Category Archives: Drama
Mary Magdalene
Release 2018
Genre Drama
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Director: Garth Davis
Writers: Helen Edmundson, Philippa Goslett
Stars: Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5360996/
The story of Mary Magdalene.
Kings
Release 2017
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Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Writer: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Stars: Halle Berry, Daniel Craig, Lamar Johnson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5843850/
The life of a foster family in South Central Los Angeles, a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial.
Sweet Country
Release 2017
Genre Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Warwick Thornton
Writers: Steven McGregor, David Tranter
Stars: Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6958212/
Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self defense and goes on the run as posse gathers to hunt him down.
Loving Pablo
Release 2017
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Director: Fernando León de Aranoa
Writers: Fernando León de Aranoa, Virginia Vallejo
Stars: Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4682788/
A journalist strikes up a romantic relationship with notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Isle of Dogs
Release 2018
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
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Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Kunichi Nomura
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5104604/
Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.
Beirut
Release 2018
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Director: Brad Anderson
Writers: Tony Gilroy
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Jon Hamm, Mark Pellegrino
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4669264/
Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
Affairs of State
Release 2018
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Director: Eric Bross
Writers: Tom Cudworth
Stars: Thora Birch, Mimi Rogers, Adrian Grenier
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4180556/
A young campaign aide gets in way over his head when he sleeps with the wife and daughter of a presidential candidate only to end up bleeding out on the side of an empty road at night.
The Yellow Birds
Release 2017
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Director: Alexandre Moors
Writers: David Lowery, R.F.I. Porto, Kevin Powers
Stars: Alden Ehrenreich, Jennifer Aniston, Toni Collette
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3739110/
Two young soldiers, Bartle (21) and Murph (18) navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
7 Days in Entebbe
Release 2018
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Director: José Padilha
Writers: Gregory Burke
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5466186/
Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.