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Dramas (379)

12 Angry Men

Drama | 1957

Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a cast of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in one of the best pictures ever made.

Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Jack Klugman

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

127 Hours

Drama | 2010

From director Danny Boyle comes this harrowing tale of real-life mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco), who literally cuts himself loose from danger - and lives to tell about it when sliding rock pins his forearm under a boulder during a climb in Utah. To stay alive, Ralston resorts to his basest survival instincts. The film scored Academy Award nominations in the Best Picture and Best Actor (Franco) categories.

Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara

Director: Danny Boyle

Genre: Drama

Language: English

13 Rue Madeleine

Drama | 1947

When spy chief Bob Sharkey finds out one of his agents-in-training is actually a Nazi double agent, his strategic decision not to arrest him results in tragedy.

Cast: James Cagney, Annabella, Richard Conte

Director: Henry Hathaway

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Drama | 2008

Struggling to come up with medical school tuition, Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) turns to one of his professors (Kevin Spacey), who trains Ben and five other students to become card-counting experts with the intent of swindling millions out of Las Vegas casinos. Based on the nonfiction best-seller "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions".

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth

Director: Robert Luketic

Genre: Drama

Language: English

21 Grams

Drama | 2003

A violent car accident unexpectedly throws together the lives of a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts). The crossing of their paths take them through the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption.

Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro, Melissa Leo

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Genre: Drama

Language: English

39 Steps, The

Drama | 1935

Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) is vacationing in England when he gets caught in a web of mystery in this Hitchcock thriller. Shots ring out at a show, and a terrified woman (Lucie Mannheim) begs Hannay to help her. He's certain she's crazy - until she appears at his flat with a map in hand and a knife in her back, muttering something about 39 steps. Eluding the police, Hannay travels through Scotland to unearth the truth.

Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

49th Parallel, The

Drama | 1941

When a Nazi U-boat crew, headed by the ruthless Eric Portman, is stranded in Canada during the thick of World War II, the men evade capture by hiding out in a series of rural communities, before trying to cross the border into the United States. Both soul-stirring and delightfully entertaining, 49th Parallel features a colorful cavalcade of characters played by larger-than-life actors Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook, and Leslie Howard.

Cast: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George

Director: Michael Powell

Genre: Drama

Language: English

5 Days Of August

Drama | 2011

5 Days Of August (5 Days Of War in the UK and USA) is a 2011 action film by Finnish director Renny Harlin. The story is about the 2008 Russo-Georgian war, including the events leading up to the conflict.

Cast: Andy Garcia, Val Kilmer, Richard Coyle

Director: Renny Harlin

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Ace In The Hole

Drama | 1951

Fired from a number of big-city papers, reporter Charles Tatum (Kirk Douglas) tries to reestablish himself in New Mexico. When a local store owner is trapped in a cave-in, Tatum turns the victim's misfortune into a media frenzy to further his own career. A local sheriff agrees to help prolong the rescue efforts, thereby helping build up the story. This classic film has been touted as director Billy Wilder's sharpest, most uncompromising piece of work.

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Porter Hall

Director: Billy Wilder

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Adaptation

Drama | 2002

Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a Los Angeles screenwriter battling enormous feelings of insecurity and impotence as he struggles to adapt "The Orchid Thief", a book by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), whose main character, John Laroche (Chris Cooper), is searching for love. Add to the mix Charlie's twin brother, Donald (also played by Cage), and you have a surreal, Spike Jonze-directed gem about the search for passion.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep

Director: Spike Jonze

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Adjustment Bureau, The

Drama | 2011

A congressman (Matt Damon) who's a rising star on the political scene finds himself entranced by a beautiful ballerina (Emily Blunt), but mysterious circumstances ensure that their love affair is predestined to be a non-starter. Screenwriter George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum) makes his directorial debut with this romantic adaptation of Philip K. Dick's classic sci-fi short story "Adjustment Team."

Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt

Director: George Nolfi

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Age Of Innocence, The

Drama | 1993

Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Newland Archer, a well-bred New Yorker engaged to an appropriate match: cultured May Welland (Winona Ryder). But when her alluring cousin, Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), comes along, Archer puts society's mores to the test. Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel transfers lavishly to the screen under Martin Scorsese's direction, with Ryder earning an Oscar nod for her incandescent performance.

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Airport 1975

Drama | 1975

This 1975 sequel of the first "Airport" film features Charlton Heston as Alan Murdock, an air traffic controller who tries to save a doomed 747 after the pilot of a private plane (Dana Andrews) has a heart attack and crashes into the 747's cockpit.

Cast: Charlton Heston, Dana Andrews

Director: George Seaton

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Airport '77

Drama | 1977

The third film in the Airport series finds a jet full of people 50 feet below sea level in the Bermuda Triangle. The oxygen supply dwindles for an art collector (Jimmy Stewart), the pilot (Jack Lemmon) and the other passengers (Christopher Lee, Brenda Vaccaro and Olivia de Havilland).

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Christopher Lee, Brenda Vaccaro, Olivia de Havilland

Director: Jerry Jameson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Airport '79: The Concorde

Drama | 1979

The final installment takes place on the Concorde, which heads to the Moscow Olympics with a bomb aboard and must fly upside down after missiles are fired at it.

Cast: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner

Director: David Lowell Rich

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Ajami

Drama | 2009

When their uncle wounds an important clan member, 13-year-old Nasri (Fouad Habash) and his older brother, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), fear he has put their whole family in terrible danger in this moving, Oscar-nominated drama set on the West Bank. A truce is arranged, but Omar must start selling drugs to pay the fine he now owes. Meanwhile, a number of other locals struggle to negotiate the political and social tinderbox of Jaffa's Ajami neighborhood.

Cast: Fouad Habash, Nisrine Rihan

Director: Scandar Copti

Genre: Drama

Language: Arabic, Hebrew (English subtitles)

Albino Alligator

Drama | 1997

Kevin Spacey made his directing debut with this edgy crime drama about a trio of small-time hoods (Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner) fleeing after a bungled robbery in New Orleans. They hole up in a basement bar, taking the five people inside hostage while trying to determine their next move as the feds and a Special Weapons and Tactics team swarm outside. The great cast includes Faye Dunaway, Joe Mantegna and Viggo Mortensen.

Cast: Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise

Director: Kevin Spacey

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Amelia

Drama | 2009

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

Cast: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor

Director: Mira Nair

Genre: Drama

Language: English

American Beauty

Drama | 1999

While struggling to endure his perfection-obsessed wife (Annette Bening), an unfulfilling job and a sullen teenage daughter (Thora Birch), suburbanite Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) falls deep into a midlife crisis and becomes infatuated with one of his daughter's friends (Mena Suvari). Director Sam Mendes dazzles with this arresting blend of social satire and domestic tragedy that scooped up five Oscars, including acting honors for Spacey.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening

Director: Sam Mendes

Genre: Drama

Language: English

American Gangster

Drama | 2007

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country from the Far East.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Director: Ridley Scott

Genre: Drama

Language: English

American Gigolo

Drama | 1980

Julian Kaye (Richard Gere) is a high-class escort for lonely women in this drama written and directed by Paul Schrader. When one of Julian's tricks turns up dead, his actual client refuses to give him an alibi, and Detective Sunday (Hector Elizondo) keeps asking questions Julian can't answer. Seems the only person who can help Julian now is his one non-paying lover, a local politician's wife (Lauren Hutton).

Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton

Director: Paul Schrader

Genre: Drama

Language: English

American Rhapsody, An

Drama | 2001

Margaret (Nastassja Kinski) and Peter (Tony Goldwyn) escape communist Hungary with their eldest child while their infant daughter Suzanne is left behind. Reunited with her family in America six years later, Suzanne grows into a rebellious teen (Scarlett Johansson). But when she revisits the Hungarian couple who raised her as a child, she begins to reexamine her identity in this loosely autobiographical drama by editor-turned-director Eva Gardos.

Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett Johansson

Director: Eva Gardos

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Amreeka

Drama | 2009

Eager to provide a better future for her son, Fadi (Melkar Muallem), divorcee Muna Farah (Nisreen Faour) leaves her Palestinian homeland and takes up residence in rural Illinois - just in time to encounter the domestic repercussions of America's disastrous war in Iraq. Now, the duo must reinvent their lives with some help from Muna's sister, Raghda (Hiam Abbass), and brother-in-law, Nabeel (Yussuf Abu-Warda). Cherien Dabis writes and directs.

Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem

Director: Cherien Dabis

Genre: Drama

Language: English, Arabic

And Justice For All

Drama | 1979

America's justice system comes under indictment in director Norman Jewison's penetrating film starring Al Pacino as upstanding attorney Arthur Kirkland, who's tasked with defending a hard-line - and tainted - judge (John Forsythe) standing trial for rape. Kirkland has a history with the judge, who jailed one of the lawyer's clients on a technicality. So when the judge confesses his guilt, Kirkland faces an ethical and legal quandary.

Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Warden

Director: Norman Jewison

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Anna And The King

Drama | 1999

In this fact-based 19th-century tale, English widow Anna Leonowens (Jodie Foster) travels to Asia to tutor the king of Siam's 58 children. Brimming with prejudice, Anna at first believes the king (Chow Yun-Fat) is a barbarian, but the two soon develop a mutual respect. Eventually, Anna and the king realize that, regardless of their drastically different views, east can meet west - but political unrest threatens to upheave the king's reign.

Cast: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow

Director: Andy Tennant

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Apollo 18

Drama | 2011

If you buy in to official statements, Apollo 17 was NASA's last manned mission to the moon. But what if found footage of a secret Apollo mission that had taken place the following year could prove otherwise - and explain why we haven't gone back?

Cast: Warren Christie, Ryan Robbins

Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Appointment, The

Drama | 1991

After writing several anti-God editorials, reporter Liz Watson (Karen Jo Briere) gets a critique from a powerful force. A mysterious stranger brings her a message direct from the Lord, and it's not good; she has only 8 days to live. Now, Liz must figure out what to do with the knowledge of the exact date and time she will perish. But first, she must determine whether the message is real or just some sick hoax...

Cast: Karen Jo Briere, Art Oden

Director: Rich Christiano

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Arbitrage

Drama | 2012

A troubled hedge fund magnate desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

Cast: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling

Director: Nicholas Jarecki

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Arctic Blast

Drama | 2010

Arctic Blast is centered around a colossal blast of heavily chilled mesosphere air, moving towards the Earth after a solar eclipse. The catastrophic event threatens to engulf the entire world in ice. As coastal Australia undergoes mass evacuation, physicist Jack Tate (Michael Shanks) tries to find a solution while protecting his family.

Cast: Michael Shanks, Alan Andrews, Alexandra Davies

Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Around The World In 80 Days

Drama | 1956

This Oscar-nominated hit adaptation of Jules Verne's novel recounts the adventures of Englishman Phileas Fogg (David Niven), who takes on a seemingly impossible wager: traveling around the world with his butler, Passepartout (Cantinflas), in 80 days. The whirlwind journey takes the pair on adventures in India, Hong Kong and the United States. The film's star-studded cast includes Charles Boyer, Marlene Dietrich, Buster Keaton and many others.

Cast: David Niven, Cantinflas

Director: Michael Anderson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Assassination Of Richard Nixon, The

Drama | 2004

The true story of a man who, on February 22, 1974, was thwarted from an ambitious plan for political assassination provides the basis for this striking psychological drama. Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a salesman for an office-supply company whose life is slowly beginning to unravel. Bicke's job is going nowhere, his wife, Marie (Naomi Watts), has left him, and his boss (Jack Thompson) keeps pushing self-help books on him that make a mockery of his state of mind

Cast: Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Naomi Watts

Director: Niels Mueller

Genre: Drama

Language: English

At Close Range

Drama | 1986

Reunited with his career criminal father (Christopher Walken) for the first time in years, tough teen Brad Whitewood Jr. (Sean Penn) thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to learn that his amoral father is more vicious than young Brad ever imagined. Mary Stuart Masterson portrays Penn's love interest, and David Strathairn plays an epileptic thug in this gripping thriller inspired by a true story.

Cast: Sean Penn, Christopher Walken

Director: James Foley

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Aviator, The

Drama | 2004

Martin Scorsese directs this Best Picture nominee about eccentric tycoon Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), who turned a small fortune into a massive one by producing such classics as Hell's Angels, The Front Page and Scarface. He simultaneously branched into and transformed industry after industry - including aviation. The film won five Oscars, including Best Cinematography, Art Direction and Supporting Actress (Cate Blanchett).

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Babel

Drama | 2006

When an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) vacationing in Morocco fall victim to a random act of violence, a series of events unfolds across four countries that demonstrates both the necessity and impossibility of human communication. Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu artfully weaves together three seemingly disparate stories in this Oscar nominee for Best Picture and Golden Globe winner for Best Drama.

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt

Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Babette's Feast (Babettes gaestebud)

Drama | 1987

Philippa (Hanne Stensgaard) and Martina (Vibeke Hastrup) turn down a chance to leave their Danish town, instead staying to care for their pastor father and his small church. Thirty-five years later, a French woman (Stephane Audran) seeks refuge, and Philippa and Martina (now Bodil Kjer and Birgitte Federspie) take her in. The feast the woman prepares in gratitude is eclipsed only by her secret in director Gabriel Axel's Oscar-winning drama.

Cast: Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel

Director: Gabriel Axel

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Bad Lieutenant

Drama | 1992

Winner of an Independent Spirit Award (Harvey Keitel for Best Male Lead), director Abel Ferarra's gritty, visceral crime drama puts an out-of-control police lieutenant (Keitel) on a collision course with disaster. A survivor of the streets, this junkie, thief and killer comes face to face with his own sordid past. Although he's exploited young girls for sex, he's forced to confront his private demons when he investigates the rape of a nun.

Cast: Harvey Keitel, Paul Hipp

Director: Abel Ferrara

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Bang Bang Club, The

Drama | 2010

Four combat photojournalists document the end of apartheid in South Africa, a turbulent period marked by brutality and anger. This real-life drama is based on a memoir by Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe) and Joao Silva (Neels Van Jaarsveld), who won Pulitzer Prizes for their work. Along with Ken Oosterbroek (Frank Rautenbach) and Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch), the group exposes the tragic violence that spawned a new regime in the country.

Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Malin Akerman

Director: Steven Silver

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Barney's Version

Drama | 2010

Golden Globe winner Paul Giamatti stars as Barney Panofsky, a Jewish Canadian television producer who reflects in flashbacks on three strange decades - and three wives - in this adaptation of Mordecai Richler's acclaimed novel. There's Clara (Rachelle Lefevre), a free-spirited proponent of free love; "Mrs. P" (Minnie Driver), a self-centered princess; and Miriam (Rosamund Pike), the right woman who comes along at the wrong time.

Cast: Richard J. Lewis

Director: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Barocco

Drama | 1976

In this suspenseful tale of blackmail, deception and murder, a young woman convinces her boyfriend to accept a bribe to tell a lie that discredits a local politician. When the boyfriend is murdered, she's racked with guilt until she meets the killer - a dead ringer for the murdered man - who's now hiding from the police. Will the woman successfully "reinvent" the killer as her dead boyfriend? Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Adjani co-star.

Cast: Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu

Director: Andre Techine

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Barry Lyndon

Drama | 1975

Based on William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, this gorgeously painted tale yields a slow-moving portrait of a young Irishman (Ryan O'Neal) who moves up the social ladder through soldiering, spying and a marriage to a wealthy countess (Marisa Berenson). Although this Stanley Kubrick-directed film was a box office flop, it was eventually recognized as a masterpiece, winning four Academy Awards (including Best Cinematography).

Cast: Marisa Berenson, Diana Koerner

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Beautiful Girls

Drama | 1996

In director Ted Demme's smartly written, slice-of-life film, Willie Conway (Timothy Hutton) returns to the small town he left behind as erstwhile friends, lovers and the scary thought of settling down swirl around him. A friend's unapproachable cousin (Uma Thurman) and the winsome teenager next door (Natalie Portman, in a standout performance) couldn't be more different, but they afford glimpses of two possible futures.

Cast: Matt Dillon, Uma Thurman

Director: Ted Demme

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Beautiful Mind, A

Drama | 2001

John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) was a brilliant economist - when his mind was clear. But life changed forever with the revelation that he was schizophrenic, although his brilliance persisted amidst the anguish his mental illness caused for him and his wife (Jennifer Connelly). Ron Howard directs this Oscar-winning drama that picked up honors for direction and acting (Connelly) as well as the Best Picture prize.

Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly

Director: Ron Howard

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Before The Rain (Antes da Chuva)

Drama | 1994

Set against a background of political turbulence in Macedonia and contemporary London, three love stories intertwine to create a powerful portrait of modern Europe in Milcho Manchevski "Before the Rain". When a mysterious incident in the fabled Macedonian mountains blows out of proportion, it threatens to start a civil war, and brings together a silent young monk, a London picture editor, and a disillusioned war photographer in a tragic tale of fated lovers.

Cast: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Gregoire Colin

Director: Milcho Manchevski

Genre: Drama

Language: Macedonian (English subtitles)

Being Flynn

Drama | 2012

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.

Cast: Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore

Director: Paul Weitz

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Betty Blue (37,2 Le Matin)

Drama | 1986

A woman who is prone to irrational bouts of fury begins a steamy romance with a handyman and writer in this Oscar-nominated drama. Eventually, her psychological scars begin to wreak havoc on their relationship.

Cast: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Beatrice Dalle

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Drama | 1956

Beyond A Reasonable Doubt is a 1956 film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Douglas Morrow. The film, considered film noir, was the last American film directed by Lang. Dennis L. White describes Beyond A Reasonable Doubt as having "considerable impact, due not so much to visual style, as to the narrative structure and mood and to the expertly devised plot, in which the turnabout is both surprising and convincing."

Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine

Director: Fritz Lang

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Bicycle Thief, The

Drama | 1948

Widely considered a landmark Italian film, Vittorio De Sica's tale of a man who relies on his bicycle to do his job during Rome's post-World War II depression earned a special Oscar for its devastating power. The same day Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) gets his vehicle back from the pawnshop, someone steals it, prompting him to search the city in vain with his young son, Bruno (Enzo Staiola). Increasingly, he confronts a looming desperation.

Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Genre: Drama

Language: English (dubbed)

Big Fish

Drama | 2003

In this Tim Burton fantasy based on the novel by Daniel Wallace, William Bloom (Billy Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward, by piecing together disparate facts from a lifetime of fantastical tales and legends of epic proportions. Ewan McGregor co-stars as the young Edward, a traveling salesman, with Albert Finney playing him as an older man. Helena Bonham Carter and Steve Buscemi also star.

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney

Director: Tim Burton

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Big Night

Drama | 1996

Despite its superb cuisine, an Italian restaurant run by immigrant brothers Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci) is on the verge of bankruptcy. But the siblings risk everything to save their bistro when they get the chance to cook up a feast for bandleader Louis Prima. This delectable allegory boasts a perfect ensemble cast that includes Ian Holm, Minnie Driver, Isabella Rossellini and Allison Janney.

Cast: Stanley Tucci, Tony Shalhoub

Director: Stanley Tucci

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Billy Bathgate

Drama | 1991

Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis and Golden Globe nominee Nicole Kidman star in this action-packed gangster epic detailing the rise and fall of notorious mobster Dutch Schultz (Hoffman) as seen through the eyes of his protege, Billy Bathgate (Loren Dean). An ambitious Billy is seduced by the power, money and glamour of Dutch's crime world, but he soon finds himself grappling with issues of trust, murder and survival.

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman

Director: Robert Benton

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Birdman Of Alcatraz

Drama | 1962

Convict Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster, Oscar-nominated for his portrayal of the real-life inmate) finds solace in his life sentence of solitary confinement for murder by becoming an internationally renowned expert on birds and their diseases. Telly Savalas (also Oscar-nominated) co-stars as Stroud's chatty next-door prisoner, and Karl Malden plays the prison warden, whose harsh theories on punishment inspire Stroud to make something of his life.

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden

Director: John Frankenheimer

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Bitter Moon

Drama | 1992

In Roman Polanski's black comedy-thriller, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounters wheelchair-bound American expatriate novelist Oscar (Peter Coyote) and his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner), on a cruise to Istanbul. Sensing Nigel's fascination with Mimi, Oscar recounts the sordid tale of their love affair, which gradually deteriorates into a series of sadistic and degrading sex games.

Cast: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas

Director: Roman Polanski

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Black Dahlia, The

Drama | 2006

In this period thriller based on James Ellroy's novel, Los Angeles cops Bucky Bleichert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart) uncover corruption and conspiracy within the force while searching for the killer of Tinseltown hopeful Elizabeth Short (Mia Kirshner). In an effort to crack the high-profile case, Bleichert and Blanchard venture into Hollywood's darker side to piece together Short's secret life.

Cast: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart

Director: Brian De Palma

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Black Friday

Drama | 2004

In this intense docudrama based on the book by the same name by S. Hussain Zaidi, director Anurag Kashyap tracks the aftermath of a 1993 mass bombing in Bombay through the eyes of a journalist covering the story. As the tragedy unfolds, police investigators discover that the 12 bombings set off in the short span of just two hours were the work of Muslim terrorists who were acting out against the city's Hindu majority.

Cast: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Shrivastava

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Genre: Drama

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Blind Side, The

Drama | 2009

Oversized African American Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), the teen from across the tracks and a broken home, has nowhere to sleep at age 16. Taken in by an affluent Memphis couple, Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and Sean (Tim McGraw), Michael embarks on a remarkable rise to play for the NFL. Bullock's performance garnered a Best Actress Oscar and Best Actress Golden Globe Award. Kathy Bates co-stars.

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron

Director: John Lee Hancock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Bloodbrothers

Drama | 1978

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.

Cast: Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco, Richard Gere

Director: Robert Mulligan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Blow

Drama | 2001

Johnny Depp turns in a quietly powerful performance at the heart of this Ted Demme-directed drama as real-life coke smuggler George Jung, who rises from poverty to become one of the biggest drug dealers in America before his eventual downfall. Penelope Cruz, Rachel Griffiths and Ray Liotta co-star in this big-screen adaptation of the 1993 book Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All.

Cast: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz

Director: Ted Demme

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Blow Up

Drama | 1966

Legendary director Michelangelo Antonioni scores again with this tense mystery (his first English-speaking film) set in London among the city's hipster crowd, the story of a popular fashion photographer (David Hemmings) who inadvertently shoots evidence of a murder. As he processes the negative in order to unravel the mystery, he must also deal with a dangerous woman (Vanessa Redgrave) who knows more than she admits.

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Bobby

Drama | 2006

The lives of 22 strangers intersect at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel on June 6, 1968, a day that culminated in the assassination of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (Dave Fraunces). The impressive ensemble cast includes Helen Hunt, Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, William H. Macy, Martin Sheen, Harry Belafonte, Elijah Wood, Lindsay Lohan, Joshua Jackson and Christian Slater. Emilio Estevez writes, directs and co-stars.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore

Director: Emilio Estevez

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Boiler Room

Drama | 2000

A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.

Cast: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long

Director: Ben Younger

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Book Thief, The

Drama | 2013

While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

Cast: Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson

Director: Brian Percival

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Breathless

Drama | 1983

Jesse (Richard Gere) is a two-bit car thief who's running from the law after murdering a cop in this sexy remake of the 1961 French thriller. As Jesse attempts to flee the country and start a new life, he meets a stunning French college girl (Valerie Kaprisky) in Las Vegas and convinces her to join him in his dash for the Mexican border. Jesse thinks he's finally found the good life, but he quickly realizes he can't escape the past.

Cast: Richard Gere, Valerie Kaprisky

Director: Jim McBride

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Brief Encounter

Drama | 1945

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway

Director: David Lean

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Brighton Rock

Drama | 1947

This drama film centres on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader, a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie". The film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Cast: Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh

Director: John Boulting

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Brooklyn's Finest

Drama | 2009

Antoine Fuqua directs this tense drama about three wildly different New York cops whose paths collide in a Brooklyn housing project, where each must make a decision that will change the course of their lives forever. Cynical, washed-up Eddie (Richard Gere) no longer cares about the job or the rules; cash-strapped Sal (Ethan Hawke) sees a shortcut to solvency; and Tango (Don Cheadle) is torn between conflicting loyalties. Ellen Barkin co-stars.

Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Bugsy

Drama | 1991

Barry Levinson directs Hollywood legend Warren Beatty in this true story of gangster Bugsy Siegel's dream of building a gambling mecca in the middle of the Nevada desert. The New York mobster worked hard to make the Flamingo a reality. But his affair with screen siren Virginia Hill (Annette Bening) would ultimately bring him down. The film received Oscars for art direction and costumes and was nominated for Best Director and Best Actor.

Cast: Wendy Phillips, Warren Beatty

Director: Barry Levinson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Butler, The

Drama | 2013

As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.

Cast: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack

Director: Lee Daniels

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Butterfly

Drama | 1982

Winning a Golden Globe and two Razzies for her performance, Pia Zadora is the temptress you either love or hate in this erotically charged melodrama. After being dumped by a wealthy silver mine owner, Kadi (Zadora) tries to seduce her estranged father (Stacy Keach) so that she can get him to reopen the mine, of which he's caretaker. Kadi's plot to steal the silver she feels she's owed leads to incest, betrayal and murder. Orson Welles co-stars.

Cast: Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora

Director: Matt Cimber

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cairo Time

Drama | 2009

When magazine editor Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) travels to Cairo to meet her diplomat husband, Mark (Tom McCamus), she learns from his friend Tareq (Alexander Siddig) that Mark has been delayed. As Tareq introduces her to the city and its customs, an unexpected attraction arises between them. Juliette soon grows accustomed to life in Cairo while she and Tareq try to find the best way to deal with their complex feelings in this romantic drama.

Cast: Patricia Clarkson, Alexander Siddig

Director: Ruba Nadda

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Capote

Drama | 2005

The toast of New York society after penning Breakfast at Tiffany's, flamboyant writer Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in an Oscar-winning role) finds himself in a dance with the devil while researching the Clutter family murders for his masterwork, In Cold Blood. After forging an unlikely bond with the instigator of the killings, Perry Smith (Clifton Collins Jr.), Capote is forced to face the implications of his part in Smith's execution.

Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener

Director: Bennett Miller

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Captain Phillips

Drama | 2013

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman

Director: Paul Greengrass

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Carlito's Way

Drama | 1993

Sprung from prison on a technicality, Carlito Brigante (Al Pacino) vows to use his unexpected second chance to his best advantage. But every time he tries to get out of the rackets, the bad guys pull him back in. Director Brian De Palma stamps his signature electric visual style onto this searing drama about the challenges of trying to go straight in a crooked world. Sean Penn, Viggo Mortensen and John Leguizamo co-star.

Cast: Al Pacino, Sean Penn

Director: Brian De Palma

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Casino

Drama | 1995

Martin Scorsese draws on Nicholas Pileggi's book about Las Vegas in the 1970s and '80s as inspiration for his tale contrasting the city's glamorous exterior with its sordid interior fueled by excess - and the mob. Against this backdrop, the story chronicles the rise and fall of a casino owner with mob connections (Robert De Niro), his friend and Mafia underboss (Joe Pesci) and an ex-prostitute with expensive taste and a driving will (Sharon Stone).

Cast: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Chamber, The

Drama | 1996

Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) takes on the death row clemency case of his unrepentant Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman), in this big-screen adaptation of a John Grisham novel. The pair's prickly meetings and Adam's visits with his alcoholic Aunt Lee (Faye Dunaway) force Hall to confront his family's dark past just as new evidence arises and suggests a government conspiracy in Cayhall's case.

Cast: Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway

Director: James Foley

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Changeling

Drama | 2008

Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, in an Oscar-nominated role) is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain (Jeffrey Donovan) has her committed to an asylum. John Malkovich co-stars as the crusading reverend who comes to Christine's rescue in Clint Eastwood's gripping period drama based on actual events.

Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich

Director: Clint Eastwood

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Chase, The

Drama | 1966

When Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) escapes from prison, he finds he's being chased by more than just his Texas hometown's sheriff (Marlon Brando). Also hot on his trail is oil tycoon Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall), who wants Bubber eliminated to conceal the affair his son has been having with Bubber's wife (Jane Fonda). Soon, the entire town turns into an angry mob, but Sheriff Calder aims to keep Bubber alive in order to bring him to justice.

Cast: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda

Director: Arthur Penn

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Chasing Madoff

Drama | 2010

A look at how one investigator spent ten years trying to expose Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that scammed an estimated $18 billion from investors.

Cast: Bernie Madoff, Frank Casey, Gaytri Kachroo

Director: Jeff Prosserman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Chinatown

Drama | 1974

With a suspicious, porcelain-skinned femme fatale (Faye Dunaway) bankrolling his snooping, private eye J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) uncovers intricate dirty dealings in the Los Angeles waterworks and gets his nose slashed for his trouble. Meanwhile, his financier harbors a nasty family secret. Director Roman Polanski reimagines 1930s Los Angeles with an onionlike story that reveals itself one complex layer at a time in this classic neonoir.

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway

Director: Roman Polanski

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Chloe

Drama | 2009

Suspecting her husband, David (Liam Neeson), of infidelity, doctor Catherine (Julianne Moore) hires sexy escort Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce him and test his faithfulness. But as Catherine checks in on Chloe's encounters with David, Chloe's reports become increasingly lurid. Soon, the relationships between all three intensify in unexpected ways. Renowned filmmaker Atom Egoyan directs this psychological drama.

Cast: Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried

Director: Atom Egoyan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cider House Rules, The

Drama | 1999

A surrogate son and protege to a kindly physician (Michael Caine) who runs an orphanage in rural Maine, itchy Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) sets off wide-eyed to see the world - but cold reality soon intrudes on his youthful idealism and moral certitude. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, this earnest coming-of-age drama netted Oscars for John's Irving's screenplay (which he adapted from his 1985 novel) and for Caine's impressive supporting turn.

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cincinnati Kid, The

Drama | 1965

In Depression-era New Orleans, cocksure stud poker player Eric Stoner (Steve McQueen) - the titular Cincinnati Kid - challenges longtime champ Lancey "The Man" Howard (Edward G. Robinson) to a showdown at the table, where a war of wills - and nerve - ensues. Leading up to the suspenseful, high-stakes final hand, Stoner fends off the seductive advances of his best friend's girl (Ann-Margret) in this gripping drama directed by Norman Jewison.

Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson

Director: Norman Jewison

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cinderella Man

Drama | 2005

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.

Cast: Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger, Craig Bierko

Director: Ron Howard

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cinema Paradiso

Drama | 1988

Giuseppe Tornatore's Oscar-winning film follows Salvatore, a Sicilian boy who is mesmerized by the movies shown at the local theater. He befriends projectionist Alfredo, who mentors him and ultimately tells him to leave home to pursue his dreams. Now a famous film director, Salvatore returns home for the first time 30 years later for Alfredo's funeral and is overcome with warm memories of his childhood even as the town has changed.

Cast: Pupella Maggio, Antonella Attili

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Genre: Drama

Language: Italian (English subtitles)

Cinema Verite

Drama | 2011

An HBO drama directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the film's main ensemble cast stars Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini and Kathleen Quinlan. The film follows a fictionalized account of the production of An American Family, a 1973 PBS documentary television series that is said to be one of the earliest examples of the reality television genre. Principal photography was completed in Southern California.

Cast: Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini, Kathleen Quinlan

Director: Shari Springer Berman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Citizen Kane

Drama | 1941

Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane, which, in essence, was a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Welles's complex and technically stunning film chronicles Kane's rise from poverty to become one of America's most influential men - and it's considered one of the best movies ever made.

Cast: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten

Director: Orson Welles

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Civil Action, A

Drama | 1998

In this drama based on a true story, John Travolta stars as a personal-injury lawyer who sues a major corporation when the drinking water in Woburn, Mass., is found to contain high levels of industrial solvents. Believing the contamination is responsible for the large number of leukemia deaths among the town's children, the citizens - lead by a woman (Kathleen Quinlan) whose child has died - hire a lawyer to take on the corporate polluters.

Cast: John Travolta, Robert Duvall

Director: Steven Zaillian

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Class Action

Drama | 1991

Attorney Jebediah Ward (Gene Hackman) fights for the rights of those who have been victimized by the negligence of large corporations. He begins a David vs. Goliath battle, fighting to compensate the victims of defective automobiles. But his battle becomes more difficult when he learns that the lawyer he's up against is his own estranged daughter, Maggie (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio). This drama from Michael Apted co-stars Laurence Fishburne.

Cast: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Director: Michael Apted

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Closed Circuit

Drama | 2013

A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.

Cast: Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent

Director: John Crowley

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cold Souls

Drama | 2008

Paul Giamatti stars as himself, an actor in the throes of anxiety over an upcoming performance - until he gives his soul to a mysterious company that promises to freeze and store it until he wants it again, along with his anxieties. But when his soul goes missing, Giamatti embarks on a journey to track it down. Along the way he learns a thing or two about engaging every human emotion, however difficult. Sophie Barthes directs.

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun

Director: Sophie Barthes

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cold Weather

Drama | 2010

After things go south for former forensic science major Doug (Cris Lankenau), he leaves Chicago and returns home to Oregon to live with his sister, Gail (Trieste Kelly Dunn) - and soon finds himself entangled in an unexpected situation that calls on his investigative mind. Together with Gail and his friend Carlos, Doug uses his forensic skills and the techniques he's learned as a detective fiction enthusiast to unravel the mystery he encounters.

Cast: Cris Lankenau, Raul Castillo

Director: Aaron Katz

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Columbus Circle

Drama | 2012

An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is brought face-to-face with her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.

Cast: Selma Blair, Giovanni Ribisi, Amy Smart, Jason Lee, Kevin Pollak, Beau Bridges

Director: George Gallo

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Comedians, The

Drama | 1967

Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner and his encroaching fatalism as he watches Haiti sink into barbarism. Complications include a friendship with a rebel leader, politically "charged" hotel guests, an affair with the wife of a European ambassador, and the manipulations of a conniving British arms dealer.

Cast: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov

Director: Peter Glenville

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Company Men, The

Drama | 2010

Written, directed and produced by John Wells ("The West Wing"), this indie drama stars Ben Affleck as a successful businessman who comes face-to-face with America's downsizing epidemic when he loses his job and is forced to take a construction gig. Rounding out the all-star cast are Kevin Costner as Affleck's brother-in-law, Tommy Lee Jones as a conflicted corporate bigwig and Chris Cooper as a paranoid executive.

Cast: Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner

Director: John Wells

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Conspirator, The

Drama | 2010

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

Cast: Robin Wright, James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson

Director: Robert Redford

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Conviction

Drama | 2009

Convinced that her brother, Kenneth (Sam Rockwell), has been unjustly convicted of murder and incompetently defended by court-ordered attorneys, high school dropout Betty Anne Waters (Hilary Swank) puts herself through law school in order to represent him in his appeal. Inspired by a true story, director Tony Goldwyn's stirring drama also stars Melissa Leo, Minnie Driver, Peter Gallagher and Clea DuVall.

Cast: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell

Director: Tony Goldwyn

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cooler, The

Drama | 2003

The unluckiest man in Las Vegas, Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy), is employed by a casino as a "cooler" to defuse winning streaks. But when Lootz falls in love with a cocktail waitress (Maria Bello), she becomes his "lady luck" - to the chagrin of the casino's crooked director (Alec Baldwin). Baldwin was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his turn as Shelly Kaplow, the old-school casino boss who will do anything to keep Lootz down.

Cast: William H. Macy, Maria Bello

Director: Wayne Kramer

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cop Land

Drama | 1997

When a local patrolman is implicated in a controversial shooting in a small New Jersey town, put-upon sheriff Freddy Heflin teams up with Lt. Moe Tilden (Robert De Niro) to investigate a connection between the mob and the NYPD officers who live in the town. Sylvester Stallone delivers an effective dramatic performance in this arresting crime thriller as Freddy. Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta also star.

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel

Director: James Mangold

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Cotton Club, The

Drama | 1984

Richard Gere plays his own cornet solos in Francis Ford Coppola's story of a jazz musician at the titular 1930s legendary nightclub. When Dixie Dwyer (Gere) saves the life of mobster Dutch Schultz (James Remar), he finds he must fight for his own life when he falls for the psychotic gangster's moll. Coppola and his Godfather co-writers Mario Puzo and William Kennedy combine musical performances with a classic mobster story.

Cast: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Counterfeiters, The (Die Falscher)

Drama | 2007

Facing an ethical quandary, Jewish master forger Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) must choose between abetting the Nazis and saving his own skin in this taut, Oscar-nominated drama based on actual events during World War II. Assembled at a death camp, a cadre of printers, artists and chiselers is tasked with counterfeiting currencies to weaken Allied economies. But will Sorowitsch's conscience begin to gnaw at him as the war draws to a close?

Cast: Karl Markovics, Dolores Chaplin

Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Court-Martial Of Billy Mitchell, The

Drama | 1955

This 1955 courtroom drama based on real-life events tells the story of General Billy Mitchell, who, in 1925, angered the military establishment by accusing the Army and Navy of negligence during World War I. Facing court-martial, Mitchell was nevertheless vocal about his views, foretelling an event eerily similar to Pearl Harbor. Otto Preminger directs; Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford and Elizabeth Montgomery (in her film debut) star.

Cast: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford

Director: Otto Preminger

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Crash

Drama | 2005

Tensions erupt when the tangled lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge over a 36-hour period in the diverse metropolis of post-9/11 Los Angeles. Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton and Terrence Howard co-star in this Oscar-winning Best Picture from writer-director Paul Haggis.

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle

Director: Paul Haggis

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Creation

Drama | 2009

Paul Bettany stars as Charles Darwin in this BBC biographical drama that captures the legendary scientist in a period of intense mourning - and expansive intellectual discovery - following the untimely death of his young daughter, Annie. As Darwin dares to question the existence of God, he pens his groundbreaking tome, On the Origin of Species - much to the chagrin of his religious wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly).

Cast: Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany

Director: Jon Amiel

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Crime Of Padre Amaro, The (El Crimen del Padre Amaro)

Drama | 2002

Recently ordained priest Padre Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) travels to a small town to help Padre Benito (Sancho Gracia), only to discover that he's following neither church nor local laws. But Amaro's shock is countered by his own actions when he falls in love with sensual, young Amelia (Ana Claudia Talancon). Carlos Carrera directs this drama, based on Eca de Queiros's novel, that earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Sancho Gracia

Director: Carlos Carrera

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Crimson Tide

Drama | 1995

Controversy boils over when Soviet rebels point nuclear weapons at the United States, and a message for the nuclear-missile sub USS Alabama gets cut off during transmission. Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) thinks he's been ordered to launch a pre-emptive strike, while Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington) believes the submarine has been ordered to stand down. Will the Alabama prevent a nuclear holocaust, or start one?

Cast: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington

Director: Tony Scott

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Croupier

Drama | 1998

Would-be writer Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) lands a job as a croupier so he can stand behind the dealer's table and watch the passing parade of human desperation. But is he a voyeur or a pawn in a gambler's (Alex Kingston) dangerous game? Director Mike Hodges sticks a knife into London's gambling underbelly and lets it rip in this smart, sexy crime thriller, creating a murky world that keeps you guessing until the end.

Cast: Clive Owen, Nicholas Ball

Director: Mike Hodges

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The

Drama | 2008

David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) - a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by - with a screenplay adapted from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The plot throws linear conventions upside down to explore love, loss and memory from the perspective of a character living under incredibly unique - and unexpectedly difficult - circumstances. Cate Blanchett co-stars.

Cast: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett

Director: David Fincher

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Dallas Buyers Club

Drama | 2013

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease.

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto

Director: Jean-Marc Vallee

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Dangerous Method, A

Drama | 2011

Based on the true story of Jung, Freud and the patient who came between them.

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen

Director: David Cronenberg

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Days Of Heaven

Drama | 1978

Director Terrence Malick's beautifully shot period piece, which won an Oscar for its cinematography, tells the story of Bill (Richard Gere), an early-1900s Chicago steel-mill worker who flees town after accidentally killing a man. In search of a better life, he moves his girlfriend Abby (Brooke Adams) and younger sister to the wheat fields of Texas. But they run into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Abby.

Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams

Director: Terrence Malick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Days Of Wine & Roses

Drama | 1962

When Blake Edwards' powerful film of J.P. Miller's heartrending teleplay Days of Wine and Roses hit movie screens, it won critical raves, box-office success and shone brightly as a career highlight for its two Oscar-nominated stars, Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, playing a couple caught in alcoholism's web. A San Francisco public-relations hotshot is a "social" drinker... who never stops socializing. His vivacious wife starts drinking to keep him company. They live for good times. But eventually good times turn bad.

Cast: Charles Bickford, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick

Director: Blake Edwards

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Dead Poets Society

Drama | 1989

Robin Williams was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of unconventional English teacher John Keating, who inspires students through poetry. But when his lessons on living life without compromise lead to an untimely death, the school fires him. His devastated students soon rally behind him, mindful of the ways he has influenced their lives forever. Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard co-star in this Oscar winner for Best Screenplay.

Cast: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard

Director: Peter Weir

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Death Of A Salesman

Drama | 1985

Dustin Hoffman copped an Emmy for his first-rate performance as embittered traveling salesman Willy Loman, who's forced to dispense with delusions of success and come to grips with his failed career, encroaching senility and a disintegrating family. This impressive made-for-TV production also stars Kate Reid as Willy's long-suffering spouse, Charles Durning as his caring neighbor and John Malkovich as Willy's indignant, unemployed son Biff.

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich

Director: Volker Schlondorff

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Defiance

Drama | 2008

Daniel Craig stars as Tuvia Bielski, one of four Jewish brothers who escape from Poland into the forests of Belarus during World War II to lead a band of resistance fighters and create a safe haven for Jewish refugees. The real-life sanctuary established by the Bielski brothers saved more than 1,000 Jews from persecution and death. Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell and George MacKay also star in this moving historical drama based on actual events.

Cast: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber

Director: Edward Zwick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Desert Flower, The

Drama | 2009

Sherry Horman directs this drama based on the real-life story of Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede), a poor girl who flees an arranged marriage in Somalia, winds up in London and becomes one of the world's most recognizable supermodels. As her star rises, Dirie speaks out against the practice of female genital mutilation, a trauma she experienced as a girl. Timothy Spall co-stars as the photographer who "discovered" Dirie working in a fast food joint.

Cast: Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins

Director: Sherry Horman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Devil's Double, The

Drama | 2011

Dominic Cooper stars as Uday Hussein - Saddam Hussein's depraved, decadent elder son - and as Latif Yahia, the army lieutenant forcibly drafted to be his body double, in this drama based on Yahia's autobiographical novel. With his family's fate on the line, Yahia surrenders his identity to embody the hated figure but gains a conspirator in Uday's concubine, Sarrab (Ludivine Sagnier), as he plots his escape.

Cast: Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier

Director: Lee Tamahori

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Dhobi Ghat

Drama | 2010

Taking its name from the Mumbai neighborhood where much of the city's washing is done - traditionally by members of the Dhobi caste - this ensemble film represents the directorial debut of Kiran Rao, wife of Bollywood star Aamir Khan. The intimate social drama focuses on a quartet of individuals from different castes - a situation that would normally preclude them from forming friendships. Unique circumstances, however, draw them together.

Cast: Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar

Director: Kiran Rao

Genre: Drama

Language: Hindi (English subtitles)

Diana

Drama | 2013

During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Cast: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Douglas Hodge

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Diner

Drama | 1982

In 1959 Baltimore, former school chums facing adulthood find solace at the local diner, where the banter between groom-to-be Eddie (Steve Guttenberg), best man Billy (Tim Daly), womanizer Boogie (Mickey Rourke), married Shrevie (Daniel Stern) and quirky Modell (Paul Reiser) ranges from girls to growing old. Ellen Barkin and Kevin Bacon co-star in writer-director Barry Levinson's debut feature, which received an Oscar nod for Best Screenplay.

Cast: Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern

Director: Barry Levinson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Disgrace

Drama | 2008

After an imprudent affair with a student, Cape Town professor David Lurie (John Malkovich) flees to his daughter's remote farm to escape the scandal, only to find tragedy when a trio of black youths brutally assaults them. But Lurie is forced to face apartheid's lasting repercussions when he discovers that one of the attackers is related to a trusted employee (Eriq Ebouaney) in this pensive drama based on J.M. Coetzee's novel.

Cast: John Malkovich, Jessica Haines

Director: Steve Jacobs

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Diving Bell And The Butterfly, The (Le Scaphandre et le papillon)

Drama | 2007

Mathieu Amalric stars as author and Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - who suffered a stroke in 1995 that rendered him mute and completely paralyzed - in this adaptation of Bauby's autobiography, which he dictated by blinking his left eye. Julian Schnabel was nominated for the 2008 Best Director Oscar (and won the Golden Globe in the same category) for his poignant docudrama about the strength of the human spirit.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow

Director: Julian Schnabel

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Django Unchained

Drama | 2012

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty.

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Dogville

Drama | 2004

Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard and Lauren Bacall star in director Lars von Trier's meditation on small-town America. When a mysterious woman claims she's being chased by hoodlums and needs a place to hide out, the residents of Dogville come to her rescue. But she must prove herself worthy of this privilege and win the trust of everyone. And in the end, her arrival may be the town's undoing anyway.

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson

Director: Lars von Trier

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Doubt

Drama | 2008

In this Oscar-nominated adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Tony-winning play, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep) begins to have doubts about doting priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who seems to have become overly involved in the life of a young African American pupil. But Flynn isn't the only one she doubts. Is she overreacting to the situation, or is there truth behind her convictions?

Cast: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Director: John Patrick Shanley

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Downfall (Der Untergang)

Drama | 2004

After introducing audiences to Adolf Hitler's stenographer, Traudl Junge, in the gripping documentary Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, director Oliver Hirschbiegel brings Junge to life in this Oscar-nominated drama. With painstaking realism, Hirschbiegel's Best Foreign Language Film contender adopts Junge's (Alexandra Maria Lara) point of view to recreate Hitler's (Bruno Ganz) final 12 days in his Berlin bunker.

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Dressed To Kill

Drama | 1980

Brian De Palma directs this 1980 murder mystery. When a middle-aged wife and mother (Angie Dickinson) begins to doubt her own attractiveness, she turns to her therapist (Michael Caine), who declines her advances. But after her mysterious murder in an elevator, the detective assigned to the case (Dennis Franz) is content to do little to solve it, so a prostitute who witnessed the crime teams with the victim's only son to find out the truth.

Cast: Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson

Director: Brian De Palma

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Dry White Season, A

Drama | 1989

South Africa, 1976. The police ruled Gordon Ngubene's death a suicide. But when Afrikaans schoolteacher Ben du Toit saw the body, he knew his friend of 15 years was the victim of police torture. Seeking justice, Ben hires barrister Ian McKenzie to represent the Ngubene family at the inquest, but the judge ignores the evidence and exonerates the police. Refusing to "give it up" Ben risks his family and career as he takes on a system run by racists, thugs and murderers. For if you�re not with the Afrikaners, you're against them. And choosing the wrong side could get you killed.

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando, Zakes Mokae

Director: Euzhan Palcy

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Duchess, The

Drama | 2008

Keira Knightley stars as Georgiana Spencer, a young duchess who indulges in extravagant vices and begins a scandalous affair with politician Charles Grey (Dominic Cooper) to balance her unhappy marriage to the duke of Devonshire (Golden Globe�nominated Ralph Fiennes). Director Saul Dibb's lavish adaptation of Amanda Foreman's novel about the real-life 18th-century femme fatale received an Oscar for Best Costume Design.

Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes

Director: Saul Dibb

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Eagle Eye

Drama | 2008

Returning home to grieve after the shocking death of his overachieving twin brother, an aimless slacker named Jerry (Shia LaBeouf) finds himself inexplicably linked to a notorious terrorist cell and hotly pursued by federal authorities. With the nation's law enforcement agencies hunting them down, Jerry and single mother Rachel (Michelle Monaghan) - who's also been framed - must work around the clock to clear their names.

Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Billy Bob Thornton

Director: D J Caruso

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Edison Force

Drama | 2005

Justin Timberlake, in his feature-film debut, stars as a reporter fresh from journalism school who uncovers a hot story of lies and deception within the Edison police department, and does everything in his power to unravel it. Reluctantly helping him in his crusade are his jaded boss (Oscar winner Morgan Freeman) and an investigator (Oscar winner Kevin Spacey) who works for the city's smooth-talking district attorney (Cary Elwes).

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey

Director: David J. Burke

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Edmond

Drama | 2005

With a David Mamet play as its inspiration, Edmond stars William H. Macy as the titular character, a businessman who undergoes a personal revolution after he heeds a psychic's call to change his life. In his quest for fulfillment, he abandons his wife and children, initiating a nightmarish descent into a certain kind of hell, a dark and dangerous world he's never known but that may wind up owning his soul.

Cast: William H. Macy, Julia Stiles

Director: Stuart Gordon

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Education, An

Drama | 2008

Jenny's (Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan) Oxford-bound teen life is undistinguished in 1961 London until she's given a different kind of education after being immersed in the beguiling but hazardous world of cultured and much-older David (Peter Sarsgaard). Even Jenny's father, Jack (Alfred Molina), is intrigued by him, but her school's unimpressed headmistress (Emma Thompson) works to keep Jenny's entire future from crumbling under David's influence.

Cast: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard

Director: Lone Scherfig

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Eichmann

Drama | 2007

After Mossad agents apprehend SS officer Adolf Eichmann (Thomas Kretschmann) in Argentina in 1960, the Nazi war criminal quickly finds himself under interrogation - by Israeli policeman Avner Less (Troy Garity) - about his role in orchestrating Adolf Hitler's "final solution." It's a cat-and-mouse faceoff as Less grills Eichmann to extract an admission of guilt. Franka Potente plays Garity's ailing wife in this riveting historical drama.

Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Troy Garity

Director: Robert Young

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Empire State

Drama | 2013

A drama centered on two childhood friends who plan to rob an armored car depository, and the NYPD officer who stands in their way.

Cast: Emma Roberts, Dwayne Johnson, Liam Hemsworth

Director: Dito Montiel

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Erin Brockovich

Drama | 2000

A real woman. A real story. A real triumph. Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brockovich, a feisty young mother who fought for justice any way she knew how. Desperate for a job to support herself and her three children, she convinces attorney Ed Masry (Albert Finney) to hire her, and promptly stumbles upon a monumental law case against a giant corporation.

Cast: Julia Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, Albert Finney, Marg Helgenberger

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Ernest Hemingway's Garden Of Eden

Drama | 2008

In this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously released novel, American writer David Bourne (Jack Huston) and his new wife, Catherine (Mena Suvari), travel through Europe on their honeymoon, where they meet the beautiful Marita (Caterina Murino). As the Bournes extend their vacation, Catherine brings Marita into their sexual life, starting a love triangle that excites and intrigues both spouses, but threatens their marriage.

Cast: Jack Huston, Mena Suvari

Director: John Irvin

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Eureka

Drama | 1983

Jack McCann (Gene Hackman) is a former gold prospector who discovered a rich deposit in the Canadian wilderness. But McCann's wealth led to depression and paranoia, and he withdrew from the world to a remote island. Flash forward 30 years later, and we see McCann attempting to deal with a troubled daughter (Theresa Russell) and the attentions of the Mafia, who want to build a new casino on his tropical home. Nicolas Roeg directs.

Cast: Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Europeans, The

Drama | 1979

Based on Henry James's novel, The Europeans takes place in 1840s New England, where a cultured but nearly destitute sister and brother, raised in Europe, arrive at the doorstep of their rich but innocent American cousins. Hoping to exchange her sophistication for financial stability, Eugenia (Lee Remick) woos bachelor Robert Acton (Robin Ellis); meanwhile, her bohemian brother, Felix (Tim Woodward), falls for Gertrude Wentworth (Lisa Eichorn).

Cast: Lee Remick, Robin Ellis

Director: James Ivory

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Extreme Measures

Drama | 1996

In director Michael Apted's medical thriller, emergency room doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) is haunted by the disappearance of a strange patient's records. Against the advice of his nurse friend Jodie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Guy pushes the investigation. The trail leads to Lawrence Myrick (Gene Hackman), a brilliant doctor with a clouded conscience whose experimental surgeries, which allow spinal cord victims to walk again, hint at the sinister.

Cast: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman

Director: Michael Apted

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Eyes Wide Shut

Drama | 1999

Director Stanley Kubrick's final film dishes up a chillingly distant examination of carnal desire and obsession ignited by an argument over fidelity between Dr. Bill Hartford (Tom Cruise) and his wife (Nicole Kidman), which sends the physician reeling into the Manhattan night. He soon finds himself in a surreal succession of sexually charged encounters, capped off by a clandestine visit to an upper-crust orgy.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Face In The Crowd, A

Drama | 1957

Elia Kazan's masterpiece proves that celebrity isn't all it's cracked up to be. When talent scout Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal) spots drifter Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Andy Griffith) and makes him a superstar, he gets a taste of the good life. But his hunger for klieg lights, fed by run-ins with famous people such as Burl Ives and Bennett Cerf (who play themselves), turns desperate, and he loses sight of who he is and what he's truly about.

Cast: Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal

Director: Elia Kazan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Fair Game

Drama | 2010

After her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), writes op-ed columns accusing the Bush administration of misleading the public to justify invading Iraq, Valerie Plame Wilson's (Naomi Watts) status as a covert CIA agent is leaked by administration officials. Based on events described in Plame Wilson's memoir, this drama explores the political scandal that led to the conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Cast: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn

Director: Doug Liman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Few Good Men, A

Drama | 1992

Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore star in Rob Reiner's unanimously acclaimed drama about the dangerous difference between following orders and following one's conscience. Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator (Moore) in a politically explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Bacon

Director: Rob Reiner

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Finding Forrester

Drama | 2000

Reared in the Bronx projects, high school basketball star Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) harbors a passion not usually associated with jocks: He's obsessed with reading and writing. Realizing Wallace's exceptional writing talent, William Forrester (Sean Connery), an award-winning novelist turned recluse, decides to mentor the youngster. Wallace and Forrester soon find that a common passion can forge an uncommon bond.

Cast: Sean Connery, Rob Brown

Director: Gus Van Sant

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Firm, The

Drama | 1993

When Harvard Law School graduate Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) joins a prestigious firm, he ignores the warning of his wife (Jeanne Tripplehorn), who fears the lucrative deal sounds too good to be true. When two of Mitch's colleagues die in a mysterious accident, he launches an investigation into the firm and finds himself entangled in a web of Mafia connections and FBI operatives. Gene Hackman costars in this thriller based on John Grisham's novel.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Director: Sydney Pollack

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Fisher King, The

Drama | 1991

Racked with guilt after he inadvertently inspires a listener's murderous rampage, pompous shock jock Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) has hit rock bottom when he meets Parry (Robin Williams), a dotty vagrant whose wife died in the carnage, in director Terry Gilliam's offbeat dramedy. Attempting to redeem himself, Jack enters Parry's volatile world to help him rediscover love. Mercedes Ruehl won an Oscar for her role as Jack's determined girlfriend.

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams

Director: Terry Gilliam

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Five Easy Pieces

Drama | 1970

A drop-out from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil-rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Billy Green Bush

Director: Bob Rafelson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Five Minutes Of Heaven

Drama | 2009

A powerful meditation on guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation, this potent drama stars Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt as two men on opposite sides of Northern Ireland's political struggle: one a killer, the other the brother of the man he killed. In crafting his keenly sensitive film, director Oliver Hirschbiegel eschews the predictable to deliver a work of tremendous insight and emotional complexity.

Cast: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Flash Of Genius

Drama | 2008

In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventing intermittent windshield wipers. Kearns doggedly pursues recognition for his invention, as well as the much-deserved financial rewards for the sake of his wife (Lauren Graham) and six kids. Alan Alda and Dermot Mulroney also star.

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham

Director: Marc Abraham

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Flight

Drama | 2012

An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Foreign Field, A

Drama | 1993

Two British war vets (Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) meet an American vet (John Randolph) when all three return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day. Old rivalries resurface, particularly when two of the men discover they are searching for the same lost love (Jeanne Moreau). A lonely woman (Lauren Bacall) with her own painful but mysterious memories joins the group, while the American vet's petulant daughter (Geraldine Chaplin) and bumbling son-in-law (Edward Herrmann) struggle to keep up with the exploits of their elders. This disparate band of survivors eventually finds common ground in the memory of what they lost on that fateful day in 1944.

Cast: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann, John Randolph, Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Bacall, Jeanne Moreau

Director: Charles Sturridge

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Forrest Gump

Drama | 1994

Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, director Robert Zemeckis's charming blend of comedy and drama stars Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, a simpleminded man who finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, he makes friends, changes lives and searches for a soul mate. Hanks nabbed a Best Actor Oscar for his remarkable portrayal of the unsophisticated yet surprisingly wise Forrest.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Fort Apache, The Bronx

Drama | 1981

Murphy (Paul Newman) is a street cop in the tough borough of the Bronx - known to its denizens as "Fort Apache." While Murphy tries to treat the people on his beat with dignity, he can't seem to convince his superiors that brutality isn't a cure for society's ills. After witnessing a fellow cop (Danny Aiello) murdering a suspect, Murphy is advised to keep the incident to himself, but he refuses and his colleagues soon ostracize him.

Cast: Paul Newman, Edward Asner

Director: Daniel Petrie

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Fried Green Tomatoes

Drama | 1991

In this adaptation of Fanny Flagg's novel, flashbacks reveal the remarkable and mysterious story of soul mates Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker), whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town during the 1920s. Feisty Ninny Threadgoode (Jessica Tandy) tells the tale to a repressed Alabama housewife (Kathy Bates), who becomes obsessed with Idgie and Ruth, and ultimately finds inspiration in their story.

Cast: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates

Director: Jon Avnet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Frost/Nixon

Drama | 2008

Ron Howard directs this Oscar-nominated adaptation of Peter Morgan's popular Broadway play, a drama centering on a series of revelatory television interviews between British talk show host David Frost and former President Richard Nixon. Frank Langella reprises his Tony Award-winning stage role as Nixon with a stellar cast that includes Michael Sheen, Toby Jones, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon and Oliver Platt.

Cast: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen

Director: Ron Howard

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Funny Games

Drama | 2007

Anna (Naomi Watts) and George (Tim Roth) are enjoying a vacation with their son when two sadistic young men (Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet) break into their cabin and hold the family hostage. The psychotic duo plays twisted games with their prisoners, forcing them to comply to stay alive. Director Michael Haneke remakes his chilling 1997 German-language film as an indictment of the media's fascination with violence.

Cast: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth

Director: Michael Haneke

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Game Change

Drama | 2012

Game Change is a 2012 American HBO political drama film based on events of the 2008 United States presidential election campaign, starring Julianne Moore, Ed Harris and Woody Harrelson. Written by Danny Strong and directed by Jay Roach, the film was adapted from the 2010 book of the same name documenting the campaign, written by the political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

Cast: Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Woody Harrelson

Director: Jay Roach

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Gangs Of New York

Drama | 2002

Amid the savage Irish and Italian rivalry that dominated New York City in the mid-1800s, Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) hunts down his father's hateful murderer, Bill "the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis). Along the way, Vallon falls for the charms of a streetwise pickpocket (Cameron Diaz). Director Martin Scorsese's riveting epic - nominated for 10 Oscars - also stars Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson, John C. Reilly and Henry Thomas.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Gaslight

Drama | 1944

In this atmospheric murder mystery, beautiful, naive socialite Paula (Ingrid Bergman) disintegrates into a raving lunatic in the home in which her aunt was murdered. The suspect? Her devoted husband (Charles Boyer). Remade from the 1940 version, director George Cukor's dramatic mystery garnered two Oscar wins (including Best Actress for Bergman) and seven nominations, remaining a classic.

Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman

Director: George Cukor

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Germinal

Drama | 1993

Set in the nineteenth century, this film closely follows the plot of the novel by by Emile Zola, which is a realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.

Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Renaud

Director: Claude Berri

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Get Low

Drama | 2009

Oscar winners Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek team up to tell the true story of irascible Felix Bush, a backwoods Tennessee loner who planned his funeral in 1938 while he was still around to attend - and enjoy - the proceedings. Director Aaron Schneider's deft blend of dark humor and poignancy also stars Bill Murray as Frank Quinn, the huckster owner of a failing funeral home, and Lucas Black as his dubious assistant.

Cast: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek

Director: Aaron Schneider

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Glass Key, The

Drama | 1942

During the campaign for reelection, crooked politician Paul Madvig decides to clean up his past, refusing the support of the gangster Nick Varna and associating to the respectable reformist politician Ralph Henry. When Ralph's son, Taylor Henry, a gambler and the lover of Paul's sister Opal, is murdered, Paul's right arm, Ed Beaumont, finds his body on the street. Nick uses the financial situation of The Observer to force the publisher Clyde Matthews to use the newspaper to raise the suspicion that Paul Madvig might have killed Taylor.

Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy

Director: Stuart Heisler

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Glengarry Glen Ross

Drama | 1992

Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris and Alan Arkin chew the words of David Mamet's script (based on his own stage play) as a group of Chicago real estate salesmen vying for the best "leads" at a small firm that sells property in resort areas. When a hotshot executive (Alec Baldwin) from the head office arrives and proposes a vicious sales contest, competition gets stiff, and the veteran salesmen find their jobs in jeopardy.

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino

Director: James Foley

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Gone With The Wind

Drama | 1939

Margaret Mitchell's sweeping Civil War saga remains one of the greatest examples of cinematic storytelling. Vivien Leigh's tempestuous Scarlett O'Hara and Clark Gable's handsome rogue Rhett Butler bicker and battle from antebellum plantations to the streets of postwar Atlanta. This special collector's edition features a beautifully restored print and many extras.

Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh

Director: Victor Fleming

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Good German, The

Drama | 2006

U.S. Army correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) rekindles relations with an old flame, Lena (Cate Blanchett), in this Steven Soderbergh drama set in post-World War II Berlin. When her husband is hunted by U.S. and Russian military, a desperate Lena looks to Jake for a way out. Tension mounts as Jake discovers Lena has been keeping secrets and learns of black market dealings involving his shady driver (Tobey Maguire).

Cast: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Good Long Friday, The

Drama | 1980

Bob Hoskins made his mark with a vivid portrayal of a London mob boss sweating the big deal designed to make him rich and legit. Suddenly, everything goes wrong when a series of bombs literally destroy his world. He escapes unharmed, but now faces the knowledge that someone wants him dead soon. A tough crime saga, The Long Good Friday paints a bleak portrait of a man caught up in forces beyond his control.

Cast: Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins

Director: John Mackenzie

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Good Night And Good Luck

Drama | 2005

George Clooney's Academy Award-nominated docudrama pits veteran television newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) against a determined Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his single-minded crusade to quell the red threat at home. Despite corporate pressure to back off, Murrow and his CBS staff vow to examine the lies and fear tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his Communist witch-hunts. Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson and Jeff Daniels co-star.

Cast: George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr.

Director: George Clooney

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Gran Torino

Drama | 2008

Curmudgeonly Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood, who also directs) must confront his Hmong immigrant neighbors - and his own long-held prejudices - when the family's teenage son, Thao (Bee Vang), tries to steal Walt's beloved 1972 Gran Torino. Walt soon assumes the unlikely role of guardian angel to young Thao and his sister Sue (Ahney Her), both of whom are vulnerable to local gang influences.

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang

Director: Clint Eastwood

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Great Debaters, The

Drama | 2007

When African American poet Mel Tolson (Denzel Washington, who also directs) creates a debate team at historically black Wiley College in the 1930s, he pushes the team to a level of excellence that allows them to take on Harvard University. But despite public success, personal clashes foment as the father (Forest Whitaker) of one of Tolson's students (Denzel Whitaker) begins to resent his son's loyalty to his coach.

Cast: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker

Director: Denzel Washington

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Great Escape, The

Drama | 1963

Based on a true story and brimming with tension, this epic yarn centers on an audacious plan by Allied officers - who've escaped their Nazi captors time and again - to stage a massive breakout from an ostensibly escape-proof German prison camp. The star-studded ensemble cast includes Richard Attenborough, James Garner, Charles Bronson and Steve McQueen, whose climactic motorcycle sequence remains one of most memorable in cinema history.

Cast: Steve McQueen, James Garner

Director: John Sturges

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Great Gatsby, The

Drama | 2013

The Great Gatsby follows Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her philandering, blue-blooded husband Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness, within and without the world he inhabits, he pens a tale of impossible love, incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy, and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Greenberg

Drama | 2009

At a crossroads in his life in New York, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) takes some time to figure things out and travels to Los Angeles, where he house-sits for his brother and forges an unlikely bond with his brother's assistant, Florence (Greta Gerwig). Acclaimed director Noah Baumbach's (The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding) finely observed relationship comedy also stars Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rhys Ifans.

Cast: Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig

Director: Noah Baumbach

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Handful Of Dust, A

Drama | 1988

Lord Tony Last (James Wilby) and his wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) have an idyllic union, living on an elegant Victorian estate in 1930s England. But Tony unwittingly initiates a string of shattering events when he invites suave but destitute socialite John Beaver (Rupert Graves) for a weekend visit. Judi Dench, Alec Guinness and Anjelica Huston co-star in this provocative adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel.

Cast: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas

Director: Charles Sturridge

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Handsome Harry

Drama | 2009

For many years, small-town resident Harry Sweeney (Jamey Sheridan) has avoided confronting painful memories from his past. But when his best friend becomes seriously ill, Harry builds up enough courage to explore long-hidden secrets and uncover his true identity. Bette Gordon directs this character-driven drama that boasts a strong ensemble cast featuring Steve Buscemi, Aidan Quinn, John Savage and Campbell Scott.

Cast: Jamey Sheridan, Steve Buscemi

Director: Bette Gordon

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Harper

Drama | 1966

Paul Newman steps into the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe as Lew Harper, a "new type" of detective - as he puts it. Lauren Bacall plays the wife of a missing millionaire who hires the reluctant Harper to find him. Coming across a menagerie of pulp characters including a gigolo (Robert Wagner), a junkie (Julie Harris) and a group of cultists, Harper unravels a case of kidnap and murder in this sharply written mystery.

Cast: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Hill

Director: Jack Smight

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Heist

Drama | 2001

Duplicity and double crosses are the order of the day in this serpentine thrill ride from venerable writer-director David Mamet. After being caught on security cameras during a robbery at a Manhattan jewelry store, master thief Joe Moore (Gene Hackman) grudgingly agrees to pull off one last job at the behest of his maneuvering fence (Danny DeVito). Trouble is, pinching a shipment of gold ingots from a Swiss cargo plane won't be easy...

Cast: Gene Hackman, Rebecca Pidgeon

Director: David Mamet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Help, The

Drama | 2011

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer

Director: Tate Taylor

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Hesher

Drama | 2010

A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Devin Brochu, Rainn Wilson

Director: Spencer Susser

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Hitchcock

Drama | 2012

A love story between influential filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock and wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho in 1959.

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson

Director: Sacha Gervasi

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Hoax, The

Drama | 2006

After billing his authorized "autobiography" of eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes as the 20th century's most important book, writer Clifford Irving (Richard Gere) begins to believe his own hype. But his shameless scam soon catches up with him. Julie Delpy, Marcia Gay Harden, Alfred Molina and Stanley Tucci provide support in Lasse Hallstrom's biographical drama that's chock-full of 1970s hairdos and based on a true story - and that's no lie.

Cast: Richard Gere, Alfred Molina

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Holy Rollers

Drama | 2010

Inspired by a true story, director Kevin Asch's film tells the story of Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn who breaks with Orthodox tradition when he becomes an intercontinental Ecstasy smuggler for an Israeli drug cartel. A blend of neurotic coming-of-age dramedy and tense crime thriller, the film features Justin Bartha ("National Treasure") as Sam's pal Yosef and hip-hop recording artist Q-Tip in a supporting role.

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha

Director: Kevin Asch

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Home Of Our Own, A

Drama | 1993

When a mother of six (Kathy Bates) finds herself widowed, poor and wanting to trade the dangers of 1960s Los Angeles for a more simple life in the country, she packs up the kids and all their belongings, and heads to rural Idaho. Here, she finds a place for her brood to live in exchange for work in this touching, bittersweet family drama about the importance of cooperation and overcoming hardship.

Cast: Kathy Bates, Edward Furlong

Director: Tony Bill

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Hotel Rwanda

Drama | 2005

Amid the holocaust of internecine tribal fighting in Rwanda that sees the savage butchering of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, one ordinary hotel manager (Oscar nominee Don Cheadle) musters the courage to save more than 1,000 helpless refugees. Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte and Joaquin Phoenix co-star in this powerful film - often described as an African Schindler's List - directed by Terry George.

Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo

Director: Terry George

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Hound Of The Baskervilles, The

Drama | 1959

In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's daughter over to his equally depraved companions, but she escapes. When he catches up with the girl in a ruined abbey, he kills her and then is attacked and killed himself by a huge hound that is never seen.

Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee

Director: Terence Fisher

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Howards End

Drama | 1992

Ruth Wilcox's deathbed wish forever changes relations between her well-heeled family and bourgeois Schlegel sisters Margaret (Oscar winner Emma Thompson) and Helen (Helena Bonham Carter) when Ruth bequeaths her manor - Howards End - to Margaret. Ruth's husband, Henry (Anthony Hopkins), acting in his family's "best interest," burns the coda to her will. But as lonely Henry falls for Margaret, providence dictates that he pay for his duplicity.

Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter

Director: James Ivory

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Howl

Drama | 2010

James Franco steps into the shoes of famed Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in this star-studded biopic centered around Ginsberg's poem "Howl" - and the widely publicized obscenity trial that followed its publication in 1957. Documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Times of Harvey Milk) direct, with an A-list ensemble cast that includes Jon Hamm, David Strathairn, Jeff Daniels and Mary-Louise Parker.

Cast: James Franco, Mary-Louise Parker

Director: Rob Epstein

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Ice Storm, The

Drama | 1997

1973, suburban Connecticut: middle class families experimenting with casual sex, drink, etc., find their lives out of control.

Cast: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver

Director: Ang Lee

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Il Divo

Drama | 2008

Paolo Sorrentino directs this superbly entertaining docudrama about the colorful life and political career of Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and his party's decades-long throttlehold on Italian politics. Highlighting accusations of mafia ties, Sorrentino pulls no punches as he lays any number of corruption scandals and even political assassinations at the politician's feet, all with a sly sense of humor. Toni Servillo stars as Andreotti.

Cast: Anna Bonaiuto, Flavio Bucci

Director: Paolo Sorrentino

Genre: Drama

Language: Italian (English subtitles)

In Cold Blood

Drama | 1967

Based on Truman Capote's nonfiction novel of the same name and filmed in the house where the real-life incident occurred, this chilling tale follows two drifters (Robert Blake and Scott Wilson) who allegedly murder a rich Kansas family and flee to Mexico. Nominated for four Oscars, this disturbing black-and-white movie paints a compassionate portrait of the Clutter family... and their killers. John Forsythe also stars.

Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson

Director: Richard Brooks

Genre: Drama

Language: English

In The Electric Mist

Drama | 2009

A detective in post Katrina New Orleans area has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching and corrupt local businessmen.

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard

Director: Bertrand Tavernier

Genre: Drama

Language: English

In The Heat Of The Night

Drama | 1967

Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) helps a redneck Southern sheriff (Rod Steiger) solve a murder in this fascinating study in racism that still strikes a resonant chord today. Steiger won a Best Actor Oscar for his performance as the put-upon sheriff who comes to respect Tibbs's professionalism and ability. Norman Jewison directs this dramatic tale with a feeling for the cultural and social atmosphere of the time.

Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger

Director: Norman Jewison

Genre: Drama

Language: English

In The Name Of The Father

Drama | 1993

Nominated for seven Oscars in 1993, this biopic features the dramatic prowess of Daniel Day-Lewis as the Irishman Gerry Conlon, who was wrongfully sentenced to life in prison for an IRA terrorist attack that killed four people. As if a forced confession weren't enough injustice, the police work to implicate Conlon's father (Pete Postlethwaite) in the same crime. Emma Thompson plays the lawyer who worked for years to uncover the truth.

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson

Director: Jim Sheridan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Incendies

Drama | 2010

When their mother's will implores them to deliver letters to the father they thought was dead and a brother they never knew about, twins Jeanne (Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin) and Simon (Maxim Gaudette) journey to the Middle East and attempt to reconstruct their family's hidden history. Adapted from a Wajdi Mouawad play, director Denis Villeneuve's Oscar-nominated drama flashes back to intense scenes set during the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s.

Cast: Lubna Azabal, Melissa Desormeaux-Poulin

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Informers, The

Drama | 2008

Set in the decadent 1980s in Los Angeles, a Hollywood executive (Billy Bob Thornton) plays his ex-wife (Kim Basinger) and his mistress (Winona Ryder) while his son, Graham (Jon Foster), finds himself among a group of brats, including Christie (Amber Heard), who are all caught up in the thick of drugs and sex. Mickey Rourke and Brad Renfro also star in director Gregor Jordan's intricately plotted film based on Bret Easton Ellis's book.

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger

Director: Gregor Jordan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Inglourious Basterds

Drama | 2009

A Jewish cinema owner (Melanie Laurent) in occupied Paris is forced to host a Nazi movie premiere, where a radical group of American Jewish soldiers called the Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans to roll out a score-settling scheme. The face-off is about to go down - that's if Col. Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter" (Christoph Waltz) doesn't get in the way. Quentin Tarantino directs this World War II-set spaghetti Western.

Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Inherit The Wind

Drama | 1960

Spencer Tracy (in an Oscar-nominated role) and Fredric March square off as opposing attorneys Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady, respectively, in this blistering courtroom drama about the famed 1925 "Scopes Monkey Trial," in which a Tennessee teacher was taken to task for teaching Darwinism in the classroom. The film also earned Oscar nods for its editing, screenplay and cinematography. Gene Kelly co-stars as a newspaper reporter.

Cast: Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, Fredric March, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, Elliott Reid

Director: Stanley Kramer

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Inheritance, The (Arven)

Drama | 2003

After his father's suicide, Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen), at the behest of his domineering mother, leaves his contented life in Stockholm and returns home to assume control of the failing family business and toils to turn around the foundering steel works company. In the process, the dutiful sons learns hard lessons about competition, sacrifice and the conflict between corporate values and personal needs. Per Fly directs this unsettling parable.

Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa Werlinder

Director: Per Fly

Genre: Drama

Language: Danish (English subtitles)

Inside Llewyn Davis

Drama | 2013

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

Cast: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Insider, The

Drama | 1999

Nominated for seven Oscars, this thought-provoking thriller from director Michael Mann is based on the true story of a Big Tobacco scientist who exposed industry secrets and the newsman who fought forces that would have squelched the story. When TV producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) coaxes researcher Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) to speak about his former employer's knowledge of tobacco's harmful qualities, the corporations try to silence them.

Cast: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe

Director: Michael Mann

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Invictus

Drama | 2009

In this drama based on real-life events, director Clint Eastwood tells the story of what happened after the end of apartheid when newly elected president Nelson Mandela used the 1995 World Cup rugby matches to unite his people in South Africa. Based on John Carlin's book, the film stars Morgan Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon (both Oscar nominated) as Francois Pienaar, the captain of the scrappy South African team that makes a run for the championship,

Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon

Director: Clint Eastwood

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Iron Lady, The

Drama | 2011

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

Cast: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E Grant

Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Genre: Drama

Language: English

J Edgar

Drama | 2011

As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts

Director: Clint Eastwood

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Jack Reacher

Drama | 2012

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins

Director: Christopher McQuarrie

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Jayne Mansfield's Car

Drama | 2012

Alabama, 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?

Cast: Tippi Hedren, Kevin Bacon, Ray Stevenson

Director: Billy Bob Thornton

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Jobs

Drama | 2013

The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad

Director: Joshua Michael Stern

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Joneses, The

Drama | 2009

Keeping up with the Joneses (Demi Moore, David Duchovny, Amber Heard and Ben Hollingsworth) is next to impossible, considering they're a family with good looks, fancy cars, a sprawling estate - and a shocking secret the neighbors would never guess. Gary Cole, Glenne Headly and Lauren Hutton co-star in this smart drama about the dark side of a material world from writer-director Derrick Borte.

Cast: David Duchovny, Demi Moore

Director: Derrick Borte

Genre: Drama

Language: English

King Of Marvin Gardens, The

Drama | 1972

"It's Monopoly out there". Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn

Director: Bob Rafelson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

King's Speech, The

Drama | 2010

Britain's King George VI (Colin Firth) struggles with an embarrassing stutter for years until he seeks help from unorthodox Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) in this biographical drama that chalked up multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Logue's pioneering treatment and unlikely friendship give the royal leader a sense of confidence that serves him and his country well during the dark days of World War II.

Cast: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush

Director: Tom Hooper

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Kundun

Drama | 1997

A change of pace for director Martin Scorsese, this biopic about the life of the Dalai Lama was filmed with a cast of unknowns in Morocco when film crews were forbidden to enter Tibet. The Lama's escape during the Chinese invasion, meetings with Chairman Mao and eventual exile in India are vividly depicted with Oscar-nominated cinematography (by Roger Deakins), music (by Philip Glass), costumes and art direction.

Cast: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre: Drama

Language: English

La Dolce Vita

Drama | 1960

Federico Fellini's lush and intoxicating masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, is a meditation on the meaning of life and love and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello, a gossip writer who seeks the fleeting excesses and decadence of life and sex. He sleeps with the beautiful Maddalena (Anouk Aimee), alienating and driving his lover, Emma (Yvonne Furneaux), to attempt suicide. When he meets an elusive actress, Sylvia (Anita Ekberg), he dives deep into the abyss.

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg

Director: Federico Fellini

Genre: Drama

Language: Italian (English subtitles)

Lady Vanishes, The

Drama | 1938

Traveling aboard a transcontinental train, young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) becomes alarmed when an acquaintance, elderly governess Miss Froy (Dame Mae Whitty), suddenly vanishes. Inexplicably, all the other passengers deny having seen the woman. So Iris turns to her lone ally - handsome music scholar Gilbert Redman (Michael Redgrave) - for help. As the two search for clues to Froy's disappearance, they uncloak a sinister plot.

Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Last Exorcism, The

Drama | 2010

Ready to expose his miraculous deeds as mere trickery, Rev. Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) invites a documentary crew to film his final exorcism. But when the devil actually possesses a girl's body, Marcus must regain his faith and engage in the fight of his life. Produced by Eli Roth and directed by Daniel Stamm, this frighteningly realistic horror movie also stars Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr and Louis Herthum.

Cast: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell

Director: Daniel Stamm

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Last King Of Scotland, The

Drama | 2006

During an African medical mission in the 1970s, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) impresses brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker, in an Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning role) by acting swiftly in a crisis and becomes the dictator's personal physician. Garrigan enjoys the perks of his new position, until he begins to become aware of Amin's inhumanity - and his own complicity.

Cast: Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson

Director: Kevin MacDonald

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Last Station, The

Drama | 2009

Set during the last year of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's life, this biopic explores the fractious relationship between Tolstoy (Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer) and his wife (Oscar nominee Helen Mirren), as he embraces a life of asceticism. Paul Giamatti co-stars as impassioned Tolstoy devotee Vladimir Chertkov, with James McAvoy playing the aging writer's assistant, Valentin, who is caught in the middle of various struggles.

Cast: Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer

Director: Michael Hoffman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Le colonel Chabert

Drama | 1994

Colonel Chabert has been severely wounded in the French-Russian Napoleonic war to the point that the medical examiner has signed his death certificate. When he regains his health and memory, he goes back to Paris, where his "widow", Anne has married the Count Ferraud and is financing his rise to power using Chabert's money. Chabert hires a lawyer to help him get back his money and his honor.

Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant, Fabrice Luchini

Director: Yves Angelo

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Leap Of Faith

Drama | 1992

The Reverend Jonas Nightingale (Steve Martin) is far from holy; in fact, he uses his spiritual influence for financial gain, lining his pockets with the faith of generous believers he encounters as a traveling evangelist. When his tour bus gets stranded in a small town, however, Jonas meets an affirmed skeptic with whom he miraculously falls in love. Is it a match made in heaven?

Cast: Steve Martin, Debra Winger

Director: Richard Pearce

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Lebanon (Levanon)

Drama | 2009

In this claustrophobic drama by first-time director Samuel Maoz - a veteran of the early '80s Israel/Lebanon conflict in which the film is set - four Israeli soldiers command a tank in a situation that becomes increasingly tense and chaotic. Like Das Boot before it, most of the action is confined to the stark interiors of that tank, as the men wrestle with fear, anger and their own consciences in the face of possible death and worse.

Cast: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran

Director: Samuel Maoz

Genre: Drama

Language: Hebrew (English subtitles)

Letter, The

Drama | 1940

Based on W. Somerset Maugham's novel and directed by William Wyler, this drama stars Bette Davis in one of her nastiest film roles. After shooting Geoffrey (David Newell), Leslie (Davis) tells husband Robert (Herbert Marshall) and their lawyer (James Stephenson) that it was self-defense. But Leslie's case begins to fall apart when a letter reveals that she may have planned the murder, and Geoffrey's widow (Gale Sondergaard) attempts blackmail.

Cast: Bette Davis, James Stephenson

Director: William Wyler

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Life Of David Gale, The

Drama | 2003

When Texas professor David Gale (Kevin Spacey), an advocate for the elimination of the death penalty, is falsely accused and convicted of the rape and murder of another activist (Laura Linney), he ends up on the state's notorious death row himself. In a series of flashbacks, Gale tells his story to a young reporter (Kate Winslet) who's visiting him on death row, leaving her to sort out his guilt or innocence.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet

Director: Alan Parker

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Lincoln Lawyer, The

Drama | 2011

Tasked with defending rich lothario Louis Roulet, who's been charged with assault, lawyer Mick Haller finds himself and his family in danger when he deduces the truth behind this and former cases he's worked on.

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei

Director: Brad Furman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Lions For Lambs

Drama | 2007

While a Washington bigwig (Tom Cruise) goes toe-to-toe with a reporter (Meryl Streep) on the issue of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, an idealistic professor (Robert Redford) tries to keep his students engaged as two of his former pupils struggle to survive behind enemy lines in the Middle East. Redford also directs this complex look at America's war on terror, a three-pronged narrative of lives connected by politics and bloodshed.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep

Director: Robert Redford

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Long Good Friday, The

Drama | 1980

Cast: Paul Freeman, Kevin McNally

Director: John Mackenzie

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Looking For Mr Goodbar

Drama | 1977

Diane Keaton plays young teacher Theresa Dunn, whose initially innocent search to find the man of her dreams escalates into increasingly promiscuous and dangerous encounters with men she meets at bars. An outwardly caring nurturer living a banal existence by day, she thrives on the thrill of her evening trysts, which eventually involve drugs and violence. As she's spinning out of control, she vows to clean up - but not before one final rendezvous.

Cast: Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld

Director: Richard Brooks

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Love Ranch

Drama | 2009

Inspired by the story of the couple who introduced legalized prostitution to Nevada with the opening of their Mustang Ranch brothel, this Taylor Hackford-directed drama focuses on the devastating consequences of infidelity in the land of sex for pay. Helen Mirren stars as Grace Botempo; Joe Pesci plays her husband, Charlie; and Sergio Peris-Mencheta plays the boxer who, on entering their world, sets into motion a violent chain of events.

Cast: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci

Director: Taylor Hackford

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Lymelife

Drama | 2008

Set in 1970s suburbia, this coming-of-age tale revolves around the exploits of a pair of Long Island families grappling with complex relationships, financial woes and an outbreak of lyme disease that's "terrorizing" their community. Brothers Derick Martini and Steven Martini helmed this quirky dramedy that features a stellar cast, including Alec Baldwin, Rory Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Cynthia Nixon, Timothy Hutton and Jill Hennessy.

Cast: Alec Baldwin, Kieran Culkin

Director: Derick Martini

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Made In Dagenham

Drama | 2010

Sally Hawkins stars in this cheeky dramatization of the landmark 1968 labor strike initiated by hundreds of women who rebelled against discrimination and demanded the same pay as men for their work in a London automobile manufacturing plant. During one march, a banner that reads "We Want Sexual Equality" inadvertently becomes shortened to "We Want Sex." Nigel Cole directs this film that co-stars Miranda Richardson and Bob Hoskins.

Cast: Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough

Director: Nigel Cole

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Madela: Long Walk To Freedom

Drama | 2013

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

Cast: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris, Terry Pheto

Director: Justin Chadwick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Main Street

Drama | 2009

When an outsider named Gus (Colin Firth) arrives and proposes storing hazardous waste in their small town, the residents must weigh the many risks with the great financial rewards in this drama. With danger afoot and everyone restless about money, this story explores the politics of survival for rural America. Orlando Bloom, Ellen Burstyn, Patricia Clarkson, Amber Tamblyn and Andrew McCarthy co-star.

Cast: Colin Firth, Orlando Bloom

Director: John Doyle

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Maltese Falcon, The

Drama | 1941

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George

Director: John Huston

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Man In The White Suit, The

Drama | 1951

Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness) invents an indestructible cloth that never gets dirty and celebrates by having a white suit made of the fabric. But soon, the lowly mill workers start fearing for their jobs while the mill owners worry about their profits. Chase scenes and double-crosses ensue as the impish Stratton struggles to defend his discovery from the mob. Ernest Thesiger portrays decrepit mill owner Sir John Kierlaw.

Cast: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Man Who Wasn't There, The

Drama | 2001

In this black-and-white film noir by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Billy Bob Thornton stars as Ed Crane, an aimless barber who's dissatisfied with his life in a small northern California town in the summer of 1949. His wife's (Frances McDormand) infidelity presents Crane with an opportunity for blackmail that he thinks will turn his life around... but his scheme lays bare even darker secrets that eventually lead to murder. James Gandolfini co-stars.

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand

Director: Joel Coen

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Man Who Would Be King, The

Drama | 1975

Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan - a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander.

Cast: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer

Director: John Huston

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Mandingo

Drama | 1975

This shocking and controversial potboiler set in antebellum Louisiana chronicles the decline and fall of the slave-breeding Maxwell family, headed by dictatorial patriarch Warren (James Mason). Determined to have another heir, Warren persuades his randy son (Perry King) to wed a pouty Southern belle (Susan George) whose vengeance-fueled sexual encounters with a slave (Ken Norton) lead to disastrous consequences.

Cast: James Mason, Perry King

Director: Richard Fleischer

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Manon Of The Spring (Manon des sources)

Drama | 1986

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her her father's land caused his death years earlier.

Cast: Yves Montand, Emmanuelle Beart, Daniel Auteuil

Director: Claude Berri

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Margin Call

Drama | 2011

An all-star cast shines in this engrossing drama about a critical 24-hour period at a high-profile investment bank in the early days of the 2008 financial crisis, when young analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) uncovers information that could destroy the firm. When he alerts upper management to the precarious position of their risky investments, an emergency meeting is held to decide if they should alert clients or abscond with the profits.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany

Director: J C Chandor

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Match Point

Drama | 2005

Tennis pro Chris (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) gets mixed up with the darker side of high society in this suspenseful drama with a Hitchcockian flair from writer-director Woody Allen, who sets the action across the pond from his beloved New York City. Chris is befriended by a wealthy family and falls for femme fatale Nola (Scarlett Johansson). But a clandestine affair involving another woman leaves Chris wondering if murder is the only way out.

Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Director: Woody Allen

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Max Manus

Drama | 2008

Dismayed by Norway's swift capitulation to Nazi Germany during World War II, Max Manus (Aksel Hennie) - who would become one of Norway's greatest war heroes - immediately joined the Resistance. This biographical drama tells his story. From his audacious escapes from German captivity (one from a military hospital) to his bold acts of sabotage (which included blowing up warships), the film chronicles all Manus's derring-do.

Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch

Director: Espen Sandberg

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Mean Streets

Drama | 1973

In director Martin Scorsese's look at New York City's Little Italy, Charlie (Harvey Keitel) deals with the pressures of working his way up the ranks of a local mob, while coping with his family's disapproval of his epileptic girlfriend (Amy Robinson). Meanwhile, his small-time gambler friend, Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro), threatens to ruin Charlie's reputation with debts to a loan shark. The film marks Scorsese's first teaming with De Niro.

Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Meet Joe Black

Drama | 1998

When the grim reaper (Brad Pitt) comes to collect the soul of megamogul Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), he arrives with a proposition: Host him for a "vacation" among the living in trade for a few more days of existence. Parrish agrees, and using the pseudonym Joe Black, Death begins taking part in Parrish's daily agenda and falls in love with the man's daughter (Claire Forlani). Yet when Black's holiday is over, so is Parrish's life.

Cast: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins

Director: Martin Brest

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Messenger, The

Drama | 2008

An injured U.S. soldier, Sgt. Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), is paired up with by-the-book Capt. Tony Stone (Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson) to notify families of killed soldiers - a job that bonds them as they debate different views on serving America. At odds at first, the two find common ground while facing life's variety of battles. Oren Moverman directs this poignant military tale that co-stars Samantha Morton and Jena Malone.

Cast: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson

Director: Oren Moverman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Midnight Express

Drama | 1978

The true story of Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is brought to life by Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning screenplay recounting the young American's experience in a Turkish prison. When Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey, the courts decide to make an example out of him and sentence him to 20 years in prison. With little hope of ever getting out, Hayes decides to attempt a daring escape. Co-stars Randy Quaid and John Hurt.

Cast: Brad Davis, John Hurt

Director: Alan Parker

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil

Drama | 1997

When magazine writer John Kelso (John Cusack) travels to Savannah, Ga., to cover a chichi party thrown by urbane antiques dealer Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey), he is pulled into his subject's intriguing murder trial and introduced to a throng of colorful locals. Set against the beguiling backdrop of Southern high society, this retelling of John Berendt's novel by director Clint Eastwood also stars Jude Law as Williams's lover, Billy Hanson.

Cast: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey

Director: Clint Eastwood

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Midnight's Children

Drama | 2013

From Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta and based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children is a journey at once sweeping in scope and yet intimate in tone. At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims its independence, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor woman, and Shiva, the offspring of a wealthy couple, are fated to live the destiny meant for each other.

Cast: Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor

Director: Deepa Mehta

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Miles From Home

Drama | 1988

Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.

Cast: Richard Gere, Penelope Ann Miller, Brian Dennehy

Director: Gary Sinise

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Misfits, The

Drama | 1961

A sexy divorcee falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.

Cast: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift

Director: John Huston

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Mississippi Burning

Drama | 1988

When three civil rights workers disappear in 1964 Mississippi, two FBI agents (Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) with wildly divergent styles resort to increasingly violent tactics to apprehend the culprit Ku Klux Klan. Crucial to the case is the testimony of a beautician (Frances McDormand) who's struggling to break free from the racist influence of her husband (Brad Dourif). Director Alan Parker's fact-based drama received seven Oscar nominations.

Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe

Director: Alan Parker

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Moderns, The

Drama | 1988

Writer-director Alan Rudolph turns his eye on 1926 Paris for this elegant, wry film. Keith Carradine and Linda Fiorentino star as Nick and Rachel, former lovers who reunite amid the artist-packed cafes and salons. Rachel's an alcoholic trapped in a loveless marriage to a bullying businessman and art collector. Nick's a painter involved in a scheme to forge some famous artworks... which leads to complications when Rachel's husband buys them.

Cast: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino

Director: Alan Rudolph

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Monsieur Ibrahim

Drama | 2003

1960s Paris serves as the backdrop for Francois Dupeyron's heartwarming drama. Momo (Pierre Boulanger), a teenage orphan, lives in a working-class neighborhood and has very few friends - save for the kindly local prostitutes, who adore him. Momo soon befriends the older and wiser shopkeeper Ibrahim (Omar Sharif), who soon becomes a father figure for Momo and takes him on a journey of self-discovery that will change both of their lives.

Cast: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger

Director: Francois Dupeyron

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Monsieur Klein

Drama | 1976

It's 1942, and the Nazis have begun their reign of terror in Europe. In Paris, Monsieur Robert Klein (Alain Delon), a French-Catholic art dealer, takes no issue with making a profit by buying up the valuables of Jews who are in a hurry to escape to safety. But when a package arrives at his doorstep addressed to a Jewish man who bears his name, Robert is pulled into a mystery that hits much closer to home than he suspects.

Cast: Alain Delon, Jeanne Moreau

Director: Joseph Losey

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Monuments Men, The

Drama | 2014

An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.

Cast: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray

Director: George Clooney

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Mosquito Coast, The

Drama | 1986

Troubled inventor Allie Fox (Harrison Ford) is uprooting his wife (Helen Mirren) and son (River Phoenix) and moving them to Central America, obsessed with building an ice factory in the middle of the jungle. But Allie's unyielding determination eventually threatens to tear his family apart. Acclaimed auteur Peter Weir directs this provocative drama, based on the popular novel by Paul Theroux. Andre Gregory and Martha Plimpton co-star.

Cast: Harrison Ford, Martha Plimpton

Director: Peter Weir

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Motorcycle Diaries, The (Diarios de Motocicleta)

Drama | 2004

This foreign-language drama tells the incredible true story of a 23-year-old medical student from Argentina - future revolutionary Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) - who motorcycled across South America with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo de la Serna) beginning in 1951. Walter Salles's film is based on Guevara's diaries of the trek, a deeply personal odyssey that ultimately crystallized the young man's budding political beliefs.

Cast: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna

Director: Walter Salles

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Mozart's Sister (Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart)

Drama | 2010

A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Cast: Marie Feret, Marc Barbe, Delphine Chuillot

Director: Rene Feret

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Mr Holland's Opus

Drama | 1995

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose. Dreyfuss earned an Oscar nomination for his outstanding work in this emotional drama.

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Olympia Dukakis

Director: Stephen Herek

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Mr Nice

Drama | 2009

Rhys Ifans stars as privileged drug smuggler Howard Marks, who graduated from Oxford to become a top importer of marijuana into Britain in the 1960s. Marks poses as an MI5 agent to elude prison, and later campaigns for cannabis legalization. Bernard Rose directs this fascinating biopic that co-stars Chloe Sevigny as Marks's wife, Judy, and David Thewlis as Marks's Irish republican contact, Jim McCann.

Cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny

Director: Bernard Rose

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Mrs Miniver

Drama | 1942

Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture, this memorable spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends to its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war struck a patriotic chord with audiences and became 1942's #1 box-office hit. Greer Garson gives a formidable Oscar-winning title-role performance, comforting children in a bomb shelter, capturing an enemy parachutist and delivering an inspirational portrait of stiff-upper lip British resolve. When Hitler did his worst, Mrs. Miniver did her best.

Cast: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Richard Ney, Reginald Owen

Director: William Wyler

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Mulholland Drive

Drama | 2001

Writer-director David Lynch weaves another mysteriously complex tale in this story about an amnesiac woman (Laura Harring) who's left stranded on Mulholland Drive and gets taken in by a young newcomer (Naomi Watts) who's moved to Hollywood to pursue her dreams. The two women gradually start to put the pieces of a troubling puzzle together, but the puzzle unravels a dark, sinister plot - as well as unexpected passions.

Cast: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts

Director: David Lynch

Genre: Drama

Language: English

My Beautiful Laundrette

Drama | 1986

Omar (Gordon Warnecke), a Pakistani, and his old school chum Johnny (Daniel-Day Lewis) use stolen drug money to renovate a laundrette in a squalid London neighborhood. But conflicting interests soon threaten their newfound success. Hanif Kureishi received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay, a stunning portrait of two boyhood friends who are struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain.

Cast: Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth

Director: Stephen Frears

Genre: Drama

Language: English

My House In Umbria

Drama | 2003

After enduring a horrific terrorist attack on a Milan train, English writer Mrs. Delahunty (Maggie Smith) opens the doors of her Italian villa to her fellow survivors of the incident: a young American girl (Emmy Clarke), a British gent (Ronnie Barker) and a German man (Benno Furmann). As a detective (Giancarlo Giannini) unravels the cause of the tragedy, the survivors bond - until they're interrupted by the girl's boorish uncle (Chris Cooper).

Cast: Maggie Smith, Chris Cooper

Director: Richard Loncraine

Genre: Drama

Language: English

My Week With Marilyn

Drama | 2011

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.

Cast: Michelle Williams, Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh

Director: Simon Curtis

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Namesake, The

Drama | 2006

Gogol Ganguli (Kal Penn) is torn between his parents' (Irrfan Khan and Tabu) Indian traditions and his decidedly modern lifestyle, and frankly prefers for his friends to call him "Nick." But the true meaning of his name is a story that spans two continents - and two generations. Based on Jhumpa Lahiri's best-selling novel, Mira Nair's coming-of-age drama explores first-generation Americans' delicate dance between culture and identity.

Cast: Kal Penn, Jacinda Barrett

Director: Mira Nair

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Nebraska

Drama | 2013

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.

Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb

Director: Alexander Payne

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Network

Drama | 1976

When network news anchor Howard Beale (Peter Finch) loses his mind on the air, his outrageous rants reach viewers at home, boost the ratings and intrigue cutthroat network executives Faye Dunaway and Robert Duvall. William Holden contrasts their avarice as an old-school TV journalist hopelessly out of step in writer Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning masterpiece, which predicted today's rash of trash television and shock-laden news broadcasts.

Cast: Bill Burrows, Wesley Addy

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Night Of The Iguana, The

Drama | 1964

A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.

Cast: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr

Director: John Huston

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Nights In Rodanthe

Drama | 2008

With chaos tearing her family apart, Adrienne Willis (Diane Lane) takes a weekend job at her friend's coastal North Carolina inn, but when a hurricane hits and strands the only guest, surgeon Paul Flanner (Richard Gere), Adrienne's life changes forever. As the storm rages outside, Adrienne connects with Flanner, who came to the retreat to escape a personal crisis. Scott Glenn co-stars in this intimate drama based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks.

Cast: Diane Lane, Richard Gere

Director: George C. Wolfe

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Nine Queens (Nueve reinas)

Drama | 2000

Two small-time grifters (Ricardo Darin and Gaston Pauls) endure a series of tense negotiations when they attempt to sell a sheet of counterfeit stamps for a hefty sum, but the process is made more stressful when one of the con men's estranged sister (Leticia Bredice) becomes involved. Fans of American writer David Mamet will appreciate the twists in this Argentinean caper from writer-director Fabian Bielinsky.

Cast: Ricardo Darin, Gaston Pauls

Director: Fabian Bielinsky

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

North By Northwest

Drama | 1959

What if everyone around you was suddenly convinced that you were a spy? This classic from master director Alfred Hitchcock stars Cary Grant as an advertising executive who looks a little too much like someone else and is forced to go on the lam (helped along by Eva Marie Saint). Hitchcock's sure-handed comic drama pits Grant against a crop duster and lands him in a fight for his life on Mount Rushmore - a true cliffhanger if ever there was one.

Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Notes On A Scandal

Drama | 1976

When pottery instructor Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) dives into an illicit affair with one of her teenage students, she crafts a sticky situation that spells turmoil for herself and puts a fellow teacher in a tough spot. Faculty member Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) connects with the pretty new art teacher, but things take a turn when she learns Sheba's secret. Bill Nighy co-stars in this drama that drew Oscar nods for both Blanchett and Dench.

Cast: Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy

Director: Richard Eyre

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Nowhere Boy

Drama | 2009

Raised by his aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) since he was a young boy, charismatic 15-year-old John Lennon (Aaron Johnson) is suddenly reunited with his mother, Julia (Anne-Marie Duff), which ignites a bitter battle between the two sisters for John's affections. Along the way, John inherits his mother's love of music and befriends fellow Liverpool lad Paul McCartney (Thomas Sangster) in this biopic of the music icon's formative years.

Cast: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas

Director: Sam Taylor Wood

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Once Upon A Time in America

Drama | 1984

Director Sergio Leone's sprawling crime epic follows a group of Jewish mobsters (including Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern) who rise in the ranks of organized crime in 1920s New York. Their story unfolds in flashbacks as ringleader Noodles (De Niro) returns to Brooklyn some 30 years later to reunite and reminisce with his cohorts. Nominated for two Golden Globes, this gritty drama was Leone's last directorial effort.

Cast: Robert De Niro, James Woods

Director: Sergio Leone

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Onion Field, The

Drama | 1979

The frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one march night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.

Cast: John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales

Director: Harold Becker

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Other Boleyn Girl, The

Drama | 2008

Director Justin Chadwick's opulent historical drama stars Natalie Portman as Anne Boleyn and Scarlett Johansson as her sister, Mary - both beautiful, ambitious and vying for the heart of powerful but intemperate King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Though both women are the monarch's mistresses, only one can become his queen consort - but at what cost? The supporting cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas and Jim Sturgess.

Cast: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson

Director: Justin Chadwick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Our Man In Havana

Drama | 1959

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. The owner of a not very successful vacuum cleaner shop, he is soon employed by the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start, but when a friend suggests the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London.

Cast: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Burl Ives

Director: Carol Reed

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Panic

Drama | 2000

On the surface, Alex (William H. Macy) seems like a normal guy - he has a wife, a son and a job selling mail-order trinkets. But Alex also has a secret life not even his family knows about: He's a contract killer suffering a midlife crisis. Seeking help, Alex visits a therapist and meets Sarah (Neve Campbell) - the one person he may have needed all along. John Ritter, Donald Sutherland and Tracey Ullman co-star.

Cast: William H. Macy, John Ritter

Director: Henry Bromell

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Paper Man

Drama | 2009

Through special friendships with a teenage girl, Abby (Emma Stone), and an imaginary superhero named Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds), frustrated novelist Richard (Jeff Daniels) experiences a second adolescence, which helps him discover a completely new way of life. Husband-and-wife team Michele Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney write and direct this funny drama that also stars Lisa Kudrow, Hunter Parrish and Kieran Culkin.

Cast: Jeff Daniels, Emma Stone

Director: Kieran Mulroney

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Paper, The

Drama | 1994

This dramedy directed by Ron Howard features Michael Keaton as Henry Hackett, an overworked, underpaid reporter for a struggling New York City newspaper. Hackett is wooed by a more stable paper to take a better position with higher pay, and his wife Martha (Marisa Tomei) is very pregnant. When his paper gets a hot legal scoop, will Henry stay by his ill publisher Bernie's (Robert Duvall) side, or will he take the new opportunity?

Cast: Glenn Close, Jason Robards

Director: Ron Howard

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Paris, Texas

Drama | 1984

Director Wim Wenders is at his offbeat best in this "road movie" about weary drifter Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton). In a quest to rebuild his life and reconnect with his son, Travis - who's been gone four years - tries to untangle his thorny past with his wife (Nastassja Kinski). Dean Stockwell shines as Stanton's brother in this haunting study of an emotionally scarred man trying to heal a surfeit of psychological wounds.

Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski

Director: Wim Wenders

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Partition

Drama | 2007

In 1947, the same tumultuous year that India and Pakistan were divided into two separate states, a Sikh and former soldier (Jimi Mistry) puts his life on the line to save the life of a beautiful Muslim woman (Kristin Kreuk). In the wake of the heroic rescue, the two strangers find themselves falling in love. But are they destined to stay confined by the strict boundaries of their respective faiths?

Cast: Jimi Mistry, Kristin Kreuk

Director: Vic Sarin

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Passage To India, A

Drama | 1984

Adventurous young Englishwoman Adela Quested (Judy Davis) journeys to colonial India with open-minded Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft). Ignoring English customs, the women accompany a "native" named Dr. Aziz on a tour of the Marabar Caves. The excursion turns ugly, however, when Adela emerges from the caves accusing Aziz of rape. British authorities urge Adela to press charges, but the truth isn't as obvious as the government believes it to be.

Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee

Director: David Lean

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Passenger, The

Drama | 1975

A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Passion Play

Drama | 2010

Restrained by a ruthless gangster (Bill Murray), gorgeous Lily (Megan Fox), a circus freak whose incredible wings make her look like an angel, yearns for freedom. After crossing paths with the trapped beauty, down-on-his-luck musician Nate (Mickey Rourke) commits himself to rescuing her. The directorial debut of established screenwriter Mitch Glazer, this unconventional love story also stars Rhys Ifans, Kelly Lynch and Bud Cort.

Cast: Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox

Director: Mitch Glazer

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Pawnbroker, The

Drama | 1965

Rod Steiger stars as Sol Nazerman, a Jewish pawnbroker and Holocaust survivor embittered and broken by his experience. Sol becomes increasingly removed from his friends and his business in Harlem, which has attracted the attention of a mobster. Can Sol turn around his life and his shop? Steiger won Best Actor honors at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival and the 1965 BAFTAs for his role this Oscar-nominated drama directed by Sidney Lumet.

Cast: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Persuasion

Drama | 1995

This film adaptation of Jane Austen's last novel follows Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, who is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick - who is now rich, successful and perhaps still in love with Anne.

Cast: Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds

Director: Roger Michell

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Piano, The

Drama | 1993

Holly Hunter stars as Ada McGrath, a mute but strong-willed 19th-century Scottish expatriate who arrives in New Zealand with her daughter (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano in tow. Although betrothed to a landowner (Sam Neill), she's pulled into an affair with a laborer (Harvey Keitel). Hunter and Paquin both won Oscars for their performances in this haunting drama from writer-director Jane Campion.

Cast: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel

Director: Jane Campion

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Picnic At Hanging Rock

Drama | 1975

To celebrate Valentine's Day, teachers at an austere Australian boarding school take a group of students on an outing to the mysterious Hanging Rock. Soon after the party starts, the headmistress and three girls go exploring and mysteriously disappear. One week later, a sole survivor returns to school - with hardly any memory of the incident. Peter Weir's haunting tragedy alludes to several explanations but offers no clear-cut answers

Cast: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard

Director: Peter Weir

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Pleasantville

Drama | 1998

What happens when a brother (Tobey Maguire) and sister (Reese Witherspoon) time-travel to the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom with a perfect mom (Joan Allen) and dad (William H. Macy)? They find the "perfect" world has imperfections. This delicate fable with heart examines in a rich, thoughtful way our collective nostalgia for days of apple pie and peace that perhaps never existed.

Cast: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon

Director: Gary Ross

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Postman Always Rings Twice, The

Drama | 1946

A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband... but even once the deed is done, they must live with the consequences of their actions.

Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield

Director: Tay Garnett

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Pour Elle

Drama | 2009

Lisa and Julien are married and lead a happy uneventful life with their son Oscar. But their life radically changes one morning, when the police comes to arrest Lisa on murder charges. She's sentenced to 20 years of prison. Convinced of his wife's innocence, Julien decides to act. How far will he be willing to go for her?

Cast: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger

Director: Fred Cavaye

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Power

Drama | 1986

Media consultant Pete St. John (Richard Gere) can package a politician, create a spin and transform an on-camera gaffe into a moment of glory. Representing a variety of sometimes-corrupt clients, the left-leaning St. John checks his values at the door. But when conservative industrialist Jerome Cade (J.T. Walsh) hires St. John to help with his Senate run, the amoral hustler gets more than he bargained for in this hard-edged, political drama.

Cast: Richard Gere, Julie Christie

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Prestige, The

Drama | 2006

At the dawn of the 20th century, rival magicians Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) endeavor to reveal each other's secrets. Obsessed by the escalating competition, the two illusionists begin to perform increasingly risky tricks, which soon turn deadly. Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson and David Bowie also star in this taut psychological thriller from director Christopher Nolan.

Cast: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman

Director: Christopher Nolan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Prince Of The City

Drama | 1981

Based on a true story, this gritty police drama from director Sidney Lumet stars Treat Williams as Daniel Ciello, a New York cop who agrees to help the feds expose corruption within the department. Overcome with guilt, Ciello struggles with his betrayal and, before too long, begins to crack under the pressure. Filled with impressive performances, this thriller also stars Bob Balaban, Jerry Orbach and Lance Henriksen.

Cast: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Prisoner Of Zenda, The

Drama | 1937

Days before his coronation, Prince Rudolf is kidnapped and will have to give up the throne to his younger brother if he's not at the ceremony. To foil the plot, a distant cousin who's a dead ringer for the prince must pretend to be the rightful heir. But Rudolf's fiancee starts to get suspicious.

Cast: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll

Director: John Cromwell

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Prize, The

Drama | 1963

As the Nobel Prize winners come to Stockholm to receive their awards, their lives are overturned and perturbed in various ways.

Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer

Director: Mark Robson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Promised Land

Drama | 2012

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

Cast: Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski

Director: Gus Van Sant

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Puncture

Drama | 2011

Mike Weiss (Chris Evans) is a talented young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict. Paul Danziger (co-director Mark Kassen), his longtime friend and partner, is the straight-laced and responsible yin to Mike's yang. Their mom-and-pop personal injury law firm is getting by, but things really get interesting when they decide to take on a case involving Vicky (Vinessa Shaw), a local ER nurse, who is pricked by a contaminated needle on the job. As Weiss and Danziger dig deeper into the case, a health care and pharmaceutical conspiracy teeters on exposure and heavyweight attorneys move in on the defense. Out of their league but invested in their own principles, the mounting pressure of the case pushes the two underdog lawyers and their business to the breaking point.

Cast: Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, Vinessa Shaw, Brett Cullen, Michael Biehn, Marshall Bell

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Quiet American, The

Drama | 2002

Based on the novel by Graham Greene, this murder mystery centers on a love triangle set against the French Indochina War in 1952 Vietnam - a world suffused with opium, intrigue and betrayal. A British reporter, Fowler (Michael Caine, in an Oscar-nominated performance), falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman, Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), and is dismayed when an American (Brendan Fraser) also begins vying for her attention.

Cast: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser

Director: Phillip Noyce

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Quiet American, The

Drama | 1958

Cynical British journalist Fowler (Michael Redgrave) falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman, but is dismayed when a naive U.S. official (Audie Murphy) also begins vying for the girl's attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's drama paints a rosier picture of U.S. involvement in French Indochine than Graham Greene's provocative 1955 novel.

Cast: Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Quiz Show

Drama | 1994

The infamous true story of Charles Van Doren (played by Ralph Fiennes), who rocketed to national fame as a repeat winner on the TV quiz show "Twenty-One." In the late 1950s, prime-time game shows were a cultural phenomenon. But the American public didn't realize it was being hoodwinked... until persevering congressional investigator Dick Goodwin (portrayed by Rob Morrow) unmasked the corruption behind the show's glittering facade.

Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Hank Azaria

Director: Robert Redford

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Rabbit-Proof Fence

Drama | 2002

Australia's aboriginal integration program of the 1930s broke countless hearts - among them, those of young Molly (Evelyn Sampi), Gracie (Laura Monaghan) and Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), who were torn from their families and placed in an abusive orphanage. Without food or water, the girls resolve to make the 1,500-mile trek home. Meanwhile, a well-intentioned tracker is trying to return the girls to the authorities.

Cast: Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan

Director: Phillip Noyce

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Rain Man

Drama | 1988

Fast-talking yuppie Charlie Babbitt is forced to slow down when he meets a brother he never knew he had, an autistic savant named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman, in an Oscar-winning role) who's spent most of his life in an institution. When their wealthy father dies, leaving everything to Raymond, Charlie takes his unusually gifted older brother on a life-changing cross-country odyssey that neither is likely to forget.

Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise

Director: Barry Levinson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Rebecca

Drama | 1940

A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Recount

Drama | 2008

This Emmy-winning made-for-TV movie chronicles the extraordinary behind-the-scenes drama that unfolded in the weeks following the highly controversial 2000 election - a presidential race that further split an already divided America. With the nation's leadership in the balance, the battle between George W. Bush and Al Gore comes down to a hotly contested vote count in Florida. Kevin Spacey and Laura Dern (in a Golden Globe-winning role) star.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern

Director: Jay Roach

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Redbelt

Drama | 2008

In director David Mamet's riveting character study, jujitsu master Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) - who's in a financial bind - considers entering the arena to compete for cash, which goes against his philosophy and his integrity. With his dojo foundering, a pistol mishap puts Mike further in debt, leaving him at the mercy of gangland creeps, including a shady fight promoter (Ricky Jay). Tim Allen and David Paymer also star.

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Max Martini

Director: David Mamet

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Reservation Road

Drama | 2007

The lives of Ethan (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wife, Grace (Jennifer Connelly), are thrown into chaos after their 10-year-old son is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When the case stalls, Ethan makes it his mission to hunt down and punish the person responsible. But violence, revenge and justice collide head on when he finally finds the man who killed his son (Mark Ruffalo). Terry George directs this drama based on a book by John Burnham Schwartz.

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo

Director: Terry George

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Reversal Of Fortune

Drama | 1990

Wealthy Sunny von B�low lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close, Ron Silver

Director: Barbet Schroeder

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Revolutionary Road

Drama | 2008

The perfect couple living in the perfect house in a perfect suburb? Not quite. April (Kate Winslet) and Frank's (Leonardo DiCaprio) marriage unravels when a desperate plan to change their "perfect" lives becomes their last hope to escape lives actually engulfed in emptiness. Sam Mendes helms this heartrending, razor-sharp glance at the 1950s American Dream - behind the picture window. Michael Shannon and Kathy Bates co-star.

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet

Director: Sam Mendes

Genre: Drama

Language: English

River, The

Drama | 1951

In this drama set in India, against the backdrop of the Ganges river, shy British teenager Harriet (Patricia Walters) and her outgoing best friend, Valerie (Adrienne Corri), both have a crush on debonair outsider Capt. John (Thomas E. Breen), though his heart lies with beautiful local native Melanie (Radha Shri Ram). But John's dark past as a World War II veteran keeps him from acting on his feelings and plunges him deeper into depression.

Cast: Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight

Director: Jean Renoir

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Road To Perdition

Drama | 2002

Hit man Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), known in his 1930s Chicago world as The Angel of Death, is on the run after his wife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and son are murdered. With his surviving son (Tyler Hoechlin) in tow, Michael sets out to exact brutal vengeance. Complicating matters in this crime actioner are a reporter (Jude Law), Al Capone's enforcer (Stanley Tucci) and other shady characters.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman

Director: Sam Mendes

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Royal Affair, A (En kongelig affaere)

Drama | 2012

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Folsgaard

Director: Nikolaj Arcel

Genre: Drama

Language: Danish (English subtitles)

Runaway Train

Drama | 1985

Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.

Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts and Rebecca De Mornay

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen

Drama | 2011

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Save The Tiger

Drama | 1973

Jack Lemmon won an Oscar for this dramatic performance, considered by many to be his finest. Lemmon plays Harry Stoner, a man caught in violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct. He'll juggle the books, supply women for clients...and even set fire to his own dress manufacturing factory. Meanwhile, he longs for the days when life not only had values and heroes, but it all seemed much simpler - yet satisfying and worth living. But Harry is frightened to break away from the emptiness of his successful life.

Cast: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton

Director: John G. Avildsen

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Saving Mr Banks

Drama | 2013

Author P. L. Travers reflects on her difficult childhood while meeting with filmmaker Walt Disney during production for the adaptation of her novel, Mary Poppins.

Cast: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley

Director: John Lee Hancock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Scapegoat, The

Drama | 1959

A French count schemes to kill his wife and implicate a mild-mannered English schoolteacher whom he resembles.

Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis, Nicole Maurey.

Director: Robert Hamer

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Screaming Man, A (Un Homme Qui Crie)

Drama | 2010

Adam (Youssouf Djaoro) was a security guard at a posh Chad hotel until its new owners replaced him with his son (Dioucounda Koma). In this nation torn apart by civil war, citizens are called upon to help. But Adam only has one thing to give, forcing him to make a devastating choice. Emile Abossolo M'bo and Djeneba Kone co-star in this powerful drama, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast: Youssouf Djaoro, Dioucounda Koma

Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Secret Honor

Drama | 1984

Philip Baker Hall stars as Richard Nixon in this Robert Altman adaptation of a one-man stage play that tracks the former president as his career takes a dive. The film opens in the aftermath of Nixon's resignation after much speculation about his involvement in the Watergate scandal. As the reality of his life and choices begins to set in, Nixon propels himself further into a drunken stupor and lets loose on all his past and present enemies.

Cast: Philip Baker Hall

Director: Robert Altman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Secret In Their Eyes, The (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)

Drama | 2010

A startling discovery comes to light for retired Argentine criminal investigator Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darin) as he pens a biographical novel about the unsolved case of a young newlywed's brutal rape and murder years ago. Past and present intertwine for Esposito and colleague Irene Menendez Hastings (Soledad Villamil) in director Juan Jose Campanella's Oscar-winning character study in which justice, pain and love collide.

Cast: Ricardo Darin, Guillermo Francella

Director: Juan Jose Campanella

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Separation, A

Drama | 2011

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimers.

Cast: Peyman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Genre: Drama

Language: Farsi (English subtitles)

Seven Year Itch, The

Drama | 1955

After packing off his wife and son for the summer, doughy middle-aged publisher Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) lets his imagination run wild, fantasizing about erstwhile ladyloves and his blonde, curvaceous new neighbor (Marilyn Monroe). Inviting her over for a drink, Richard plans to sweep her off her feet and into the bedroom, until he imagines that his flights of fancy are airing nationwide - with his wife in the audience.

Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell

Director: Billy Wilder

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Drama | 2010

Taking its name from one of punk and new wave progenitor Ian Dury's most popular songs, this biopic about the Blockheads' British front man chronicles his childhood battle with polio and his subsequent, unlikely rise to rock fame. Lord of the Rings veteran Andy Serkis stars as the legendary musician, and Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel and Joe Kennedy play his bandmates

Cast: Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes

Director: Mat Whitecross

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Sex And Lucia

Drama | 2002

In an attempt to get over losing her boyfriend (Tristan Ulloa), Lucia (Paz Vega) retreats to a quiet Mediterranean island. It's there, in the sun-soaked refuge, that the erstwhile waitress begins to examine the passionate beginning and darker details of their relationship. Fact blends with fiction and time bends in unexpected ways as Lucia's memories unfold in this romantic drama nominated for 11 Goya Awards (Spain's version of the Oscar).

Cast: Paz Vega, Tristan Ulloa

Director: Julio Medem

Genre: Drama

Language: Spanish (English subtitles)

Shawshank Redemption, The

Drama | 1994

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

Cast: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton

Director: Frank Darabont

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Sherlock Holmes

Drama | 2009

Robert Downey Jr., in a Golden Globe-winning role, stars as the legendary London sleuth Sherlock Holmes, joined by Jude Law as Dr. Watson, in this Guy Ritchie-helmed reinvention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective series. Based on a comic book by producer Lionel Wigram, the story follows Holmes and Watson as they face off against the villainous Blackwood (Mark Strong). Rachel McAdams co-stars as sharp beauty Irene Adler.

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law

Director: Guy Ritchie

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Shipping News, The

Drama | 2001

Distraught after the disappearance of his estranged wife, Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) and his daughter move into their ancestral home with his long-lost aunt (Judi Dench) in Newfoundland, where life is rough and secrets are buried deep. When Quoyle lands a job as a reporter for the local newspaper, a past emerges, a mystery unfolds and life awakens. Lasse Hallstrom directs this drama based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Shrink

Drama | 2009

In the wake of a personal tragedy, Hollywood's psychiatrist to the stars (Kevin Spacey) devolves into a slovenly pothead and worries he's become incapable of helping his patients in this sharp indie drama that premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film also stars Saffron Burrows, Robin Williams, Jack Huston, Griffin Dunne, Gore Vidal, Robert Loggia, Dallas Roberts and Mark Webber as the shrink's diverse brood of showbiz clientele.

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Keke Palmer

Director: Jonas Pate

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Single Man, A

Drama | 2009

This stream-of-consciousness, 1960s-era drama centers on a day in the life of George Falconer (Colin Firth, in an Oscar-nominated role), an English-born, Los Angeles college professor reeling from the recent death of his lover of 16 years. Fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directoral debut with this luminous film, which is based on Christopher Isherwood's novel. Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Ginnifer Goodwin, Lee Pace and Nicholas Hoult co-star.

Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore

Director: Tom Ford

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Six Degrees Of Separation

Drama | 1993

Engaging young con artist Paul appears one day on the doorstep of the Kittredge family. Professing to be a friend of the affluent couple's son, Paul spins a tale of celebrity and despair that deeply affects the pair and their socialite friends.

Cast: Stockard Channing, Will Smith

Director: Fred Schepisi

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Social Network, The

Drama | 2010

Director David Fincher's biographical drama chronicles the meteoric rise of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) from Harvard sophomore to Internet superstar, examining his relationships with co-founder Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield) and Napster founder Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake). The film racked up Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Eisenberg) and Best Supporting Actor (Garfield).

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield

Director: David Fincher

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Soldier's Story, A

Drama | 1984

Racial tensions flare in this gripping drama set in Louisiana at the end of World War II. When Army attorney Capt. Davenport (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) is sent to Fort Neal to investigate the murder of a black sergeant, he faces a mystery much more complex than he'd imagined. Also starring Adolph Caesar and directed by Norman Jewison from Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the film was nominated for three Academy Awards.

Cast: Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar

Director: Norman Jewison

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Soloist, The

Drama | 2008

This true-life drama tells the poignant tale of Los Angeles newspaper reporter Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.), who discovers brilliant street musician Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), and the unique friendship that transforms both their lives. In helping his new friend deal with his demons, Steve ends up battling with his own. Joe Wright directs this inspiring drama based on the bestselling book by the real Lopez.

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx

Director: Joe Wright

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Somewhat Gentle Man, A (En Ganske Snill Mann)

Drama | 2010

With revenge on his mind, a gangster (Stellan Skarsgard) who spent 12 years in prison for murder sets out to kill the man (Henrik Mestad) who put him there. But the promise of a normal life - and news that he's on the brink of becoming a grandfather - proves a tempting distraction. Suddenly, seeking vengeance doesn't seem nearly as important. Hans Petter Moland directs this Norwegian drama about sons and second chances.

Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Bjorn Floberg

Director: Hans Petter Moland

Genre: Drama

Language: Norwegian (English subtitles)

Somewhere

Drama | 2010

Set amid the hallowed grounds of Hollywood's legendary Chateau Marmont, this atmospheric dramedy centers on hard-living actor Johnny (Stephen Dorff), whose life is thrown for a loop when his 11-year-old daughter, Cleo (Elle Fanning), pays him a surprise visit. As the two become better acquainted, Johnny realizes he needs to make changes. Oscar winner Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) directs this character-driven film co-starring Chris Pontius.

Cast: Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning

Director: Sofia Coppola

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Sophie Scholl - The Final Days

Drama | 2005

Arrested for participating in the White Rose resistance movement, anti-Nazi activist Sophie Scholl (Julia Jentsch) is subjected to a highly charged interrogation by the Gestapo, testing her loyalty to her cause, her family and her convictions. Based on true events, director Marc Rothemund's absorbing Oscar-nominated drama explores maintaining human resolve in the face of intense pressure from a system determined to silence whistle-blowers.

Cast: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs

Director: Marc Rothemund

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Spanish Prisoner, The

Drama | 1997

Never trust what you see. When a naive inventor (Campbell Scott) develops "The Process," a top-secret program guaranteed to make billions for his company, the wolves come out - to fleece him. David Mamet wrote and directed this twisty mystery with masterful sleight of hand. Powerful performances by Ben Gazarra and Steve Martin, plus plenty of surprises and stings, make The Spanish Prisoner the ultimate con flick.

Cast: Campbell Scott, Steve Martin

Director: David Mamet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Stalag 17

Drama | 1953

For the Allied prisoners of Stalag 17, every escape attempt ends the same way: disaster. Cynical Sgt. Sefton (William Holden, in his Oscar-winning role) thinks they're all fools for trying - but soon his hectoring starts raising suspicions that there's a German spy among them. Could that spy be him? Director Billy Wilder effortlessly mixes broad comedy and high-tension drama in this World War II classic.

Cast: William Holden, Don Taylor

Director: Billy Wilder

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Stranger Among Us, A

Drama | 1992

When New York cop Emily Eden (Melanie Griffith) goes undercover in a Hasidic Jewish community to solve the brutal murder of a jeweler, she falls for devout religious student Ariel (Eric Thal) in this romantic drama from Sidney Lumet. Though Ariel becomes involved in helping Emily track down clues to solve the case, a romantic relationship between them is forbidden by the rules of his community. John Pankow and James Gandolfini co-star.

Cast: Melanie Griffith, Eric Thal

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Strangers On A Train

Drama | 1951

When Bruno (Robert Walker) meets tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) aboard a train, he confesses he wants his rich father dead, prompting Guy to reveal that he wants to divorce his shrewish wife - so Bruno suggests that they "trade" murders. Guy laughs off the suggestion at first... until he realizes Bruno is serious. This Oscar-nominated noir from director Alfred Hitchcock also features the director's daughter, Patricia, in a supporting role.

Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Streetcar Named Desire, A

Drama | 1951

After losing the family plantation to creditors, aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) travels to New Orleans seeking solace in her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter). Instead, she goes toe-to-toe with Stella's brute of a husband, Stanley (Marlon Brando). Leigh, Hunter and Karl Malden all took home Oscars for their work in this sizzling adaptation of Tennessee Williams's classic rumination on carnal attraction and faded gentility.

Cast: Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh

Director: Elia Kazan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Sunset Boulevard

Drama | 1950

Running from debt collectors, screenwriter Joe (William Holden) stumbles upon the crumbling mansion of former silent-film star Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). As he begins working for Norma, writing a comeback screenplay, their professional relationship evolves into something more. A provocative look inside Hollywood show business, Billy Wilder's classic noir won Academy Awards for Art Direction, Music and Screenplay.

Cast: Gloria Swanson, William Holden

Director: Billy Wilder

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Sunset Limited, The

Drama | 2011

A searing, two character drama that mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between two strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. The story focuses on two very different men - a deeply religious black ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor (Tommy Lee Jones), who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, the Sunset Limited. As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. As their philosophical debate progresses, each spar passionately to defend their personal credo and convert the other.

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones

Director: Tommy Lee Jones

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Sweet Smell Of Success

Drama | 1957

Walter Winchell-style columnist J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) uses his power to steamroll both friends and enemies. Fawning press agent Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis), desperate to promote his client in Hunsecker's column, pesters Hunsecker until he's finally drawn into the columnist's devious plan to ruin a jazz guitarist who's angered Hunsecker by daring to date his sister. No one is left unscathed in this sinister tale of greed and corruption.

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Taxi Driver

Drama | 1976

Martin Scorsese crafts a violently prophetic, gripping vision of urban decay and insanity in which mentally unstable Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a cab through the sleaziest streets of pregentrified New York City and befriends a child hooker (Jodie Foster). The groundbreaking film earned four Oscar nominations, including nods for Best Picture, Best Score, and for De Niro and Foster's haunting performances.

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster

Director: Martin Scorsese

Genre: Drama

Language: English

That Evening Sun

Drama | 2009

Frustrated with being confined to a nursing facility, Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook) breaks out and walks all the way back to his farm. When he realizes his biggest enemy (Ray McKinnon) now lives in his house, Abner devises a plan to reclaim what rightfully belongs to him. Based on William Gay's short story, this Southern drama co-stars Walton Goggins as Abner's son, Paul, and Holbrook's real-life wife, Dixie Carter, as Abner's spouse, Ellen.

Cast: Hal Holbrook, Ray McKinnon

Director: Scott Teems

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Thelma And Louise

Drama | 1991

Waitress Louise Sawyer (Susan Sarandon) and naive housewife Thelma Dickinson (Geena Davis) take off for a simple weekend free of men... and become outlaws blazing a cathartic trail across America.

Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis

Director: Ridley Scott

Genre: Drama

Language: English

There Will Be Blood

Drama | 2007

Ambitious prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis, in an Oscar-winning role) strikes it rich when he buys the oil rights to a California family's ranch, turns a simple village into a boomtown and stokes the ire of a charismatic young preacher (Paul Dano). Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciaran Hinds and Russell Harvard co-star in writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-nominated adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel "Oil!".

Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Thin Red Line, The

Drama | 1998

With an all-star cast - featuring Sean Penn, George Clooney, Nick Nolte and Adrien Brody - director Terrence Malick's lyrical and beautiful retelling of James Jones's novel about the 1942 battle for Guadalcanal was nominated for seven Oscars. With narration by Pvt. Witt (Jim Cavaziel), the men of C-Company become a tight-knit group as they each individually face the horrors of war to hold onto a key-positioned airfield.

Cast: Nick Nolte, Sean Penn

Director: Terrence Malick

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Thomas Crown Affair, The

Drama | 1999

This 1999 remake (the 1968 version starred Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway) showcases debonair Pierce Brosnan as a multibillionaire art connoisseur who, for kicks, would rather steal art objects than buy them. Insurance company troubleshooter Rene Russo stalks him - all the way to his bedroom! Brosnan and Russo's chemistry is incendiary in this snappy mix of love and larceny.

Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo

Director: John McTiernan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Thomas Crown Affair, The

Drama | 1968

Millionaire businessman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is also a high-stakes thief; his latest caper is an elaborate heist at a Boston bank. Why does he do it? For the same reason he flies gliders, bets on golf strokes, and races dune buggies: he needs the thrill to feel alive. Insurance investigator Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway) gets her own thrills by busting crooks, and she's got Crown in her cross hairs.

Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway

Director: Norman Jewison

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Three Days Of The Condor

Drama | 1975

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson

Director: Sydney Pollack

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Time For Drunken Horses, A (Zamani baraye masti asbha)

Drama | 2000

When the youngest boy of a destitute Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation, resorting to manual labor and smuggling to raise the funds. With both parents dead, the children's devotion to one another is unparalleled, but mere day-to-day survival is tenuous in the unforgiving, freezing mountainous terrain along the Iran-Iraq border.

Cast: Nezhad Ekhtiar-Dini, Amaneh Ekhtiar-Dini

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Genre: Drama

Language: Persian (English subtitles)

Time To Kill, A

Drama | 1996

When two white men brutally rape a young black girl in a small Mississippi town, the child's vengeful father (Samuel L. Jackson) fears their acquittal and takes the law into his own hands. But as his trial date approaches, all hell breaks loose. Aided by lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) and his spunky legal assistant (Sandra Bullock), the father fights to stay out of prison and salve his daughter's terrible memories.

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock

Director: Joel Schumacher

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Tin Drum, The

Drama | 1979

The Tin Drum stands as a monumental exception to the rule that a great novel rarely inspires a great film. Young Oskar Matzerath, who grows up witnessing the rise of Nazism at the eve of World War II, decides at age 3 to stop growing - effectively shutting out the world and communicating only by banging on his tin drum. Volker Schlondorff's epic unfolds with cinematic artistry, psychological insight, political vision and symbolic richness.

Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler

Director: Volker Schlondorff

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

To Kill A Mockingbird

Drama | 1962

Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his brilliant performance as the Southern lawyer who defends a black man accused of rape in this film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The way in which it captures a time, a place, and above all, a mood, makes this film a masterpiece. The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him - except Peck, the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassion defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.

Cast: Gregory Peck, Phillip Alford, Mary Badham, Robert Duvall, Paul Fix

Director: Robert Mulligan

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Too Big To Fail

Drama | 2011

Too Big To Fail is an HBO television drama based on the book by Andrew Ross Sorkin that chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown, focusing on the actions of then Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson (William Hurt) to contain the unfolding catastrophe.

Cast: William Hurt, James Woods, Paul Giamatti, Ed Asner

Director: Curtis Hanson

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Trial, The

Drama | 2010

Following the death of his wife and sons, small-town lawyer "Mac" McClain (Matthew Modine) has lost the will to live, but he sets aside despair to defend young Pete Thomason (Randy Wayne) in a high-stakes case involving first-degree murder. In this courtroom drama that finds Pete accused of killing his girlfriend, unyielding prosecutor Joe Whetstone (Bob Gunton) seeks the death penalty, and McClain pursues redemption for the boy and for himsel.

Cast: Matthew Modine, Bob Gunton

Director: Gary Wheeler

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Tuesday, After Christmas (Marti, dupa craciun)

Drama | 2010

Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them before Christmas.

Cast: Dragos Bucur, Maria Popistasu, Mirela Oprisor

Director: Radu Muntean

Genre: Drama

Language: Romanian (English subtitles)

Tunes Of Glory

Drama | 1960

In Ronald Neame's "Tunes Of Glory", the incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair-a whiskey drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. When Basil Barrow (John Mills)-an educated, by-the-book scion of a traditionally military family-enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.

Cast: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York

Director: Ronald Neame

Genre: Drama

Language: English

U Turn

Drama | 1997

Bobby (Sean Penn) is a drifter on the run. But he's forced to stay put when his car breaks down in an unfamiliar town, where he meets several odd characters, including greasy mechanic Darrell (Billy Bob Thornton) and Jenny (Claire Danes), a teenager seeking refuge from her abusive boyfriend (Joaquin Phoenix). The plot thickens when he meets Jake (Nick Nolte), who offers Bobby a tidy sum if he'll murder his striking wife (Jennifer Lopez).

Cast: Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez

Director: Oliver Stone

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Uncertainty

Drama | 2008

A young couple facing a life-changing decision, Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins), stand on the Brooklyn Bridge, toss a coin and let the outcome decide their holiday plans. The action unfolds in intercutting scenes of both possibilities. This creative cinematic puzzle from filmmakers Scott McGehee and David Siegel (Bee Season) reveals an intricate thriller as well as a tense relationship drama.

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lynn Collins

Director: Scott McGehee

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Under Capricorn

Drama | 1949

In this rare historical costume drama from master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, the domestic life of a 19th century Australian couple (Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman) is turned upside down when a handsome gentleman (Michael Wilding) comes to visit. But a complex web of scandal, murder and romance is already in place when the visitor arrives. As one love triangle displaces another, social intrigue leads to the discovery of an unexpected crime.

Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Under Fire

Drama | 1983

On assignment, top photojournalist Russell Price (Nick Nolte) covers the civil war in Nicaragua circa 1979. When the rebel forces have Price take a photo of their leader, Rafael, who is thought to be dead, Price finds it difficult to stay neutral. He must evade the government-controlled army, all while negotiating a tricky love triangle with fellow journalists Claire (Joanna Cassidy) and Alex (Gene Hackman).

Cast: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman

Director: Roger Spottiswoode

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Up In The Air

Drama | 2009

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) racks up miles flying around the country firing employees on behalf of companies. But he faces losing the job he savors to recent college grad Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) - and losing the ability to escape emotional ties to anything. A connection he builds with Alex Goran (Vera Farmiga), however, might change his outlook on the future. Golden Globe winner Jason Reitman's smart comedy also stars Jason Bateman.

Cast: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga

Director: Jason Reitman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Verdict, The

Drama | 1982

A washed-up, ambulance-chasing attorney (Paul Newman) gets a chance at redemption when his friend (Jack Warden) tosses him an open-and-shut medical malpractice case. But instead of accepting an easy cash settlement, he takes the powerful defendant to court. James Mason plays the opposing counsel, whom his legal adversary calls "The Prince of Darkness," in this courtroom drama from director Sidney Lumet.

Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling

Director: Sidney Lumet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Wall Street

Drama | 1987

Enterprising stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) falls under the enticing spell of Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), an unabashedly greedy Wall Street arbitrageur. Gekko takes Fox under his wing, tutoring his charge in the unscrupulous tactics that put the corporate raider on top. But when Gekko embroils his protege in an insider-trading scheme that may risk the jobs of kith and kin, Fox develops a conscience and decides to turn the tables.

Cast: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas

Director: Oliver Stone

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Wall Street - Money Never Sleeps

Drama | 2010

Trader Jake (Shia LaBeouf) tries to mend the broken relationship between his fiancee, Winnie (Carey Mulligan), and her father, Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), while avenging the fate of his mentor, Lou (Frank Langella), by getting close to Wall Street's new megalomaniac, Bretton James (Josh Brolin). Centered on the 2008 financial crisis, director Oliver Stone's follow-up is a modern-day ode to unfettered capitalism and, of course, greed.

Cast: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf

Director: Oliver Stone

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Way Back, The

Drama | 2010

After narrowly escaping from a wretched World War II Siberian labor camp, a small band of multinational soldiers desperately undertakes a harrowing journey to traverse Siberia, the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas on foot. Directed by Peter Weir, this exciting drama about courage and endurance - based on a true story - stars Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong and Gustaf Skarsgard.

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris

Director: Peter Weir

Genre: Drama

Language: English

White Irish Drinkers

Drama | 2010

In a blue-collar Irish section of 1970s Brooklyn, brothers Danny (Geoff Wigdor) and Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) come of age in a family dominated by their longshoreman father, Patrick (Stephen Lang), whose hard-drinking leaves them scrambling for a way out. As delinquent Danny and dejected mom Margaret (Karen Allen) take the brunt of Patrick's assaults, aspiring artist Brian hides his dreams. But desperate acts will threaten them all.

Cast: Nick Thurston, Geoff Wigdor

Director: John Gray

Genre: Drama

Language: English

White Material

Drama | 2009

Writer-director Claire Denis returns to Africa - her childhood home and the site of her 1988 film, Chocolate - to spin this tale of a country torn apart by civil war, as African soldiers force French nationals to abandon their land. At the center of the story is Maria (Isabelle Huppert), a white woman who ignores her family's fears and steadfastly refuses to leave her coffee plantation. Isaach De Bankole and Christopher Lambert also star.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert

Director: Claire Denis

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

White Ribbon, The (Das Weiss Band)

Drama | 2009

At a rural school in northern Germany in 1913, a form of ritual punishment has major consequences for students and faculty. But the practice may have bigger repercussions on the German school system - and maybe even on the growth of fascism. Celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke helms this Golden Globe-winning, sumptuously photographed black-and-white drama that stars Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Tukur and Theo Trebs.

Cast: Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar

Director: Michael Haneke

Genre: Drama

Language: German (English subtitles)

Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles)

Drama | 2009

When the bag of amateur pilot Marguerite Muir (Sabine Azema) is stolen and its contents are strewn over a parking lot, fate sets into motion an intriguing sequence of events involving the pilot, a dentist and a mysterious man (Andre Dussollier) who finds her wallet. French new wave pioneer Alain Resnais adapts the Christian Gailly novel into a stirring drama, which screened in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast: Andre Dussollier, Sabine Azema

Director: Alain Resnais

Genre: Drama

Language: French (English subtitles)

Winslow Boy, The

Drama | 1999

When Arthur Winslow's (Nigel Hawthorne) 14-year-old son (Guy Edwards) is expelled from the Royal Naval College for stealing, he launches a long and costly effort to clear the boy's name. But in the process, the determined father may destroy his family. With clever dialogue, director David Mamet's drama - based on a play by Terence Rattigan - makes strong statements about the relative virtue of right and wrong when appearances mean everything.

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam

Director: David Mamet

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Winter's Bone

Drama | 2010

In director Debra Granik's unflinching noir drama set deep in the Ozarks, resilient teen Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) goes on the trail of her missing, drug-dealing father when his absence jeopardizes the family's safety. Her deadbeat dad has a key court date pending, and Ree is determined that he show up -- despite the objections of the insular Dolly clan. The film earned Oscar and Independent Spirit Award nods for Best Picture and for Lawrence.

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes

Director: Debra Granik

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Witness For The Prosecution

Drama | 1957

Based on an Agatha Christie play, this Oscar-nominated mystery directed and co-written by Billy Wilder concerns an esteemed and aging lawyer (Charles Laughton). On the eve of retiring, he takes on the defense of an alleged murderer (Tyrone Power, in his final film performance) accused of killing a wealthy widow. Things get complicated when the accused's only alibi, his wife (Marlene Dietrich), decides to testify for the prosecution.

Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich

Director: Billy Wilder

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Woman Under The Influence, A

Drama | 1974

Gena Rowlands delivers an emotionally wrenching, Oscar-nominated performance as Mabel, an anxious housewife whose life revolves around waiting for her children to return from school and her husband, Nick (Peter Falk), to return from work. Mabel's isolation eventually leads to a nervous breakdown that lands her in a mental hospital, while Nick struggles to keep their family intact, in this award-winning drama from director John Cassavetes.

Cast: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands

Director: John Cassavetes

Genre: Drama

Language: English

World According To Garp, The

Drama | 1982

Born the bastard son of an unconventional mother (Glenn Close), oddball writer T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) inhabits a strange universe filled with well-intentioned head cases, a feminist icon, a transsexual football player (brilliantly played by John Lithgow), fanatics and lovers. George Roy Hill (Slaughterhouse Five) directs this spirited adaptation of John Irving's best-selling novel, which proves both heartwarming and tragic.

Cast: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt

Director: George Roy Hill

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Wronged Man, The

Drama | 2010

The uncommon bond between paralegal Janet Gregory (Julia Ormond) and convicted rapist Calvin Willis (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali) is at the heart of this redemption drama based on a true story. Husband and father Willis claims he has been falsely accused, but Gregory is not readily convinced. Eventually persuaded to his side, Gregory takes on the case pro bono, and together they mount a 22-year battle to overturn Willis's sentence.

Cast: Julia Ormond, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali

Director: Tom McLoughlin

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Yellow Handkerchief, The

Drama | 2008

Recently released from jail, convict Brett Hanson (William Hurt) grows close to a young couple, Martine (Kristen Stewart) and Gordy (Eddie Redmayne), while journeying back home to his wife, May (Maria Bello). Set in Louisiana, this romantic road trip drama explores the loneliness everyone carries. Director Udayan Prasad remakes Yoji Yamada's acclaimed 1977 Japanese film, which was adapted from a column by American novelist Pete Hamill.

Cast: William Hurt, Maria Bello

Director: Udayan Prasad

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Young Philadelphians, The

Drama | 1959

Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence (Paul Newman) faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and professional skills are tested as he tries to balance the needs of his fiance Joan, the expectations of his colleagues and his own obligation to defend his friend Chester on a murder count.

Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith, Brian Keith

Director: Vincent Sherman

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Young Victoria, The

Drama | 2009

Eighteen-year-old British royal Victoria (Emily Blunt) ascends to the throne and is romanced by future husband Prince Albert (Rupert Friend) in this lush period film that chronicles the early years of the British monarch's larger-than-life reign. Produced by Martin Scorsese and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, the Oscar-nominated film also stars Miranda Richardson as the Duchess of Kent, Jim Broadbent as King William, and Paul Bettany as Lord Melbourne.

Cast: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend

Director: Jean-Marc Vallee

Genre: Drama

Language: English

Zorba The Greek

Drama | 1964

Basil (Alan Bates), a young English writer, meets a free-spirited Greek peasant named Zorba (Anthony Quinn) on the island of Crete. While Zorba pursues a relationship with aging French courtesan Madame Hortense (Lila Kedrova, who won an Oscar for her role), Basil attempts to court a young widow. Along the way, he learns valuable life lessons from the earthy Zorba, who has an unquenchable joie de vivre. Nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Cast: Anthony Quinn, Alan Bates

Director: Michael Cacoyannis

Genre: Drama

Language: English