Category Archives: Drama
Headshot
Release 2016
Genre Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjanto
Writers: Timo Tjahjanto
Stars: Julie Estelle, David Hendrawan, Chelsea Islan, Epy Kusnandar, Zack Lee
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5147214/
Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.
Catfight
Release 2016
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Director: Onur Tukel
Stars: Sandra Oh, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone, Justin Ahdoot, Dylan Baker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5294198/
The rivalry between two former college friends comes to a head when they both attend the same glamorous event.
Sing
Release 2016
Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family
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Director: Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet
Writers: Garth Jennings
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, John C. Reilly
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3470600/
In a city of humanoid animals, a hustling theater impresario's attempt to save his theater with a singing competition becomes grander than he anticipates even as its finalists' find that their lives will never be the same.
Collateral Beauty
Release 2016
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Director: David Frankel
Writers: Allan Loeb
Stars: Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Michael Peña, Helen Mirren
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4682786/
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Release 2017
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Director: Macon Blair
Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow, Jane Levy, Devon Graye
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710514/
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.
Sophie and the Rising Sun
Release 2016
Genre Drama
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Director: Maggie Greenwald
Writers: Maggie Greenwald, Augusta Trobaugh
Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd, Lorraine Toussaint
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4532818/
Autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers are swept up in the tides of history.
Man Down
Release 2015
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Director: Dito Montiel
Writers: Adam G. Simon, Dito Montiel
Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Jai Courtney, Gary Oldman, Kate Mara, Tory Kittles
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2461520/
In a post-apocalyptic America, former U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer searches desperately for the whereabouts of his son, accompanied by his best friend and a survivor.
Check Point
Release 2017
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
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Director: Thomas J. Churchill
Writers: Thomas J. Churchill, AJ Perez
Stars: Kenny Johnson, Mindy Robinson, Tyler Mane, William Forsythe, Kane Hodder
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4519400/
Port City North Carolina: During a routine camp out, a local vagrant discovers plans for an invasion in America. When he tries to notify the local Sheriff about his discovery, the Sheriff dismisses his claims and has him locked up for loitering. When the Sheriff notices odd interactions with other towns folk he begins to look into the vagrants' claim of a sleeper cell living amongst the locals within this small town. After evidence of a beheading is exposed, others begin to fear that the insurgents attack on hometown USA. Questions and tempers begin to rise. Why this little beach community with it's Norman Rockwell way of life? A town where everyone knows one another... or so they thought. When the truth is blind and justice seems lost, It will take an army of five unlikely heroes banding together to infiltrate the insurgents and foil their invasion plans. War is Hell and Hell comes home at the Check Point.
Shut In
Release 2016
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Director: Farren Blackburn
Writers: Christina Hodson
Stars: Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt, Charlie Heaton, Jacob Tremblay, Crystal Balint
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2582500/
A heart-pounding thriller about a widowed child psychologist who lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Rules Don't Apply
Release 2016
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Director: Warren Beatty
Writers: Warren Beatty, Bo Goldman
Stars: Steve Tom, Paul Sorvino, Peter Mackenzie, Ivar Brogger, Dan Desmond
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1974420/
An unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her determined driver, and the eccentric billionaire who they work for.