Drama films portray realistic characters and conflicts in serious stories that move audiences emotionally. They focus on developing characters audiences can engage with by showing characters' journeys and struggles with issues like social problems. Common conventions include portraying real characters, settings, and stories through dramatic sounds and performances. However, some films break conventions by subverting audience expectations of predictable plots, like the drama film A Serious Man which confuses viewers, or Titanic which ends tragically rather than happily.

1. Drama Films are serious stories with life situations that portray realistic
characters in conflict with either themselves, others, or forces of nature. Each
of the themes have various kinds of dramatic plots. Dramatic films are probably
the largest film genre because they include a broad spectrum of films.
Dramatic storylines moves the audience emotionally. Dramas often give the
actors a chance to stretch into a role that other genres wouldn’t allow them to.
This is because drama films focus on building up characters that the audience
can engage with.
The conventions of drama films:
Portrays a characters journey and developments
Represents real characters, situations, settings and stories
Dramatic sounds and exaggerated performance.

2. Dramatic themes often include current societal ills, and problems, concerns or
injustices, such as racial prejudice; religious intolerance (such as anti-Semitism),
drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism,
class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness, corrupt societal institutions,
violence toward women or other explosive issues of the times.
These films have successfully drawn attention to the issues by taking advantage
of the topical interest of the subject. Although dramatic films have often dealt
frankly and realistically with social problems, the tendency has been for
Hollywood, especially during earlier times of censorship, to exonerate society
and institutions and to blame problems on an individual, who more often than
not, would be punished for his/her transgressions.
Dramas can be combines with other genres such as comedy, tragedy, horror etc.

3. Some movies try to break the normal and stereotypical convention of a movie.
For example when watching most movies the audience can predict what's going
to happen so some movies change it a it so that the audience will get confused.
An example of this is ‘A serious man’.
Titanic is another movie that breaks all the conventions as it does not end
happy but all the protagonist die and it is a sad story.

4. Flats, council estates, ghettos, schools, streets of neighborhoods, work place
These are the typical setting where drama films are filmed.
Noel Clark , Kevin Spacey, Gabe Nevins, Tom Hanks, Alex Frost, Sean Penn, Ellen Kate Winslet, Red Madrell. All these actors are known for acting in drama films