Category Archives: Drama
Juliet, Naked
Release 2018
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Director: Jesse Peretz
Writers: Evgenia Peretz, Jim Taylor, Tamara Jenkins, Nick Hornby
Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Rose Byrne, Kitty O'Beirne
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5607096/
Juliet, Naked is the story of Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
The Dark
Release 2018
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Justin P. Lange
Writer: Justin P. Lange
Stars: Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, Karl Markovics
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6832388/
An undead teenage girl befriends a blind boy that she meets in a forest she haunts and hunts in. Both have been victims of unimaginable abuse, and each finds solace in the other. There may be a chance of light at the end of their tunnel, but it will come with a body count.
Thunder Road
Release 2018
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Director: Jim Cummings
Writer: Jim Cummings
Stars: Jim Cummings, Kendal Farr, Nican Robinson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7738450/
A police officer comes to grips with a death of his mom when giving a heartfelt eulogy at her funeral.
Warning Shot
Release 2018
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Director: Dustin Fairbanks
Writers: Breanne Mattson
Stars: David Spade, James Earl Jones, Bruce Dern
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5113250/
A single mother and her young daughter struggle to make ends meet until they inherit their family's farmhouse. When a business rival covets their water rights, the situation spirals out of control.
The Wife
Release 2017
Genre Drama
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Director: Björn Runge
Writers: Jane Anderson, Meg Wolitzer
Stars: Christian Slater, Elizabeth McGovern, Max Irons
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3750872/
A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Michael Inside
Release 2017
Genre Drama
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Director: Frank Berry
Stars: Dafhyd Flynn, Lalor Roddy, Moe Dunford
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7080960/
An 18 year old man living in a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and is sentenced to 3 months in prison.
22 July
Release 2018
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Director: Paul Greengrass
Writers: Paul Greengrass, Åsne Seierstad
Stars: Jon Øigarden, Øystein Martinsen, Anders Danielsen Lie
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7280898/
A three-part story of Norway's worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.
Operation Finale
Release 2018
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Chris Weitz
Writers: Matthew Orton
Stars: Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley, Mélanie Laurent
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5208252/
A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Release 2018
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
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Director: Gus Van Sant
Writers: John Callahan, Gus Van Sant, Jack Gibson, William Andrew Eatman
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6288124/
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Black '47
Release 2018
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Director: Lance Daly
Writers: Lance Daly, P.J. Dillon, Eugene O'Brien, Pierce Ryan
Stars: Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3208026/
Set in Ireland during the Great Famine, the drama follows an Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, as he abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite experiencing the horrors of war, he is shocked by the famine's destruction of his homeland and the brutalization of his people and his family.