Category Archives: Drama
Dallas Buyers Club
Release 2013
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Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Writers: Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Denis O'Hare, Steve Zahn
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790636/
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.
Winter's Tale
Release 2014
Genre Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
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Director: Akiva Goldsman
Writers: Akiva Goldsman, Mark Helprin
Stars: Colin Farrell, Matt Bomer, Lucy Griffiths, Michael Patrick Crane, Brian Hutchison
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837709/
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Forrest Gump
Release 1994
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Winston Groom, Eric Roth
Stars: Tom Hanks, Rebecca Williams, Sally Field, Michael Conner Humphreys, Harold G. Herthum
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.
The Dark Knight
Release 2008
Genre Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, Bob Kane
Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
When Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent launch an assault on the mob, they let the clown out of the box, the Joker, bent on turning Gotham on itself and bringing any heroes down to his level.
Goodfellas
Release 1990
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Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685/
Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
Pulp Fiction
Release 1994
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Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writers: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
Stars: Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Laura Lovelace, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Out of the Furnace
Release 2013
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Director: Scott Cooper
Writers: Brad Ingelsby, Scott Cooper
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Dendrie Taylor, Carl Ciarfalio, Nancy Mosser, Christian Bale
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1206543/
When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn't follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice.
Django Unchained
Release 2012
Genre Drama
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Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1853728/
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Gravity
Release 2013
Genre Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writers: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón, George Clooney
Stars: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/
A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit.
Captain Phillips
Release 2013
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Paul Greengrass
Writers: Billy Ray, Richard Phillips, Stephan Talty
Stars: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.