Category: Drama
Posted on March 23, 2012 |
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Notorious (2009)
Biography | Drama | Music
In just a few short years, Notorious B.I.G. rose from the streets of Brooklyn to become one of the most influential hip hop artists of all time. B.I.G. was a gifted storyteller; his narratives about violent life on the streets were told with a gritty, objective realism that won him enormous respect and credibility. His stories were universal and gave a voice to his generation.
Starring: Angela Bassett, Derek Luke, Jamal Woolard, Anthony Mackie, Antonique Smith
Director: George Tillman Jr.
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Posted on March 22, 2012 |
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Boca / Boca do Lixo (2010)
Action | Crime | Drama
Adapted from his autobiography, the film recounts the story of Hiroito, The King of Boca do Lixo (a region in downtown São Paulo of the fifties where various nightclubs, strip joints, prostitution, bars, and drugs can be found). Hiroito was a well born bohemian and at the age of 21 was accused for the murder of his father, who was violently stabbed over 40 times with a razor. Hiroito was not charged, however two months after the death of his father, Hiroito bought two guns and moved to Boca do Lixo and became one of the most dangerous criminals of the region.
Starring: Daniel de Oliveira, Hermila Guedes, Jefferson Brasil, Paulo César Peréio, Milhem Cortaz
Director: Flavio Frederico
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Posted on March 22, 2012 |
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Born Bad (2011)
Drama | Thriller
The boyfriend from hell here is played by Michael Welch of the Twilight movies, a fact the promotion for this film makes a big deal out of. Even as someone who has seen all of the Twilight movies, I had to visit IMDB to figure out just who the heck Welch played in those films. Turns out he’s one of Bella’s non-vampire/underwearwolf high school buds, the guy in the varsity jacket usually standing next to Nikki Reed in the two or three scenes they appear in per film, usually only getting about that many lines of dialogue as well. Now it’s Welch’s chance to sparkle, and I must say he makes the most of it, though he does come across as more of a hateful punk you just want to see get his ass stomped real good than a terrifying psychopath. He’s like the ultimate frat boy douchebag taken to its logical extreme.
Starring: Meredith Monroe, Bonnie Dennison, Michael Welch, David Chokachi, Parker Coppins, Amanda Ward, Bill Oberst Jr.
Director: Jared Cohn
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Posted on March 21, 2012 |
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Resistance (2011)
Drama | Thriller
In 1944 a group of women in an isolated Welsh village wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished.
Starring: Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen, Kimberley Nixon
Director: Amit Gupta
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Posted on March 21, 2012 |
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We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Based on a true story, Benjamin Mee is a recently-widowed father who moves his family to a beautiful estate miles outside the city. The only catch is that the estate is also a dilapidated zoo replete with 200 animals, and the purchase of the home is conditional on the new owner keeping the zoo and its entire staff. The Mee family subsequently sets out to rebuild and refurbish the zoo to its former glory, making new friends along the way.
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Matt Damon, Thomas Haden Church, Elle Fanning, Angus MacFadyen
Director: Cameron Crowe
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Posted on March 21, 2012 |
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Drama | Romance
What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed mother Bonnie Grape are striving to survive and coexist with the absence of a father figure, low wage work and seventeen-year-old Arnie's severe mental condition. It is in this awkward and extremely one sided affair that the unfortunate Gilbert has to constantly, while working for the town's slowly dying Convenience Store, take care of his younger brother Arnie. Gilbert's life, his future, is thwarted he know this, but it is in this Guardian Angel that his love and bond for Arnie cannot, and will not, be let go.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis
Director: Lasse Hallström
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Posted on March 21, 2012 |
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Five Corners (1987)
Drama | Romance
Set in 1964 in a lower middle-class New York neighborhood, Heinz has just been released from prison but is still obsessed with Linda. She turns for help to Harry, an ex-boyfriend who has recently taken up the cause of non-violence. But Harry soon finds himself in a morally compromising situation where violence is the only solution.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro
Director: Tony Bill
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Posted on March 21, 2012 |
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Chak De India! (2007)
Drama | Family
Kabir Khan lives a middle-class lifestyle along with his widowed mom in Delhi, India, and is the Captain of the Indian men's hockey team. He fails to score at the last tournament resulting in Pakistan winning the World Cup amidst allegations that he was more inclined toward his opponents due to his religion. Kabir and his mom move away and virtually disappear for seven years. Thereafter Kabir surfaces to be a Coach for the women's hockey team, consisting of 16 players from all over India, some of who do not communicate well. Kabir's disciplinarian style ends up offending the players, lead by the militant Bindia Naik, who decide not to participate unless he resigns amidst allegations that he is having an affair with soon to-be married Vidya Sharma, who he appoints as the new Captain. Things change after a brawl with eve-teasers at the local McDonald's, the girls accept Kabir…
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan
Director: Shimit Amin
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Posted on March 21, 2012 |
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Big Blue Lake / Da lan hu (2011)
Drama
Unemployed 30-something actress Cheung Lai Yee returns to the town where she grew up, rural Ho Chung Village in Hong Kong's New Territories hinterlands. Cheung has been away for ten years, and everything about home seems different. Her mother is showing signs of Alzheimer's disease; the village is showing signs of being modernized and “developed” out of its old character. Both mother and village have an increasingly tenuous hold on their memories, their sense of place, the very thing that grounds them to their histories and their identities. While taking a series of very odd odd jobs (pretending to be a disabled customer to test shopkeepers' reactions), Cheung determines to reconnect with her mother. She has a plan for the old villagers she meets, as well, built around reviving and reenacting stories from their youth. When she meets an old classmate Lin Jin who has stayed behind in the town (who has his own unresolved girlfriend-history problems), shared backgrounds click and new intimacies begin to form.
Starring: Leila Tong, Lawrence Chou, Amy Chun, Joman Chiang
Director: Jessey Tsang
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Posted on March 19, 2012 |
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
Adventure | Drama | Mystery
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his own loss to a greater understanding of the observable world around him.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Viola Davis, Max von Sydow, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, Zoe Caldwell
Director: Stephen Daldry
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Posted on March 19, 2012 |
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In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
Drama | Romance | War
Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, and Ajla, a Bosnian held captive in the camp he oversees, knew each other before the war, and could have found love with each other. But as the armed conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship grows darker, their motives and connection to one another ambiguous, their allegiances uncertain.
Starring: Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Rade Serbedzija, Nikola Djuricko, Dzana Pinjo
Director: Angelina Jolie
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Posted on March 19, 2012 |
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Take Shelter (2011)
Drama | Thriller
Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress who supplements their income by selling handmade wares at the flea market each weekend. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah's healthcare and special needs…
Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham
Director: Jeff Nichols
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Posted on March 19, 2012 |
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Drama
A depiction of Christ's life including a vision of what his life might have been like had he not been crucified.
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Posted on March 19, 2012 |
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Juno (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Juno (Ellen Page) is a teen facing an unplanned pregnancy by her classmate Bleeker (Michael Cera). With the help of her best friend Leah, Juno finds her unborn child a "perfect" set of parents: an affluent suburban couple, Mark and Vanessa (Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner), longing to adopt. Though she faces some tough decisions, Juno flirts with adulthood and ultimately figures out where she belongs.
Starring: Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney
Director: Jason Reitman
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Posted on March 18, 2012 |
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War Horse / Warhorse (2011)
Drama | History | War
The friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to be intertwined over the course of World War I.
Starring: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Tom Hiddleston
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Posted on March 18, 2012 |
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Gorky Park (1983)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.
Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula
Director: Michael Apted
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Posted on March 17, 2012 |
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A Tale of Two Sisters / Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)
Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Inspired by a Korean legend, this is the odyssey of two sisters, who after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Their recovery is affected by their stepmother's increasing cruelty, together with appearances of the ghost of their mother, which creates an atmosphere of strange occurrences and irrespirable fear.
Starring: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim, Geun-Young Moon, Seung-bi Lee
Director: Jee-woon Kim
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Posted on March 15, 2012 |
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The Great Magician / Daai mo seut si (2012)
Drama | Mystery
In 1916, China was in turmoil with warlords battling against each other and Japanese conspirators lurking in the dark. One day, a mysterious man named Zhang Xian takes the capital city by storm with his mesmerizing magic tricks. He soon catches the attention of ruthless warlord Commander Lei, who is eager to please his seventh wife Liu Yin by taking her to see Zhang's performance. Unbeknownst to Lei, his favorite concubine was once the fiancée of Zhang, and approaching him to earn his trust is just the first step in the vengeful illusionist's secret agenda…
Starring: Tony Leung, Ching Wan Lau, Xun Zhou
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
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Posted on March 15, 2012 |
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Special Forces / Forces spéciales (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A French journalist in Afghanistan is kidnapped by the Taliban.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Djimon Hounsou, Benoit Magimel, Denis Menochet, Raphaël Personnaz
Director: Stéphane Rybojad
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Posted on March 15, 2012 |
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Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Lynn Cohen, Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn
Director: Louis Malle
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