Category Archives: Drama
Under the Silver Lake
Release 2018
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Director: David Robert Mitchell
Writer: David Robert Mitchell
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Wendy Vanden Heuvel, Deborah Geffner
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5691670/
Sam, intelligent but without purpose, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.
The Brawler
Release 2019
Genre Action, Biography, Drama
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Director: Ken Kushner
Writers: Robert Dibella, Ken Kushner
Stars: Zach McGowan, Amy Smart, Joe Pantoliano
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5471472/
In 1975, a Bayonne, New Jersey underdog boxer gets a shot to fight the champ.
Bodied
Release 2017
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Director: Joseph Kahn
Writers: Alex Larsen, Joseph Kahn
Stars: Calum Worthy, Jackie Long, Rory Uphold
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5883570/
A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.
Dead in a Week: Or Your Money Back
Release 2018
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Director: Tom Edmunds
Writer: Tom Edmunds
Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Aneurin Barnard, Tom Wilkinson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3525168/
After his ninth unsuccessful attempt on his own life, a young man outsources his suicide to an ageing assassin. "If you're serious about ending it, you need professional help"
First Man
Release 2018
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Director: Damien Chazelle
Writers: Josh Singer, James R. Hansen
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213641/
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Peppermint
Release 2018
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Director: Pierre Morel
Writers: Chad St. John
Stars: Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6850820/
Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Release 2018
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Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writers: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Stars: Liam Neeson, James Franco, Zoe Kazan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6412452/
An anthology film comprised of six stories, each dealing with a different aspect of life in the Old West.
A Star Is Born
Release 2018
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Director: Bradley Cooper
Writers: Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Moss Hart, John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion, Frank Pierson, William A. Wellman, Robert Carson
Stars: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517451/
A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
The Little Stranger
Release 2018
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Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Writers: Lucinda Coxon, Sarah Waters
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6859762/
After a doctor is called to visit a crumbling manor, strange things begin to occur.