Drama Movies (Page #450)

During WWII, a young Jewish boy and his aunt witness the slaughter in the Warsaw Ghetto but escape by posing as Catholic Poles.

In the Latino neighborhood of New York City's Washington Heights, two sons of immigrants -- one Dominican, one Irish, wrestle with ambition and identity, only to discover that sometimes pursuing one's dreams comes at a heavy cost. Carlos (Manny Perez), 28, lives in the Heights, where his father Eddie (Milían) runs a bodega. He works in the East Village as an inker for comic books, but is developing his own project, something he hopes to sell to a well-known publisher. Mickey (Hoch) is the sweet-natured superintendent of their building, a man whose loopy dreams of becoming a professional bowler are met with only derision by his father, Sean (Jude Ciccolella). Both Carlos and Mickey are burning with desire to get out of the Heights. Unlike their sons, Eddie and Sean are immigrants or children of immigrants who have made their peace with their unfulfilled dreams. Like Carlos and Mickey, the two are best friends and Sean has made the mistake of lending Eddie $25,000 to cover his profligate spending. When Eddie is injured during a robbery, Sean convinces Carlos to take over the store and protect his investment. For Carlos -- who has been challenged by his mentor to rework a superficial comic strip into something of substance -- running the store is the last thing on his mind. Nevertheless, he puts his artistic aspirations on hold to take over the store and care for his father. Together they work through their mutual mistrust and grief over the death of Carlos' mother. Through it all, Carlos comes to understand that if he is to make it as an artist, he must engage with the community he comes from and take that experience back out into the world by putting it in his work.

A group of South Central Los Angeles Hispanic teenagers do not conform to the hip-hop culture of their neighborhood, but instead ride skateboards and listen to punk rock. These kids take busses to Beverly Hills to skate and meet rich girls which leads to trouble with parents, police and boyfriends.

When the daughter of an investigative reporter falls violently ill from a mysterious neurotoxin, he investigates and uncovers the remains of a government scheme to create an unsurvivable military poison.

Barely surviving 14 grueling days lost at sea with no water and no food, Kate Callaghan, is sucked further into a spiraling nightmare. Her estranged husband's corps washes-up with his throat slit and her young daughter, not in the raft upon Kates rescue is nowhere to be found. Adding to the horror, Kate is taken into arrest and interrogated by the police for the possible murder of her spouse and child. Trying to recover from near death, Kate is determined to give her statement to the authorities even if she is not sure why she should keep on living. Is her lack of emotion proof of her guilt or is she an innocent woman caught in a witch-hunt?

Described as being similar to 2019's Knives Out.

Like most inquisitive boys, 12-year-old Sam wants to know about UFOs, horror movies, ghosts, and girls. Sam also has leukemia, and although the adults in his life don’t want him to dwell on it, Sam wants to know everything about his disease and death, a possibility he might face. Together with his best friend, Felix, he embarks on a "scientific investigation" with questions, observations, evidence, reflections, and lists of all the things he wants to do someday—like breaking a world record, flying in a blimp, kissing a girl for the first time, and experiencing what it’s like to be a teenager. In this poignant yet ultimately uplifting tale, Sam and his family face the immensity of an uncertain future with love, humor, and a touch of the unexpected.

Set two months before a meteor is set to pass through Earth’s orbit with a 66.6 percent chance of striking and ending all life on the planet, four high school seniors – the athlete, the school slut, the slacker, and the overachiever – find their lives intersecting on the eve of the cataclysmic event.

A working-class single mom becomes the first female to join the Ironworkers Union. She battles intense sexism to earn the respect of her all-male co-workers and the love of a good man.

Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the factory owner, Hagit hides it from her mother. The announcement of the closing of the factory shakes Hagit and Sarah’s life and jeopardizes Hagit’s love story.

Chronicle the last three weeks of the NFL's regular season as seen through the eyes of fictional players, coaches and their significant others, featuring interweaving story-lines.

On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a nightclub, alone and on the pull. Just before closing, he meets Glen. And so begins a weekend that will resonate throughout their lives

After witnessing a horrible incident, a graduate student (Laura Regan) struggles to find the link between her childhood fear of the dark and the night terrors she now suffers, and must confront what may or may not be real.

East Germany. Summer, late 70’s. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij’s apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij’s mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.

Based on the true story of a 1993 Arkansas murder case in which three teenagers were controversially arrested and charged with killing three other young boys.

In the Georgian riverside city of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed — with no way to recognize each other. As the would-be couple tries to reunite, their eyes are opened to a whole new world filled with surprises in every cafe, courtyard, and cinema. An enchantingly inventive portrait of young love, this standout second feature from director Alexandre Koberidze reveals a modern-day fairy tale unlike any other.

The story centers on a family's collapse and described as a modern-day "Kramer vs. Kramer."

Historian Leo Hertzberg become friends with artist Bill Wechsler when he buys a huge portrait of Bill's model Violet, and the two are inseparable ever after. Leo's wife Erica and Bill's wife, Lucille, give birth to sons in the same year and, soon afterward, the Wechslers buy a loft in the same SoHo building. When the boys are four, Bill and Lucille are divorced, and Bill marries his model/second wife Violet. Linked by their love of art and language, the two couples talk insatiably about art and life, celebrating triumphs and weathering tragedy together. Bill and Lucille's son, Mark, a dangerously charming boy, grows up and slips into a sinister New York club scene.

Two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. Ben is besieged by people who want him all to be sorts of things -- a money maker, an ego buster, a bad news breaker, an artistic champion, a loyal husband, an all-knowing father, not to mention sexy, youthful and tuned-in -- everything except for the one thing he and all the preposterously behaved people he's surrounded by really are: bumbling human beings just trying to survive by any means necessary.

Delves into the effect of a bitter divorce on a couple's 6-year-old daughter.