The Best R-Rated Melodrama Movies
List of R-Rated melodramatic movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best R-Rated melodramatic movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest R-Rated Melodrama movie of all time is. This list of popular R-Rated melodramatic movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top R-Rated Melodrama 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 R-Rated Melodrama films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific R-Rated Melodrama film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
This list contains movies like Rain Man and Above the Rim.
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- Released: 1988
- Directed by: Barry Levinson
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond (Dustin ...more - 2Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: James Mangold
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, "Girl, Interrupted" is the searing true story of Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a young woman who finds herself at a renowned mental institution for ...more - 3Penélope Cruz, Kira Miró, Rossy de Palma
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Broken Embraces is a 2009 Spanish romantic thriller film written, produced, and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Led by an ensemble cast consisting of many Almodóvar regulars, it stars Lluís Homar as a ...more - 4Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Lars von Trier
Selma is a Czech immigrant, a single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her salvation is passion for music, specifically, the all-singing, all-dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood ...more - 5Duane Martin, Leon, Tupac Shakur
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Jeff Pollack
A high-school basketball star (Duane Martin) is torn by loyalties to a drug dealer (Tupac Shakur) and an ex-player (Leon). - 6Paz Vega, Geraldine Chaplin, Elena Anaya
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish drama written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosario Flores. The film won the ...more - 7Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Marc Forster
Hank, an embittered racist prison guard working on death row, begins an unlikely, emotionally charged sexual relationship with Leticia, a Black woman and wife of a man sentenced to death. The affair ...more - 8Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Billy Bob Thornton
Mentally disabled Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) is released from the mental hospital where he has spent most of his life after murdering his mother and her lover. He soon forms a bond with Frank ...more - 9Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Roger Kumble
Annette (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly becomes a pawn in Sebastian's (Ryan Phillippe) and Kathryn's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) deliciously diabolical wager of sexual conquest when she writes an article ...more - 10Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Kasi Lemmons
Over the course of a long, hot Louisiana summer, a 10-year-old black girl, Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett), discovers that her family's affluent existence is merely a facade. The philandering of her ...more - 11Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Alan Parker
David Gale (Kevin Spacey) is a man who has tried hard to live by his principles but in a bizarre twist of fate, this devoted father, popular professor and respected death penalty opponent finds ...more - 12Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Roger Michell
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a ...more - 13Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Debbi Morgan
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Michael Schultz
When Michelle (Kimberly Elise) is only 12 years old, she is raped by Reggie (Clifton Powell), the boyfriend of her mother (Loretta Devine). When her mother does not believe her accusations, Michelle ...more - 14Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge
- Released: 1996
- Directed by: Lars von Trier
In a small and religious coastal town, a simple, devoutly religious Scottish woman, Bess McNeill (Emily Watson), finds a partner in an oil rig worker from Norway, Jan Nyman (Stellan Skarsgard). ...more - 15Usher, Forest Whitaker, Rosario Dawson
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: Craig Bolotin
The topical story of a group of high school students who form a protest when they become fed up with their school's poor conditions. After a shot is accidentally fired and a police officer is ...more - 16Parker Posey, Rachel Miner, Liam Aiken
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Hal Hartley
Henry Fool is a 1998 American seriocomic film written, produced and directed by Hal Hartley, featuring Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, and Parker Posey. As in The Unbelievable Truth, an earlier ...more - 17Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Carl Franklin
Kate (Meryl Streep), the undervalued matriarch of the Gulden family, is diagnosed with cancer. Daughter and journalist Ellen (Renée Zellweger) returns from New York City to care for her mother at the ...more - 18Christina Ricci, Cate Blanchett, John Turturro
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Sally Potter
A Russian Jewish girl (Christina Ricci) is separated from her father in 1927 and escapes to England, where she's rechristened Suzie. She grows up to be a singer in a Parisian theater populated by a ...more - 19Robert Mitchum, John Mills, Trevor Howard
- Released: 1970
- Directed by: David Lean
Ryan's Daughter is a 1970 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean. The film, set in 1916, tells the story of a married Irish woman who has an affair with a British officer during WWI, despite ...more - 20Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Wayne Wang
During the last months of Britain's control of Hong Kong, journalist John (Jeremy Irons) discovers he has only a few months to live. He decides to use the time to pursue his friend Vivian (Gong Li), ...more - 21Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Richard Eyre
Barbara Covett (Judi Dench), a veteran teacher at St. George's, senses a kindred spirit in Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), the school's new art teacher. The younger woman's charisma intensely draws in ...more - 22Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal
- Released: 1997
- Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Victor (Liberto Rabal) goes to meet Elena (Francesca Neri) for a date. Elena, uninterested, tells Victor to leave the apartment before her dealer gets there. Their ensuing argument and struggle draw ...more - 23Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch, Ivan Desny
- Released: 1978
- Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Near the end of World War II, Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann (Klaus Lowitsch), who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts ...more - 24Karoline Herfurth, Stefan Kurt, Anna Maria Mühe
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Maria von Heland
Big Girls Don't Cry is a 2002 film. It is written and directed by Maria von Heland. - 25Rebecca Romijn, Sissy Spacek, Dave Matthews
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Perry Moore, Hunter Hill
Lake City is a 2008 American drama film directed by Perry Moore and Hunter Hill and stars Sissy Spacek, Troy Garity and Dave Matthews.