Category Archives: Drama
Assassination Nation
Release 2018
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Director: Sam Levinson
Writer: Sam Levinson
Stars: Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6205872/
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos decends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
A Simple Favor
Release 2018
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Director: Paul Feig
Writers: Jessica Sharzer, Darcey Bell
Stars: Anna Kendrick, Ian Ho, Joshua Satine
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7040874/
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Life Itself
Release 2018
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Director: Dan Fogelman
Writer: Dan Fogelman
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Olivia Wilde, Annette Bening
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5989218/
As a young New York City couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.
Colette
Release 2018
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Director: Wash Westmoreland
Writers: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Stars: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5437928/
Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.
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.