Category Archives: Drama
No Exit
Release 2022
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Director: Damien Power
Writers: Taylor Adams, Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari
Stars: Havana Rose Liu, Danny Ramirez, David Rysdahl, Dale Dickey, Mila Harris
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7550014/
During a blizzard and stranded at an isolated highway rest stop in the mountains, a college student discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside.
West Side Story
Release 2021
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Tony Kushner, Arthur Laurents
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Rita Moreno
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581652/
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
Licorice Pizza
Release 2021
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Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson
Stars: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11271038/
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Pursuit
Release 2022
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Director: Brian Skiba
Writers: Dawn Bursteen, Ben Fiore, Brian Skiba
Stars: John Cusack, Elizabeth Faith Ludlow, Emile Hirsch, William Katt, Graham Patrick Martin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15106860/
Detective Breslin crosses paths with Calloway, a ruthless hacker who's trying to save his kidnapped wife from a drug cartel. When Calloway escapes from police custody, Breslin joins forces with a no-nonsense cop to reclaim his prisoner.
Fistful of Vengeance
Release 2022
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Director: Roel Reiné
Writers: Cameron Litvack, Yalun Tu
Stars: Iko Uwais, Lewis Tan, JuJu Chan Szeto, Yayaying Rhatha Phongam, Jason Tobin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14158554/
Kai Jin, a young Chinatown chef in present day San Francisco, becomes entangled with the Chinese Triad's pursuit of deadly ancient powers known as the "Wu Xing.
Sundown
Release 2021
Genre Drama
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Director: Michel Franco
Writer: Michel Franco
Stars: Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Iazua Larios, Henry Goodman, Albertine Kotting McMillan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15115280/
Neil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.
AI Love You
Release 2022
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Director: David Asavanond, Stephan Zlotescu
Writers: Philip Gelatt, Ratapong Pinyosophon, Stephan Zlotescu
Stars: Pimchanok Leuwisetpaiboon, Mario Maurer, Sahajak Boonthanakit, David Asavanond, Michael S. New
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11182810/
A modern love story set in the near future where an AI building is powered by human feelings. Due to a software glitch, it falls in love with a real girl, escapes the building into the body of a real man, and tries to win her affections.
The In Between
Release 2022
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Director: Arie Posin
Writers: Marc Klein
Stars: Kyle Allen, Joey King, Celeste O'Connor, John Ortiz, Kim Dickens
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8851148/
After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.
Kimi
Release 2022
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: David Koepp
Stars: Zoë Kravitz, Rita Wilson, Erika Christensen, India de Beaufort, Robin Givens
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14128670/
An agoraphobic Seattle tech worker uncovers evidence of a crime.
Redeeming Love
Release 2022
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Director: D.J. Caruso
Writers: Francine Rivers, D.J. Caruso
Stars: Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Eric Dane, Famke Janssen, Logan Marshall-Green
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11365186/
Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended? Based upon the novel by Francine Rivers.