Browse Movies : Shutdown : Drama (Page #2)

After he closes the Al Capone case in Chicago, Federal agent Eliot Ness moves to Cleveland. There he makes a promise to help clean up the town until the city is scarred by a series of gruesome killings known as the "torso" murders.

Set at the end of WWII, an Army nurse takes a second honeymoon in Scotland with her husband and finds herself transported back to a time when the clans ruled the Highlands and her husband's English ancestors are the enemy.

A veteran NFL quarterback winds up on a semi-pro team in Italy after blowing his last chance to lead a team to the Super Bowl.

Set in the late 1960s when cheap counterculture films are minting money, struggling studio 20th Century Fox gives soft-core pulp director Russ Meyers the opportunity to direct "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" because his profit margins are so high and his costs are miniscule. Meyer agrees to take on "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" on the condition that the script is written by film critic Roger Ebert, who had written one of the few positive reviews Meyer had ever received. Meyers and Ebert struggle with the studio's board of directors and the ratings board, but despite being the rare major studio release with an X rating, they are vindicated when "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" is released in 1970 to big box office.

Set in the near future, the U.S. exists as a patchwork of corporate-franchise city-states, and private enterprise and the mafia controls everything. A computer virus is manifested as a drug called Snow Crash that is transmitted visually from computer screens to unsuspecting users, frying their brains. Hiro Protagonist, a computer hacker/samurai swordsman/pizza delivery driver, investigates and tries to stop the takeover of postmodern civilization.

A feature adaptation of ABC's '60s TV series "The Big Valley." Susan Sarandon would play the role of Victoria Barkley, the character played by Barbara Stanwyck in the original.

Three generations of a highly dysfunctional Midwestern family meet at the family home for what will be the last Christmas gathering there.

A 12-year-old London boy enters a hidden alternate world where statues, imbued with the soul like essence of their makers, come to life. The boy's presence upsets a balance between good and evil, and while dealing with such creatures as sphinxes and gargoyles, he teams with an orphan girl and the statue of a World War I gunner to try to set things right.

In 200 B.C., a gladiatrix exacts vengeance on an army that destroyed her homeland.

The story centers on three small-town guys, one who joins the army, another who moves to the city and gets addicted to drugs, and a third who stays home and gets his girlfriend pregnant, all set to the songs of punk band Green Day.

An animated baby, raised by a live-action family until his 18th birthday, decides to find his real family with the help of his friend and her jealous boyfriend.

Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man, has been haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, “Goblin,” a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can't escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere.

Ed Marker journeys to protect his son after his wife is brutally murdered in the gritty world of Mexican cartels.

In 1519, Hernando Cortez leads an infiltration into Mexico bringing with him religion, diseases like smallpox and a lust for gold & silver. Right away Cortez develops a relationship with Aztec ruler Montezuma. Initially held as a guest/prisoner by the Aztec leader, Cortez eventually turns the tables. The Spanish aggression leads to outright battles with invading forces and when Montezuma finally succumbs, he is killed by his countryman shortly after. The warring continues and, Cortez fathers a child with Montezuma's daughter, following his death.

A dark comedy about 14 year-old Jesse Urchin, an ambitious yet overweight ballerina with an overbearing mother (Kristen Bell) who will stop at nothing to become a star. The girl enters a "Mean Girls"-type environment when she has to prove her worth in class.

Jim Connelly, a screenwriter who’s recovering from a nervous breakdown, is cared for by his wife Anne. He begins writing a new script about a jealous husband who kills his unfaithful spouse. As fact and fiction start to blur, Connelly soon becomes a wanted man in his wife’s real life disappearance.