Category Archives: Drama
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.
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.
Sitting in Bars with Cake
Release 2023
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Director: Trish Sie
Writers: Audrey Shulman
Stars: Yara Shahidi, Odessa A’zion, Bette Midler, Ron Livingston, Martha Kelly
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8452344/
Based on the cookbook Sitting in Bars with Cake by Audrey Shulman.
Haunting of the Queen Mary
Release 2023
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Director: Gary Shore, Rebecca Harris
Writers: Gary Shore, Tom Vaughan
Stars: Alice Eve, Tim Downie, Joel Fry, Nell Hudson, William Shockley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3463938/
Haunting of the Queen Mary explores the mysterious and violent events surrounding one family's voyage on Halloween night in 1938, and their interwoven destiny with another family onboard the infamous ocean liner present day.