Category Archives: Drama
The Hill
Release 2023
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Director: Jeff Celentano
Writers: Angelo Pizzo, Scott Marshall Smith, Bill Chaffin
Stars: Colin Ford, Dennis Quaid, Joelle Carter, Scott Glenn, Siena Bjornerud
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8051894/
The remarkable true-life story of Rickey Hill's improbable journey to play Major League Baseball.
The Good Mother
Release 2023
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Director: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Writers: Madison Harrison, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Stars: Hilary Swank, Olivia Cooke, Jack Reynor, Dilone, Hopper Penn
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21222462/
After the murder of her estranged son, a journalist forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down those responsible. Together, they confront a world of drugs and corruption in the underbelly of a small city.
Golda
Release 2023
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Director: Guy Nattiv
Writers: Nicholas Martin
Stars: Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Claudette Williams, Henry Goodman, Olivia Brody
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14454876/
Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.
The End of Sex
Release 2022
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Director: Sean Garrity
Writers: Jonas Chernick
Stars: Emily Hampshire, Jonas Chernick, Gray Powell, Lily Gao, Melanie Scrofano
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18081000/
A couple feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood, send their kids to winter camp for the first time and embark on a series of sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.
Retribution
Release 2023
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Director: Nimród Antal
Writers: Alberto Marini, Christopher Salmanpour
Stars: Liam Neeson, Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion, Arian Moayed
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6906292/
A bank executive receives a bomb threat while driving his children to school that his car will explode if they stop and get out.
Love at First Sight
Release 2023
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Director: Vanessa Caswill
Writers: Katie Lovejoy, Jennifer E. Smith
Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Ben Hardy, Rob Delaney, Katrina Nare, Jameela Jamil
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13444014/
Hadley and Oliver begin to fall for each other on their flight from New York to London. The probability of ever finding each other again seems impossible, but love - and London - may have a way of defying the odds.
A Million Miles Away
Release 2023
Genre Drama
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Director: Alejandra Márquez Abella
Writers: Bettina Gilois, Hernán Jiménez, Alejandra Márquez Abella
Stars: Michael Peña, Rosa Salazar, Julio Cesar Cedillo, Veronica Falcón, Juan Pablo Monterrubio
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21940010/
A biopic about Jose Hernandez and his path from a farm worker to becoming an engineer and an astronaut. A tale of perseverance, community and sacrifice to accomplish a seemingly impossible dream.
Shortcomings
Release 2023
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Director: Randall Park
Writers: Adrian Tomine, Adrian Tomine
Stars: Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki, Tavi Gevinson, Debby Ryan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14483774/
Follows a trio of young, Bay Area urbanites--Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi and Alice Kim--as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships while traversing the country in search of the ideal connection.
Jules
Release 2023
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Director: Marc Turtletaub
Writers: Gavin Steckler
Stars: Ben Kingsley, Harriet Sansom Harris, Jane Curtin, Teddy Cañez, Narea Kang
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15428940/
Milton lives a quiet life of routine in a small western Pennsylvania town, but finds his day upended when a UFO and its extra-terrestrial passenger crash land in his backyard.
Landscape with Invisible Hand
Release 2023
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Director: Cory Finley
Writers: Cory Finley, M.T. Anderson
Stars: Asante Blackk, Tiffany Haddish, Kylie Rogers, Brooklynn MacKinzie, Josh Hamilton
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7645334/
When an occupying alien species' bureaucratic rule and advanced technology leaves most of Earth impoverished and unemployed, two teenagers hatch a risky plan to ensure their families' futures.