Drama movies

Anna Christie (1930)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Garbo, Greta | Bickford, Charles | Marion, George F. | Dressler, Marie | Mack, James T. | Phelps, Lee | Baxley, Jack | O'Brien, William H.
Directors: Brown, Clarence
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Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.

42nd Street (1933)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Baxter, Warner | Daniels, Bebe | Brent, George | Keeler, Ruby | Kibbee, Guy | Merkel, Una | Rogers, Ginger | Sparks, Ned | Powell, Dick | Jenkins, Allen | Nugent, Edward J. | McWade, Robert | Stone, George E. | Akst, Harry | Clark, Wallis
Directors: Bacon, Lloyd
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The source from which all modern musicals flow: An ailing Broadway director returns to produce one final show, but his leading lady is injured and must be replaced by a novice. Call it dated, but it’s aged to perfection, and the final twenty minute sequence will leave you tapping your toes, with a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Movies—never mind musicals—just don’t get any better than this.

Long Good Friday, The (1980)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Freeman, Paul | Dolan, Leo | McNally, Kevin | Love, Patti | Moriarty, P.H. | Thompson, Derek | Marshall, Bryan | Hoskins, Bob | Mirren, Helen | Head, Ruby | Cork, Charles | Pierre, Olivier | Brosnan, Pierce | O'Malley, Daragh | King, Dave
Directors: Mackenzie, John
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Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.

Fire Down Below (1957)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Seagal, Steven | Helgenberger, Marg | Lang, Stephen | Hunt, Brad | Kristofferson, Kris | Stanton, Harry Dean | Helm, Levon | Collie, Mark | Harvey, Alex | Bruce, Ed | Neighbors, Amelia | Masur, Richard | Krawic, Michael | Jeter, Clay | Pollard, Yvonne
Directors: Enríquez Alcalá, Félix
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Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.

Fallen Angel (2003)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Sinise, Gary | Richardson, Joely | Pinsent, Gordon | Benattar, Jordy | Rhoades, Michael | Roberts, Rick | Nichols, Dave | Craig, Philip | Trotter, Kate | Art Hindle | Gooch, Bruce | Brockman, Jake | Simpkins, Ryan | Wiegers, Alisa | Roberts, Shawn
Directors: Switzer, Michael
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When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.

Passage to India, A (1984)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Judy | Banerjee, Victor | Ashcroft, Peggy | Fox, James | Guinness, Alec | Havers, Nigel | Wilson, Richard | Pemberton, Antonia | Culver, Michael | Malik, Art | Jaffrey, Saeed | Swift, Clive | Firbank, Ann | Seth, Roshan | Hotz, Sandra
Directors: Lean, David
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiancé, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community’s insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies.

Paths of Glory (1957)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Douglas, Kirk | Meeker, Ralph | Menjou, Adolphe | Macready, George | Morris, Wayne | Anderson, Richard | Turkel, Joe | Kubrick, Christiane | Hausner, Jerry | Capell, Peter | Meyer, Emile | Freed, Bert | Dibbs, Kem
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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In Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” war is viewed in terms of power. This mesmerizing, urgent film about a true episode in World War I combines the idea that class differences are more important than national differences with the cannon-fodder theory of war, the theory that soldiers are merely pawns in the hands of generals who play at war is if it were a game of chess. The result of this amazing film has been the emergence of one of the great talents in contemporary cinema, the master whose greatest work was yet to come.

Out of the Past (1947)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Mitchum, Robert | Greer, Jane | Douglas, Kirk | Fleming, Rhonda | Webb, Richard | Brodie, Steve | Huston, Virginia | Valentine, Paul | Moore, Dickie | Niles, Ken | Benedict, Brooks | Blake, Oliver | Blanco, Eumenio | Bly, Wesley | Brill, Hubert
Directors: Tourneur, Jacques
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For the last three years, Jeff Bailey has been laying low and trying to live a normal life. He’s been running his own gas station but prior to that, had been a pretty good private detective. His last job had been for a gangster, Whit Sterling, who him to find Kathy Moffat, who just happens to have shot him, and recover the $40,000 she stole. Jeff found her in Mexico but fell in love with her. She eventually ran out on him and he decided it might be better if he found a new line of work. When one of Sterling’s henchmen happens to see him pumping gas, he’s summoned to the gangster’s Lake Tahoe estate. Sterling’s offer is quite simple: recover some incriminating tax files and all will be forgotten. Jeff soon realizes however that he’s being set up and framed for murder.

Fury (1936)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvia Sidney | Tracy, Spencer | Abel, Walter | Cabot, Bruce | Ellis, Edward | Brennan, Walter | Albertson, Frank | Walcott, George | Stone, Arthur | Wallace, Morgan | Chandler, George | Gray, Roger | Maxwell, Edwin | Hickman, Howard C. | Hale, Jonathan
Directors: Lang, Fritz
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Passing through a small town, Joe is arrested for kidnapping. A lynch mob burns down the jail and Joe is believed killed. The incident has been captured on newsreel film and, for revenge, Joe urges his brothers to use the film to prove the mob guilty of his murder.

Fame (1980)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Barth, Eddie | Cara, Irene | Curreri, Lee | Dean, Laura | Franceschi, Antonia | Gaines, Boyd | Hague, Albert | Hughes, Tresa | Inwood, Steve | McCrane, Paul | Meara, Anne | Merlin, Joanna | Miller, Barry | Moody, Jim | Ray, Gene Anthony
Directors: Parker, Alan
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At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.