Category: Drama
Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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And Then There Was You / Someone to Love (2013)
Drama
Joshua (Leon) and Natalie (Garcelle Beauvais) appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves. While picking up the pieces of her shattered world, the process of healing introduces some new-found obstacles in the form of a new love interest (Brian White). Now, Natalie must test the boundaries of her trust and the capacity of her heart before she can love again. Lynn Whitfield, Greg Vaughn and Trilby Glover costar in this fresh start romance from award-winning director Leila Djansi.
Starring: Leon, Garcelle Beauvais, Brian White, Greg Vaughan, Lynn Whitfield
Director: Leila Djansi
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Pollywogs (2013)
Comedy | Drama
On the heels of a bitter breakup, 30 year old Dylan travels home to Minnesota for a family reunion where he runs into his childhood sweetheart. Having not seen each other for 18 years, since Sarah was taken by her parents to a religious compound, the unexpected encounter brings them back to an intimacy they forgot existed, and reveals what they will become.
Starring: Karl Jacob, Larry Mitchell, Jennifer Prediger, Kate Lyn Sheil, Sophia Takal
Director: T. Arthur Cottam, Karl Jacob
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Out of Love / Par amour (2012)
Drama
In a beginners' acting class Romeo and Juliet is rehearsed. The students and their teacher are, each in their own way, to live love stories as strong as the legendary opus by William Shakespeare. What is one ready to do for love? To bestow roses or to engage in a duel to the death? To go away on vacation for a weekend or to spend three weeks in a jail? To swear fidelity to your loved one or to sleep with the first stranger? Out of love, one is capable of anything. From the best to the worst…
Starring: Valérie Mairesse, Valérie Vogt, Fred Bouraly, Sophie Mounicot
Director: Laurent Firode
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Tags: Fred Bouraly, Laurent Firode, Sophie Mounicot, Valérie Mairesse, Valérie Vogt
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Wolf (2012)
Drama | Family
A family is shaken to the core when they discover that their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse because of his love for his abuser.
Starring: Jordan Cooper, Mikala Gibson, Irma P. Hall, Shelton Jolivette, Eugene Lee
Director: Ya'Ke Smith
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Tags: Eugene Lee, Irma P. Hall, Jordan Cooper, Mikala Gibson, Shelton Jolivette, Ya'Ke Smith
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Broken (2012)
Drama
An eleven-year-old girl finds herself exposed to the inequities of life in this rite-of-passage drama directed by Rufus Norris. With her mother having left the family home, Skunk (Eloise Lawrence) now lives in suburbia with her kind-hearted father Archie (Tim Roth), her brother Jed (Bill Milner) and Polish au pair Kasia (Zana Marjanovic). In spite of being a diabetic, Skunk refuses to be hamstrung by the disease and always approaches life with a smile on her face. But that all changes when she witnesses a violent attack on her neighbours' simple-minded son Rick (Robert Emms) by fellow neighbour Mr. Oswald (Rory Kinnear), who believes, wrongly, that he has raped one of his daughters.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Rory Kinnear, Zana Marjanovic, Robert Emms, Eloise Laurence
Director: Rufus Norris
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Posted on February 11, 2014 |
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Reaching for the Moon / Flores Raras (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Set in 1950s Brazil, this sumptuous drama recounts Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto, "Lord of the Rings") and her love affair with architect Lota de Macedo Soares, the designer of Rio's famed Flamengo Park. Initial hostilities between the pair make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop's relationship to the world around her. From Oscar-nominated Brazilian director Bruno Barreto ("Four Days in September"), "Reaching for the Moon" is an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration, wherever and however you find it.
Starring: Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf, Treat Williams
Director: Bruno Barreto
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Stay (2013)
Drama
A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Aidan Quinn, Michael Ironside, Brian Gleeson, Carrie Crowley, Barry Keoghan
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
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Tags: Aidan Quinn, Barry Keoghan, Brian Gleeson, Carrie Crowley, Michael Ironside, Taylor Schilling, Wiebke von Carolsfeld
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Anna Nicole (2013)
Drama
In the tradition of Star 80, the true saga of Anna Nicole Smith whose youthful optimistic dreams of fame and fortune turn darkly tragic.
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Martin Landau, Adam Goldberg, Graham Patrick Martin, Cary Elwes, Virginia Madsen
Director: Mary Harron
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2 Jacks / Two Jacks (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?
Starring: Sienna Miller, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Huston, Danny Huston, Billy Zane, Scott Burn, Izabella Miko
Director: Bernard Rose
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Tags: Bernard Rose, Billy Zane, Danny Huston, Izabella Miko, Jack Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, Scott Burn, Sienna Miller
Posted on February 10, 2014 |
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Code Blue / Kôdo burû (TV Series 2008- )
Drama
If it can be treated one second earlier, the heart might start beating again. If there is one extra helicopter, another life in danger may be saved. If one more life can be saved, the Japanese medical community may regain trust. There are more lives in this country that can be saved. The "Doctor Helicopter" system was legalized in Japan in June 2007. A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.
Starring: Tomohisa Yamashita, Yui Aragaki, Erika Toda, Manami Higa, Yôsuke Asari, Masanobu Katsumura, Kiyoshi Kodama
Creator: Koji Hayashi
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Tags: Erika Toda, Kiyoshi Kodama, Koji Hayashi, Manami Higa, Masanobu Katsumura, Tomohisa Yamashita, Yôsuke Asari, Yui Aragaki
Posted on February 10, 2014 |
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Crying 100 Times / To Cry a 100 Times / 100 kai nakukoto (2013)
Drama | Romance
Shuichi (Tadayoshi Okura) had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi (Mirei Kiritani). They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Starring: Tadayoshi Ôkura, Mirei Kiritani
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
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City Lights (1931)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
As it is the case with practically all of Chaplin's films, in City Lights comedy and drama are closely intertwined. In it the Tramp makes two friends – one is an eccentric millionaire (Harry Myers) with a serious drinking problem who has decided to end his life, the other a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) selling flowers to make ends meet. The Tramp profoundly changes their lives but they react to his goodness in two radically different ways.
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann
Director: Charles Chaplin
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The Calling (2009)
Comedy | Drama
Joanna is about to graduate from University with her whole life set up for her but she has decided to face up to a truth she has been avoiding her whole life. Since she was small, she has had the desire to become a Nun. She is set on joining a closed order of Benedictines. Her best friend cannot believe it, her boyfriend is devastated and her mother feels it's just a phase. The only encouragement she gets is from the family's religious housekeeper, Consuela. When she finally gets to the convent, the liberalism of a politically active Novice Sister, Ignatious and a bunch of women with border-line mental illness, including a psychotic Mother Superior, an alcoholic football fan in charge of the vineyard, an over-pious floor mopper, Sister Hilda to name a few at first makes her wonder if she's following the right path after all but as she gets to know the Sisters and the enormous community bond they all share and the spiritual love that connects them she starts to see glimpses of her own spiritual fulfillment. Several weeks into her vocation she discovers something in herself which brings a whole new series of secrets out into the open until eventually the bond she has with Sister Ignatious dictates and assists in her destiny.
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Emily Beecham, Susannah York, Rita Tushingham, Amanda Donohoe, Chloe Sirene
Director: Jan Dunn
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We're Here to Help (2007)
Drama
A Kafkaesque comedy based on the true story of one man's David-and-Goliath battle with the biggest bureaucracy of all – the tax department. He wins, they lose!
Starring: Erik Thomson, Miriama Smith, Michael Hurst
Director: Jonothan Cullinane
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Proud (2004)
Drama
The USS Mason entered World War 2 on a presumably doomed mission. The all African-American crew overcame the harsh realities of war abroad and segregation at home… and was finally honored for its heroism in 1994.
Starring: Ossie Davis, Stephen Rea
Director: Mary Pat Kelly
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Final (2001)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Bill wakes up from a coma in a hospital ward, raving about tissue regeneration experiments, final injections, organ transplants and having been cryogenically frozen. Battling flashbacks of his father's death and a car crash, occasional hallucinations and fits of rage he tries to piece together his own history with the help of Ann, a lonely medical psychologist sent in to evaluate whether he should be released. In their confrontational, sexually-charged sessions, Bill flip-flops between pitch-perfect self-diagnoses and his paranoid bio-tech fantasies, but slowly begins to heal. But things are not what they seem.
Starring: Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan, Jim Hornyak, Maureen Anderman, Marin Hinkle
Director: Campbell Scott
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Tags: Campbell Scott, Denis Leary, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie, Jim Gaffigan, Jim Hornyak, Marin Hinkle, Maureen Anderman
Posted on February 9, 2014 |
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Gravity (2013)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Seasoned astronaut Matt Kowalsky is on his final mission in space, while medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone is making her first outing on the Space Shuttle. While they are engaged in extra-vehicular activity, debris collides into the shuttle, damaging it irreparably. Kowalsky and Stone now find themselves drifting in space with low oxygen supplies, and cut off from all communication on Earth. They work together in their attempt to survive, but will they make it back to solid ground?
Starring: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
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Posted on February 9, 2014 |
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Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro / Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor. However, due to the increasing popularity of Nascimento, the Governor invites him to team-up with the intelligence area of the Secretary of Security. Along the years, Fraga, who is married with Nascimento's former wife, is elected State Representative and Nascimento's son Rafael has issues with his biological father.
Starring: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro, Seu Jorge
Director: José Padilha
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Romeo and Juliet / Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Drama | Romance
When the star-crossed lovers of two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues.
Starring: Hailee Steinfeld, Ed Westwick, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Paul Giamatti
Director: Carlo Carlei
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Posted on February 9, 2014 |
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Wadjda (2012)
Drama
A rebellious Saudi Arabian girl hatches a plan to get her hands on the bicycle she craves, in this coming-of-age tale. Living within a conservative suburb of Riyadh, fun-loving eleven-year-old Wadjda has her heart set on a green bicycle, so that she can beat the boys in their neighbourhood races. But when her mother forbids it, anticipating a reaction from a society that disapproves of women riding bicycles, an enterprising Wadjda decides to raise the money herself, by entering a local Qur'an-reading competition that's offering a cash prize.
Starring: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
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Tags: Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed