Category Archives: Drama
A Score to Settle
Release 2019
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Director: Shawn Ku
Writers: John Stuart Newman
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Benjamin Bratt, Noah Le Gros
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3758162/
An ex-enforcer for a local crime syndicate has vowed to enact retribution on his mob bosses after 22 years of wrongful imprisonment. The only thing diverting his violent plans is a new found relationship to his beloved son.
Operation Brothers
Release 2019
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Director: Gideon Raff
Writer: Gideon Raff
Stars: Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Alona Tal
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4995776/
Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1977.
Skin
Release 2018
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Director: Guy Nattiv
Writer: Guy Nattiv
Stars: Jamie Bell, Danielle Macdonald, Daniel Henshall
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6043142/
A destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves.
Tolkien
Release 2019
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Director: Dome Karukoski
Writers: David Gleeson, Stephen Beresford
Stars: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Colm Meaney
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3361792/
The formative years of the orphaned author J.R.R. Tolkien as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school.
El Chicano
Release 2018
Genre Drama
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Director: Ben Hernandez Bray
Writers: Ben Hernandez Bray, Joe Carnahan
Stars: Adolfo Alvarez, Logan Arevalo, Jose Pablo Cantillo
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7374952/
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
Poms
Release 2019
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Director: Zara Hayes
Writers: Shane Atkinson , Shane Atkinson
Stars: Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Celia Weston
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5125894/
POMS is a comedy about a group of women who form a cheer leading squad at their retirement community, proving that you're never too old to 'bring it!'
Saving Zoë
Release 2019
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Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writers: Brian J. Adams, LeeAnne H. Adams, Alyson Noel
Stars: Laura Marano, Christopher Brophy, Nathaniel Buzolic
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7319822/
It's been a year since her older sister's murder, and Echo is still far from being completely all right. Echo has been trying her hardest to be the strong one, while her mother takes too many antidepressants and her father works too much. Now, at the start of her freshman year of high school, Echo receives an unlikely gift from Zoe's old boyfriend: her diary. Echo is hesitant to read it but can't put it down after she gets caught up in Zoe's secret life.
Sometimes Always Never
Release 2018
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Director: Carl Hunter
Writers: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Stars: Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5068162/
A detective fantasy / family drama where a love of words helps a father reconnect with a missing son.
Fisherman's Friends
Release 2019
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Director: Chris Foggin
Writers: Piers Ashworth, Meg Leonard, Nick Moorcroft
Stars: Tuppence Middleton, James Purefoy, Daniel Mays
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1648186/
Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties.
