993 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.9 (1.3M votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
Shakespeare in LoveThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. | 1998 | John Madden | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (221.3K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
Shape of Water, TheAt a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. | 2017 | Guillermo del Toro (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 (401.2K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
Silence of the Lambs, TheA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. | 1991 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.6 (1.4M votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Slumdog MillionaireA Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?". | 2008 | Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (826.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Sound of Music, TheA young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer. | 1965 | Robert Wise (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (221.6K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
SpotlightThe true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. | 2015 | Tom McCarthy | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.1 (451.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | 1973 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (254.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
Terms of EndearmentFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems. | 1983 | James L. Brooks (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (58.8K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
TitanicA seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. | 1997 | James Cameron (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (1.1M votes) | 194 | 20211228 |
Tom JonesThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England. | 1963 | Tony Richardson | Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance | 6.5 (12.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
UnforgivenRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid." | 1992 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Western | 8.2 (398.7K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
West Side StoryTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. | 1961 | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (108.1K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
WingsTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. | 1927 | William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Drama, Romance, War, Action | 7.5 (12.5K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
You Can't Take It With YouThe son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family, not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development. | 1938 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (25.1K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |