Browse Movies : Drama : J (Page #4)

Follows the friendship between political rivals John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, from their early years as Senators to the race for the Presidency, leading up to the historic 1960's televised debate.

Follows Dutch twin sisters who travel to America to look for their long-lost mother.

Four men with shady pasts win big in a sports pool. When it comes to dividing the winnings, however, things escalate to lethal proportions.

The film tells the story of a lonely suburban teenager whose life changes dramatically when she befriends a group of female skateboarders.

An "American Idol"-like singing contest is held in an Arizona jail where a heavy-metal musician-turned-detention officer rallies thousands of inmates to particpate. Cell block hostilities are curtailed as inmates rally around the contestants. Alice Cooper is a guest judge for the finals.

James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. He retreats further into a self-destructive, hedonistic lifestyle, but as his mother battles a serious illness, James is forced to take control of his life.

"Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom.

Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA—their elite Marine Unit.

A young man works his way up in the crime world and build an criminal empire in South Africa during and after apartheid.

Paul Verhoeven's take on the life of Jesus Christ discounts all the miracles that inform the New Testament.

Two friends cross a London gangster forcing them to flee England. Lee and Sol are hiding out on a beach in Southern India living a slacker life of sex, drugs and parties. Trouble comes to paradise when Vix, a beautiful girl from Lee’s past, turns up. Things get worse when the gang find themselves up against crooked cops, local hoodlums, gangsters…. and their past. How far do you have to go to get away?

Set on a tiny isle not found on any maps, a community of lost children do not remember their past and must labor to mine ore.

Set during the last nine days of musician, singer, and songwriter Jimi Hendrix's life.

Follows Jimmy Picard (Benicio Del Toro), a Blackfoot Indian, who returns from World War II with a mysterious illness and requires the help of psychoanalyst George Devereux (Matthieu Amalric).

The true story of an Oregonian father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin, embarking on a self-reflective walk across America to speak his heart to heartland citizens about the real and terrifying costs of bullying.

The Clash's rise to fame in the mid-1970s and this gives the band status as the most crucial pillar in that first wave of British punk. Frontman Joe Strummer amasses a huge body of work and continuously creates new music up until his death in 2002.

A female drug addict falls into a coma after a traffic accident, miraculously recovers, and stays on in the lugubrious hospital as a nurse, curing patients by lying beside them. The joint's regular staff, eventually turns against her, and she ends up in a body bag, incinerated on a garbage heap.