Category Archives: Drama
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: George C. Wolfe
Writers: Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson
Stars: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Michael Potts
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10514222/
Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable "Mother of the Blues". Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play.
Another Round
Release 2020
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Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Writers: Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, Lars Ranthe, Maria Bonnevie
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/
Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
The Kid Detective
Release 2020
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Director: Evan Morgan
Writer: Evan Morgan
Stars: Adam Brody, Sophie Nélisse, Sarah Sutherland, Jesse Noah Gruman, Wendy Crewson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8980602/
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Songbird
Release 2020
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Director: Adam Mason
Writers: Adam Mason, Simon Boyes
Stars: K.J. Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12592252/
In 2024 a pandemic ravages the world and its cities. Centering on a handful of people as they navigate the obstacles currently hindering society: disease, martial law, quarantine, and vigilantes.
I'm Your Woman
Release 2020
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Director: Julia Hart
Writers: Julia Hart, Jordan Horowitz
Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Arinzé Kene, Jameson Charles, Justin Charles
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10243992/
In this 1970s set crime drama, a woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey.
Savage
Release 2019
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Director: Sam Kelly
Writer: Sam Kelly
Stars: Jake Ryan, John Tui, Chelsie Preston Crayford
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9099800/
Inspired by the true stories of New Zealand's street gangs across 30 years, SAVAGE follows DANNY at three defining moments in his life as he grows from a boy into the violent enforcer of a gang.
Wild Mountain Thyme
Release 2020
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Director: John Patrick Shanley
Writer: John Patrick Shanley
Stars: Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Jon Hamm,Christopher Walken
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6842770/
A pair of star-crossed lovers in Ireland get caught up in their family's land dispute.
Pinocchio(2019)
Release 2019
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Director: Matteo Garrone
Writers: Carlo Collodi, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Ceccherini
Stars: Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Rocco Papaleo, Massimo Ceccherini, Marine Vacth
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8333746/
Live-action adaptation of the classic story of a wooden puppet named Pinocchio who comes to life.
Honest Thief
Release 2020
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Director: Mark Williams
Writers: Steve Allrich, Mark Williams
Stars: Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney, Jeffrey Donovan, Anthony Ramos
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1838556/
Wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
Black Bear
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Writer: Lawrence Michael Levine
Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Sarah Gadon, Christopher Abbott, Lindsay Burdge, Alexander Koch
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9601220/
A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods summon her inner demons in intense and surprising ways.