Category Archives: Drama
The Monuments Men
Release 2014
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Director: George Clooney
Writers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Robert M. Edsel, Bret Witter
Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, John Goodman
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2177771/
An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.
Only Lovers Left Alive
Release 2013
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Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714915/
A depressed musician reunites with his lover, though their romance - which has already endured several centuries - is disrupted by the arrival of uncontrollable younger sister.
Joe
Release 2013
Genre Drama
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Director: David Gordon Green
Writers: Larry Brown, Gary Hawkins
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Adriene Mishler
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382396/
An ex-con, who is the unlikeliest of role models, meets a 15-year-old boy and is faced with the choice of redemption or ruin.
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.