Drama movies

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Talk to Me (2007)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries:
Actors: Jim Annan | Benz Antoine | Matt Birman | David Brown | Cedric the Entertainer | Don Cheadle | J. Miles Dale | Davidx | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Mike Epps | Kamal Jones | Jeff Kassel | Jim Malmberg | Erick Peterson | Kwame Rakes
Directors: Kasi Lemmons
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

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The Black Pimpernel (2007)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | Mexico | Sweden
Actors: Michael Nyqvist | Kate del Castillo | Lumi Cavazos | Carsten Norgaard | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Patrick Bergin | Cristián Campos | Claire Ross-Brown | Lisa Werlinder
Directors: Åsa Faringer
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The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his total commitment? Haunted by his own demons the we experiences on close hand how a womanizer desperately searches to find love again, a task only doable, if he can fight his own past and redeem himself. After saving hundreds - maybe even thousands - he is challenged once more, this time to save his newfound love from the death penalty issued by the regime. Another impossible task and a desperate chase against time. Based on a true story about a man, that did, what all of us only dreams of.

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Full of It (2007)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: Italy | South Africa | USA
Actors: Ryan Pinkston | Kate Mara | Teri Polo | Craig Kilborn | John Carroll Lynch | Cynthia Stevenson | Amanda Walsh | Derek McGrath | Joshua Close | Matt Gordon | Alex House | Nick Ouellette | Garth Merkeley | Sean Hewlett | Carmen Electra
Directors: Christian Charles
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Sam Leonard (Ryan Pinkston) is the new kid at Bridgeport High School. On his first day, he is humiliated by the school jock Kyle Plunkett (Josh Close), becomes friends with Annie Dray (Kate Mara), and falls in love with Kyle’s girlfriend Vicki Sanders (Amanda Walsh). When he goes to the guidance counselor (Craig Kilborn) for guidance, the counselor gives him the advice to lie to get the other kids to like him. Sam tells lies like “I drive a Porsche”, “My dad’s a rock star”, “My dog ate my homework”, “I never miss a shot” (at basketball) and that Vicki Sanders and his English teacher Mrs. Moran (Teri Polo) are lusting after him. That night, after an argument with his parents (John Carroll Lynch and Cynthia Stevenson), he accidentally breaks the mirror behind his door. The next morning, Sam finds his dog actually eating his homework, he has a Porsche, he never misses a shot, and Mrs. Moran and Vicki Sanders are after him. Now he must find a way to fix what he’s created.

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First Snow (2006)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Guy Pearce | Piper Perabo | William Fichtner | J.K. Simmons | Shea Whigham | Rick Gonzalez | Jackie Burroughs | Adam Scott | Portia Dawson | Cherilyn Hayres | Luce Rains | Brian Gamble | David House | Jose J. Marquez | John Burton Jr.
Directors: Mark Fergus
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Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (Simmons) assures him a windfall is on its way. But although Jimmy should be happy when his boss suddenly agrees to financially back his business venture, he starts to become paranoid instead. As his girlfriend Deirdre (Perabo) and his best friend/ business partner Ed (Fichtner) watch him slowly come unwound, Jimmy wonders if a past betrayal of his friend, newly paroled Vince (Whigham), could be catching up to him. And, as the weather turns cold, Jimmy can’t help but fear the mysterious seer’s other prediction… that they’ll be no tomorrow after the first snow.

The Walker (2007)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Woody Harrelson | Kristin Scott Thomas | Lauren Bacall | Ned Beatty | Moritz Bleibtreu | Mary Beth Hurt | Lily Tomlin | Willem Dafoe | William Hope | Geff Francis | Steven Hartley | Garrick Hagon | Michael J. Reynolds | Allen Lidkey | Stewart Alexander
Directors: Paul Schrader
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An escort (Harrelson) who caters to Washington D.C.’s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

Interview (2007)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Short
Countries: USA
Actors: Larrs Jackson | Mark Kelly | Courtney Thomas
Directors: Charles Burmeister
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After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist (Buscemi) is forced to interview America’s most popular soap actress (Miller).

Cape Fear (1991)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Nick Nolte | Jessica Lange | Juliette Lewis | Joe Don Baker | Robert Mitchum | Gregory Peck | Martin Balsam | Illeana Douglas | Fred Dalton Thompson | Zully Montero | Craig Henne | Forest Burton | Edgar Allan Poe IV | Rod Ball
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/”Leave It to Beaver”-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady’s rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Antitrust (2001)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Phillippe | Rachael Leigh Cook | Claire Forlani | Tim Robbins | Douglas McFerran | Richard Roundtree | Tygh Runyan | Yee Jee Tso | Nate Dushku | Ned Bellamy | Tyler Labine | Scott Bellis | David Lovgren | Zahf Paroo | Jonathon Young
Directors: Peter Howitt
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This movie is the fictional story of computer programming genius Milo Hoffman after graduating from Stanford and getting out into the competitive world of computer software. In his contemplation of where to begin his career, he is contacted by Gary Winston whose character is loosely based on Bill Gates. Winston is the CEO of a company called NURV, and they are on the brink of completing the global communication’s system, Synapse. They need Hoffman to help them meet their launch date, so after much thought and with the full support of his girlfriend Alice, he accepts the job. Tragedy soon after strikes and Milo becomes suspicious of the company he has been wrapped up in. He learns that trusting anyone could be a mistake, and that nothing is as it seems.

48 Hrs. (1982)

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nick Nolte | Eddie Murphy | Annette O'Toole | Frank McRae | James Remar | David Patrick Kelly | Sonny Landham | Brion James | Kerry Sherman | Jonathan Banks | James Keane | Tara King | Greta Blackburn | Margot Rose | Denise Crosby
Directors: Walter Hill
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Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.