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Drama movies
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In 1840, there's work on the Florida Keys for honest salvagers (like the Claibornes) and outright pirates like King Cutler, who bribes sailors to cause wrecks. When Capt. Stuart's ship is wrecked, Loxi Claiborne rescues him, falls for him, and travels to Charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn't his fault; company lawyer Steve Tolliver returns with them to Key West to investigate. Tolliver and Stuart's rivalry for Loxi's hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of Cutler, ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence. |
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At the beginning of the 19th century, Napoleon's forces controlled much of Europe. In Russia, one of the few countries still unconquered, the army prepares to face Napoleon's troops in Austria. Among the soldiers are Nicholas Rostov (Jeremy Brett) and Prince Andrei Bolkonsky (Mel Ferrer). Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda), a friend of Andrei's and self-styled intellectual who "knows what's right but still does wrong," is not interested in fighting. Pierre's life changes when his father dies, leaving him a vast inheritance. He is attracted to Natasha Rostov (Audrey Hepburn), Nicholas's sister, but gives in to baser desires and marries the shallow, materialistic Princess Helene (Anita Ekberg). The marriage quickly ends when Pierre discovers his wife's true nature. Andrei is captured and later released by the French, and returns home only to watch his wife die in childbirth. During a visit to the country months later, Pierre and Andrei meet again. Andrei sees Natasha and falls in love, but his father will only permit the marriage if they postpone it for one year. While Andrei is away in Poland on a military mission, Natasha is drawn to Anatole Kuragin (Vittorio Gassmann), a scoundrel and libertine. Pierre tells Natasha of Anatole's past before she can elope with him. Napoleon (Herbert Lom) invades Russia. Pierre visits Andrei on the eve of the battle, and observes the battle that follows. Traumatized by the carnage, he vows to kill Napoleon himself. |
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry's brand of singlehanded "justice" on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. |
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Set in New England in the mid-1980s, the intriguing drama follows the lives of Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder) and Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), three disturbed students at an exclusive Camden College who unwillingly become involved in a sexual triangle. Sean is a drug dealer as well as a real womanizer who has bedded with nearly all the female students. However, he unexpectedly falls for the pure Lauren, Paul's ex-girlfriend, and grows obsessed with her. Laura yearns to lose her virginity to Victor Johnson (Kip Pardue), a shallow college student who is travelling across Europe, but she then decides to find a replacement and has her eyes on Sean. Meanwhile, Paul is also attracted to Sean and tries to get him in bed.
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A well-known actor, who hasn't accepted a role in four years, is considering a project. The cousin of the director drives him to Archie's Ranch Market, in Carson, and drops him off to do a little research. He's fascinated by one of the checkers, Scarlet, a young woman from Spain with a preternatural ability to ring up items at the cash register. She hates her job, stuck at the 10 items or less lane. The actor chats her up, and when her shift ends, he asks for a ride. In the course of the afternoon, he helps her prepare for a job interview. She needs to have confidence, he needs to commit. Human contact, however brief, can change people. |
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She walks past the window of the shop where he works in the Wicker Park section of Chicago, and he's immediately captivated; he follows her, they meet, and soon they fall deeply in love. It was two years ago, Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Matthew (Josh Hartnett) had a love affair, and Lisa simply vanished when Matthew invited her to move with him to New York, where he had the invitation for a better job, and Matthew is still obsessed for her. Today Matt has built a new life for himself, but he's still haunted by her memory and the nagging torment of unanswered questions. Then he catches a quick glimpse of someone he thinks must be her in a bar - but is it? Thus begins a twisting, obsessive search for the woman who captured his heart years ago - and for someone who's playing with his mind right now. Two years later, Matthew's search for the truth will lead him deeper into the mystery, with each discovery more deceiving than the next. Obsession can go both ways, and Matthew discovers it's possible to love someone too much. |
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Set in California in the 1970s, the compelling drama revolves around a group of energetic and fearless teenage surfers, named the Z-Boys, who revolutionized skateboarding. Performing daredevil stunts in empty swimming pools, they pioneered a new extreme sport which became a new trend in pop culture and a symbol of a whole generation of their young coevals. However, sudden fame took its toll on their friendship, as they transformed their hobby of surfing into a business. |
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon - and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving mother, Helen Bessolo, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his demise go unaddressed. Helen seeks justice, or at least answers. The Los Angeles Police Department closes the case, but Helen hires - for $50 a day - private detective Louis Simo. Simo soon ascertains that the torrid affair Reeves had with Toni Mannix, the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix, might hold the key to the truth. But truth and justice are not so easily found in Hollywood. Simo pursues dangerous and elusive leads in both high and low places and, in trying to turn up the heat, risks getting burned. The detective also uncovers unexpected connections to his own life as the case turns more personal and he learns more about Reeves himself. Behind the icon was a complex man who gave his life to Hollywood in more ways than one. |
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Robin of Locksley (Kevin Costner) is back from Arabian capture, and what he sees? His patrimonial castle is ruined, and his father is killed by the Sheriff of Nottingham (Alan Rickman). Robin vows to wreck revenge upon the murderer and makes up a company of thieves, robbers and other criminals to dwell in the great Sherwood Forest: There he will rob the wealth nobility for the profit of poor people. Moreover, Robin's beloved woman is being courted by detestable sheriff, and he should rid her of this rascal. This movie is recommended for all family to see; Kevin Costner looks organic playing the role of generous robber. |
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After his father's tragic death, aspiring astronaut Charles Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton) is forced to retire from NASA years earlier so that he could save his family ranch and support his wife Audie (Virginia Madsen) and their three kids. Yet, he can't give up his lifelong dream of traveling into space and thus decides to build and launch his own rocket into orbit. Despite the fact that the FBI, FAA, CIA, NASA and the U.S. Military throw a spanner in his works, Charles is striving to achieve his goal at any cost. He believes that someday his dream will come true. |
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Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian mountaineer who is forced to be a hero for the Nazi propaganda. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan Holy City of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama. |
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In 480 BC, the ambitious, cruel and merciless King Xerxes (David Farrar) of Persia invades Greece with his huge army to extend his vast slave empire. The brave Spartan army is the great hope to free and unite Greece, and king Leonidas (Richard Egan) promises to the council of the Greek Stats to defend the passage of Thermopylae, the only way by land to reach Athens. However, he is betrayed by the politicians of Sparta and stays alone with his personal body guard army composed of three hundred warriors only. Using courage and great knowledge of strategies of war, he defends Thermopylae until a treacherous goatherd tells King Xerxes a secret goat passage leading to the back of Leonidas's army. |
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This fantasy mystical thriller tells about the war for supremacy between vampires and werewolves. Beautiful Selene (Kate Beckinsale), a vampire heroine, and Michael (Scott Speedman), a lycan hybrid, deal with their forbidden romance keeping discovering their bloody legacy up and unveiling the history of the strife of their clans. |
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Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand—two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft—identical twins Albert and Bertram. |
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A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe has to choose between rock 'n roll and a new life in Germany... |
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Based on a true story, the movie tells of the struggle of a dance teacher, Pierre Dulain (Antonio Banderas), to give to a group of problem kids a second chance by exploring their dance skills. One night Dulain is astonished to see a boy, Rock (Rob Brown) destroying his school director's car. The following day Dulaine goes to the school to ask for a job as a dance teacher. The director has little confidence in Dulaine's idea of helping kids (including Rock) in detention to reform through ballroom dance classes. Even the kids, who prefer hip-hop or rap, think it isn't a great idea. Despite criticism from students in his formal dance academy as well as from parents and fellow teachers who believe that the kids need more math and less dance, Dulain catches the students' attention with a tango session. After their initial indifference, they eventually compete in a dance contest; the important thing isn't winning, but making a difference. |
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Chic life and mysteriuos death of Bob Crane, an actor, is still stunning the minds despite the fact he died in 1978. He was a sex addict, and a permanent client of the most dissolute strip clubs; female form was the favorite object of his interest as a photographer. After he met a camera operator John Carpenter, he's got accustomed to the video, and, at the same time his marriage and the entirely life went to the road to ruin. As he used to tempt his fate, he could not escape it and died from the tripod strike on his head. |
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Stepsiblings Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are wealthy prep school students and unscrupulous, manipulative socialites who have only a few things on their minds: how to satisfy their vicious desires, who to take revenge on and who else to choose as a sexual and emotional toy. When the lady-killing self-confident Sebastian and the cynical seductive Kathryn playing fast and loose with their peers' affections get bored with stale intrigue plots and banal declarations of love, they devise an ingenious heinous plan. Sebastian's challenge is to seduce the new headmaster's daughter, the virginal Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon). The calculating Kathryn makes a wager. The stakes are high: if "Casanova" fails, she will get his vintage Jaguar car; if he succeeds, he will get one night of unbridled passion with Kathryne he lasts for since their parents married. |
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Set in the outskirts of Los Angeles, the emotional drama tells the story of Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood), a bored yet rebellious teenager whose drab existence cardinally changes after a chance encounter with charismatic and romantic cowboy Harlan Carruthers (Edward Norton). Tobe is quite taken with Harlan at their first meeting and quickly enters into an ardent romance with him, despite her father Wade's (David Morse) strong disapproval because of the significant difference in their ages and backgrounds. But then things take an unexpected turn as she begins to see that Harlan isn't exactly whom he appears to be. |
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Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia. |
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