Category Archives: Drama
Cake
Release 2014
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Director: Daniel Barnz
Writers: Patrick Tobin
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Adriana Barraza, Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, Mamie Gummer
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3442006/
Claire initiates a dubious relationship with a widower while confronting fantastical hallucinations of his dead wife.
Inherent Vice
Release 2014
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Thomas Pynchon
Stars: Joanna Newsom, Katherine Waterston, Joaquin Phoenix, Jordan Christian Hearn, Taylor Bonin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791528/
In 1970, drug-fueled Los Angeles detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of a former girlfriend.
The Gambler
Release 2014
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Director: Rupert Wyatt
Writers: William Monahan, James Toback
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Griffin Cleveland, Jessica Lange, Omar Leyva, Anthony Kelley
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2039393/
Lit professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
Big Eyes
Release 2014
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Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Danny Huston
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126590/
A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
Birdman
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
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Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Writers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
Stars: Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Kenny Chin, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe, Zach Galifianakis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2562232/
A washed-up actor who once played an iconic superhero must overcome his ego and family trouble as he mounts a Broadway play in a bid to reclaim his past glory.
Unbroken
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Drama, Sport, War
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Director: Angelina Jolie
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson, Laura Hillenbrand
Stars: Matthew Crocker, Jack O'Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund, Takamasa Ishihara
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1809398/
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
The Imitation Game
Release 2014
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
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Director: Morten Tyldum
Writers: Andrew Hodges, Graham Moore
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
American Sniper
Release 2014
Genre Action, Biography, Drama, War
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Director: Clint Eastwood
Writers: Jason Hall, Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, James Defelice
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Kyle Gallner, Cole Konis, Ben Reed, Elise Robertson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2179136/
Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
Revenge of the Green Dragons
Release 2014
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Director: Wai-Keung Lau, Andrew Loo
Writers: Michael Di Jiacomo, Andrew Loo
Stars: Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr., Ray Liotta, Jin Auyeung
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1396523/
Two best friends rise through the ranks of New York's Chinese underworld in the 1980s.
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.