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Drama movies
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Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted. |
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This tough, ironic action begins when a strip teaser girl gets killed by a maniac. A cop (Bruce Willis) tries to find the criminal, and the only man who can help is a former sportsman James Alexander Dix (Damon Wayans). The threads which can explain the murder, lead to the high politics and professional football teams. Bones crunch, bullets fly and dark jokes spout in the film by Tonny Scott (Top Gun and other). |
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her... |
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In 1896, a construction engineer from the British Army, J.H. Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a railway bridge across Uganda's Tsavo River for the British East African Railway. Soon after he arrives, workmen begin to disappear at night from their tents - never to be seen alive again. The engineer soon discovers that a pair of man-eating lions are stalking around the bridge and campsites, killing the workmen for food. He tries a number of different methods to get rid of them, but the beasts always seem to know what Patterson is doing and avoid being shot. After 30 men have been killed Patterson's boss recruits a hunter, Charles Remington (Douglas) to hunt down and destroy the lions. But the lions continue killing the workmen until they flee the camps, jumping onto the train as it rolls through Tsavo. Now Remington, Patterson & his aide (John Kani) must face these brilliant yet frightening monsters alone. |
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What would your life have been like if you had...? Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) has never asked himself that question. He is a successful Wall Street investment banker and playboy enjoying the high life in New York City. But one Christmas morning everything magically changes in his life. When Jack wakes up, he unexpectedly finds himself living in a modest suburban New Jersey house and working as a tire salesman. And most importantly he is married to Kate Reynolds (Téa Leoni), his college sweetheart whom he abandoned for the sake of his career in the past, and has two sweet kids, toddler Josh (Jake and Ryan Milkovich) and six-year-old Annie (Makenzie Vega). At first Jack feels horrified at this turn of events. But when he gets used to the idea that he is given a chance to start a new life with a big happy family, fate gets ready to play another trick on him... |
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The crime drama chronicles the coming of age of four boyhood friends, Bishop (Tupac Shakur), Q (Omar Epps), Raheem (Khalil Kain), and Steel (Jermaine Hopkins), in the violent, mafia-controlled streets of Harlem. The teens flitter away their time skipping school, playing pranks and doing mischief to their neighbors, getting in fights and shoplifting. Things seem to be going 'well' but their lives take an unexpected turn after they get involved in a grocery store robbery which goes horribly wrong. |
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Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), a Baltimore firefighter who was trapped in an inferno, in a blazing high rise. His life starts flashing before his eyes as he remembers fighting his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, falling in love with a beautiful local girl (Jacinda Barrett), getting married, and having children. He also looks back on forming a close relationship with the first mentor (John Travolta), the man, who helped him realize what it takes to be firefighter. This man, the fire chief Mike Kennedy, now is to lead his rescue. |
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Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford), a renowned university research scientist, and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired concert cellist, are a seemingly happily married couple. Their family life runs smoothly until Claire's daughter, Caitlin (Katharine Towne) goes off to college and the Spencers move into a lakeside house in Vermont that once belonged to Norman's father. Their new neighbors, Mary (Miranda Otto) and Warren Feur (James Remar), always make quarrels. One rainy night Claire sees Warren taking a carpet out of the house and putting it in the trunk of his car. When Mary abruptly disappears, Claire realizes that these two events are closely related to each other and begins seeing spectral images and hearing mysterious voices everywhere. At first she thinks it is her neighbor's wraith which is haunting her, but Mary then turns up alive. However, a mysterious woman's ghost keeps haunting Claire, and Norman suspects that his frightened wife experiences hallucinations as a consequence of an accident when Claire's car smashed into a tree a year ago. But the ghost (Amber Valletta) soon tells Claire a dreadful secret which is being carefully kept by her husband. |
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The historical drama follows the adventures of poet, courtier and debauchee John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), also known as the Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. We observe him leading a dissolute life, having an ardent romance with aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), enjoying the company of his favorite prostitute Jane (Kelly Reilly), drinking heavily, and writing ribald satirical poems and an outrageous play ridiculing King Charles II (John Malkovich). His defiant behavior ultimately begins to irritate his surroundings, from his wife Elizabeth Malet (Rosamund Pike) to the very monarch...
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This tale chronicles the trials and tribulations of Cole McKay, 15, an obedient son who yearns for the attentions of his emotionally remote father. Cole is by turns nurtured and abandoned by the rest of his family; his sister Kathleen, older derelict brother Jack, and rigid mother Margaret. As the tale unfolds each family member undergoes a crisis of their own, their individual arcs interweaving until a heart-wrenching climax. |
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Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful young attorney, is in a hurry to get to the courthouse. He needs to deliver legal papers that will transfer control of a deceased eccentric rich man's multi-million dollar estate over to his law firm. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman, is also in a rush to a custody hearing to announce that he has got a house loan from the bank so that his ex-wife Valerie (Kim Staunton) and his sons won't move to another country. The two men's cars collide on the expressway at the most inopportune moment. Due to the process of the post-crash discussion Gipson misses his hearing, while Banek arrives at the court in time but discovers a crucial legal file inadvertently dropped at the scene of the accident. As Gipson loses custody of his kids, he decides to ruin the well-groomed attorney's life by refusing to give him back his paper. Thus a fierce and treacherous battle starts between the two desperate men. |
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1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life's work on the origins of language. Then, he's struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he grows younger. He must now avoid Nazis, who want to study and experiment on him. Some years later, he meets a young woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research. Is the sweetness of life finally at hand? |
| Awake
[2007,
USA]
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| Every year, one in 700 people wake up during surgery. When they planned her husband's murder, they never thought he'd be the one. (1 more taglines...) |
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The story focuses on a man (Christensen) who suffers "Anesthetic Awareness" (An occurrence where during surgery where not enough anesthetic medication for the patient's body weight), and finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His wife (Alba) must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around them |
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Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. |
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An aging football coach finds himself struggling with his personal and professional life while trying to hold his team together. A star quarterback has been knocked out of the game and a naive football player replaces him only to become exposed to the world of sports and become a danger to himself and to his players. Meanwhile, the coach finds himself constantly at battle with the team owner's money and power hungry daughter intent on moving the team out. |
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This heroic picture is based on a true story of the Russian sub' crew which been on guard in the 1960's during the Cold War between the superpowers of the USA and the USSR. The picture shows how the secret reconnaissance raid turned out to be a reason for a new diplomatic crisis escalation and jeopardized the team of the ballistic sub. Harrison Ford portrays Alexei Vostrikov, a Captain of the nuclear K-19 the reactor of which is seriously injured. Alexei is at odds with an executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson), but they share such merits as bravery and uncompromising patriotism. The missiles located onboard and the men are endangered due to reactor problems, Alexei decides to eliminate the nuclear leakage at any cost... |
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Frankie, a young lad on the run from the grimy ghetto of South London, plans his escape and the beginnings of a new life in sunny Spain - the Costa Del Sol to be more precise. Armed with nothing but a bundle of cash stashed in his luggage he heads off, yet Frankie has no idea that this sum of money will catapult him into the seductive world of ex-gangster Charlie. Before he knows it Frankie's got more then he bargained for - he's one of Charlie's gang and slap bang in the middle of the heady world of organized crime. |
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Love is a game for Ben who lies and cheats on his girlfriend Emily, with the greatest of ease. But when he meets the sexy and unpredictable Chlo, the tables are turned. Ben falls head over heels in love, and is astonished to find someone even more immoral than he is. |
| War of the Roses, The
[1989,
USA]
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| Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie. |
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The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.. |
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Venetian Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) was a man of many parts: a famous traveler, talented writer, smart spy, good amateur doctor and even inventor of the lottery, just to name a few. However, his image as the world's greatest seducer lingers in the minds of people of different generations. Casanova was notorious for his promiscuity with women. Thousands of lovely ladies all over Europe – from servants to aristocrats – gave their argent love to the gallant, charismatic adventurer but none of them could win his heart. But one day Giacomo met smart and alluring Francesca Bruni (Sienna Miller), the only woman able to resist his amorous charms. Intrigued by the haughty beauty, Casanova decided to win her over by hook or crook before he knew that his own heart had been stolen forever.
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