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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 Little Girl Next Door
The “Thanhouser Twins,” Marion and Madeline Fairbanks, are featured in this tragic drama with a moral lesson. Although limited by the constraints of one-reel storytelling, the scenario (the first by Philip Lonergan, the brother of story department head Lloyd Lonergan) is a well-rounded and engaging one....Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
African master Djibril Diop Mambety's final film brings us the feisty Sili Lam, a twelve year old paraplegic who becomes the first girl to sell a daily newspaper in the competitive world of young male newspaper vendors. She takes on a policeman whom she accuses of shaking her down as well as the boys who...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
John Cromwell's 1936 film version of LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY is the definitive rendering of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved novel, a heartwarming classic with delightful performances from Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney. After the death of her husband, the patient Mrs. Errol (Delores Costello)...Start your free trial to watch
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Little Shots of Happiness
An urban comedy of identity lost and found via sexual indiscretions, Frances is initially a bored 9-to-5'er. She comes to the much-prolonged decision to leave her mentally unstable husband and begins to live out of her office, unbeknownst to her co-workers. Each night she goes to a different nightclub or a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Little Stranger
The Fleischer Studios revisit the "Ugly Duckling" story for this installment of the COLOR CLASSICS series. A non-aquatic bird tearfully drops her egg in a duck’s nest. Hatched, the little chick struggles to quack and waddle along with its siblings. The vibrant three-strip Technicolor animation comes alive...Start your free trial to watch
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Littlerock
LITTLEROCK is a powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in America. Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka, who also co-wrote the script) are a Japanese brother and sister spending their summer traveling through the U.S. While on their way to San Francisco,...Start your free trial to watch
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Liverpool
While exploring Tierra del Fuego, director Lisandro Alonso met the stoic Juan Fernández, who worked clearing snow from the streets. Fascinated with his haunting personality, he built the story of LIVERPOOL around Fernández and his isolated town, casting the non-professional in the lead role of Farrel. As the movie opens, he...Start your free trial to watch
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Lola
Lola’s life is unfulfilling. Her relationship is abusive and she is confused all the time. Desperate for change, Lola is by chance placed at the scene of a near fatal traffic accident. She saves the life of a woman, Sandra, who turns out to be everything Lola aspires to be: confident, outspoken and in control of her destiny....Start your free trial to watch
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The Lone Game
The lone game is the battle against consumption. The film's three principal characters all contract tuberculosis and each struggles to overcome it in different ways. One of them makes the wrong choices and dies while the other two recover. The Edison studio sought to inform and instruct its audiences in this collaboration...Start your free trial to watch
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Loneliness Is Soul
Two young women (Meeka Schmalle and Jessica Heidt) rent an Oakland apartment where an itinerate musician (John Balquist) occasionally crashes. His presence in the household acts like a truth serum, somehow suddenly prompting everyone, including a strange "gift-giver" (Alexander Marchand) and prying...Start your free trial to watch
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A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn
A young widow, Noriko, lives with her senile father-in-law, Shukichi, on a farm. He believes his favorite cow, long gone, is still alive. Noriko pretends to be the cow and lets him milk her, a satisfying arrangement for them both. Shukichi's daughter discovers their bizarre relationship and tries to put an...Start your free trial to watch
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Long Weekend
Attempting to resurrect their failing marriage, Peter (John Hargreaves) and Marcia (Briony Behets) set out on a camping trip to a deserted stretch of the Australian coastline in the hope that a long weekend in the sunshine will help them patch their differences. They are a careless couple, littering the countryside with...Start your free trial to watch
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Longshot
Fact and fiction blur in this faux documentary about a lost woman, Lian, who is searching for her own identity. Lian is manipulated by Dennis, a video editor. He captures surveillance footage of her and manipulates it in an attempt to manipulate and then possess her real life.Start your free trial to watch
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Look Both Ways
In her live action feature debut LOOK BOTH WAYS, award winning Australian animator Sarah Watt explores the timeless frontiers of love, life, death and imagination with humor, originality and honesty. Meryl (Justine Clarke), a lonely artist, literally envisions disaster around every corner. Through Meryl's whimsically mordant...Start your free trial to watch
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The Lottery Bride
An enchanted operetta set in the remote Norwegian Alps, THE LOTTERY BRIDE evokes the storybook romances of Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian. It weaves the tale of a young tavern hostess (Jeanette MacDonald) who finds herself torn between a young student (John Garrick), a dashing Italian aviator (Joseph...Start your free trial to watch
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Louder Than Bombs
Set in a small Polish town, LOUDER THAN BOMBS tells the coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James Dean and The Smiths. After the death of his father, Marcin must contend with the funeral arrangements while hosting his baffoonish out-of-town relatives who disparage his small...Start your free trial to watch