Movies in the Drama genre
The World's Fastest Indian is not, as the title might suggest, a National Geographic special. Instead, it's a based-on-a-true-story tale that crosses no fewer than four genres in the space of a little more than two hours. Although some aspects of...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Sexual Situations, Profanity)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Roger Donaldson
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Chris Williams, ...
Death was once considered the great equalizer. These days, it's the best way to reconstruct a damaged reputation. Lionizing the dead isn't just a cottage industry; it's universal. The sins of the living are washed away in death, leaving behind a ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-09-04
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Cast: Robin Williams, Alexie Gilmore, Daryl Sabara, ...
The film with the loudest buzz at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival was Darren Aranofsky's The Wrestler - quite a change for the man who brought The Fountain to the same venues a couple of years ago to almost universal indifference. The Wrestler, on ...
U.S. Release Date: 2008-12-17
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Nudity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood
Certain historical periods provide rich and varied soil for the cultivation of motion picture storylines. The twilight of the Roman Empire is one. The American Civil War is another. World War II marks a third. And a fourth is the Chinese "Cultu...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-05-07
MPAA Rating: "NR" (Sexual Situations, Nudity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Joan Chen
Cast: Lu Lu, Lopsang
Sluggish. Torpid. Boring. Those three words (and more) can describe The Yellow Handkerchief, a stultifying road trip movie whose inept screenplay is only partially counterbalanced by a trio of nice performances. There's only so much a talented ...
U.S. Release Date: 2010-03-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Udayan Prasad
Cast: William Hurt, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne, ...
The term "Capra-corn" was coined for movies such as this one: feel-good endeavors that emphasize the better portions of human nature over the base, venal ones. With Capra, no matter how dark things got in the middle (and it's tough to get darker ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "NR"
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, ...
Some movies you love from the first minute of the first reel. For others, it can take a little longer. You Won’t Be Alone falls in the latter category but rewards those who stick with it. An art-horror film that cares more about aesthetics and e...
U.S. Release Date: 2022-04-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Gore, Violence, Nudity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Horror/Drama
Director: Goran Stolevski
Cast: Alice Englert, Anamaria Marinca, Sara Klimonska, ...
Diablo Cody has a distinctive voice. You can hear it in Juno. You can hear it in Jennifer's Body. You can hear it in United States of Tara. And you can hear it in Young Adult. After a while, however, the uniqueness of what Cody has to say and how ...
U.S. Release Date: 2011-12-09
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Jason Reitman
Cast: Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt, ...
The Young Victoria, which was selected as the closing film of the 2009 Toronto Film Festival (a position that often attracts mediocrity), isn't so much poorly made as it is uninspired. It's hard to determine whether the root cause is that the earl...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-18
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: DRAMA
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, ...
For his second feature, director Neil LaBute ventures across a domestic landscape that is no less dark than the world of corporate backstabbing he visited with In the Company of Men. Those looking for something lightweight or feel-good need not bo...
U.S. Release Date: 1998-08-19
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Situations)
Genre: COMEDY/DRAMA
Director: Neil LaBute
Cast: Jason Patric, Ben Stiller, Catherine Keener, ...