Category Archives: Drama
Bad Santa 2
Release 2016
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Director: Mark Waters
Writers: Johnny Rosenthal, Shauna Cross, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox, Christina Hendricks, Brett Kelly
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798603/
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.
Bad Santa
Release 2003
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Director: Terry Zwigoff
Writers: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307987/
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.
Nocturnal Animals
Release 2016
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Director: Tom Ford
Writers: Tom Ford, Austin Wright
Stars: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4550098/
An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.
Brotherhood
Release 2016
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Director: Noel Clarke
Stars: Noel Clarke, David Ajala, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Fady Elsayed, Olivia Chenery
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5193784/
First, there was Kidulthood, then Adulthood, and now comes Noel Clarke's last instalment: Brotherhood. With Sam facing up to the new world, he realizes it also comes with new problems and new challenges that he must face that he knows, will require old friends to help him survive new dangers.
The Birth of a Nation
Release 2016
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Director: Nate Parker
Writers: Nate Parker, Jean McGianni Celestin
Stars: Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Junior
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4196450/
Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising.
Deepwater Horizon
Release 2016
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Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Matthew Sand, David Rohde, Stephanie Saul
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont, Joe Chrest
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860357/
A dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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.