Category Archives: Drama
Barry
Release 2016
Genre Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
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Director: Vikram Gandhi
Writers: Adam Mansbach
Stars: Devon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jason Mitchell, Ellar Coltrane, Jenna Elfman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5477566/
A look into the early life of U.S. President Barack "Barry" Obama
Denial
Release 2016
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Director: Mick Jackson
Writers: David Hare, Deborah Lipstadt
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall, Andrew Scott, Jack Lowden
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4645330/
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
A Kind of Murder
Release 2016
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Director: Andy Goddard
Writers: Susan Boyd, Patricia Highsmith
Stars: Haley Bennett, Jessica Biel, Vincent Kartheiser, Patrick Wilson, Eddie Marsan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2726552/
In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another woman.
American Honey
Release 2016
Genre Drama
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Director: Andrea Arnold
Stars: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi, Arielle Holmes
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3721936/
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
City of Sin
Release 2017
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Sebastian Gutierrez
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IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2403883/
A hardened detective lays low in a darkened downtown Los Angeles hotel room, biding his time as he patiently awaits a gang of vengeful hitmen that are on his tail. Throughout the course of this one fateful night the detective becomes entangled in a web of girls, guns, and money, as he enlists the help of the many intriguing hotel guests that he encounters in an effort to evade the grave fate that lies in store.
When the Bough Breaks
Release 2016
Genre Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Jon Cassar
Writers: Jack Olsen
Stars: Morris Chestnut, Regina Hall, Romany Malco, Michael Kenneth Williams, Glenn Morshower
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1389139/
A surrogate mom for a couple becomes dangerously obsessed with the soon-to-be father.
The Disappointments Room
Release 2016
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Director: D.J. Caruso
Writers: D.J. Caruso, Wentworth Miller
Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Mel Raido, Lucas Till, Duncan Joiner, Gerald McRaney
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2364897/
A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
Frank & Lola
Release 2016
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Director: Matthew Ross
Stars: Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Justin Long, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Nyqvist
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1290138/
A psychosexual noir love story, set in Las Vegas and Paris, about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and, ultimately, the search for redemption.
Beyond the Gates
Release 2016
Genre Adventure, Drama, Horror, War
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Director: Jackson Stewart
Writers: Stephen Scarlata, Jackson Stewart
Stars: Sara Malakul Lane, Barbara Crampton, Brea Grant, Chase Williamson, Justin Welborn
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4687358/
Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father's video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game dubbed 'Beyond The Gates' that holds a connection to their father's disappearance and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.
Sugar Mountain
Release 2016
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Director: Richard Gray
Writers: Abe Pogos, Catherine Hill
Stars: Jason Momoa, Cary Elwes, Anna Hutchison, Melora Walters, John Karna
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3553378/
Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.