The Best PG Drama Movies
List of PG drama movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best PG drama movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG Drama movie of all time is. This list of popular PG drama movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top PG Drama movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great PG Drama films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific PG Drama film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
List is made up of movies like Casablanca and Up.
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What kind of directors have worked on PG Drama movies in the past? Woody Allen and Sylvester Stallone both have, as have other great directors.
- 1Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith
- Released: 1976
- Directed by: John G. Avildsen
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a small-time boxer from working-class Philadelphia, is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world heavyweight champion, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), when the ...more - 2Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: David Anspaugh
Failed college coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to direct the basketball program at a high school in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher (Barbara ...more - Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
- Released: 1942
- Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), who owns a nightclub in Casablanca, discovers his old flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) is in town with her husband, Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). Laszlo is a famed rebel, ...more - 4Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Ron Howard
This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) find everything going according ...more - Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, he flies away to the South American wilderness. But ...more - 6Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Faison
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Boaz Yakin
In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, an institution revered, each game celebrated more lavishly than Christmas, each playoff distinguished more grandly than any national holiday. And ...more - 7Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Tony Scott
The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick (Tom Cruise) is sent to the school, his reckless ...more - Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, ...more - 9Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Peter Weir
A new English teacher, John Keating (Robin Williams), is introduced to an all-boys preparatory school that is known for its ancient traditions and high standards. He uses unorthodox methods to reach ...more - 10Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, JoBeth Williams
- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Robert Benton
Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American drama film adapted by Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, and directed by Benton. The film tells the story of a married couple's divorce and its impact ...more - 11Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: David Anspaugh
Rudy Ruettiger (Sean Astin) wants to play football at the University of Notre Dame, but has neither the money for tuition nor the grades to qualify for a scholarship. Rudy redoubles his efforts to ...more - 12Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: John McTiernan
Based on the popular Tom Clancy novel, this suspenseful movie tracks Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) as he abandons his orders and heads for the east coast of the United States. ...more - Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn
- Released: 1964
- Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane, and sends his bomber ...more - 14Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Nora Ephron
After the death of his wife, Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) moves to Seattle with his son, Jonah (Ross Mallinger). When Jonah calls in to a talk-radio program to find a new wife for his father, Sam ...more - 15Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
When Iowa farmer Ray (Kevin Costner) hears a mysterious voice one night in his cornfield saying "If you build it, he will come," he feels the need to act. Despite taunts of lunacy, Ray builds a ...more - 16Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Jamie Graham (Christian Bale), a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named ...more - 17Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Daisy Werthan (Jessica Tandy), an elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta, is determined to maintain her independence. However, when she crashes her car, her son, Boolie (Dan Aykroyd), arranges for ...more - 18Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Norman Jewison
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta (Cher) accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny (Danny Aiello), than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny ...more - 19Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Penny Marshall
As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey ...more - 20Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
- Released: 1977
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Science fiction adventure about a group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) witnesses an unidentified flying object, and even has a "sunburn" from its ...more - 21Phil Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima
- Released: 1967
- Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
In this classic Walt Disney animation based on Rudyard Kipling's book, Mowgli, an abandoned child raised by wolves, has his peaceful existence threatened by the return of the man-eating tiger Shere ...more - 22Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Herbert Ross
M'Lynn (Sally Field) is the mother of bride-to-be Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), and as friend Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) fixes the women's hair for the ceremony, they welcome a helping hand from ...more - 23Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
- Released: 1973
- Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Real-life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal team up as slick con-artists Moses Pray and Addie Loggins in 1930s Kansas. When "Moze" is unexpectedly saddled with getting the 9-year-old Addie to ...more - 24Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter
- Released: 1951
- Directed by: Elia Kazan
Based on the play by Tennessee Williams, this renowned drama follows troubled former schoolteacher Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) as she leaves small-town Mississippi and moves in with her sister, ...more - 25Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Ang Lee
When Elinor Dashwood's (Emma Thompson) father dies, her family's finances are crippled. After the Dashwoods move to a cottage in Devonshire, Elinor's sister Marianne (Kate Winslet) is torn between ...more