Category Archives: Drama
Prey
Release 2022
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Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Writers: Patrick Aison, Dan Trachtenberg, Jim Thomas
Stars: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp, Michelle Thrush
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11866324/
The origin story of the Predator in the world of the Comanche Nation 300 years ago. Naru, a skilled female warrior, fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly-evolved Predators to land on Earth.
Purple Hearts
Release 2022
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Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Writers: Liz W. Garcia, Kyle Jarrow
Stars: Sofia Carson, Nicholas Galitzine, Anthony Ippolito, Linden Ashby, John Harlan Kim
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4614584/
In spite of their many differences, Cassie, a struggling singer-songwriter, and Luke, a troubled Marine, agree to marry solely for military benefits. But when tragedy strikes, the line between real and pretend begins to blur.
Alone Together
Release 2022
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Director: Katie Holmes
Writer: Katie Holmes
Stars: Katie Holmes, Jim Sturgess, Derek Luke, Melissa Leo, Becky Ann Baker
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14584284/
Two strangers embroiled in bad relationships wind up in the same upstate New York Airbnb.
Not Okay
Release 2022
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Director: Quinn Shephard
Writer: Quinn Shephard
Stars: Zoey Deutch, Mia Isaac, Negin Farsad, Dylan O'Brien, Tia Dionne Hodge
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14814040/
An ambitious young woman (Zoey Deutch) finds followers and fame when she poses as the survivor of a deadly attack, but she soon learns that online notoriety comes with a terrible price.
Sniper. The White Raven
Release 2022
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Director: Marian Bushan
Stars: Maryna Koshkina, Andrey Mostrenko, Aldoshyn Pavlo, Roman Semysal, Zachary Shadrin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19465630/
After suffering a tragedy at the hand of invading soldiers in Donbas, an Ukrainian physics teacher seeks revenge. He sets his sights on an elite Russian sniper whose elimination could change the tide of the conflict.
Mr. Malcolm's List
Release 2022
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Director: Emma Holly Jones
Writers: Suzanne Allain
Stars: Freida Pinto, Sope Dirisu,Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ashley Park
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12545566/
A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th century England.
The Moderator
Release 2022
Genre Drama
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Director: Zhor Fassi-Fihri
Writers: Hicham Hajji, Jonathan McConnell
Stars: Irma Lake, Robert Knepper, Gary Dourdan, Michael Patrick Lane, Soraya Azzabi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12810902/
After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.
The Forgiven
Release 2021
Genre Drama
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Director: John Michael McDonagh
Writers: John Michael McDonagh, Lawrence Osborne
Stars: Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Caleb Landry Jones, Abbey Lee
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3696180/
The Forgiven takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the local Muslims, and Western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.
Persuasion
Release 2022
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Director: Carrie Cracknell
Writers: Ron Bass, Alice Victoria Winslow, Jane Austen
Stars: Richard E. Grant, Henry Golding, Ben Bailey Smith, Yolanda Kettle
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13456318/
Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?
Girls to Buy
Release 2021
Genre Drama
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Director: Maria Sadowska
Writers: Mitja Okorn, Lucas Coleman, Peter Pasyk
Stars: Paulina Galazka, Katarzyna Figura, Katarzyna Sawczuk, Olga Kalicka, Giulio Berruti
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11871074/
It follows a young woman who becomes an escort as a way of getting out of her small town, but she soon discovers she has no control over her situation.