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The worst dramatic movies of all time

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#100. "Love in the Time of Cholera" Smart Rating: 58.17Release date: 11/16/07Starring: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt When Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) sees Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) through a villa window, it is love at first sight. Though a man of modest means, Florentino's skill as a poet awakens a similar passion within Fermina. But Fermina's father disapproves of the affair and vows to keep the lovers apart. Fermina eventually marries an aristocratic doctor (Benjamin Bratt), and they move to Paris. Florentino, however, still loves Fermina and patiently waits for a chance to be with her again.
#100. "Love in the Time of Cholera"

Smart Rating: 58.17
Release date: 11/16/07
Starring: Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Benjamin Bratt

When Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) sees Fermina Daza (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) through a villa window, it is love at first sight. Though a man of modest means, Florentino's skill as a poet awakens a similar passion within Fermina. But Fermina's father disapproves of the affair and vows to keep the lovers apart. Fermina eventually marries an aristocratic doctor (Benjamin Bratt), and they move to Paris. Florentino, however, still loves Fermina and patiently waits for a chance to be with her again.

Oscar season is a time to celebrate the masterful works of art from the previous year. Dramas usually get the spotlight at the awards ceremony, raking in over half of all best picture wins over time.

But we can't properly acknowledge the genius of the best dramas without recognizing how they have surpassed the rest. With this in mind, PrettyFamous, an entertainment site by Graphiq, ranked the worst dramas ever made.

The data experts at PrettyFamous only considered dramas (historical dramas, crime dramas and the like) with over 15,000 IMDb votes to ensure their relative notoriety. They then ordered the movies according to their Smart Rating. This is a score out of 100 that takes into account a movie's IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer and Audience Score, Gracenote rating, Metacritic Metascore and the inflation-adjusted U.S. box office gross. The resulting group was ordered from bad to worse in descending order, ending with the movie with the lowest Smart Rating.

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From the notoriously terrible ("The Room") to the over-the-top melodrama ("The Choice"), you're likely to see a familiar title that once elicited pained groans across the country.

Note: Movie descriptions were sourced (with minor edits) from Gracenote.

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