Category Archives: Drama
The Midnight Sky
Release 2020
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Director: George Clooney
Writers: Lily Brooks-Dalton, Mark L. Smith
Stars: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall, Kyle Chandler
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10539608/
This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Half Brothers
Release 2020
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Director: Luke Greenfield
Writers: Ali LeRoi, Eduardo Cisneros, Jason Shuman
Stars: José Zúñiga, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Hayes Hargrove, Vincent Spano, Connor Del Rio
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10515926/
Renato, a Mexican aviation exec, is shocked to learn he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. They are forced on a road trip together, tracing the path their father took from Mexico to the US.
The Last Shift
Release 2020
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Director: Andrew Cohn
Writer: Andrew Cohn
Stars: Richard Jenkins, Shane Paul McGhie, Ed O'Neill, Allison Tolman, Da'Vine Joy Randolph
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10661180/
Stanley's last shift at his fast food job takes an unexpected turn when he befriends a young African-American work employee.
The Empty Man
Release 2020
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Director: David Prior
Writers: David Prior, David Prior, Cullen Bunn
Stars: James Badge Dale, Stephen Root, Joel Courtney, Sasha Frolova, Marin Ireland
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5867314/
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.
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.