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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 Big Chase
As his expectant wife (Adele Jergens) enters the hospital in anticipation of the blessed event, cop Glenn Langan is off to the races, trailing payroll robbers (including Jim Davis and Lon Chaney Jr.) on a mad chase that goes from cars to rowboat to motorboat to helicopter. The chase sequence, captured in all its...Start your free trial to watch
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The Big Road
Six friends decide to head "north" and become involved in the construction of a highway crucial for the Chinese army. A hymn to the solidarity necessary for China to move ahead (and defeat the enemy), THE BIG ROAD shows its young protagonists only discovering who they are when they become part of a collective action. The...Start your free trial to watch
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Bird of Paradise
From legendary Oscar®-winning director King Vidor comes BIRD OF PARADISE, an exotic tale of romance set in gorgeous Polynesia. Johnny (Joel McCrea) is an intrepid young sailor traveling the South Seas who falls in love with Luana (Dolores del Rio), the beautiful daughter of an island chief. But Luana is...Start your free trial to watch
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The Birth of a Nation
More than 75 years after its initial release, THE BIRTH OF A NATION remains one of the most controversial films ever made and a landmark achievement in film history that continues to fascinate and enrage audiences. It is the epic story of two families, one northern and one southern, during and after the...Start your free trial to watch
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
Over the course of a little more than thirty-three-and-a-half minutes (or essentially a minute for each year of what is conventionally assumed to be the entirety of his life), the full story of Jesus Christ is conveyed by French director Alice Guy. The nativity, the parables, the disciples, the miracles,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Black and White Milk Cow
A young schoolteacher unknowingly enters a tangled web of politics in Yang Jin’s unsentimental dissection of the Chinese countryside. When his father dies from AIDS following a botched blood transfer, Jinsheng must return to his home village to take care of his aging grandmother. Taking on the role of a...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Like Me
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, BLACK LIKE ME stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Shampoo
John Daniels stars as Jonathan Knight, the owner of the most successful hair salon for women on the Sunset Strip. Jonathan is tall, muscular, black and ballsy. His reputation as a lover has become so awesome that he is sought after almost as much in that capacity as in his experience as a hair stylist. Everything is cool for...Start your free trial to watch
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Blank Generation
A classic punk rock movie from 1980 starring Richard Hell, illustrating the end of the first wave of New York City punk rock better than any documentary. Nada (Carole Bouquet), a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy...Start your free trial to watch
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Blind Revenge
A famous eccentric author, blinded in a horrific accident, hires a female assistant to help him write his final opus, only to discover she has another agenda. As the story unfolds, her secret is revealed and both of their pasts could cost them their future.Start your free trial to watch
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Blind Shaft
BLIND SHAFT tells the story of two itinerant miners (Song Jinming and Tang Chaoyang) who risk their lives under dangerous working conditions and develop questionable morals in order to survive. In the dark caves of one of the many illegal Chinese coal mines, Song and Tang murder a co-worker whom they have convinced to pose as...Start your free trial to watch
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The Blonde Captive
What would you find in the heart of a white woman who was the captive bride of a cave-dwelling savage? Grotesque and weird though it may seem, a blonde English-speaking woman was found naked living in a cave! This shocking discovery turned Dr. Paul Withington's expedition into a drama of truth stranger...Start your free trial to watch
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Blonde Ice
Thought lost since the early 1970s, BLONDE ICE tells the bizarre tale of a beautiful society columnist with a desire for money and position that turns her into a serial killer, a story most Hollywood studios of the 1940s wouldn't touch! The tagline, "ice in her veins, icicles in her heart" perfectly describes Claire Cummings...Start your free trial to watch
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Blood and Sand
An immortal icon of brooding sexuality, Rudolph Valentino became one of silent cinema's most enigmatic and entrancing performers. In BLOOD AND SAND he stars as Juan Gallardo, a young Spaniard who achieves his boyhood ambition to become a celebrated toreador. But with fame comes temptation and treachery and the triumphant Juan...Start your free trial to watch
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The Blue Angel
Emil Jannings, the quintessential German expressionist actor, stars as Professor Rath, the sexually-repressed instructor of a boys' prep school. After learning of the pupils' infatuation with French postcards depicting a local nightclub songstress, he decides to personally investigate the source of such indecency. But as soon...Start your free trial to watch
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Blues for the Avatar
BLUES FOR THE AVATAR is a comedy about two oddball characters: a man, Cheyenne, and a woman, Mary Jane, caught in the circumstances of being unwanted guests in other people's lives. His propensity for women has landed him in the middle of a horrendous breakup, while her quest for self-discovery leads her...Start your free trial to watch
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Boccaccio '70
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in BOCCACCIO '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET), Federico Fellini (LA DOLCE VITA), Luchino Visconti (THE LEOPARD) and Vittorio De Sica (BICYCLE THIEVES) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through...Start your free trial to watch