46 posts tagged with drama by johnofjack.
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Movie: Looking for Mr. Goodbar
[Trailer] Dedicated schoolteacher Theresa Dunn spends her nights cruising bars, looking for males with whom she can engage in progressively dangerous extreme sexual encounters. [more inside]
Movie: Alone
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold-blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness, where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her. [more inside]
Movie: National Anthem
[Trailer] A 21-year-old construction worker in New Mexico joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Kuroneko / Black Cat
In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. [more inside]
Movie: Brand Upon the Brain!
Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him. [more inside]
Movie: Southern Comfort
[Trailer] During a routine exercise, a team of National Guardsmen are threatened by angry and violent locals. -- IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Santa Sangre
[Trailer] A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms". -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: El hoyo en la cerca / The Hole in the Fence
[Trailer] As every year, the Los Pinos school, a prestigious school of the confessional type, sends its students on retreat to the countryside. Under the watchful eye of teachers and priests, the children are led on the path of their physical and moral development. Through the gaze of several middle and upper class teenagers, the film shows how their upbringing affects the future of society itself. -- Trakt [more inside]
Movie: Beast (2018)
[Trailer] A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders. - IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Nanny
[Trailer] Piecing together a new life in New York City while caring for the child of an Upper East Side family, immigrant nanny Aisha is forced to confront a concealed truth that threatens to shatter her precarious American Dream. -IMDb [more inside]
Movie: The Room
[Trailer] Matt and Kate buy an isolated house. While moving, they discover a strange room that grants them an unlimited number of material wishes. But since Kate has had two miscarriages, what they long for the most is a child. -- IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Prevenge
Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way. --IMDb
Movie: Big Boys (2023)
[Trailer] A shy 14-year-old boy's camping trip is complicated when his cousin brings her boyfriend along. [more inside]
Movie: The Masque of the Red Death
[Trailer] A sadistic devil-worshipping prince intends to wait out a plague in his castle with his friends. [more inside]
Movie: The Stepford Wives
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents. -- IMDb
Movie: Possum
[TRAILER] A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life. -- IMDb [more inside]
Movie: Soy Cuba / I Am Cuba / Я - Куба
A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution. A young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend. A tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how. University students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval. And, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family get swept up into the burgeoning revolt. [more inside]
Book: Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë
At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.
Movie: Thelma
A sheltered college student tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her, causing her suppressed psychokinetic powers to reemerge. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: La noire de ... / Black Girl
Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a governess to a family in southern France, where she suffers from discrimination and marginalization. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: To Sleep with Anger
A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: La haine
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Persona
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Oldboy
Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find the person who kidnapped him and kept him in solitary confinement for twenty years. [more inside]
Movie: Oldboy
(Original title: Oldeuboi) After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. [more inside]
Movie: Chinjeolhan geumjassi / Lady Vengeance
After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Boksuneun naui geot / Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Pariah
A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak and family in a desperate search for sexual expression. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Le retour de Martin Guerre / The Return of Martin Guerre
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army. Trailer [more inside]
Movie: Ichi the Killer
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving. Trailer [more inside]
Movie: An Angel at My Table
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: My Man Godfrey
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: When the Wind Blows
A naïve elderly rural British couple deal with the aftermath of a nuclear war. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Far from Heaven
In 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world. [more inside]
Movie: Safe
An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Kwaidan
A collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes. The trailer contains spoilers for at least one of the stories, if you're not familiar with them already. [more inside]
Movie: If....
In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England. [more inside]
Movie: Quiz Show
A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation. [more inside]
Movie: Serpico
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Z
The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Two drag queens and a transwoman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: The Man in the White Suit
An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Spa Night
A closeted Korean-American teenager takes a job at a Korean spa to help his struggling family, only to discover an underground world of gay sex at the spa that both scares and excites him. Trailer. [more inside]
Movie: Forbidden Games
A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death. [more inside]
Movie: Fanny and Alexander
Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls. [more inside]
Movie: Tell No One
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's somehow alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death. [more inside]
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