Movies in the Drama/Adventure genre
There is little doubt that the most discussed aspect of writer/director/editor John Sayles' Limbo will be the ending. Unconventional and unexpected, the conclusion will inspire outrage in some movie-goers (a patron at the showing I attended hurled...
U.S. Release Date: 1999-06-04
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: John Sayles
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, ...
The Lost City of Z is an adaptation of David Grann’s non-fiction book of the same name. Expanded from the author’s 2005 New Yorker article, the 2009 hardcover became a New York Times bestseller and garnered over a half-dozen major awards ...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-04-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama/Adventure
Director: James Gray
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, ...
The ghost of Mark Twain looms large over Jeff Nichols' Mud, a modern-day homage to the settings and characters popularized in some of Twain's best loved works. The protagonists in Mud, a couple of 14-year olds, are named Ellis (Tye Sheridan) and Ne...
U.S. Release Date: 2013-04-26
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Jeff Nichols
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Paul Sparks, Michael Shannon, ...
When last we encountered Pocahontas in movie-land, she had been Disney-fied to allow children to experience a sanitized version of her adventures. While there's nothing wrong with Pocahontas (except the history, that is), Terrence Malick is going fo...
U.S. Release Date: 2005-12-25
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Colin Farrell, Christian Bale, Q'Orianka Kilcher, ...
It has been a number of years since I have read the story of Noah in "Genesis" but I'm reasonably certain there are some discrepancies between the canonical account and the one related by director Darren Aronofsky in his new movie, Noah. For exampl...
U.S. Release Date: 2014-03-28
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, ...
With a mostly female cast and a poetic title, it might be easy to assume that Paradise Road is a 1997 version of Mike Newell's effervescent Enchanted April. However, apart from those stated similarities, there's little to connect the two films. ...
U.S. Release Date: 1997-04-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Bruce Beresford
Cast: Glenn Close, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle, ...
What begins as seemingly an old-fashioned war film set during the waning years of the Ottoman Empire quickly turns into a dark exploration of the Armenian genocide. This litany of atrocities, unknown to many today and denied by the Turkish gov...
U.S. Release Date: 2017-04-21
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Disturbing Images)
Genre: Drama/Adventure
Director: Terry George
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, ...
The ageless Isabelle Adjani, one of France's most beautiful faces, has an undeniable screen presence. And, with his lean, well-toned body and finely-sculpted features, Vincent Perez is equally pleasing to the eye. However, put them together with ...
U.S. Release Date: -
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Patrice Chereau
Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, ...
The dream is reaching America. The nightmare is undertaking the journey to get there. But you know your current circumstances aren't too promising when New Jersey is represented as a paradise. Writer/director Cary Fukunaga's film is about illegal ...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-03-20
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: DRAMA/ADVENTURE
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast: Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristian Ferrer, ...
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, ...