Drama Movies (Page #289)

Based on the true story of two Philadelphia lawyers, Michael Banks and J. Gordon Cooney, who spent 15 years overturning a murder conviction.

Rise and fall of the Black Mafia Family, the Detroit-based drug-trafficking empire created by Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory, who entered the hip-hop music scene through BMF Entertainment.

Bowe Bergdahl, an Army sergeant, is captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years after he leaves his base in Afghanistan.

A girl wakes up from a 15-year coma and finds herself in a haunted hospital ward.

Damien Echols reveals his experiences on death row after his wrongful conviction and subsequent wrongful 18-year imprisonment for the 1993 murder of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.

An American singer, actor and filmmaker has his 15-year career in East Germany halted by his mysterious death in 1986.

A biopic of Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, the doctor who gave up his medicine practice to buy a camper and hit the road with his wife and nine children. The family would go on to start up the first U.S. surfer camp.

Robert Craig Knievel becomes a household name in the 1970s for his nationally televised motorcycle jumps. Ever the showman, daredevil Evel Knievel is recognized for his use of a Stars-and-Stripes getup and known for his 433 broken bones. At the height of his celebrity, he gains endorsements from Harley-Davidson and a toy line by the Ideal Toy Company. Knievel dies in 2007 at the age of 69.

A fictional look at a real event about a young man who turns up at a home and tells a couple that he's their child who disappeared years ago.

An up-and-coming driver climbs his way into the circuit and develops a mentor/rival relationship with the driver he grew up idolizing. The dynamic is made more complex because the veteran racer's son drives for his father's team.

The story of how Judah Maccabee teamed with his father and four brothers to lead the Jewish revolt against the Greek-Syrian armies that had conquered Judea in the second century B.C

Based on an article in Wired magazine, the movie centers around the true story of a $100 million diamond heist in Antwerp.

A young boy is taught by his father, a racer, to ride motocross before he can even walk. The boy goes on to win racing titles by the time he is seven, and at sixteen becomes the first African American to win a major motosports title. The son's sudden success though strains his relationship with his dad.

Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani rape victim, wages a legal battle against her attackers and the justice system that sanctioned the crime. When her young brother goes before a council of tribal elders after he is accused of being seen with a girl from a rival tribe, Mai pleads for his release. They spare him -- but order that she be gang-raped in public to shame her family. While most victims of this authorized crime commit suicide rather than exist as a pariah, Mai fights back.

High school theater teacher Lynn Shaw transforms a defunct drama department at J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas into one of the country's top theater programs. Shaw died from breast cancer in August 2009 after having beaten it nine years earlier.

Set against a backdrop of music, surfing, and South Africa's racism, Selema "Sal" Masekela emerges out of the shadow of his successful but troubled father Hugh Masekela, the jazz musician featured on Paul Simon’s "Graceland" album and South African apartheid activist who was exiled for more than 30 years.