Drama - Movies

Wheels

Drama

Max is a young DJ from Brooklyn who dreams of a better life. He struggles to support himself and his grandmother by DJing parties for a neighborhood shark. With the return of his troubled brother from prison, Max’s dreams become distant. Will he heed the advice of DJ Monty, his mentor, to hone his craft for a real way out? At a crossroad, Liza, a love interest, inspires him to see the choice is in his hands.

The Good Witch's Gift

Drama

Cassandra "Cassie" Nightingale always has a few tricks up her sleeve, but is surprised when her handsome fiancé, chief of police Jake Russell, proposes they set their wedding date for Christmas Eve—only six days away! The two hurry to plan the magical holiday wedding, but run into trouble when a criminal from Jake’s past returns to town. Stars Catherine Bell and Chris Potter.

Snow Angels

Drama

A story of love lost and found in a small town, Snow Angels is a heartrending portrayal of three couples in various stages of life orbiting around each other in search of connection and meaning. An unexpected act of violence disrupts the lives of these intertwined couples revealing the profound moments in which they each realize how precarious and remarkable life can be. High school student Arthur plays trombone in the marching band, busses tables at the local Chinese restaurant and avoids his squabbling parents. At work, he flirts with Annie, who used to be his baby-sitter. Annie is trying to build a new life for herself and her daughter after splitting with high school sweetheart Glenn. A man with a troubled past, Glenn hopes to make a new start by getting a job and reconnecting with his family. At school, Arthur meets a pretty girl, Lila, who is just as nerdy as he is, and they quickly develop a crush on each other. Though Lila makes her feelings for Arthur painfully obvious, Arthur is reluctant to accept her advances as he watches his father move out of the family home while his mother struggles to keep things together. Determined to find happiness, Arthur begins to fall for the irresistible Lila, even as he witnesses Annie and Glenn tear each other apart in a series of distressing encounters at the same time as his parents begin separate lives. Then, on a cold winter morning, Glenn and Annie's past catches up with their future. In one shocking moment, all of the pain and struggle comes to a screeching halt. For them, and for everyone who knows them, nothing will ever be the same.

A Girl Named Tamiko

Drama

Laurence Harvey plays a Eurasian photographer who is trapped in Japan, but who wants to emigrate to the United States. His visa is continually delayed, which causes him to use his charm with women to pull some strings and apply some pressure on the embassy. His romantic magnetism works on a thrill-seeking American and an aristocratic Japanese woman. They both love him and further complicate his life by forcing him to choose between them.

Thirty

Drama

In the wee hours, a newspaper's editor is about to finish the next day's edition when two riveting stories come in--and the newspaper goes into high gear to cover the stories in -30-. A young girl has been lost in the city's flood drains and a storm is coming in. At the same time, the newsman's grandson is aboard an air force plane that is missing while attempting to set a record on a flight from Honolulu to Washington, D.C. Now, even as lives hang in the balance, these professional newsmen must put their feelings aside as they rush complete morning edition.

The Company Men

Drama

High-powered sales exec Bobby Walker (Academy-Award®-winner Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, and shiny Porsche in the garage. But when corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Academy-Award®-winner Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Academy-Award®-winner Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, he must redefine his life as a man, a husband and a father. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law (Academy-Award®-winner Kevin Costner) that does not play to his executive skill set, and - perhaps – the realization that there is more to life than chasing the bigger, better deal. With humor, pathos, and keen observation, writer-director John Wells (TV’s ER, TV’s THE WEST WING) introduces us to the new realities of American life in this story hailed by The New Yorker as “one of the year’s best films.”

Ordinary People

Drama

An extraordinary motion picture, Ordinary People is an intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy. Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose "ordinary" existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident. Timothy Hutton is the younger son, struggling against suicide and guilt left by the drowning. Judd Hirsch is the empathetic psychiatrist who provides his lifeline to survival. Mary Tyler Moore gives a riveting portrayal of the inexplicably aloof mother. Robert Redford’s achievement as director, after more than twenty years as a superstar in front of the camera, earned him an Oscar®. Superb performances and masterful direction complement the award-winning screenplay, based upon the novel by Judith Guest.

Sparkle (1976)

Drama

Three talented sisters claw their way from the Harlem ghetto to stardom in the rock 'n' roll world of the 1950s, a world of fame, music and Sparkle. But even though they escape the ghetto, the sisters cannot escape its problems, and their dream of celebrity and success becomes a nightmare of jealousy and drugs in this powerful tale.

Tell It to the Marines

Drama

"Lon Chaney is superb" (Leonard Maltin) as the hard-boiled sergeant with a heart of gold in this two-fisted tale of Marine Corps life, costarring William Haines and Eleanor Boardman. When Skeet Burns (Haines) joins the U.S. Marines, he winds up under Sergeant O'Hara (Chaney), the toughest leatherneck in the Corps., and both men fall for Navy nurse Norma Dale (Boardman). When they're stationed in the Philippines, Skeet's dalliance with a native girl (Carmel Myers) tips the scale in O'Hara's favor. Reassigned to China, the two must put their differences aside when they're ordered to Hangchow to rescue Norma and the nurses from a bandit leader (Warner Oland), whose gang has invaded the city. The first film made with the full cooperation of the Corps, Tell It to the Marines was Chaney's highest-grossing picture at MGM. His performance earned him the title of Honorary Marine, the first actor to receive it.

Christmas Land

Drama

A Hallmark Channel original movie. When Jules (Nikki DeLoach) inherits a Christmas tree farm from her late grandmother, she decides the sensible thing to do is to sell it. However, once she revisits the farm, she falls in love with the townspeople and meets a very special--and handsome-town lawyer named Tucker (Luke Macfarlane). But will Jules' haste in selling Christmas Land alienate her from the entire town and from Tucker?

WarGames

Drama

A teenager, bored by traditional high school subjects like biology but fascinated by computers, accidentally taps into the Pentagon's top-secret computer...the USA's NORAD system. He starts what he innocently believes is a computer game called "Global Thermonuclear War," but the "game" is real. The Pentagon's best minds cannot shut down or reprogram the supercomputer that is readying a missile attack against the USSR, and thereby unleash Armageddon. The teen and his girlfriend attempt to aid the helpless Pentagon and, in a frantic race against a ticking "doomsday clock," try to persuade the computer to end the "game."

Das Boot (The Director's Cut)

Drama

It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served.

Love in the Afternoon (1972)

Drama

Though happily married to his adoring wife Hélène, with whom he is expecting a second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day. His flirtations and fantasies remain harmless until Chloé (played by the mesmerizing Zouzou), an audacious, unencumbered old flame, shows up at his office, embodying the first genuine threat to Frédéric’s marriage. The luminous final chapter to Rohmer’s "Moral Tales" is a tender, sobering, and wholly adult affair that leads to perhaps the most overwhelmingly emotional moment in the entire series.

STREET SURVIVORS: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash

Drama

In 1977, a plane carrying Southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd mysteriously runs out of gas mid-air en route to a concert, crashing into a dangerous Louisiana swamp while killing several of the band members, crew and both pilots. STREET SURVIVORS: The True Story of The Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash tells the story thru one of the survivors, drummer Artimus Pyle, who not only survived the fatal crash (that claimed the life of the band's founder and front man Ronnie Van Zant amongst others), but who also bravely pulled the remaining survivors out of the plane wreckage before staggering towards the nearest farmhouse in rural Louisiana to seek help.

Dead Silence

Drama

Seven deaf students and their teacher...three violent convicts...the one man who stands between them. James Garner plays a hostage negotiator in this terrifying thriller about a crisis that could explode at any minute. Also starring Kim Coates, Charles Martin Smith (American Graffiti), Lolita Davidovich and Marlee Matlin.

Reckless (1984)

Drama

Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Jennifer Grey, and Adam Baldwin star in this romantic drama. Johnny Rourke hates his steel mill town, his school, his father, and his life. Tall, blonde Tracey Prescott has a boyfriend, a good family, and a perfect life--but she wants Rourke. Tracey realizes that her parents' middle-class life would never have been enough for her.

Everything Put Together

Drama

Angie and Russ, a young, well-off, loving suburban couple, eagerly await the birth of their first child. Angie's friends are also pregnant and together their worlds revolve around babies, husbands and the rituals of family life. When an unexpected tragedy befalls Angie and Russ, the community that they were once integrally involved in begins to disappear. Their fair-weather friends, unable to find a way to console or share the couple's grief, simply withdraw, leaving Angie and her husband alone in their sorrow and in their darkest hours of need. Angie's grief begins to drive her to act out in strange and frightening ways.

The Hill (1965)

Drama

Academy Award winner Sean Connery stars as a prisoner who refuses to be broken by a sadistic guard at a World War II British military stockade in the Libyan desert in this drama directed by the acclaimed Sidney Lumet.

The Big House

Drama

Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery lead in this suspenseful film that depicts the range, desperation and loyalty of 3,000 felons, inhabiting an institution built for only 1,800.

Loving Vincent

Drama

The life and controversial death of Vincent van Gogh told by his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them. The intrigue unfolds through interviews with the characters closest to Vincent and through dramatic reconstructions of the events leading up to his death. Loving Vincent features 120 of Vincent van Gogh's greatest paintings. The plot, drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter himself, leads us to the significant people and events in the time prior to his unexpected death. Every shot is painted just as Vincent himself painted.

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