Best Drama Movies and TV Shows to Watch Now on The Criterion Channel

Shutter Island (2010)

Come and See (1985)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Strange Days (1995)

Stalker (1980)

Amadeus (1984)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Funny Games (1997)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Paris, Texas (1984)

Lost Highway (1997)

Platoon (1986)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

The Insider (1999)

Seven Samurai (1954)

My Son! My Son! (1979)

The Doom Generation (1995)

Wild Things (1998)

Art College 1994 (2024)

Le sabotier du Val de Loire (2025)

Wildcat (2024)

Art College 1994 (2024)

The Pass (2024)

The Beast (2024)

Here (2024)

Bushman (2024)

Trial Period (2024)

Mambar Pierrette (2024)

The Hand (2023)

Evil Does Not Exist (2023)

The Shadowless Tower (2023)

Only the River Flows (2023)

Le censeur des reves (2023)

A Prince (2023)

Terrestrial Verses (2023)

Totem (2023)

The Breaking Ice (2023)

About Dry Grasses (2023)

So Much Tenderness (2023)

The Criminals (2022)

Persona (1966)

Knife in the Water (1962)

Rome, Open City (1945)

Martha (1995)

The Hunt (1970)

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)

49th Parallel (1941)

White Echo (2019)

Fear (1955)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Discontinuity (2016)

Theory of Achievement (1991)

Who’s Who (1979)

The Hedonists (2016)

Burden of Life (1935)

Poil de Carotte (1925)

The Suitor (1962)

Secrets of Women (1952)

I Graduated, But... (1929)

Passing Fancy (1933)

A Cat and Two Women (1956)

Pearls of the Deep (1966)

Las pirañas (1967)

Endless Desire (1958)

4 x 4 (1965)

Paper Moon (1973)

Three Daughters (1961)

Killing Time (1979)

Mandabi (1968)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

The Doom Generation (1995)

Art College 1994 (2024)

The Raggedy Rawney (1989)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Cute Girl (2016)

Farewell China (1990)

L'opéra-mouffe (1958)

Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)

Who Knows? (2001)

Baba Amin (1950)

One Way Ticket to Love (1960)

Plucking the Daisy (1956)

Tramway (1966)

Chi è senza peccato.... (1952)

Adelheid (1970)

La ragazza in vetrina (1961)

Wedding Rehearsal (1933)

The Coward (1965)

Two Monks (1935)

Shutter Island (2010)

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Stalker (1980)

L.A. Confidential (1997)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Watership Down (1978)

Native Son (1951)

The Trial (1962)

Repast (1951)

Pearls of the Deep (1966)

Solaris (1972)

Nobody's Children (1953)

Ginza Cosmetics (1951)

The Beast (2024)

In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Charulata (1964)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Elephant Boy (1937)

Shutter Island (2010)

Lost Highway (1997)

Solaris (1972)

Close to Home (1994)

The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)

Keane (2005)

Copycat (1995)

República (2020)

Trenque Lauquen (2023)

Peppermint Frappé (1967)

Burning (2018)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1976)

Personal Shopper (2016)

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

Track 29 (1988)

Shock Corridor (1963)

A Woman's Face (1938)

Teorema (1969)

Open Your Eyes (1997)

Woman in the Dunes (1964)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Emotion (1966)

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)

The Keep (1983)

Matango (1963)

Inland Empire (2006)

Carnival of Sinners (1943)

Cronos (1993)

Piaffe (2023)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Exterminating Angel (1963)

After Life (1999)

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

The Pied Piper (1972)

The Lure (2015)

Ugetsu (1953)

The Spirit of the Beehive (1975)

The Last Wave (1977)

Trans (1978)

Shutter Island (2010)

Funny Games (1997)

Audition (2000)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1976)

The Hole (1960)

A Man Escaped (1956)

Coogan's Bluff (1968)

Down by Law (1986)

Opening Night (1978)

The Hit (1984)

A Story from Chikamatsu (1954)

The Emperor Jones (1933)

49th Parallel (1941)

That Night in Varennes (1982)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Thief (1981)

Watership Down (1978)

Turumba (1981)

The Garden of Women (1954)

Hunter in the Dark (1979)

My Home Is Copacabana (1965)

Easy Rider (1969)

El fantasma del convento (1935)

The Rickshaw Man (1958)

Golden Eyes (1968)

Key Largo (1948)

White Mane (1953)

The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)

Black River (1957)

Saturday Fiction (2021)

Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

Sam Now (2023)

I Am Waiting (1957)

Elephant Boy (1937)

Audition (2000)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

Dead Ringers (1988)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

The Big Shave (1967)

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Dark Water (2002)

Onibaba (1964)

Wolf's Hole (1988)

The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)

Toby Dammit (1969)

Trouble Every Day (2001)

The Shout (1978)

Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956)

Kwaidan (1965)

Black Cat (1968)

First Man Into Space (1959)

Spirits of the Dead (1968)

Day of Wrath (1943)

Swallowed (2016)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Last Hurrah for Chivalry (1979)

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1929)

The Keep (1983)

Matango (1963)

Inland Empire (2006)

Carnival of Sinners (1943)

Cronos (1993)

Volver (2006)

Personal Shopper (2016)

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1972)

The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

Trouble Every Day (2001)

The Pied Piper (1972)

The Shout (1978)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1935)