Browse Movies : Development : Drama : S (Page #3)

A tough homicide cop is demoted to the lowest of the low, the morals squad. He rallies together a ragtag group of cops who successfully take down a man who rigs elections.

Ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed is instrumental in the formation of the UAE in 1971.

A support group for shoe addicts quickly entangles four of its female members in each other's complicated lives.

Four men in their early thirties live near one another in the same Wisconsin town where they grew up. Some in the quartet have left their birth state while others have not, and they are just now coming into their own as husbands and fathers with each hoping to finally find real purchase in the world. One of the friends records the album "Shotgun Lovesongs" in a former chicken coop.

An extremely driven sports agent tries desperately to sign a young, coveted basketball star as her client. In her desperation and determination, she considers resorting to illegal and unethical means to book the client.

17-year-old Liv meets the mysterious Henry. He belongs to a secret circle that possesses the ability of ‘lucid dreaming’. But little do they know that the fulfillment of their dreams comes with a high price.

Set in the early 1900s, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce create Rolls-Royce Limited, a luxury automobile company, amid the love affairs of the Beaulieu family.

A 14-year-old must break free of a home strained by his parents' relationship and money troubles, deal with his drop-out older brother's antics and survive in a new public school. He forms a band and runs away to London with his 15-year-old girlfriend.

The story centers on the real life problems and controversies behind the scenes of a top-rated soap opera, that turn the series into a phenomenon.

Engineer-turned-teacher Simon Hauger inspires a group of troubled Philadelphia high schoolers to win a competition to build an alternative-fuel vehicle.

Set in the 1970s, Janet Guthrie, a pilot turned racecar driver, makes a bid for the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 despite relentless opposition from the racing establishment and the men she hopes to race against. Janet qualifies for the race in 1978 where she finishes in the top ten, destroying many widely-held stereotypes about female drivers.

A man relives his childhood experiences of the Second World War, retracing his steps as he tries to uncover the secrets of his best friend's mother who they believe to be a German spy.

Jonas Salk, a virologist, begins his polio research and eventually discovers a vaccine that he purposefully does not patent which is then used for decades to inoculate against the virus.

Set in 19th-century Germany, the coming-of-age story follows a group of teens discovering their sexuality and dealing with high-wire topics like masturbation, abortion, rape and suicide.

"St. George and the Dragon" is the enduring myth of a knight's struggle to save a feudal princess from a fearsome beast.

The movie centers on a broken-down, once-great hockey player who gets a chance to finally fill his legendary father's skates by giving his hometown, known as Hockeytown USA, a pseudo rematch of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" game against a Russian team of ex-Olympians.

An ex-street hustler redeems himself and spreads hope by starting a construction project in the ghetto after he sees signs from a higher power.

A miller tells a king that his daughter is capable of spinning straw into gold. The king locks the girl in a tower and demands that she do so by morning, but just as she's given up all hope, an imp-like creature arrives to spin the straw into gold in exchange for jewelry, but as the king's demands grow, so do the imp's. Eventually, the girl promises the imp her first-born son if he agrees to spin an entire room of straw into gold. When the imp returns years later to claim the boy, the now-queen begs him for another trade. The imp agrees, saying that if she can guess his name in three days, he'll let her keep her child.

Jose Vigoa, a Cuban-born commando veteran of the Soviet army, and his crew embarked on a violent 16-month crime wave that targeted some of Las Vegas' most prominent casinos. He was pitted against a 23-year vet of the Vegas police force, who was charged with tracking down Vigoa and his cohorts without letting the story make the papers and spoil Vegas's image.