Category: Drama
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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Posted on February 8, 2014 |
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The Best Man Holiday / The Best Man 2 (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A follow-up to the 1999 film, THE BEST MAN, which centers on a writer whose recent autobiography put him at odds with being the Best Man at his friend's wedding.
Starring: Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Regina Hall, Sanaa Lathan, Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Monica Calhoun, Melissa De Sousa
Director: Malcolm D. Lee
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Tags: Harold Perrineau, Malcolm D. Lee, Melissa De Sousa, Monica Calhoun, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Regina Hall, Sanaa Lathan, Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard
Posted on February 8, 2014 |
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Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Biography | Drama | Music
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer who rose from poverty to fame.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo, Levon Helm, William Sanderson, Pat Patterson
Director: Michael Apted
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Posted on February 7, 2014 |
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Le temps du loup / Time of the Wolf (2003)
Drama
Isabelle Huppert and Beatrice Dalle star in Haneke's nightmarish vision of a post-apocalyptic world in which society has completely broken down.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Anaïs Demoustier, Béatrice Dalle
Director: Michael Haneke
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Posted on February 7, 2014 |
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Nostalghia (1983)
Drama
At a spa in the Tuscan Hills, a Russian poet and musicologist, researching the life of an 18th century composer, meets a mysterious man who is convinced that the end of the world is nigh. The Russian, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), is asked to cross an ancient sulphur pool carrying a lighted candle as an act of faith. Tarkovsky's first film outside the USSR is full of personal and Christian symbols and works as a study of such themes as memory, melancholia and disenchantment with the material world.
Starring: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Delia Boccardo, Milena Vukotic
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Tags: Andrei Tarkovsky, Delia Boccardo, Erland Josephson, Milena Vukotic, Oleg Yankovskiy
Posted on February 7, 2014 |
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Dimensions (2011)
Drama
Cambridge, England, 1921 – or so it seems. A brilliant young scientist becomes obsessed with finding a way back to his past – no matter what the cost.
Starring: Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Camilla Rutherford, Patrick Godfrey, Olivia Llewellyn, Sean Hart, Edward Halsted
Director: Sloane U'Ren
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Tags: Camilla Rutherford, Edward Halsted, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Olivia Llewellyn, Patrick Godfrey, Sean Hart, Sloane U'Ren
Posted on February 7, 2014 |
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My Last Round / Mi Último Round (2011)
Drama
Unfazed by the attention he receives from women, Hugo searches for something meaningful to break up the monotony of his life. The young man becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, who must maintain a hard and gruff image for his fans and fellow fighters. When Octavio furtively acts on the subtle flirtations Hugo throws at him, he is abruptly rejected. Hugo tries to curtail his desire, but eventually surrenders to their magnetic attraction. They enter into an intense romance that would never be accepted in their small town in southern Chile. The couple moves to capital city Santiago with energized dreams of building their life together and protecting their love from a hostile world. But when Hugo confuses his feelings for a naive colleague at his new workplace, nothing turns out as planned. Set to an evocative acoustic score, writer/director Julio Jorquera's first feature tells a heartfelt story with an assured hand, eliciting complex and naturalistic performances that capture the passionate rise and tragic fall of a couple's relationship.
Starring: Roberto Farías, Héctor Morales
Director: Julio Jorquera Arriagada
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Posted on February 7, 2014 |
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Mooz-Lum (2010)
Drama | Family
Amid a strict Muslim rearing and a social life he's never had, Tariq (Evan Ross) enters college confused. New peers, family and mentors help him find his place, but the 9-11 attacks force him to face his past and make the biggest decisions of his life.
Starring: Evan Ross, Nia Long, Roger Guenveur Smith, Danny Glover, Dorian Missick
Director: Qasim Basir
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Posted on February 6, 2014 |
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The Ravine of Goodbye / Sayonara keikoku (2013)
Drama
In a valley, with a dense growth of trees, a baby is killed. The baby's mother Satomi Tachibana (Anne Suzuki) is arrested as the prime suspect. The police also learn that Satomi Tachibana is involved in a romantic relationship with her next door neighbor Shunsuke Ozaki (Shima Onishi). The neighbor's lover Kanako (Yoko Maki) has informed the police of this. Meanwhile, magazine reporter Watanabe (Nao Omori) covers the story. As Watanabe investigates the case, he discovers the shocking fact that Shunsuke Ozaki was involved in a rape case 15 years ago. Even more shocking, Watanabe learns that the victim in the rape case is Shunsuke's lover Kanako.
Starring: Yôko Maki, Shima Ohnishi
Director: Tatsushi Ohmori
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Posted on February 6, 2014 |
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Pure / Till det som är vackert (2009)
Drama
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be already set in stone – until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Gothenburg Concert Hall that sends her reeling and opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path she has to follow proves a treacherous one, filled with lies, betrayal and a dangerous liaison with the married conductor Adam. Yet Katarina is ready to do anything to gain her new identity.
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Samuel Fröler, Isabella Alveborg, Josephine Bauer
Director: Lisa Langseth
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Posted on February 6, 2014 |
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Bitter Moon (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
Nigel Dobson is an English perfect gentleman, married to equally respectable Fiona. On a cruise heading for India, they meet a highly unconventional couple, American unpublished would-be literary celebrity Oscar, in a wheelchair, and his much younger Parisian wife, Mimi.
Starring: Peter Coyote, Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner
Director: Roman Polanski
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Posted on February 5, 2014 |
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The Eye of the Storm (2011)
Drama
Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life – society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis, Colin Friels
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Posted on February 5, 2014 |
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Lullaby for Pi / Lullaby (2010)
Drama
Since his wife Josephine died, Sam (Rupert Friend, Pride & Prejudice) has lost his way. Abandoning the bar where he used to perform dazzling concerts, he spends his nights alone in the hotel room where they first met. The hotels concierge, George (Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland), his best friend and mischievous guardian angel, decides to shake up Sams world by messing with the hotel keys. One night, a distressed girl bursts into Sams shelter and locks herself in the bathroom. Sam convinces Pi (Clmence Posy, the Harry Potter films) to open up, and together the two lost souls forge a powerful bond. They agree to meet on the opposite sides of the same door each night, and to bare their souls to one another until the day they fall in love. Only then will they open the door, and start living the rest of their lives together.
Starring: Rupert Friend, Clémence Poésy, Matt Ward, Forest Whitaker, Sarah Wayne Callies
Director: Benoît Philippon
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Posted on February 5, 2014 |
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Loves Her Gun (2014)
Drama
Loves Her Gun is a romantic tragedy about a young woman who flees violence in New York for the laid back environment in central Texas. Once she settles into Austin she falls into the local gun culture and some of her same worries come back to haunt her.
Starring: Francisco Barreiro, Melissa Bisagni, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Jennymarie Jemison, Heather Kafka, Ashley Spillers
Director: Geoff Marslett
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Posted on February 5, 2014 |
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Mars & Avril / Mars et Avril (2012)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Set in a futuristic environment, "Mars et Avril" tells the story of an elderly musician and his instrument maker who both become obsessed with the same woman. She agrees to be the model for their next musical instrument but then gets lost in a virtual world on the way to Mars.
Starring: Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert Lepage, Jean Asselin
Director: Martin Villeneuve
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Posted on February 5, 2014 |
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Dead Dad (2012)
Comedy | Drama
When their dad dies unexpectedly, estranged siblings Russell, Jane and their adopted brother, Alex, come home to tend to his remains. The three must overcome their differences to achieve a proper goodbye and discover what it means to be a family without their dad.
Starring: Kyle Arrington, Jenni Melear, Lucas Kwan Peterson, Allyn Rachel, Ben Hethcoat, Brett Erlich, Fred Stoller
Director: Ken J. Adachi
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Posted on February 4, 2014 |
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Good Night (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Leigh's 29th birthday party takes a sudden turn when she announces that the evening may be the last time her friends see her alive. A night of questions, coping and debauchery immediately follow.
Starring: Alex Karpovsky, Todd Berger, Laura Clifton, Jonny Mars, Samantha Thomson, Adriene Mishler, Parisa Fakhri, Chris Doubek, Jason Newman
Director: Sean H.A. Gallagher
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Posted on February 4, 2014 |
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Mister and Pete / The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
Drama
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Starring: Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon, Jordin Sparks, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jordin Sparks, Julito McCullum, Anthony Mackie, Jeffrey Wright
Director: George Tillman Jr.
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Posted on February 4, 2014 |
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King's Faith (2013)
Drama
When eighteen-year-old Brendan King attempts to leave his turbulent gang life behind him, his past continues to threaten his new-found faith, family, and future.
Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Crawford Wilson, James McDaniel, Kayla Compton
Director: Nicholas DiBella
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Posted on February 3, 2014 |
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion / Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970)
Crime | Drama
A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.
Starring: Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Arturo Dominici, Salvo Randone
Director: Elio Petri
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Tags: Arturo Dominici, Elio Petri, Florinda Bolkan, Gian Maria Volonté, Gianni Santuccio, Orazio Orlando, Salvo Randone