Category Archives: Drama
War with Grandpa
Release 2020
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Director: Tim Hill
Writers: Tom J. Astle, Matt Ember, Robert Kimmel Smith
Stars: Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Rob Riggle
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4532038/
Upset that he has to share the room he loves with his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war in an attempt to get it back.
The Burnt Orange Heresy
Release 2019
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Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Writers: Scott B. Smith, Charles Willeford
Stars: Elizabeth Debicki, Donald Sutherland, Claes Bang, Mick Jagger, Rosalind Halstead
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8342680/
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of the most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
Ava
Release 2020
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Director: Tate Taylor
Writers: Matthew Newton
Stars: Jessica Chastain, John Malkovich, Common, Geena Davis, Jess Weixler
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8784956/
Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.
Sputnik
Release 2020
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Director: Egor Abramenko
Writers: Oleg Malovichko, Andrei Zolotarev
Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anna Nazarova, Anton Vasilev
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11905962/
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned back home alone-hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Tesla
Release 2020
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Director: Michael Almereyda
Writer: Michael Almereyda
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Hannah Gross, Eve Hewson, Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Gaffigan
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5259822/
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Pearl(2020)
Release 2020
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Director: Bobby Roth
Writer: Bobby Roth
Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Larsen Thompson, Sarah Carter, Barbara Williams, Melissa Macedo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12325668/
After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.
Black Water: Abyss
Release 2020
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Director: Andrew Traucki
Writers: John Ridley, Sarah Smith
Stars: Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Benjamin Hoetjes, Anthony J. Sharpe
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7978672/
Five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves threatened by a hungry crocodile.
Paydirt
Release 2020
Genre Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Director: Christian Sesma
Writer: Christian Sesma
Stars: Luke Goss, Val Kilmer, Mike Hatton, Paul Sloan, Nick Vallelonga
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11176322/
A parolee teams up with his old crew determined to find a buried bag of cash stolen five years ago from a DEA bust gone bad, while being tracked by a retired Sheriff.
The Secret Garden
Release 2020
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Director: Marc Munden
Writers: Frances Hodgson Burnett, Jack Thorne
Stars: Dixie Egerickx, Colin Firth, Julie Walters, Edan Hayhurst, Amir Wilson
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2702920/
An orphaned girl discovers a magical garden hidden at her strict uncle's estate.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Release 2019
Genre Drama
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Director: Ciro Guerra
Writers: J.M. Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee
Stars: Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6149154/
A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire.