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Drama
see all genres ›Character development and emotional themes are key to the dramatic film. Though generally serious, dramas range widely in tone and scale. Intimate relationships and social issues are perennial subjects.
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Genres / Drama
SUB-GENRES · Biopic · Bromance · Coming of Age · Costume Drama · Docudrama · Dramedy · Dysfunctional Family · Ethnic · Expedition · Gaming/Gambling · Melodrama · Political · Portmanteau · Procedural · Pseudodocumentary · Religious · Romantic Drama · Social Realism · Tragedy
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The Agony of Byzance
An unusual period-piece from legendary French director Louis Feuillade, set near the end of the Byzantine Empire, THE AGONY OF BYZANCE chronicles the assault on (and the subsequent fall of) the city of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks. Costume drama at its finest!Start your free trial to watch
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Ajami
Teeming with Palestinian illegal immigrants, Israeli Arabs, Christians and Jews, Ajami is a cloistered urban neighborhood as treacherous and potentially deadly as the front lines of Gaza. When a Bedouin extortionist is gunned down in self defense, a teenager is mistakenly killed in retribution and an entire Arab family faces...Start your free trial to watch
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Alamar
Jorge has only a few weeks with his five year old son Natan before he leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan...Start your free trial to watch
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Alexandra
In a desolate, sun-scorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routines of military life before making a sudden trip into the outlying countryside....Start your free trial to watch
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Alexandra's Project
It's Steve's birthday and he's just been promoted at the office. In a good mood, he goes home to his family expecting to celebrate. Instead, he finds an empty suburban home and videotape labeled "Play Me." The tape begins with his loving wife providing birthday wishes and quickly segues, to his pleasant...Start your free trial to watch
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Alias
Eva and Patti are unwitting witnesses to the suicide death of a beautiful young girl as she plunges naked to her death out of a fourth story window. Even more shocking, they’ve captured it all on video! Later, the girls are nearly robbed of their camera but the mysterious Dieter comes to their aid. Eva finds herself intrigued...Start your free trial to watch
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Alila
For the apartment dwellers of ALILA, every action creates a ripple unknowingly felt by all. Gorgeous libertine Gabi's (Yael Abecassis, KADOSH) loud, violent trysts with her physically dominant, emotionally unavailable lover Hezi (Amos Lavie) bring down the wrath of their disgusted neighbors. Mali (Hanna Laslo), Gabi's sole...Start your free trial to watch
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All for Free
After his friends are killed in a bizarre bar room argument, Goran devises an unusual plan to deal with the loss: he will sell his house, buy a mobile tavern and travel from town to town, giving away free drinks to everyone he meets. But for everyone except Goran, the idea is strangely suspicious, and a bit absurd, in...Start your free trial to watch
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All Screwed Up
An anarchically outrageous comedy from Lina Wertmuller, ALL SCREWED UP is ripe for rediscovery, an accomplishment as impressive as the classics she made before and after: LOVE AND ANARCHY (1973) and SWEPT AWAY (1974). It tells the story of Gigi (Luigi Diberti) and Carletto (Nino Bignamini), two Southern country boys who...Start your free trial to watch
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All the Days Before Tomorrow
A critically acclaimed, international festival award winning feature debut, ALL THE DAYS BEFORE TOMORROW effectively captures the push-pull of two people attracted to each other. In this quirky tale about a friendship that's almost something more, Joey Kern and Alexandra Holden play pals who ought to be...Start your free trial to watch
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All the Way to Paris
The South African ALL THE WAY TO PARIS was directed by Jamie Uys (of THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY fame). American and Russian delegates at a conference are tricked into a walking race from Athens to Paris with only $5 to see them on their way. Their transcontinental travels take them through Greece, Yugoslavia,...Start your free trial to watch
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Along the Sungari River
In Manchuria, a village inn by a river is a regular stop for carters, so it's not surprising that the daughter of the innkeeper has a carter for a sweetheart. But all sweetness and tranquility is shattered by the invasion of the brutal Japanese in 1931. Quinnian and Sunnu end up as slaves in a coal mine,...Start your free trial to watch
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Altitude Falling
In the year 2029, everyone has been injected with an identification chip originally for medical emergencies which the corporate run government uses to track travel patterns, purchases, political affiliations, relationships and diseases. Greg Forrester perfected this technology but fled to a remote mountain...Start your free trial to watch
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Amaya
Hong Kong: one week in one of the most exotic and picturesque cities of the world. The movie follows six characters whose lives are all connected in one way or another. The day of changes comes when Amaya (played by the world famous, multiple award winning Kaori Momoi) meets a charming Englishman, Paul. Their encounter...Start your free trial to watch
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The Ambassador's Daughter
An innocent attaché in love with the ambassador's daughter is framed for espionage. But the girl successfully exposes the real spy. Although the New York Dramatic Mirror criticized the picture for its "visibly forced or overdrawn situations," it was felt to have strong appeal, "for it has been well...Start your free trial to watch
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Ambush
AMBUSH takes place in the first days of World War II in Russian Karelia by the Finnish border. A young lieutenant is sent on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, leaving his beautiful fiancee behind. During his mission he receives the tragic news that she has been killed by the Russians. Now the war is personal and...Start your free trial to watch
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American Orpheus
"Intended as a tribute to Jean Cocteau's classic ORPHÉE, Schmidt gives the Orpheus legend a very contemporary twist. Here the central bond, the love that reaches beyond death, is not between a young man and woman, but between a mother and her small daughter. Shot in a lean, composed style, what is...Start your free trial to watch
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American Pluck
A princess visiting the US is saved from being arrested in an illegal speakeasy by a prizefighter. They fall in love, but she must go back to her nation to become queen, and can't marry a commoner. Complications ensue in this Chadwick Pictures comedic melodrama from 1925. Please excuse the poor source quality of this film....Start your free trial to watch