Category Archives: Drama
The Best of Enemies
Release 2019
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Director: Robin Bissell
Writers: Robin Bissell, Osha Gray Davidson
Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4807408/
Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
Red Joan
Release 2018
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Trevor Nunn
Writers: Lindsay Shapero, Jennie Rooney
Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7615302/
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
City of Lies
Release 2018
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Director: Brad Furman
Writers: Randall Sullivan, Christian Contreras
Stars: Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker, Toby Huss
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2677722/
Russell Poole and Jack Jackson investigate the murders of rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Vault
Release 2019
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Director: Tom DeNucci
Writers: Tom DeNucci, B. Dolan
Stars: Theo Rossi, Clive Standen, Samira Wiley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6838918/
Vault tells a story about a group of small time criminals in 1975 who attempt to pull off the biggest heist in American history; stealing over $30 million from the Mafia in the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island.
The Aftermath
Release 2019
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Director: James Kent
Writers: Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse, Rhidian Brook
Stars: Keira Knightley, Ned Wills, Pandora Colin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5977276/
Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house.
The Mustang
Release 2019
Genre Drama
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Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Writers: Mona Fastvold, Brock Norman Brock, Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5952594/
The story of Roman Coleman, a violent convict, who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs.
Hotel Mumbai
Release 2018
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Director: Anthony Maras
Writers: John Collee, Anthony Maras
Stars: Dev Patel,Amandeep Singh, Suhail Nayyar, Manoj Mehra
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5461944/
The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.
Giant Little Ones
Release 2018
Genre Drama
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Director: Keith Behrman
Writer: Keith Behrman
Stars: Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Taylor Hickson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4481066/
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Stockholm
Release 2018
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Director: Robert Budreau
Writer: Robert Budreau
Stars: Mark Strong, Noomi Rapace, Ethan Hawke
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6474040/
Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.