Browse Movies : TBA Month : Drama : F

Switters, the protagonist, is an errand boy for the CIA, a secret lover of Broadway show tunes and a pedophile. On assignment in Peru (he has been ordered to verify the philosophical commitment of a new CIA recruit), Switters encounters a Kandakandero medicine man who gives him mind-altering drugs and wisdom, but in exchange inflicts a curse: if Switters's feet ever touch the ground, he will be struck dead instantly. So Switters spends the rest of the novel in a wheelchair, although this in no way slows him down. He returns to Seattle, chases after his 16-yearold stepsister and numerous art students, then embarks on a mission to Syria to sell gas masks to Kurds; there, he beds a nun who even so remains a virgin.

Story centers on a married couple who decide to adopt after their own son is killed. Until one day a boy, who may or may not be their own unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep.

Story of Suzanne Simard, a world-renowned scientist and ecologist who first discovered how trees communicate underground through an immense web of fungi.

A penniless girl (Claire Danes) in the 1930's is taken in by a circus freak (Ewan McGregor), and even as he falls in love with her, she begins to launch a career in the circus herself.

Set in 1987 Oakland, CA, and described as a love letter to the music, movies, sports, politics, people, places and memories — some true, some invented.

A man who wakes up in Tijuana after being left for dead with absolutely no memory. As he follows a string of clues to uncover his identity, he discovers that he's been living two different lives a crime kingpin and an undercover CIA agent.

Follows an abused single mother (Anna Paquin) who moves to Florida with her daughters amid the colorful yet turbulent culture of the late 1970s.

Set in late 1940s Chicago, Elizabeth Debicki plays Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a woman ahead of her time whose ambitious project to build the first glass house led her into a passionate but tempestuous love affair with the revolutionary Bauhaus architect Mies Van Der Rohe (Ralph Fiennes).

A young woman motivated by the material life plunges into a fast-paced world of gratuitous sex, violence and heartbreak in an attempt to find herself and to assess her goals in life during the modern Hip-Hop era.

A Korean-American teenage boy falls in love for fake in order to fall in love for real.

The the small town of Marah, Illinoisis hit with the worst tornado in U.S. history, that leaves many residents injured and levels almost the entire town. Paul Graves and his family are the only exception to the devastation and they must deal with the growing hostility around them.

Story is a contemporary retelling of Bram Stroker’s "Dracula," in which a New York-based producer travels to Romania for an interview with a notorious European arms dealer, who turns out to be a modern-day Dracula.

The daughter of an influential Chinese businessman from Hong Kong was kidnapped into Chinese Shan Xi protectorate. The three mercenaries Hana, a language genius, glass, a high-decorated military veteran, and Deke, a weapon and ammunition expert are to regain and release the young Wee Ming. Which first like a simple order for mercenary begins, develops fast to a makaberen nightmare: The more deeply the three into the world of Shan Xi dive in, become the clearer that them against a hell prince and its servant start...

Adam Brown battles personal demons, including drug addiction and jail time, to fulfill his childhood dream of becoming a Navy SEAL.

The doctors at Memorial Medical Center, a hospital in New Orleans, are overwhelmed in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. The staff is forced to make calculated decisions on which patients to save. Some of those who are not expected to make it are shot up with morphine and left to die. An attempt to prosecute a doctor and two nurses for homicide after an investigation show elevated levels of morphine and other drugs in 23 patients who died at the hospital. Of those, 20 are ruled homicides.

"Flowers for Algernon" follows the story of Charlie, a mentally handicapped man who is the first human test subject in an experimental surgery that artificially increases intelligence. After seeing his IQ go from 68 to 185 following the surgery, Charlie loses the ability to socialize normally and becomes alienated from those around him. As Charlie begins to learn the truth behind the effects of the surgery — as seen through the reaction of a mouse test subject named Algernon — he is struck with the weight of how this procedure may ruin is life.

A volunteer fighter squadron is formed by General Claire Chennault to help the Chinese fight against the Empire of Japan before the United States enters WWII. The aging Chinese planes are no match for the superior Japanese forces, until the volunteers arrive in American-made P-40 War Hawks. The two squadrons fly side by side, in fighter planes emblazoned with the gaping tiger's teeth logo. After Pearl Harbor, the Flying Tigers become an effective squadron in the U.S. Air Force.

The story follows Tia Monroe, who after graduating college has every intention of taking the New York City restaurant scene by storm. She gets her break when a legendary New York Times restaurant critic lets Monroe in on a career-ending secret: he’s lost his sense of taste. Now he wants her to serve as his palate, ghostwriting his reviews.