Category Archives: Drama
No Good Deed
Release 2014
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Sam Miller
Writers: Aimee Lagos
Stars: Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo, Henry Simmons
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2011159/
An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.
Gone Girl
Release 2014
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: David Fincher
Writers: Gillian Flynn
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2267998/
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Lap Dance
Release 2014
Genre Drama
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Director: Greg Carter
Writers: Greg Carter, Datari Turner
Stars: Briana Evigan, Carmen Electra, Stacey Dash, James Remar, Ali Cobrin
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392385/
An aspiring actress makes a pact with her fiancé to take a job as an exotic dancer to care for her cancer stricken father. Once the pact the couple made is broken, their lives are changed forever. Based on the true story of director Greg Carter and his girlfriend prior to their moving to Los Angeles in 2005.
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Release 2014
Genre Drama
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Director: Ned Benson
Stars: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Nina Arianda, Viola Davis, Bill Hader
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3729920/
One couple's story as they try to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far gone.
Dying of the Light
Release 2014
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Director: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob, Aymen Hamdouchi
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1274586/
Evan Lake refuses to retire from his career in the CIA and goes rogue to hunt down his terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.
Nightcrawler
Release 2014
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Director: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Papajohn, Marco Rodríguez, Bill Paxton, James Huang
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2872718/
When Lou Bloom, a driven man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
This Is Where I Leave You
Release 2014
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Director: Shawn Levy
Writers: Jonathan Tropper
Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371150/
When their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.
Tusk
Release 2014
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Director: Kevin Smith
Stars: Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, Johnny Depp
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3099498/
When podcaster Wallace Bryton goes missing in the backwoods of Manitoba while interviewing a mysterious seafarer named Howard Howe, his best friend Teddy and girlfriend Allison team with an ex-cop to look for him.
Annie
Release 2014
Genre Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
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Director: Will Gluck
Writers: Will Gluck, Aline Brosh McKenna, Thomas Meehan, Harold Gray
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Quvenzhané Wallis, Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1823664/
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in.
Fury
Release 2014
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Director: David Ayer
Stars: Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2713180/
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Out-numbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.