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Drama movies
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'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama. |
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Against the backdrop of Manhattan's changing literary and publishing world, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is asked by Heather Wolfe, a graduate student and budding literary critic, to agree to interviews. He's reluctant to spend the time: his health is failing and he wants to finish one more book. Also he's worried about his daughter, Ariel, who's approaching 40, underemployed, single and wanting a child. But he agrees, hoping Heather can help resurrect interest in his work. As Heather probes Frank's writing and his past, Ariel reconnects to a former lover. Emotions can be raw and messy, and as relationships change, who gets the better part of the bargain? |
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THE FLOCK is the story of hyper-vigilant federal agent (Gere) who, while training his young female replacement (Danes), must track down a missing girl whom he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he's investigating. Working against the clock they unravel the twisted details to track the potential killer. |
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Based on a metaphysical 1978 novel by the talented science fiction and horror author Richard Matheson, this romantic fantasy-drama won an Oscar for its expensive and impressive visuals depicting an imaginative afterlife. Robin Williams stars as Chris Nielsen, a doctor who has suffered with his artist wife Annie (Annabella Sciorra) through the devastating loss of their children, Marie and Ian, who were killed in a car accident. When Chris dies and goes to Heaven he meets Albert and discovers that Heaven is even more wondrous than anything he could have imagined. However, Chris's death is the last straw for Annie and she in her madness commits suicide and journeys to a place very different from Chris. He decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death. |
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He's living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who's the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn't return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele's father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father's. She's able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having "one of their own" compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs's caddy and help him regain his "authentic swing". He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match. |
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Four generations who haven't seen each other in years are brought together by the chance to face some unpleasant truths in this drama. It's a journey that takes them out on the road to a world full of surprises – some comic, some dramatic, and all of them personal. Jason's wife left him to care for their six-year-old son Zach while she paints somewhere abroad, and his ailing grandfather Henry, a former archaeologist who is investigating alternative rituals for his impending funeral being close to death. So when Jason's estranged father and Henry's son, Turner, whose doubtful past includes varies from the musical to the criminal, pays the family an unexpected visit, nothing is "simple" or "normal" in Jason's life anymore. A little bit ponderous saga of fathers and sons from first-time writer/director Jordan Roberts. |
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Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor. |
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Set during the 1860s, a time of the land war between the European settlers and the Maori tribes, the movie depicts the intimate story of Sarah O'Brien (Samantha Morton), an Irish immigrant to New Zealand, whose little son Boy (Rawiri Pene) is kidnapped by his Maori grandfather. The distraught woman decides to travel deep into Maori territory to win back her missing son. When she falls in love with Boy's uncle, Wiremu (Cliff Curtis), she becomes caught between two sides in the middle of racial conflict. |
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Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) thinks Christmas is a wonderful day to get together with his tight-knit family and his sweetheart at the dinner table and make a marriage proposal. So he invites his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), to his house. However, every member of the eccentric, ultra-liberal family gives the cold shoulder to the conservative guest. They seem to hate absolutely everything about Meredith: her appearance, her outlook and her behavior. Feeling uptight and completely offended by the hostile reception, she asks her younger sister, Julie (Claire Danes), to join her for moral support. In fact, the situation only becomes aggravated with the arrival of the outgoing sister, who immediately fits in with the family and unexpectedly finds herself attracted to Everett.
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Welcome to a near future world where cloning has run amok, free relationship between a man and a woman is forbidden by genetics laws, and travel from city to city is severely restricted. A Seattle insurance fraud investigator named William Geld (Tim Robbins) is sent to Shanghai to figure out who is forging and smuggling 'papelles', identity documents that allow people to travel. But when he gets on the trail of Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton), a charming woman who is supposedly responsible for the forgeries, he becomes deeply infatuated with her. He conceals her crime and enters into an illicit affair with her. Back home, William can't help thinking about Maria. He returns to Shanghai only to find that she will be severely punished for a Code 46 violation. Desperate, William is determined to leave no stone unturned to save his flame. |
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The paranoid thriller centers on Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey), an average man who has dearly loved wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen) and teenage son Robin (Logan Lerman) and works as a dog-catcher. His perfectly ordered life starts to unravel when he gets a red-covered detective book, The Number 23, for his birthday. Walter becomes absorbed in reading the novel, and the deeper he gets into the plot, the more convinced he is that the book bears similarities to his own life. The only difference between the book and Walter’s life is that the story doesn’t have a happy ending. Walter suspects the murder to take place in reality and becomes obsessed with the idea of uncovering a mystery that drives him mad.
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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of Manhattan falls in love with her. The film looks at love from everyone's point-of-view friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi's therapist Lisa, and follows all who comes apart and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love. |
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An elite team of Navy SEALS led by Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is given a special assignment to go to the Nigerian jungle. Their mission is to seek and release Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) from captivity. When they find the doctor in a godforsaken small village, Kendricks refuses to leave the dangerous area. She begs Waters to escort the villagers she has been caring for to the nearby border of Cameroon where they will be granted political asylum. The goal of the mission is radically changed as Waters’ group must race against time to reach a border town before the enormous army of rebels can ambush and take prisoner them. |
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A local criminal authority, cop-killing mobster Marion Bishop is being transferred to soon-to-be-closed Precinct 13 at the New Year's Eve. Few cops and several cons are closed there by a snowstorm, which has stopped the prison bus on its way to a more secure destination. Despite everything, cops are going to celebrate the holiday, but their plans will fail not even due to Bishop's colleagues intending his release. Sudden assault of the men in white upsets his hopes to set himself free and even to survive. |
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A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills. |
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller's for a Tarot reading: "You are not where you belong," she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman's club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he's found them. Where does he belong? |
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After an accident in a tunnel, a forensics expert (Denzel Washington) is left as a quadriplegic who is able only to move his head and one finger. Setting his finger to a computer, he is able to manipulate his environment with the help of a loving nurse (Queen Latifah). Even so, fearing seizures that could leave him a vegetable, he plans his "transition" with the help of a hesitational doctor friend. That all changes when he is confronted with clues from a serial killer that obviously are pointed to forensics investigation. The case clearly re-invokes his interest in life. A sharp, young cop's quick thinking saves the first crime scene. Recognizing her talent for forensics, he brings her (Angelina Jolie) unwillingly into forensics detection. Through radio contact, she becomes his eyes and legs on the scene. Michael Rooker also appears as the police captain, who has bungled earlier killings by the serial killer and is more interested in the press than in good police work. Ed O'Neill and Luis Guzman are support staff who aid Washington and run interference with Rooker. |
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Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine's previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way. |
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American Special Forces arrest Russian General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow) who has taken over Kazakhstan and set up a dictatorship that has resulted in the death of thousands of people. James Marshall (Harrison Ford), the President of the USA, visits Moscow and makes a speech on the USA's get-tough policy with regard to the dictatorial regime and terrorism. On the flight back to Washington, a group of Russian nationalists disguised as newspaper reporters and led by the Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) seize the plane and take the passengers hostage. They want the President to release General Radek from prison and threaten to kill the hostages unless their demands are met. Everybody is sure that the President manages to escape from the plane in an emergency capsule. However, Marshall, a combat hero in the Vietnam War, considers it to be his duty to stay on board to rescue the hostages and regain control of the plane. |
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This suspence drama begins when two ordinary women falls on evil times when the car wreckage happens. One is a single mother of a handicapped son; another is a careerist trying to combine her high-pressure career and her family demands. When the police is involved, it becomes clear that the car crash was not a simple coincidence after all. But however it may be, each woman's life spirals out of control. |
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