Category Archives: Drama
A Week Away
Release 2021
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Director: Roman White
Writers: Kali Bailey, Alan Powell, Alan Powell
Stars: Kevin Quinn, Bailee Madison, Jahbril Cook, Kat Conner Sterling, Sherri Shepherd
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11388278/
Nowhere left to go, Will Hawkins finds himself at camp for the first time. His instinct is to run, but he finds a friend, a father figure and even a girl who awakens his heart. Most of all, he finally finds a home.
Senior Moment
Release 2021
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Director: Giorgio Serafini
Writers: Kurt Brungardt, Christopher Momenee
Stars: Christopher Lloyd, William Shatner, Katrina Bowden, Jean Smart, Esai Morales
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6588950/
After drag racing his vintage convertible around Palm Springs, a retired NASA test pilot loses his license. Forced to take public transportation, he meets Caroline and learns to navigate love and life again.
The Father
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: Florian Zeller
Writers: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller, Florian Zeller
Stars: Anthony Hopkins,Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams, Imogen Poots
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10272386/
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Boogie
Release 2021
Genre Drama
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Director: Eddie Huang
Writer: Eddie Huang
Stars: Taylor Takahashi, Taylour Paige, Pop Smoke, Pamelyn Chee, Perry Yung
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10896398/
Coming-of-age story of Alfred "Boogie" Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals and the burden of expectation.
Cherry
Release 2021
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Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writers: Angela Russo-Otstot, Jessica Goldberg, Nico Walker
Stars: Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Michael Rispoli, Jeff Wahlberg
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9130508/
An Army medic suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder becomes a serial bank robber after an addiction to drugs puts him in debt.
Nomadland
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: Chloé Zhao
Writers: Jessica Bruder, Chloé Zhao
Stars: Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May, Angela Reyes
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9770150/
After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Moxie
Release 2021
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Director: Amy Poehler
Writers: Jennifer Mathieu, Tamara Chestna, Dylan Meyer
Stars: Hadley Robinson, Lauren Tsai, Alycia Pascual-Pena, Nico Hiraga, Sabrina Haskett
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6432466/
Fed up with the sexist and toxic status quo at her high school, a shy 16-year-old finds inspiration from her mother's rebellious past and anonymously publishes a zine that sparks a school-wide, coming-of-rage revolution.
Blood on the Crown
Release 2021
Genre Drama
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Director: Davide Ferrario
Writers: Jean Pierre Magro
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Harvey Keitel, Tom Prior, Ian Virgo, Leeshon Alexander
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10951288/
Just Noise (Storbju) chronicles how the citizens of Malta fought for independence from Britain in 1919. When the Army was sent to quell the riots and the British government covered up the bloody encounter, more than 100 Maltese were accused of instigating the violence and jailed.
The Winter Lake
Release 2020
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Phil Sheerin
Writers: David Turpin
Stars: Anson Boon, Charlie Murphy, Emma Mackey, Michael McElhatton, Mark McKenna
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9778348/
When Holly's dark secret is accidentally uncovered by her new emotionally unstable neighbor Tom, they are pulled into a violent confrontation with her father, who will do anything to keep the secret hidden.
My Salinger Year
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: Philippe Falardeau
Writers: Philippe Falardeau, Joanna Smith Rakoff
Stars: Margaret Qualley, Sigourney Weaver, Douglas Booth, Seána Kerslake, Brían F. O'Byrne
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2222052/
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.