Drama Movies (Page #258)

Radicalized college co-ed Patricia "Mizmoon" Soltisyk co-founds the Symbionese Liberation Army, a terrorist group, with her lesbian lover and an escaped convict with an obsession for guns and explosives. The group carries out bank robberies and murders in the 1970s and kidnaps heiress Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Soltysik is one of the six SLA members killed in a shootout with the LAPD in the mid 1970s.

Arlyne Brickman grows up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City where she’s drawn to the glamorous and flashy lifestyle of New York mobsters. Soon after, she begins dating "wiseguys" and running errands for them, before getting in on the action herself — eventually becoming a police informant and a major witness in the government's case against the Colombo crime family.

This biopic focuses on the life of 20th-century Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani during the period after the first World War.

A passionate widowed single mom (Anne Dorval) finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son (Antoine Olivier Pilon). As they struggle to make ends meet, Kyla (Suzanne Clément), the peculiar new neighbor across the street, offers her help. Together, they strive for a new sense of balance.

Bachir Lazhar has emigrated from his native Algeria to Canada, where he is awaiting approval of his asylum application. When he is hired as a substitute teacher at a French-Canadian school, Bachir finds that he is often ill-equipped to deal with his new students and their shock over their previous teacher’s death.

Follows Steve (Kelvin Harrison Jr. ), a 17-year-old honors student and aspiring filmmaker in Harlem, who is being charged with felony murder for a crime he says he didn't commit.

The story takes place in Brooklyn where an unarmed black man is killed after an altercation with police officers, leading to a nuanced investigation into a tight-knit neighborhood.

Montréal Girls follows Ramy, a Middle Eastern poet who is off to Montréal to study medicine. There he meets his wild cousin Tamer who introduces him to the city's underground subcultures and thrilling nightlife. This world inspires Ramy’s innate desire to dedicate himself to poetry and hurls him into a tumultuous relationship with two young women who shatter his perceptions and reveal his destiny.

A story set in Paris about two newlyweds, Chloe (Audrey Tautou) and Colin (Romain Duris), whose whirlwind courtship is tested when an unusual illness plagues Chloe; a flower begins to grow in her lungs.

Sam Bell (Rockwell) is nearing the end of his contract with Lunar. He's been a faithful employee for 3 long years. His home has been Selene, a moon base where he has spent his days alone, mining Helium 3. The precious gas holds the key to reversing the Earth's energy crisis.

Isolated, determined and steadfast, Sam has followed the rulebook obediently and his time on the moon has been enlightening, but uneventful. The solitude has given him time to reflect on the mistakes of his past and work on his raging temper. He does his job mechanically, and spends most of his available time dreaming of his imminent return to Earth, to his wife, young daughter and an early retirement.

But two weeks shy of his departure from Selene, Sam starts seeing things, hearing things and feeling strange. And when a routine extraction goes horribly wrong, he discovers that Lunar have their own plans for replacing him... and the new recruit is eerily familiar.

Before he can return to Earth, Sam has to confront himself and the discovery that the life he has created, may not be his own. It's more than his contract that is set to expire.

When Joe Nast's (Jake Gyllenhaal) plans for marriage change due to an unexpected loss, he wants to be the man he believes everyone wants him to be - dutifully bereaved husband-to-be and perfect would-be son-in-law to Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo (Susan Sarandon). But when another woman unexpectedly enters his life, he's quickly torn between fulfilling his new role and following his heart.

A young Muslim man enrolls in college against the politically charged 9/11 backdrop, with deep personal and familial traumas to overcome.

In the age of cell phones and social media, the once-close clan finds themselves disconnected and, without the guidance of the elders who have always held things together, they struggle to rediscover the importance of tradition and family.

Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Bergman Island, Corsage) plays Hélène, a 33-year old woman diagnosed with a rare illness that sees her faced with existential decisions as she grapples with the uncertainty of the future. A decision to travel to Norway alone to seek peace becomes an act that will test the strength of love between her and her husband, Mathieu (Gaspard Ulliel).

A successful German director travels with his son to Marrakesh, where he is staging a play. He attempts to reconnect with the estranged boy but instead drives him away. The son seeks solace in the city’s sleazy nightclubs where he meets a feisty prostitute. She takes him to her hometown and helps him gain the courage to stand up to his father.

Set in the 1890s, the story follows a brother and sister who run away from their mean aunt and cross paths with a traveling magician named Mortimer Wintergreen. The man possesses an actual magical hat with a mind of its own and the three find themselves on a series of wild adventures.

Based on the true story of Amy Biehl, a 26-year-old Stanford student and Fulbright scholar who was murdered in 1993 by rioting South African youths. Biehl had traveled to South Africa to help residents prepare for the first democratic elections in their history. Magona tells the story through the eyes of the mother of one of Amy's killers, who reaches out to Biehl's mother in hopes of creating some understanding of what happened.

The story of an unprecedented marian pilgrimage called "Mother Come" that took place in Spain between May 1 and October 12, 2021, in the midst of the post-pandemic period. A reverse pilgrimage in which, according to the organizers, "no one went on pilgrimage to see Our Lady, but the Blessed Mother went on pilgrimage to see us. She used this carving to make herself present and to visit us".

A beautiful mute woman is suddenly left as a widow in a tightly-knit mountain village community. After her husband’s death the villagers slowly come to understand more of her.

Retelling of the story represented in the documenary, "Mountain of Fire: The Search for the True Mount Sinai" (2002). The film is based on the true story of two American adventurers who follow mysterious clues to find the true Mt. Sinai. The discoveries made by Bob Cornuke and Larry Williams will shock the world and rewrite history. Centuries of tradition place this holy mountain in the Sinai peninsula of Egypt, but compelling evidence found by the two intrepid explorers will show that this hallowed ground, where Moses was told to take the shoes of his feet before the burning bush, may actually be in the barren deserts of northwestern Saudi Arabia. Epic myth becomes burning truth on the Mountain of Fire.