Drama - Movies

Freaky

Drama

Prepare for a Freaky take on the body-swap movie which only Blumhouse (makers of Happy Death Day & The Purge Franchise) could bring: a teenage girl switches bodies with a relentless serial killer! High school senior Millie (Kathryn Newton, Blockers, HBO's Big Little Lies) is just trying to survive being the unpopular kid when she becomes The Butcher's (Vince Vaughn) next target. Their fateful encounter gets twisted and they wake up in each other's bodies. Now looking like a towering psychopath, Millie learns she only has 24 hours to reverse the curse and get her body back before the switch becomes permanent and she's trapped in the form of a middle-aged maniac forever.

Big Sur

Drama

A recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Next of Kin (1989)

Drama

Patrick Swayze ("Dirty Dancing," "Ghost") stars in this hit action-packed film as a dedicated Chicago cop with roots deeply embedded in the Appalachian backwoods. When the mob cruelly inflicts tragedy on his family, he is forced to put his loyalties to the test, and a violent clash of clans results. Co-starring Academy Award-nominees Liam Neeson ("Nell," "Schindler's List") and Michael J. Pollard ("Bonnie and Clyde"), Ben Stiller ("There's Something About Mary"), Adam Baldwin ("Wyatt Earp"), and "Twister" stars Golden Globe-nominee Bill Paxton ("A Simple Plan," "Titanic") and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Helen Hunt ("As Good As It Gets," "Mad About You").

Secret Honor

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Sequestered in his home, a disgraced President Richard Milhous Nixon arms himself with a bottle of scotch and a gun to record memoirs that no one will hear. He is surrounded by the silent portraits of Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kissinger, and his mother, as he resurrects his past in a passionate attempt to defend himself and his political legacy. Based on the original play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, and starring Philip Baker Hall in a tour de force solo performance, Robert Altman’s Secret Honor is a searing interrogation of the Nixon mystique and an audacious depiction of unchecked paranoia.

Rudderless

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Award-winning actor William H. Macy makes his directorial debut in this heartfelt and inspirational drama lead by an exemplary cast. Sam (Billy Crudup), a former high-profile ad executive, is devastated by the sudden death of his musician son. When Sam discovers a box filled with his son's demo tapes, the grieving father’s downward spiral comes to a standstill as he explores this unexpected gift. After mustering the will to perform one of the songs at a local bar, Sam meets and forms a friendship with Quentin (Anton Yelchin), a young musician. The unlikely duo forms a rock band that becomes a local sensation, and they set out on an emotional musical journey that ultimately revitalizes both of their lives.

The Third Man (1949)

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In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident, and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?

The World According to Garp

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Robin Williams plays John Irving's quirky everyman, a wistful writer wrestling with our screw-loose modern age. Award-winning performances by Glen Close and John Lithgow.

Icebox

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A timely, highly emotional contemporary drama sure to strike a nerve with viewers, Icebox explores the grim realities of the current U.S. immigration system through eyes of Oscar, a 12-year-old schoolboy from Honduras, whose unsolicited connection with a violent local gang has led his parents to smuggle him out of the country in hopes of escaping to America, and a better life under the care of his uncle Manuel, a recent immigrant. Caught by border agents in the Arizona desert and sent to an immigrant processing center for minors, Oscar struggles to gain control of his fate inside the "Icebox," befriending a young Colombian boy named Rafael and, later, an American journalist who agrees to track down Manuel in exchange for intel about life inside the center. Eventually Oscar is remanded to Manuel's care, but further perils await in the form of an asylum hearing without representation and, later, a solo bus journey to a sanctuary city to begin a new life, albeit not one he envisioned when he entered the United States.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

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Jason Robards, Martin Balsam and E.G. Marshall star in this definitive, authentic reenactment of the “date which will live in infamy,” and the political intrigue that preceded it. The code words TORA! TORA! TORA! meant that the Japanese Imperial Navy’s attack on Pearl Harbor and other targets on December 7, 1941 had begun. With over 3,000 killed or wounded, America was abruptly drawn into WWII.

Tess

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This multiple-Oscar-winning film by Roman Polanski is an exquisite, richly layered adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. A strong-willed peasant girl (Nastassja Kinski, in a gorgeous breakthrough) is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line. This fateful visit commences an epic narrative of sex, class, betrayal, and revenge, which Polanski unfolds with deliberation and finesse. With its earthy visual textures, achieved by two world-class cinematographers—Geoffrey Unsworth (Cabaret and Ghislain Cloquet (Au hasard Balthazar)—Tess is a work of great pastoral beauty as well as vivid storytelling.

Debbie Macomber's Call Me Mrs. Miracle

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A group of connected New Yorkers brace for a tough Christmas season as they fear for their jobs, pray for a loved one’s safe return from war, mourn the loss of a family member, and struggle to balance work and personal life. That is until Mrs. Miracle arrives—the charming, older lady who turns their lives upside down in ways they couldn’t have possibly imagined. With a little help of her “magic touch,” they all find happiness during the holiday season. Stars Doris Roberts, Eric Johnson, and Lauren Holly.

The Score

Drama

In this intriguing crime thriller, Nick, an expert safecracker, decides it might be time to settle down with his girlfriend and stick to his legitimate business, running a jazz nightclub. Max, his friend and partner, has other plans. Heavily in debt to a crime boss, Max needs Nick to pull one last heist: help novice thief Jack Teller steal a scepter worth $30 million from the House of Customs. Featuring the last big-screen role of Marlon Brando.

Bird (1988)

Drama

Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood ("Letters from Iwo Jima," "Flags of Our Fathers"), a well-known, long-standing jazz aficionado, delivers a compassionate portrait of jazz visionary Charlie "Yardbird" Parker. Eastwood, who won a Golden Globe for Best Director for this film, also paints a vivid portrait of the jazz world in all its complexity. Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland," "Phone Booth"), as Parker, provides a multifaceted performance that helps provide an understanding of the man's genius, and tragedy. Co-starring Diane Venora ("The Insider," "Heat"), who along with Whitaker was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance in this picture, Bill Cobbs ("Night at the Museum," "The Hudsucker Proxy"), John Witherspoon (the "Friday" movie series, TV's "The Wayans Bros.") and Tony Cox ("Bad Santa," "Epic Movie"). This music-driven film was an Academy Award-winner for Best Sound.

Beautiful

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Headstrong Mona Hubbard (Minnie Driver) is a fiercely driven woman with only one goal: to capture the coveted "Miss American Miss" beauty award. Helping her is Mona's childhood friend and consummate nurturer Ruby and Ruby's daughter Vanessa. But as the pageant looms closer, Mona starts to think whether her sacrifices of family, in pursuit of a beauty pageant victory, was worth it?

The Debt

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Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren and two-time Academy Award® nominee Tom Wilkinson star in The Debt, “a pulse-pounding and politically charged suspense thriller.” (Karen Durbin, Elle) In 1966, three Mossad agents were assigned to track down a feared Nazi war criminal hiding in East Berlin, a mission accomplished at great risk and personal cost – or was it? Thirty years later, the suspense builds as shocking news and surprising revelations compel retired team member Rachel Singer (Mirren) to take matters into her own hands. Co-starring Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Ciarán Hinds, it’s the film critics call “an intelligent thriller with superb performances.” (USA Today)

Let Him Go

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Following the tragic loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge (Kevin Costner) and his wife Margaret (Diane Lane) leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family in the Dakotas, headed by matriarch Blanche Weboy. When they discover the Weboys have no intention of letting the child go, George and Margaret are left with no choice but to fight for their family.

Kansas

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A drifter becomes both a bank robber and a hero in this crime thriller. Andrew McCarthy stars as Wade Corey, who hitches a ride on a freight train already occupied by Doyle Kennedy (Matt Dillon), a charming ex-con who convinces Wade to accompany him to his hometown. Once there, Wade realizes too late that Doyle is intent on robbing the local bank. After they are separated following the crime, Wade hides the money. Happening upon a drowning in progress, he saves a young girl who just happens to be the daughter of the state governor, and he becomes an unlikely hero. Finding work at a nearby farm, the meandering Wade becomes a hired hand, falls for the beautiful daughter (Leslie Hope) of his boss, and dreads the return of Doyle, who is sure to come looking for his money.

August: Osage County

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Based on Tracy Letts' Pulitzer® Prize- and Tony® Award-winning play of the same name, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY is a dark, hilarious, and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in and the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Directed by John Wells (THE COMPANY MEN), the film features an all-star cast led by Golden Globe®-Nominees Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, including Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Abigail Breslin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juliette Lewis, Margo Martindale, Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, and Misty Upham.

Magnolia

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This sprawling character study follows 10 people whose damaged lives intersect--often by sheer coincidence--during a single day in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.

United 93

Drama

A defining day in our history. It's an event that shook the world. Honest, unflinching and profoundly moving, United 93 tells the unforgettable story of the heroic passengers and crew members who prevented the terrorists from carrying out their plans for the fourth hijacked plane on September 11, 2001. As on-ground military and civilian teams scrambled to make sense of the unfolding events, forty people sat down as strangers found the courage to stand up as one.

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