Category Archives: Drama
Emily the Criminal
Release 2022
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Director: John Patton Ford
Writer: John Patton Ford
Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Bernardo Badillo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15255876/
Down on her luck and saddled with debt, Emily gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Release 2022
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Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Augusta Gore, A.S. Byatt
Stars: Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, Pia Thunderbolt, Berk Ozturk, Anthony Moisset
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9198364/
A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Breaking
Release 2022
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Director: Abi Damaris Corbin
Writers: Abi Damaris Corbin, Kwame Kwei-Armah
Stars: John Boyega, Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Michael Kenneth Williams, Connie Britton
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12311620/
A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life.
End of the Road
Release 2022
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Director: Millicent Shelton
Writers: Christopher J. Moore, David Loughery
Stars: Queen Latifah, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Frances Lee McCain, Jesse Luken
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13655328/
In this high-octane action thriller, a cross-country road trip becomes a highway to hell for Brenda and her family. Alone in the New Mexico desert, they have to fight for their lives when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.
Pinocchio
Release 2022
Genre Adventure, Comedy, Drama
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writers: Robert Zemeckis, Carlo Collodi, Chris Weitz
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, Angus Wright, Cynthia Erivo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4593060/
A live-action adaptation of Disney's 'Pinocchio'.
Beast
Release 2022
Genre Adventure, Drama, Horror
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Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Writers: Ryan Engle, Jaime Primak Sullivan
Stars: Liyabuya Gongo, Martin Munro, Daniel Hadebe, Thapelo Sebogodi, Chris Langa
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13223398/
A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Release 2021
Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama
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Director: Dean Fleischer-Camp
Writers: Dean Fleischer-Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Nick Paley
Stars: Jenny Slate, Dean Fleischer-Camp, Isabella Rossellini, Joe Gabler, Shari Finkelstein
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15339456/
Feature adaptation of the animated short film interviewing a mollusk named Marcel.
Mack & Rita
Release 2022
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Director: Katie Aselton
Writers: Madeline Walter, Paul Welsh
Stars: Diane Keaton, Elizabeth Lail, Taylour Paige, Loretta Devine, Dustin Milligan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14330236/
A 30-year-old writer (Elizabeth Lail) spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self (Diane Keaton).
The Railway Children Return
Release 2022
Genre Adventure, Drama, Family
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Director: Morgan Matthews
Writers: Daniel Brocklehurst, Jemma Rodgers
Stars: John Bradley, Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith, Tom Courtenay, Hugh Quarshie
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14592998/
Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.
Samaritan
Release 2022
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Director: Julius Avery
Writers: Bragi F. Schut
Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Javon 'Wanna' Walton, Pilou Asbæk, Dascha Polanco, Sophia Tatum
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5500218/
A young boy learns that a superhero who was thought to have gone missing after an epic battle twenty years ago may in fact still be around.