Drama Movies (Page #249)

A successful bachelor boldly offers to care for his widowed sister and her daughters in the aftermath of a family tragedy.

A humble inventor-turned-egomaniacal billionaire loses it all when one of his inventions goes horribly awry. After eight years in federal prison, he returns bankrupt, homeless and determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.

The story follows the story of Joe “G.G.” Peterson, a burned-out kids book writer who’s approaching his mid-life crisis. With his career at a standstill and his relationship in shambles, he does what any self-respecting dreamer would do, he leaves town to go with his best buddy to do the Polar Bear Plunge in the dead of winter in northern Wisconsin. On his quest for escapism, he meets: Axel, an inspirational mentor; The Sheriff, an obsessed law enforcement professional; and Sif, his muse and a professional female hockey player.

A human rights activist, sexual revolutionary, and political maverick, Fela Kuti was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was the king of Afrobeat, a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and Yoruba chants and rhythms. Taking on Nigeria’s rapidly changing and often corrupt government in the 1970s, Fela pushed boundaries in art and life. His legacy as a charismatic visionary continues to inspire the contemporary hip-hop world and generations of artists who believe in the power of music to transform people and cultures.

A boy, who can communicate with crows, discovers an underground world of "ferals" as his once-thriving city faces a wave of crime and violence.

A young girl named Dylan emerges from the debris of a train crash on an empty Scottish landscape. Believing herself to be the only survivor, she learns instead that she is the only fatality... trapped in an afterlife limbo.

A biopic of Peggy Lee who is best known for her sultry version of the song "Fever".

A notorious hitman teams with a failed private eye in search of a missing woman and a very important briefcase.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, Tevye, the father of five daughters, attempts to maintain his Jewish religious and cultural traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives. He must cope both with the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters, who wish to marry for love – each one's choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of their Jewish faith and heritage – and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village.

E wants to write a hit song, but he is a rapper with nothing original to say. Roaming the streets of Sydney, he searches for the meaning of life, running into some seedy characters while trying to find himself. He ends up going on an adventure to learn about his cultural roots but meets a mysterious girl who upends his life so that E must hit rock bottom before he can find his voice.

Lieutenant Harry Colebourn buys an orphaned bear cub for $20 in Ontario as he is about to leave for duty in Europe during World War I. Colebourn nicknames the cub “Winnie” after his hometown of Winnipeg and takes her to Europe, where she becomes the unofficial mascot of a regiment in England. While Coleburn serves in France, he keeps Winnie at the London Zoo and eventually donates her to the zoo. The bear serves as inspiration for A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh character since his son, Christopher Robin Milne, has named his teddy bear after the bear who he often sees at the zoo.

Over the course of a week at a Winter Olympics training camp, two lifelong best friends and competitors must juggle pressure from sponsors, romantic temptations, mental health and their own drive to win — possibly at all costs.

In the aftermath of a tragic family accident, two sisters separately navigate the struggles of love, marriage and children in the midst of their grief. Josie and Meredith must decide if their paths will take them even further apart or bring them closer together.

A film based on the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live” on October 11, 1975.

On a television show billed as “the greatest fight show on Earth,” eager amateurs with lots to prove boldly step into the ring and expect to leave bloody but victorious. The ratings-hungry producers seek out “legendary” but largely forgotten streetfighters and mine their desperation for recaptured glory and redemption into ratings gold. Fists of Legend features three old friends and rivals from high school days who get their invitation to the big fight for the chance to win $200,000 and much more.

"Flicker", a conspiracy thriller, follows a Los Angeles film student who begins to believe that B-movies are part of a plot to destroy civilization.

A family-friendly indie drama about a businessman who risks his marriage, family and fortune to pursue his dream of being in a rock band. Rulin will play his supportive daughter.

With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.

A talented-but-troubled rugby player must play against the team his father coaches at the national championship.