Category Archives: Drama
Sisters
Release 2015
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Director: Jason Moore
Writers: Paula Pell
Stars: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, James Brolin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1850457/
Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.
Woodlawn
Release 2015
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Director: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin
Writers: Jon Erwin, Quinton Peeples
Stars: Sean Astin, Nic Bishop, Caleb Castille, Sherri Shepherd, Jon Voight
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4183692/
A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.
Mercury Plains
Release 2016
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
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Director: Charles Burmeister
Stars: Scott Eastwood, Angela Sarafyan, Nick Chinlund, Jorge A. Jimenez, Katherine Willis
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1753786/
A troubled man runs away to Mexico and is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. He proves himself to the group, but questions their motive.
Captive
Release 2015
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Jerry Jameson
Writers: Brian Bird, Reinhard Denke, Ashley Smith
Stars: Kate Mara, Mimi Rogers, Michael Kenneth Williams, David Oyelowo, Leonor Varela
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268668/
A single mother struggling with drug addiction is taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run who has broken out of jail and murdered the judge assigned to his case.
Knight of Cups
Release 2015
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Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Natalie Portman, Teresa Palmer, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Imogen Poots
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2101383/
A screenwriter living in LA tries to make sense of the strange events occurring around him.
Burnt
Release 2015
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Director: John Wells
Writers: Steven Knight, Michael Kalesniko
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Riccardo Scamarcio, Omar Sy
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2503944/
Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) is a chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Release 2015
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Director: Marielle Heller
Writers: Phoebe Gloeckner, Marielle Heller
Stars: Bel Powley, Domino The Cat, Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3172532/
A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother's boyfriend.
Anomalisa
Release 2015
Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
Writers: Charlie Kaufman
Stars: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2401878/
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary.
The Big Short
Release 2015
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Director: Adam McKay
Writers: Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Michael Lewis
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Rudy Eisenzopf, Casey Groves, Charlie Talbert, Harold Gervais
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/
Four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s decide to take on the big banks for their lack of foresight and greed.
Chi-Raq
Release 2015
Genre Drama
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Director: Spike Lee
Writers: Kevin Willmott, Spike Lee, Aristophanes
Stars: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4594834/
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.