Movies in the Drama genre
An astonishing motion picture by any standards, To Kill a Mockingbird only failed to win a Best Picture Oscar because it was in the running against Lawrence of Arabia. The minimalist might call this a "courtroom drama", but that would be selling t...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, ...
"I believe that for a long time now Chinese films have been too abstract, conceptual, gimmicky. They don't relate at all to the lives of ordinary Chinese people. I'm certain that most audiences will like this film. We haven't gone overboard on t...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Mature Themes, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast: Ge You, Gong Li, Niu Ben, ...
Once upon a time, calling a movie "lesser Woody Allen" might be considered a slap in the face. Now, it's more-or-less expected. In the last decade, Allen has directed two good movies: Match Point and Midnight in Paris. Everything else has been med...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-06-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Profanity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Woody Allen
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Judy Davis, Woody Allen, ...
For roughly the first two-thirds of its 109-minute running length, To the Stars is an effecting and effective tale of female bonding. Unfortunately, the wheels come off toward the end as melodramatic contrivances result in an unlikely climax a...
U.S. Release Date: 2020-04-24
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Content, Adult Themes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Martha Stephens
Cast: Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Jordana Spiro, ...
It should be noted that Terrence Malick's failures tend to be more interesting than many directors' successes. To the Wonder is not a complete package. Crafted with what can best be described as "a European sensibility," it's heavy on visuals and ...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, ...
The provocative and challenging Together is the sophomore effort from director Lukas Moodysson. Show Me Love, his feature debut, achieved a certain amount of worldwide acclaim during its international theatrical run during late 1999 and early 2000....
U.S. Release Date: 2001-09-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lukas Moodysson
Cast: Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson, ...
I’m tempted to call Together Together a romantic comedy because it has some of the rhythms one commonly associates with the genre. However, that would be mislabeling Nikole Beckwith’s sophomore film. Although there is love and affection in...
U.S. Release Date: 2021-04-23
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Director: Nikole Beckwith
Cast: Ed Helms, Patti Harrison
Spoilers! Key plot points from Tokyo Story are revealed in this review.All-time best lists (such as the one published by Sight and Sound) are a little like “show” libraries stocked with classic volumes of literature. Disputing the preeminenc...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: Drama
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Cast: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, ...
Tolkien represents a classic standard-order biopic – a high-level profile of someone with minimal flesh on the bones. More like the dramatization of an Encyclopedia Britannica entry than a fully rendered movie, Tolkien provides details about ...
U.S. Release Date: 2019-05-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (War Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Dome Karukoski
Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Derek Jacobi, ...
Tom and Viv is culture. From the opening credits to the closing caption, this is never in doubt. Not designed for mass consumption, the examination of T.S. Eliot's tragic first marriage has all the marks of a "typical" British art film (or an...
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MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Mature Themes)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Brian Gilbert
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, ...