Drama Movies (Page #282)

U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant and pararescueman August O’Niell is injured in the line of duty and makes the decision to amputate his left leg above the knee so he has a better chance of returning to service.

Neel Kashkari, a top US Treasury official, helped develop the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, which bailed out banks following the economic collapse in 2008. Kashkari subsequently left Washington D.C. and moved to an isolated cabin in Northern California.

Four friends in Maitland in rural New South Wales join the Army in 1916 after the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. In their first engagement the battalion saves the French town of Villers-Bretonneux. Later the 34th plays a role in the Allies’ offensive in the battle of Amiens and the battle of St Quentin Canal, the operation that breaches the Hindenburg Line, thus sealing Germany’s defeat.

Stranded in 1950s Ohio after a brutal attack, actor Paul Cole (Holland), suffering from severe memory loss, struggles to find his way back to his life in New York and reclaim what he has lost. The Actor follows a thrilling journey we must all make, to find home, to find love and ultimately to find ourselves.

A writer obsesses over a high-profile murder case, begins an affair with a reporter and clashes with his father over their dysfunctional past.

A retired Naval Admiral, suffering from Alzheimer's, is forced to come to terms with his imminent death as his faculties rapidly diminish and delusions cloud his reality. He desperately tries to hold onto the memories that define him, come to terms with his regrets and deal with the demons of his past.

Siblings struggling in modern-day America discover a dead body in their parents' basement.

The young Belgian reporter and world traveler is aided in his adventures by his faithful dog Snowy.

Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous.

The story follows a young American expatriate in France whose translating job for a shadowy powerbroker draws him into violent political intrigue, corruption and murder.

Claudia, a product demonstrator in her twenties, meets ailing matriarch Martha in a hospital room when she is admitted for appendicitis. Martha is an HIV-positive mother of four with an endless lust for life; Claudia has been on her own her entire life. The two women quickly bond, and when it comes time to leave, Martha invites Claudia to come stay with her family. Reluctant at first, Martha’s family eventually gives new meaning to Claudia’s life, and as Martha gets sicker with each passing day, Claudia’s bond with her children grows stronger.

In the late 1950s, William Morgan, an American, becomes a key figure in the Cuban revolution but is executed after crossing Fidel Castro.

Jacques (Vincent Lindon) is a journalist at a large regional newspaper in France. His reputation as an impartial investigator attracts the attention of the Vatican, who recruit him to lead a committee to explore the legitimacy of a saintly apparition in a small French village—a true canonical investigation. Upon his arrival, he meets the young novitiate Anna, who claims to have personally witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary. She’s garnered an impressive following in the village but is torn between her faith and the many solicitations she receives. Confronted with opposing views from clergy members and skeptics, Jacques finds his belief system profoundly shaken as he works to uncover the hidden motivations and pressures at work.

A married woman makes a deal to spend three days with a wealthy man in exchange for a bailout loan, and then must choose between him and her husband.

Claire (Lena Olin) lives a domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband’s illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard’s moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory and behavior deteriorate, she shields his condition from the art community while trying to reconnect him with his estranged daughter and grandson from a previous marriage. Challenged by the loss of her world as she knew it, Claire must now decide whether to stand with Richard on the sidelines or step into the spotlight herself.

An action western surrounding the private life and public exploits of America's most notorious outlaw, Jesse James. As the charismatic and unpredictable outlaw plans his next great robbery, he wages war on his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money--and the glory--that is riding on his capture. However, the greatest threat to Jesse's life may ultimately come from those he trusts the most.

Three young women–one seeking a way out of her small town, one returning to the moneyed enclave she visited when her family had money, and one looking for love–agree to oversee the four indulged, unsupervised children of a family vacationing in the Hamptons.

Successful female gambler Cheung Yin "Kelly" Sun painstakingly develops talent and obsession for payback into beating the system at their own game. With major casinos conspiring to bar her from their properties, Sun partners with the international "King of Poker" Phil Ivey in order to take down the system through subterfuge, ingenuity, and pure daring, resulting in one of the most ingenious legal gambling runs ever documented.

After the loss of his wife, Bill Ponder and his 17-year-old son move out of their small town into the big city to get a fresh start. As they begin to adjust to their new life, they both find comfort in newfound romance, growing apart and back together again while discovering their true selves in the process.