Tag: Drama
Burlesque (2010)
A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.
Faster (2010)
An ex-con gets on a series of apparently unrelated killings. He gets tracked by a veteran cop with secrets of his own and an egocentric hit man.
Love & Other Drugs (2010)
A young woman suffering from Parkinson’s befriends a drug rep working for Pfizer in 1990s Pittsburgh.
Fair Game (2010)
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Howl (2010)
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009)
Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.
Morning Glory (2010)
An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts.
Due Date (2010)
High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child’s birth on time.
Conviction (2010)
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
A Film Unfinished (2010)
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Hereafter (2010)
A drama centered on three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways.
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
Sally’s parents’ marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid-life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute. Meanwhile, Sally’s own marriage also begins to disintegrate.
A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop (2009)
The owner of a Chinese noodle shop’s scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
Agora (2009)
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the famous philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Life as We Know It (2010)
Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident.
Never Let Me Go (2010)
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
Secretariat (2010)
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.