Category Archives: Drama
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.
Crisis
Release 2021
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Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Writer: Nicholas Jarecki
Stars: Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9731682/
Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her...
The World to Come
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: Mona Fastvold
Writers: Ron Hansen, Jim Shepard, Jim Shepard
Stars: Katherine Waterston, Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott, Karina Ziana Gherasim
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9738716/
Somewhere along the mid-19th century American East Coast frontier, two neighboring couples battle hardship and isolation, witnessed by a splendid yet testing landscape, challenging them both physically and psychologically.
The Mauritanian
Release 2021
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Director: Kevin Macdonald
Writers: Michael Bronner, Michael Bronner, Rory Haines
Stars: Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Benedict Cumberbatch, Shailene Woodley, Stevel Marc
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4761112/
Mohamedou Ould Salahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Release 2021
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Director: Lee Daniels
Writers: Suzan-Lori Parks, Johann Hari
Stars: Andra Day, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Natasha Lyonne, Trevante Rhodes
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8521718/
Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an undercover sting operation led by black Federal Agent Jimmy Fletcher, with whom she had a tumultuous affair.