Category Archives: Drama

A Walk to Remember

Release 2002

Genre Drama, Romance

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Director: Adam Shankman
Writers: Nicholas Sparks, Karen Janszen
Stars: Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281358/

The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.

The Notebook

Release 2004

Genre Drama, Romance

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Director: Nick Cassavetes
Writers: Jeremy Leven, Jan Sardi, Nicholas Sparks
Stars: Tim Ivey, Gena Rowlands, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332280/

A poor and passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman and gives her a sense of freedom. They soon are separated by their social differences.

Edward Scissorhands

Release 1990

Genre Drama, Fantasy, Romance

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Director: Tim Burton
Writers: Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson
Stars: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099487/

An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful adolescent girl.

Jarhead

Release 2005

Genre Biography, Drama, War

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Director: Sam Mendes
Writers: William Broyles Jr., Anthony Swofford
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Ming Lo
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/

Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Release 2001

Genre Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Brian Aldiss, Ian Watson, Steven Spielberg
Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas, Jude Law
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/

A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Release 2013

Genre Drama

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Director: Tyler Perry
Stars: Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross, Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Williams, Robbie Jones
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070862/

An ambitious married woman's temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness, and forever alters the course of her life.

Hannah Montana: The Movie

Release 2009

Genre Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance

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Director: Peter Chelsom
Writers: Dan Berendsen, Michael Poryes, Richard Correll, Barry O'Brien
Stars: Miley Cyrus, Billy Ray Cyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Mitchel Musso
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1114677/

As Hannah Montana's popularity begins to take over her life, Miley Stewart, on the urging from her father takes a trip to her hometown of Crowley Corners, Tennessee to get some perspective on what matters in life the most.

The Devil Wears Prada

Release 2006

Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Director: David Frankel
Writers: Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger
Stars: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458352/

A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.

Natural Born Killers

Release 1994

Genre Crime, Drama

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Director: Oliver Stone
Writers: Quentin Tarantino, David Veloz, Richard Rutowski, Oliver Stone
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Everett Quinton
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110632/

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Palo Alto

Release 2013

Genre Drama

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Director: Gia Coppola
Writers: Gia Coppola, James Franco
Stars: Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Emma Roberts, Olivia Crocicchia, Claudia Levy
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2479800/

Shy, sensitive April is the class virgin, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach Mr...