Movies in the Drama genre

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This Is My Father

For first-time filmmaker Paul Quinn, This Is My Father is clearly a family affair in more than one sense of the term. Not only does the plot deal with an aging man coming to grips with truths about the father he never knew and the mother he though...

Run Time: 2:00
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Paul Quinn
Cast: James Caan, Aidan Quinn, Moya Farrelly, ...
This Is Where I Leave You

This Is Where I Leave You is a card-carrying member of the "family reunion" category of motion pictures wherein circumstances bring together characters whose once-close relationships have grown distant over the years. The mechanism by which this ha...

Run Time: 1:43
U.S. Release Date: 2014-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Shawn Levy
Cast: Jason Bateman, Dax Shepard, Timothy Olyphant, ...
Thousand Acres, A

When viewing a melodrama like A Thousand Acres, it's easy to label it as a "chick flick" or a "tearjerker." However, such a facile categorization would do the movie a disservice, since it possesses a layer of depth that most films of this sort...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 1997-09-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Cast: Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, ...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

“Raped While Dying”, “And Still No Arrests”, “How Come, Chief Willoughby?” The text of those three billboards establishes a narrative but, although that’s the starting point for Martin McDonagh’s stellar Three Billboards Outside...

Run Time: 1:55
U.S. Release Date: 2017-11-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Martin McDonagh
Cast: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, ...
Three Colors: Blue

"Blue, liberty; White, equality; Red, fraternity. We wanted to show what these well-known historical notions mean to us today, who already possess liberty, who are already equal, and for whom fraternity is a common ideal. Therefore, in Blue, libe...

Run Time: 1:38
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Regent, Florence Pernel, ...
Three Colors: Red

"Blue, liberty; White, equality; Red, fraternity... We looked very closely at these three ideas, how they functioned in everyday life, but from an individual's point of view. These ideals are contradictory with human nature. When you deal with th...

Run Time: 1:40
U.S. Release Date: 1994-12-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frederique Feder, ...
Three Colors: White

"Blue, liberty; White, equality; Red, fraternity... We looked very closely at these three ideas, how they functioned in everyday life, but from an individual's point of view. These ideals are contradictory with human nature. When you deal with th...

Run Time: 1:32
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situation, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Janusz Gajos, ...
Three Times

I'm as open to cinematic experimentation as the next person, but I often find that "offbeat" movies come across as more successful in concept than execution. So it goes with Three Times, a feature that arrived at last year's 2005 Toronto Film Fest...

Run Time: 2:19
U.S. Release Date: 2006-04-28
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Cast: Chang Chen, Shu Qi
Throne of Blood

Throughout his legendary career, Akira Kurosawa showed an affinity for the works of William Shakespeare. Three of his films in particular – The Bad Sleep Well, Throne of Blood, and Ran – owe a debt to The Bard even though not a line of Shakesp...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Violence)
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, ...
Thumbsucker

When it comes to tales about the hand's opposable digit, there have been Thumbelina, Tom Thumb, and now Thumbsucker. A quirky character piece that could just as easily go by the title of Ritalin Nation, Thumbsucker boasts a strong character arc, s...

Run Time: 1:36
U.S. Release Date: 2005-09-16
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, ...