Category Archives: Drama
The Song of Names
Release 2019
Genre Drama
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Director: François Girard
Writers: Norman Lebrecht, Jeffrey Caine
Stars: Saul Rubinek, Catherine McCormack, Clive Owen, Tim Roth, Jonah Hauer-King
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1657517/
Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him.
Human Capital
Release 2019
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Director: Marc Meyers
Writers: Stephen Amidon, Oren Moverman
Stars: Marisa Tomei, Peter Sarsgaard, Maya Hawke, Alex Wolff, Liev Schreiber
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9185066/
The lives of two different families collide when their children begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident.
Emma.
Release 2020
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Director: Autumn de Wilde
Writers: Eleanor Catton, Jane Austen
Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Myra McFadyen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9214832/
In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
The Banker
Release 2020
Genre Drama
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Director: George Nolfi
Writers: Brad Kane, Niceole R. Levy, George Nolfi
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long, James DuMont
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6285944/
In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
Brahms: The Boy II
Release 2020
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Director: William Brent Bell
Writers: Stacey Menear
Stars: Katie Holmes, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery, Ralph Ineson, Anjali Jay
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9173418/
After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Clemency
Release 2019
Genre Drama
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Director: Chinonye Chukwu
Writer: Chinonye Chukwu
Stars: Aldis Hodge, Alfre Woodard, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce, Vernee Watson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5577494/
As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Seberg
Release 2019
Genre Biography, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Benedict Andrews
Writers: Joe Shrapnel, Anna Waterhouse
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Yvan Attal, Gabriel Sky, Jack O'Connell, Margaret Qualley
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1780967/
Inspired by real events in the life of French New Wave icon Jean Seberg. In the late 1960s, Hoover's FBI targeted her because of her political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal.
The Postcard Killings
Release 2020
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Director: Danis Tanovic
Writers: Liza Marklund, Liza Marklund, James Patterson
Stars: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen, Naomi Battrick, Ruairi O'Connor, Cush Jumbo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4106514/
A New York detective investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian journalist when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.
Contagion
Release 2011
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Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598778/
The CDC races against time to develop a vaccine against an extremely lethal virus.
Spenser Confidential
Release 2020
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Director: Peter Berg
Writers: Sean O'Keefe, Brian Helgeland, Ace Atkins
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Colleen Camp, Iliza Shlesinger, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8629748/
When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk, to take down criminals.