Movies in the Drama genre
We Are Your Friends is presented in three very different acts. The first is at times fresh and inventive, with playful elements that enliven the narrative. The second is solid but familiar. The third is meandering and strangely unsatisfying, even tho...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-08-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Drugs, Sexual Content, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: Drama
Director: Max Joseph
Cast: Zac Efron, Wes Bentley, Emily Ratajkowski, ...
After the twin disappointments of Vanilla Sky (which critics generally liked but the public did not) and Elizabethtown (which was equally dismissed by critics and the general movie-going populace), Cameron Crowe has hunkered down in relative obscur...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-12-23
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Colin Ford, ...
Tilda Swinton is a chameleon unafraid of any subject matter, no matter how hard-hitting or difficult. She has appeared in one of the most emotionally crushing films I have ever seen, Tim Roth's The War Zone, and her performance in We Need to Talk a...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-12-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Cast: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, ...
Loyalty. Betrayal. Violence. Family. Those are the crucial staples to be found in any crime drama worth viewing, and writer/director James Gray shoehorns them into his high wattage effort, We Own the Night. Despite a plot that occasionally creaks...
U.S. Release Date: 2007-10-12
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity, Drugs)
Genre: THRILLER/DRAMA
Director: James Gray
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Duvall, ...
Reaction to The Weather Man may depend upon an individual's ability to tolerate spending 100 minutes in the company of an unpleasant protagonist. There's no doubt this can be an uncomfortable experience, but it can also be rewarding for those who ...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-10-28
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Gore Verbinski
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, ...
Wai-Tung (Winston Chao) has a problem. Living in New York with a well-paying job, a nice home, and a stable relationship (with Simon, played by Mitchell Lichtenstein), everything appears to be going his way. But his parents, unaware of his homose...
U.S. Release Date: 1993-08-27
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/COMEDY
Director: Ang Lee
Cast: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein, ...
The best thing that can be said about Welcome to Me, as written by Eliot Laurence and directed by Shira Piven, is that it attempts to portray the real Borderline Personality Disorder as opposed to the Hollywood movie version of the disease. Unfortuna...
U.S. Release Date: 2015-05-08
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama
Director: Shira Piven
Cast: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Wes Bentley, ...
Considering the wealth of material provided by the recent tragedy in Bosnia, it's surprising that Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo is the first major Western motion picture to take place in the war-torn country. It's possible to argue th...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-11-26
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, ...
Welcome to the Dollhouse, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, is Todd Solonz' counterattack against the Wonder Years nostalgia that clouds movie memories of adolescence. After all, junior high school isn't the en...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Todd Solondz
Cast: Heather Matarazzo, Victoria Davis, Christina Brucato, ...
Wendy and Lucy is a love story, but not of the conventional sort. It's about how the vagaries of fate can sabotage a seemingly bright future and tear apart two dear companions. It's about the desperate search of one to find the other in a place wh...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-10
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Cast: Michelle Williams, Wally Dalton, Will Patton