Category Archives: Drama
Rise
Release 2022
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Director: Akin Omotoso
Writers: Arash Amel
Stars: Manish Dayal, Taylor Nichols, Maximiliano Hernández, Yetide Badaki, Dayo Okeniyi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11242162/
Based on the real life story about the family that produced the first trio of brothers to become NBA champions in the history of the league.
Crimes of the Future
Release 2022
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Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: David Cronenberg
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Scott Speedman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/
Humans adapt to a synthetic environment, with new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice, Saul Tenser, celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.
Benediction
Release 2021
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Director: Terence Davies
Writer: Terence Davies
Stars: Tom Blyth, Kate Phillips, Jack Lowden, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Capaldi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6852178/
Legendary 20th Century war poet Siegfried Sassoon's life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships goes unresolved, never realizing it can only come from within.
Spiderhead
Release 2022
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Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, George Saunders
Stars: Miles Teller, Chris Hemsworth, Charles Parnell, Jurnee Smollett, Tess Haubrich
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9783600/
In the near future, convicts are offered the chance to volunteer as medical subjects to shorten their sentence. One such subject for a new drug capable of generating feelings of love begins questioning the reality of his emotions.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Release 2022
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Director: Sophie Hyde
Writers: Katy Brand
Stars: Emma Thompson, Daryl McCormack, Isabella Laughland
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13352968/
Nancy Stokes, a 55-year-old widow, is yearning for some adventure, human connection, and some sex--some good sex.
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Release 2022
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Director: Cooper Raiff
Writer: Cooper Raiff
Stars: Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Evan Assante, Vanessa Burghardt, Leslie Mann
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14376344/
A young man who works as a Bar Mitzvah party host strikes up a friendship with a mother and her autistic daughter.
Jerry and Marge Go Large
Release 2022
Genre Biography, Comedy, Drama
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Director: David Frankel
Writers: Brad Copeland
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Annette Bening, Rainn Wilson, Michael McKean, Jake McDorman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8323668/
Based on the true story about couple Jerry and Marge Selbee, who win the lottery and use the money to revive their small town.
The Lost Girls
Release 2022
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Director: Livia De Paolis
Writers: Laurie Fox, Livia De Paolis
Stars: Louis Partridge, Joely Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Iain Glen, Julian Ovenden
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023464/
Like her grandmother and her mother Jane before her, Wendy must escape Pan's hold on her and the promise he wants her to keep.
Father of the Bride
Release 2022
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Director: Gary Alazraki
Writers: Matt Lopez, Edward Streeter
Stars: Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan, Adria Arjona, Isabela Merced, Diego Boneta
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13249596/
A father's coming to grips with his daughter's upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American clan.
Trees Of Peace
Release 2021
Genre Drama
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Director: Alanna Brown
Writer: Alanna Brown
Stars: Eliane Umuhire, Charmaine Bingwa, Ella Cannon, Bola Koleosho, Tongayi Chirisa
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11316680/
In April of 1994, four women from different backgrounds and beliefs are trapped and hiding during the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Their fight for survival against all odds unites the women in an unbreakable sisterhood.