Movies in the Drama genre

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Top Gun

Top Gun is an ‘80s testosterone fix – a celebration of machismo and a recruiting film for the U.S. Navy. Typical of Jerry Bruckheimer/Don Simpson at their peak, the movie embraces masculine tropes to create a patchwork narrative that is almost...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 1986-05-16
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Action Scenes)
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Tony Scott
Cast: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Rick Rossovich, ...
Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick is one of those rare breeds: a sequel that’s better than the original. Due in part to the passage of 36 years in between installments, the second film arrives with a less glossy, more serious approach. Cold war rah-rah machismo...

Run Time: 2:11
U.S. Home Release Date: 2022-10-31
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Intense Action)
Genre: Action/Drama
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jean Louisa Kelly, Glen Powell, ...
Total Eclipse

The lives of tortured artists have always made for fascinating film fare. From Amadeus to Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, dramatic re-creations of the often-frenzied, always-tormented lives of "great" men and women have captivated audiences. ...

Run Time: 1:50
U.S. Release Date: 1995-11-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Nudity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, ...
Towelhead

Towelhead is a victim of the economics of movie-making. Despite being a critical success at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival (where is played under the name of Nothing Is Private), Towelhead has languished on shelves for a full year. With Warner Br...

Run Time: 2:04
U.S. Release Date: 2008-09-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Alan Ball
Cast: Summer Bishil, Chris Messina, Maria Bello, ...
Town, The

In some ways, The Town can be considered a throwback, at least insomuch as any movie reflecting the approach of '80s and '90s cop dramas can be tagged with such a label. With a crisp, clear style and a focus on character, director Ben Affleck is a...

Run Time: 2:05
U.S. Release Date: 2010-09-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity,Sexual Content, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Slaine, ...
Tracey Fragments, The

The Tracey Fragments uses its non-standard visual style, a split-screen approach that can show from one to sixteen frames at any one time, in a vain attempt to camouflage the paucity of the story. Director Bruce McDonald, working from a script by ...

Run Time: 1:17
U.S. Release Date: 2008-05-09
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Bruce McDonald
Cast: Ellen Page, Slim Twig, Ari Cohen, ...
Trade

Trade is a straightforward and uninspired look at the sex trade, where girls are kidnapped and forced into prostitution. To its credit, the film avoids titillation but, at the same time, it is so full of moral outrage that there's no sense of dram...

Run Time: 1:59
U.S. Release Date: 2007-09-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Drugs)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Marco Kreuzpaintner
Cast: Kevin Kline, Cesar Ramos, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, ...
Traffic

During the Spring of 1990, I remember being transfixed in front of the television set for an hour each Sunday night over a period of five weeks. The occasion was the "Masterpiece Theater" presentation of the British mini-series "Traffik", a comple...

Run Time: 2:25
U.S. Release Date: 2000-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Drugs, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/THRILLER
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Michael Douglas, Jacob Vargas, Dennis Quaid, ...
Tragedy of Macbeth, The

A wonderful thing about Shakespeare’s canon is that those plays can form the vehicles by which any director’s unique vision can emerge. Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, and Kenneth Branagh all recognized this. With The Tragedy of Macbeth, Joel ...

Run Time: 1:45
U.S. Release Date: 2021-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie Carvel, ...
Trainspotting

Next to Independence Day, Trainspotting may be the most hyped motion picture of the summer. Miramax Films, the distributor that saturated the market with ads for The Crying Game in 1992- 93 and Pulp Fiction in '94, has struck again. Trainspotti...

Run Time: 1:33
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Drugs, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, ...