Category Archives: Drama
Ava
Release 2020
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Director: Tate Taylor
Writers: Matthew Newton
Stars: Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis, Jess Weixler
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8784956/
Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.
Sputnik
Release 2020
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Director: Egor Abramenko
Writers: Oleg Malovichko, Andrei Zolotarev
Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anna Nazarova, Anton Vasilev
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11905962/
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Tesla
Release 2020
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Director: Michael Almereyda
Writer: Michael Almereyda
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Hannah Gross, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Gaffigan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5259822/
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Pearl(2020)
Release 2020
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Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Bobby Roth
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Larsen Thompson, Sarah Carter, Barbara Williams, Melissa Macedo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12325668/
After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
Black Water: Abyss
Release 2020
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Director: Andrew Traucki
Writers: John Ridley, Sarah Smith
Stars: Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Benjamin Hoetjes, Anthony J. Sharpe
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7978672/
Five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves threatened by a hungry crocodile.
Paydirt
Release 2020
Genre Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Christian Sesma
Writer: Christian Sesma
Stars: Luke Goss, Val Kilmer, Mike Hatton, Paul Sloan, Nick Vallelonga
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11176322/
A parolee teams up with his old crew determined to find a buried bag of cash stolen five years ago from a DEA bust gone bad, while being tracked by a retired Sheriff.
The Secret Garden
Release 2020
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Director: Marc Munden
Writers: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jack Thorne
Stars: Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Edan Hayhurst, Amir Wilson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2702920/
An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle's estate.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Release 2019
Genre Drama
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Director: Ciro Guerra
Writers: J.M. Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee
Stars: Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6149154/
A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire.
The Tax Collector
Release 2020
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Director: David Ayer
Writer: David Ayer
Stars: Bobby Soto, Cinthya Carmona, Shia LaBeouf, Jose Conejo Martin, Cheyenne Rae Hernandez
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8461224/
A "tax collector" working for a local crime lord finds his family's safety compromised when the rival of his boss shows up in L.A. and upends the business.
The Secret: Dare to Dream
Release 2020
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Director: Andy Tennant
Writers: Bekah Brunstetter, Rhonda Byrne, Rick Parks
Stars: Katie Holmes, Josh Lucas, Jerry O'Connell, Celia Weston, Sarah Hoffmeister
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4411584/
A widow struggling to get by meets a stranger who subscribes to a philosophy of positive thinking.