Category Archives: Drama
Crawl
Release 2019
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Director: Alexandre Aja
Writers: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8364368/
A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators.
The Wolf Hour
Release 2019
Genre Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Alistair Banks Griffin
Writer: Alistair Banks Griffin
Stars: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle, Emory Cohen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5342950/
June was once a known counter-culture figure, but that was a decade ago. She now lives alone in her South Bronx apartment, having all but cut herself off from the outside world. It's the notorious "Summer of Sam" and June only has to look out of her window to see the violence escalating with the brutal summer heat. The city is on a knife's edge, a pressure-cooker about to explode into the incendiary 1977 New York blackout riots.
Midsommar
Release 2019
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Director: Ari Aster
Writer: Ari Aster
Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Vilhelm Blomgren
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8772262/
A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Running with the Devil
Release 2019
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Director: Jason Cabell
Writer: Jason Cabell
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Cole Hauser, Leslie Bibb
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5792656/
The CEO of an International conglomerate sends two of his most regarded executives to investigate why shipments of cocaine are being hijacked and over cut somewhere on the supply chain.
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan
Release 2018
Genre Drama
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Director: Xavier Dolan
Writers: Xavier Dolan, Jacob Tierney
Stars: Emily Hampshire, Kit Harington, Natalie Portman
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4042818/
A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
The Corrupted
Release 2019
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Director: Ron Scalpello
Writers: Nick Moorcroft
Stars: Sam Claflin, Timothy Spall, Hugh Bonneville
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5687270/
Set after the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
The Keeper
Release 2018
Genre Biography, Drama, Romance
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Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
Writers: Robert Marciniak, Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Nicholas J. Schofield
Stars: David Kross, Freya Mavor, John Henshaw
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4642192/
The Keeper tells the extraordinary love story between a young English woman and a German PoW, who together overcome prejudice, public hostility, and personal tragedy. While visiting a PoW camp near Manchester at the end of WWII, Margaret Friar, the daughter of the manager of the local football team, notices young German soldier Bert Trautmann. Her father is so taken by Bert's prowess as a goal-keeper that he gets him out of the camp to play for his local team. Margaret and Bert's love blossoms despite local hostility and resentment of the German PoWs. In the meantime, Bert's heroics in goal are noticed by Manchester's City Football Club. Rather than going back to Germany like nearly all the other camp inmates, Bert marries Margaret and signs for Man City. His signing causes outrage to thousands of Man City fans, many of them Jewish. But Margaret wins support from an unexpected direction: Rabbi Altmann, a Man City supporter who fled the Nazis, who publishes an open letter opposing the campaign against Bert. Bert's path to acceptance begins and peaks at the 1956 FA Cup Final when he secures victory for Man City by playing on despite breaking his neck. Yet fate twists the knife for both Margaret and Bert. Alienated and alone, Margaret's and Bert's loyalty to each other will be put to the test once more. Heartbroken, Bert wants to give up. Equally heartbroken, Margaret insists that they move forward and that he keeps on playing.
Into the Ashes
Release 2019
Genre Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Director: Aaron Harvey
Writer: Aaron Harvey
Stars: Luke Grimes, Frank Grillo, Marguerite Moreau
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3138122/
With an honest job and a loving wife, Nick Brenner believed he had safely escaped his violent, criminal history. But his old crew hasn't forgotten about him or the money he stole, and when they take what Nick now values the most - his wife - he has nothing left to lose. Confronted by the town sheriff, who is also his father-in-law, Nick must decide if he will stay on his new path or indulge in his need for revenge and force his enemies to pay for what they have done.
Late Night
Release 2019
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Director: Nisha Ganatra
Writers: Mindy Kaling
Stars: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6107548/
A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
Blinded by the Light
Release 2019
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Director: Gurinder Chadha
Writers: Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Sarfraz Manzoor, Bruce Springsteen
Stars: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8266310/
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.