Category Archives: Drama
The Judge
Release 2014
Genre Drama
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Director: David Dobkin
Writers: Nick Schenk, Bill Dubuque, David Dobkin
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Billy Bob Thornton, Vincent D'Onofrio
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1872194/
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects with his estranged family.
Foxcatcher
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
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Director: Bennett Miller
Writers: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
Stars: Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1100089/
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher lead by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
The Drop
Release 2014
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Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Writers: Dennis Lehane
Stars: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600196/
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Get on Up
Release 2014
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Director: Tate Taylor
Writers: Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, Steven Baigelman
Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Nelsan Ellis, Dan Aykroyd, Viola Davis, Lennie James
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2473602/
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Men, Women & Children
Release 2014
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Director: Jason Reitman
Writers: Jason Reitman, Erin Cressida Wilson, Chad Kultgen
Stars: Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Judy Greer, Dean Norris
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3179568/
A group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
No Good Deed
Release 2014
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Sam Miller
Writers: Aimee Lagos
Stars: Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo, Henry Simmons
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2011159/
An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.
Gone Girl
Release 2014
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: David Fincher
Writers: Gillian Flynn
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Lap Dance
Release 2014
Genre Drama
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Director: Greg Carter
Writers: Greg Carter, Datari Turner
Stars: Briana Evigan, Carmen Electra, Stacey Dash, James Remar, Ali Cobrin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392385/
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple made is broken, their lives are changed forever. Based on the true story of director Greg Carter and his girlfriend prior to their moving to Los Angeles in 2005.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Release 2014
Genre Drama
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Director: Ned Benson
Stars: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Nina Arianda, Viola Davis, Bill Hader
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3729920/
One couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dying of the Light
Release 2014
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Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1274586/
Evan Lake refuses to retire from his career in the CIA and goes rogue to hunt down his terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.