Category Archives: Drama
Gully
Release 2019
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Director: Nabil Elderkin
Writers: Marcus J. Guillory
Stars: Amber Heard, Charlie Plummer, John Corbett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Terrence Howard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013984/
Three teens living in LA, all victims of extreme childhoods, wreak a hedonistic riot across the city over the course of 48 hours, unbound by societal norms. They take us on a rip-roaring ride of drugs and murder across Los Angeles.
Minamata
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: Andrew Levitas
Writers: David Kessler, Andrew Levitas, Jason Forman
Stars: Akiko Iwase, Johnny Depp, Katherine Jenkins, Bill Nighy, Minami
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9179096/
War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
Death in Texas
Release 2021
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Director: Scott Windhauser
Writer: Scott Windhauser
Stars: Lara Flynn Boyle, Stephen Lang, Bruce Dern, John Ashton, William Shockley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4472508/
Just out of prison, Billy Walker returns to El Paso to find his mom dying of liver failure but low on the transplant list. However, the border offers other, darker options.
Edge of the World
Release 2021
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Director: Michael Haussman
Writers: Rob Allyn
Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Dominic Monaghan, Ralph Ineson, Hannah New, Josie Ho
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3006472/
The adventures of Sir James Brooke, who defied the British Empire to rule a jungle kingdom in 1840s Borneo, embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy, slavery and head-hunting, and inspired LORD JIM and THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING.
Flashback
Release 2020
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Director: Christopher MacBride
Writer: Christopher MacBride
Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Maika Monroe, Amanda Brugel, Hannah Gross, Keir Gilchrist
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8372094/
After a chance encounter with a man forgotten from his youth, Fred literally and metaphorically journeys into his past.
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
Release 2021
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Director: Richard Correll
Writers: Richard Correll, G.M. Mercier
Stars: Mira Sorvino, Austyn Johnson, Kevin Sorbo, Peter Coyote, Burgess Jenkins
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9098454/
When young Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly, people in her town are mysteriously healed - but fame soon takes its toll.
Oslo
Release 2021
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Director: Bartlett Sher
Writers: J.T. Rogers
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Jeff Wilbusch, Salim Dau, Waleed Zuaiter
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11790674/
Recounts the true-life, previously secret, back-channel negotiations in the development of the pivotal 1990s Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally
Release 2021
Genre Drama
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Director: Michael Polish
Writers: Vance Owen, Darryl Hicks, Michael Polish
Stars: Al Pacino, Meadow Williams, Thomas Kretschmann, Mitch Pileggi, Lala Kent
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7050946/
An American woman named Mildred Gillars broadcast Nazi propaganda during World War II. She was dubbed Axis Sally by the American GIs who simultaneously loved and hated her. The story plunges the viewer into the dark underbelly of the Third Reich's hate-filled propaganda machine, Sally's eventual capture, and subsequent trial for treason in Washington D.C. after the war.
Blue Miracle
Release 2021
Genre Adventure, Biography, Drama
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Director: Julio Quintana
Writers: Chris Dowling, Julio Quintana
Stars: Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Dennis Quaid, Bruce McGill, Raymond Cruz, Fernanda Urrejola
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7084386/
To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.
The Water Man
Release 2020
Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
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Director: David Oyelowo
Writers: Emma Needell
Stars: Rosario Dawson, Maria Bello, Alfred Molina, David Oyelowo, Amiah Miller
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4779326/
A boy sets out on a quest to save his ill mother by searching for a mythic figure said to have magical healing powers.