Movies in the Drama genre

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David Lynch's body of work is surely one of the most recognizable of any living director. From the nightmarishness of his debut, Eraserhead, to the bleakness of Blue Velvet to the bizarrely compelling quality of his TV series, "Twin Peaks," Lynch ...

Run Time: 1:51
U.S. Release Date: 1999-10-15
MPAA Rating: "G"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jennifer Edwards, ...
Striptease

First of all, let's get the obvious question out of the way. Yes, Demi Moore does take off her top (on several occasions, in fact), although it takes half the running length for her to do it the first time. However, while Moore's body may be ...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 1996-06-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Andrew Bergman
Cast: Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, ...
Stronger

Stronger is a based-on-a-true-story account of the post-terrorist attack travails of Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), who became to many the “face” of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing victims. Immortalized by a photograph taken by Charles Kr...

Run Time: 1:52
U.S. Release Date: 2017-09-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Disturbing Images, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, ...
Submarine

Submarine arrives in the United States due in large part to the championing of Ben Stiller who, despite having only the briefest of cameos on-screen, leant his considerable star power to the film's marketing. It's one of those funny, charming comin...

Run Time: 1:37
U.S. Release Date: 2011-06-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Richard Ayoade
Cast: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige, Sally Hawkins, ...
Suffragette

Director Sarah Gavron and writer Abi Morgan deserve props for bringing to the screen the oft-neglected story of women's suffrage in the U.K. as well as illustrating what life was like during a time prior to the advent of women's rights. Suffr...

Run Time: 1:46
U.S. Release Date: 2015-10-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Brief Nudity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Sarah Gavron
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, ...
Sully

Most of those who elect to see Sully, Clint Eastwood’s re-enactment of the 2009 ditching of a commercial airliner in the Hudson River, will remember the incident involving U.S. Airways Flight 1549 from news reports. For several days following t...

Run Time: 1:36
U.S. Release Date: 2016-09-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Scenes of peril, profanity)
Genre: Drama
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, ...
Summer '03

Summer ’03 is a coming-of-age story characterized by comedy-infused drama and a decidedly female point-of-view. The time period can be deduced from the title but, excepting the way cars and cellphones look, things weren’t that different 15...

Run Time: 1:36
U.S. Release Date: 2018-09-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Director: Becca Gleason
Cast: Joey King, Jack Kilmer, Andrea Savage, ...
Summer Hours (L'Heure d'ete)

Summer Hours is about death, but not death in the way that it is often packaged and sold to us in movies. Defining grief is a difficult thing. Why do we mourn? Do we grieve for the person who has died or for the ones he (or she) has left behind?...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: 2009-05-01
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Olivier Assayas
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier, ...
Summering

During a short introduction filled with evocative cinematography and a wistful voiceover narrative, writer/director James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) captures the essence of what summer means to a child. What can seem ephemeral to an adult feel...

Run Time: 1:27
U.S. Release Date: 2022-08-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Adult Situations)
Genre: Drama
Director: James Ponsoldt
Cast: Lia Barnett, Sanai Victoria, Madalen Mills, ...
Summerland

Summerland, the directorial debut of playwright Jessica Swale, tells the familiar story of the spinster who has an unwanted ward thrust upon her and, despite initially resenting him, comes to care for him. Swale’s screenplay deflects some cr...

Run Time: 1:39
U.S. Release Date: 2020-07-31
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Drama
Director: Jessica Swale
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Courtenay, ...