Category Archives: Drama
The Last Thing He Wanted
Release 2020
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Director: Dee Rees
Writers: Joan Didion, Dee Rees, Marco Villalobos
Stars: Rosie Perez, Ben Affleck, Anne Hathaway, Willem Dafoe, Edi Gathegi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7456312/
A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break. Adapted from Joan Didion's namesake novel.
Queen & Slim
Release 2019
Genre Drama
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Director: Melina Matsoukas
Writers: Lena Waithe (screenplay by), James Frey (story by)
Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8722346/
A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.
Villains
Release 2019
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Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Writers: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6378710/
After a pair of amateur criminals break into a suburban home, they stumble upon a dark secret that two sadistic homeowners will do anything to keep from getting out.
Parasite
Release 2019
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Director: Bong Joon Ho
Writers: Bong Joon Ho (story), Bong Joon Ho (screenplay)
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/
All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Yip Man 4(HC)
Release 2019
Genre Action, Biography, Drama
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Director: Wilson Yip
Writers: Tai-lee Chan (screenplay), Hiroshi Fukazawa
Stars: Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins, Danny Chan Kwok-Kwan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076298/
The Kung Fu master travels to the U.S. where his student has upset the local martial arts community by opening a Wing Chun school.
Mr. Jones
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Andrea Chalupa
Stars: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
21 Bridges
Release 2019
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Director: Brian Kirk
Writers: Adam Mervis (screenplay), Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay)
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Sienna Miller, J.K. Simmons
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8688634/
An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.
John Henry
Release 2020
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Director: Will Forbes
Writers: Will Forbes, Doug Skinner
Stars: Terry Crews, Ludacris, Maestro Harrell
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8170298/
When two immigrant kids on the run from his former South Los Angeles gang leader stumble into his life, John is forced to reconcile with his past in order to try and give them a future.
Cats(HC)
Release 2019
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Director: Tom Hooper
Writers: T.S. Eliot, Lee Hall, Tom Hooper, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Judi Dench, Taylor Swift
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5697572/
A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.
Just Mercy
Release 2019
Genre Drama
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Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
Writers: Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham, Bryan Stevenson
Stars: Marcus A. Griffin Jr., Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4916630/
World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.