Drama Movies (Page #253)

"Closer" explores the ever-changing state of modern relationships through a quartet of lovers tangled in a web of love, lust sex and betrayal. Based on Patrick Marber's hit play about sexual politics, which was nominated for a Tony Award for "Best Play" in 1999.

The romantic drama is set in Belfast and North Carolina during two time periods: 1943 and 1993. The film begins when a U.S. B-17 crashes near Belfast, a dying gunner asks a local to return his ring to his girlfriend in America. Half a century later, a young man finds the ring, learns its history and tracks down the girlfriend.

An ex-con returns to his hometown after a three year prison stint and becomes embroiled in an affair with a woman who is married to his best friend, the local sheriff.

A love story set in an eerily possible near-future, where cities are heavily controlled and only accessible through checkpoints. People cannot travel unless they have papelles, a special travel insurance. Outside of the cities, the desert has taken over and shanty towns are jammed with non-citizens—people without papelles whose lives are severely restricted. William is a family man who works as an insurance investigator. When his company sends him to another city to solve a case of fake papelles, he meets a woman named Maria. Although he knows she's been creating the forgeries, he falls completely in love with her. He hides her crime and they have a wild, passionate affair that can only last as long as his papelles: twenty-four hours. Back home, William is obsessed by the memory of Maria. He tries to see her, but is refused the necessary papers to travel. Desperate, he uses one of the fake papelles he kept from his investigation. He eventually tracks her down, only to discover she has been accused of Code 46 violation.

The story a multi-lingual female drug runner-turned-FBI-agent born in Europe and raised in the Midwest.

1960s London. Hemlines are up, The Beatles are on the radio and crime is at the highest level on record. Extortion, robbery and murder are rife through the capital. Everyone knows the gangsters responsible, but no one will go on the record. Detective Nipper Read is tasked with the impossible mission of bringing the city back to the rule of law. As he faces bent cops, political backstabbing, and terrified witnesses, he becomes increasingly obsessed with breaking the code of silence. He will push the rules, his moral compass, and his own sense of who he is, to breaking point. The true story of the price paid by the man who caught the notorious Kray twins.

A woman experiences bizarre situations that might not be happening and violent impulses that might be all too real.

The sudden and unexpected rise to stardom of a young country singer challenges the stability of his family and his own ability to cope with fame.

May 1940. To escape the imminent German invasion, the inhabitants of a small village in northern France flee their homes, like so many millions of their compatriots. Max, a German boy, travels with them. His father, Hans, opposed the Nazi regime and was imprisoned in Arras for having lied about his nationality. Hans is eventually set free and sets off to find his son, accompanied by a Scottish soldier who is trying to get back home.

A Finnish student (Seidi Haarla) gets on the Moscow-Murmansk train, trying to escape her mysterious Moscow love. By chance, she has to share a long trip and a cramped compartment with a larger-than-life Russian miner (Yuriy Borisov),

True story of Philippa Schuyler, a woman who grew up a child prodigy—the first child of color to become a nationally prominent musician. Schuyler was composing music by the age of five, but racial and gender bias prevalent in the 1930s proved a crushing burden for her.

Set in the near future, the British government takes authoritarian rule over parenting. A vigorous License Officer is a firm believer in the controversial system she upholds until an unexpected event imperils her own parental status in the very administration she enforces.

Eve Sullivan (AnnaLynne McCord) is arrested for committing a heinous crime. Shackled in a police station breakroom, she is questioned by psychoanalyst Dr. Donald Thomas (Dean Cain), who is tasked with determining her fitness to stand trial. In a contentious interview, Dr. Thomas persuades Eve to recount her troubling past as she slowly turns the tables, coaxing him into revealing secrets of his own and showing him they may be more alike than he thinks.

Over the course of three decades, Bill Mason steals over $35 million in jewels from the inner circles of high society all the while maintaining an outwardly conventional life. Among those victimized were Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Robert Goulet, Truman Capote, Armand Hammer and Johnny Weismuller.

Based on the book of the same title, the movie explores one man's work, on behalf of the U.S. government and corporations, to persuade third-world countries to accept massive development loans that they could not be repay.

Ian Curtis has aspirations beyond the trappings of small town life in 1970's England. Wanting to emulate his musical heroes, such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop, he joins a band, and his musical ambition begins to thrive. Soon though, the everyday fears and emotions, that fuel his music, slowly begin to eat away at him. Married young, with a daughter, he is distracted from his family commitments by a new love and the growing expectations of his band, Joy Division. The strain manifests itself in his health. With epilepsy adding to his guilt and depression, desperation takes hold. Surrendering to the weight on his shoulders, Ian's tortured soul consumes him.

Longtime friends Taylor (Tyler Abron), Reese (Gavelo), Mateo (Vincent), Victoria (Paula Jai Parker), Darrin (Booker Anderson), and Marshawn (Derrick Gordon) have known one another for several years, as they all met in college. Taylor, who was a college cheerleader, met her boyfriend, Marshawn, when he played football for the University. Reese and Mateo dated throughout college, got married three years ago, and have two children. Darrin was the friend who always had jokes and was the life of the party. Victoria is a true Southern belle and has her friends’ and family’s best interests at heart.

All have been doing well since college with careers in the NFL and the TV/film industry, on Wall Street, and in the legal profession. When they embark on a weekend getaway to a beach house in the Hamptons, all hell will break loose as there are secrets even in friendship…

After serving time in prison, a master bank thief is enlisted by an FBI agent to trap a former associate.

About a ten-year-old boy who has to leave behind his German Shepherd and best friend, Rin Tin Tin when he and his family move from Louisiana to New York City for his father's job.

The story focuses on Ludwig Van Beethoven's romance with his assistant during the tempestuous time when he was writing his Ninth Symphony.