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Drama! Vol. VII
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Another Playlist of Movies and TV shows dedicated to the Drama genre that I like.


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Movie: Experimenter ( 2015 )
In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey authority.
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Movie: The Bridge ( 1992 )
When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival of Phillip Wilson Steer for his annual painting visit launches a chain of events that will change their lives forever. Overcome by his first sight of Isobel, Steer immediately decides to capture her on canvas - and as th...Read all
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Movie: Darrow ( 1991 )
The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.
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Movie: In Love and War ( 1987 )
An account of US Navy Commander James Stockdale's 8 year imprisonment in North Vietnam.
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Movie: The Color Purple ( 1986 )
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.
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Movie: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters ( 1985 )
A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.
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Movie: The Loveless ( 1984 )
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
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Movie: High Road to China ( 1983 )
Just after WW1, alcoholic American biplane pilot Patrick O'Malley is hired by Eve Tozer, the spoiled daughter of an industrialist, to locate her father, who disappeared somewhere in Asia.
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Movie: Guinevere ( 1999 )
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
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Movie: The Serpent's Kiss ( 2001 )
In England, during the 17th century, a Dutch garden architect is drawn into a web of passion and treachery after being hired by a wealthy merchant.
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Movie: Tricks ( 1997 )
Ex-showgirl and part-time hooker Jackie loses her legitimate job at a casino because of an abusive trick. She gets revenge when she is blacklisted and her son is threatened.
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Movie: Chattahoochee ( 1990 )
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
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Movie: The Last of England ( 1988 )
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
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Movie: Hard Country ( 1981 )
Ambitious young Jodie wants more out of life than the small Texas country town she lives in has to offer. Jodie realizes that in order to pursue her dreams she will have to leave Texas and move to the big city. However, her shiftless factory worker boyfriend Kyle wants to stay in Texas.
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Movie: The Lincoln Conspiracy ( 1977 )
Sunn Classics "speculative fiction" film proposing a theory that the killer of Abe Lincoln escaped to Canada instead of being tracked down and killed soon after the assassination.
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Movie: Submission ( 1976 )
In wartime France, pharmacist Eliane begins an affair with her shop assistant Armand, but she soon becomes dominated by him. He demands more and more from her, humiliating her and putting her family at risk.
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Movie: The Last Picture Show ( 1971 )
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
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Movie: The Glory Stompers ( 1967 )
Chino is the tough leader of a motorcycle gang who starts off a war when he abducts and mistreats the leader of the enemy biker gang, Darryl, and his girlfriend Chris. Things get violent when Darryl comes back for revenge.
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Movie: The Seventh Seal ( 1958 )
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
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Movie: The Other Side of the Wind ( 2018 )
At a media-swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant-garde film-in-progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what became of his lead actor.
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Movie: Hot Air ( 2019 )
A right wing talk show host's life takes a sudden turn when his 16 year old niece comes crashing into his life.
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Movie: Brexit ( 2019 )
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
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Movie: Mandela and de Klerk ( 1997 )
On June 12, 1964, Nelson Mandela, along with numerous political detainees, was sentenced to life imprisonment in what remains the most sensational treason trial in the history of South Africa. The incarceration of Mandela and other political prisoners on Robben Island would become a symbol of the struggle to end apartheid and win freedom for the black majority in Sout...Read all
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Movie: Eve's Bayou ( 1997 )
What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer, Louis Batiste, is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.
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Movie: Flirt ( 1996 )
Three short films about lovers' ultimatums are set in New York, Berlin and Tokyo.
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Movie: The Glass Menagerie ( 1987 )
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
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Movie: Radio Inside ( 1994 )
After witnessing the accidental drowning of his father, a young Floridian "tunes out" and the world makes little sense to him until his older brother's girlfriend awakens his sense of reality.
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Movie: Palermo Hollywood ( 2004 )
Two petty criminal party boys get in over their heads when a kidnapping goes awry.
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Movie: To Sir, with Love ( 1967 )
Idealistic, yet unemployed, Black American Engineering graduate Mark Thackeray takes on a temporary position teaching a group of rambunctious White high school students from London's East End slum neighborhood.
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Movie: Hurricane ( 1979 )
The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
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Movie: The Company Men ( 2011 )
The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.
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Movie: The Tender Bar ( 2022 )
A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar.
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Movie: Viktor ( 2014 )
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.
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Movie: Lantana ( 2002 )
The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.
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Movie: Redeeming Love ( 2022 )
Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended? Based upon the novel by Francine Rivers.
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Movie: The Big Picture ( 2012 )
Paul Exben is a success story - partner in one of Paris's most exclusive law firms, big salary, big house, glamorous wife and two sons straight out of a Gap catalog. But when he finds out that Sarah, his wife, is cheating on him with Greg Kremer, a local photographer, a rush of blood provokes Paul into a fatal error. Standing over the corpse of his wife's lover, Paul knows that his perfect life has gone for good. But by assuming the dead man's identity and fleeing for an isolated part of former Yugoslavia on the beautiful Adriatic coast, Paul gets another shot at being himself and, at last, seeing the big picture.
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Movie: Queen to Play ( 2011 )
A chambermaid on Corsica is obsessed with chess after seeing a US expat play it lovingly with l'Américaine. She cleans his house and now also plays with him on Tuesdays.
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Movie: Chloe ( 2010 )
Suspecting her husband of infidelity, gynecologist Dr. Catherine Stewart hires an escort named Chloe in order to test his faithfulness. Soon, the relationships between all three intensify.
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Movie: The Fallout ( 2022 )
High schooler Vada navigates the emotional fallout she experiences in the wake of a school tragedy. Relationships with her family, friends and view of the world are forever altered.
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Movie: Castle in the Ground ( 2020 )
After the untimely death of his mother, a teenager befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor and becomes embroiled in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.
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Movie: Possession ( 2002 )
A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
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Movie: Elena ( 2012 )
Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few cl...Read all
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Movie: Neo Ned ( 2005 )
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, Ned is placed in a mental hospital, where he is mesmerized by a young Black girl who believes that she is the reincarnation...Read all
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Movie: The Convent ( 1995 )
The journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
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Movie: Windsor ( 2015 )
Six high school seniors and their beloved local hero search for a graceful exit from a struggling small town.
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Movie: Madam Yankelova's Fine Literature Club ( 2018 )
What is going on behind the closed doors of the women-only secret club? The first rule is that love is prohibited. When Sophie falls in love with a mysterious man, she must choose between her last chance for true love to her loyalty to the club.
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Movie: Red Shoe Diaries ( 1992 )
After the death of his beloved fiancée, a man reads her diary and finds out that she was having an affair with a young construction worker.
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Movie: RFK ( 2002 )
Following the death of his brother John, Robert Kennedy is forced to rise to the challenge of leading his country and carrying on his brother's vision of what America could be.
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Movie: Living ( 2022 )
In 1950s London, a humorless civil servant decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
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Movie: Past Lives ( 2023 )
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
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Movie: The Burial ( 2023 )
Inspired by true events, a lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth, exposing a complex web of race, power, and injustice.
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TV Show: Promised Land ( 2022 )
"Promised Land" is an epic, generation-spanning drama about a Latino family vying for wealth and power in California's Sonoma Valley.
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Movie: Sundown ( 2022 )
Neil and Alice Bennett are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family's tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore.
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Movie: Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story ( 1995 )
The true story of a decorated officer's legal challenge to her involuntary discharge when she admitted she was homosexual.
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Movie: Dadah Is Death ( 1988 )
On 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of heroin, a crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death. Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the hangman's rope - a courageous effort th...Read all
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Movie: Heavy ( 1996 )
The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant.
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Movie: A World Apart ( 1988 )
1963. Thirteen year old Molly Roth, the eldest of three offspring of Gus and Diana Roth, lives a carefree life as part of the affluent white minority in South Africa. Race is a non-issue for her as although, under apartheid, the Roths largely exist among other white people like them, she feels equally comfortable around the black people in her life, such as their serv...Read all
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Movie: Jimmy's Hall ( 2014 )
During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.
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Movie: Elvis and Anabelle ( 2007 )
Groomed by her overly ambitious mother, Anabelle is on the road to winning the Miss Texas Rose tiara when she dies tragically during a pageant. Her death lands her on the embalming table of Elvis, an embittered young man whose sense of family duty and love for his ailing father keep him from following his dreams. When Anabelle is miraculously resurrected on Elvis' embalming table, the two unexpectedly connect and sparks fly. With the help of each other and Elvis' father, they discover love, freedom and happiness as the real world and their own demons threaten to force them apart.
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Movie: Penguin Bloom ( 2021 )
Based on the best-selling book of the same name, the film tells the story of Sam Bloom (Academy Award® nominated Naomi Watts) a young mother whose world is turned upside down after a shocking, near-fatal accident leaves her paralyzed. Sam's husband, (Andrew Lincoln), her three young boys and her mother (Academy Award® nominated Jacki Weaver), are struggling to adjust to their new situation when an unlikely ally enters their world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin. The bird's arrival is a welcome distraction for the Bloom family, eventually making a profound difference on Sam's life, teaching her how to live again.
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Movie: The Last Bus ( 2021 )
After the death of his wife, an aging man travels across the UK by bus to fulfill his pledge to spread her ashes near their first home.
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Movie: This Girl's Life ( 2007 )
A "slice of life" take on the life of international porn celebrity Moon and her musings on modern life, love, and loss.
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Movie: Hunger ( 2023 )
A woman running her family's noodle restaurant receives an invitation to join the fine-dining industry under the tutelage of an infamous chef.
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TV Show: Super Pumped ( 2022 )
The Battle For Uber tells the story of one of Silicon Valley's most successful and most destructive unicorns, Uber. The season pivots on Travis Kalanick, Uber's hard-charging CEO who was ultimately ousted in a boardroom coup, and his sometimes tumultuous relationship with his mentor Bill Gurley, the plainspoken, brilliant Texan venture capitalist who bets his sterling reputation on Uber's success - and then has to live with the consequences.
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Movie: Stella Does Tricks ( 2000 )
A young Glaswegian prostitute in London tries to start a new life.
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Movie: Carmen ( 2003 )
CARMEN, a classic novel by Prosper Merimee, tells the story of forbidden passion between a young soldier and a spoken-for woman, Carmen, revealing its destructive nature.
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TV Show: Painkiller ( 2023 )
Painkiller looks at the opioid crisis in America, which has become a massive public health concern in recent years, with widespread over-prescribing of drugs like fentanyl, Vicodin, and OxyContin leading to massive problems with addiction and overdose deaths. 
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TV Show: WeCrashed ( 2022 )
Follow the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world's most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible.
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Movie: The Aryan Couple ( 2006 )
A WWII Drama about a German/Jewish industrialist who, in order to ensure his family's safe passage out of Germany, is forced to hand over his business to the Germans.
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Movie: Anna Karenina ( 2012 )
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
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Movie: The Perks of Being a Wallflower ( 2012 )
Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends two seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.
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Movie: American Insurrection ( 2021 )
Set in a dystopian America where all people who aren't straight, white, Christian and cis gender are kept track of by the government with bar codes.
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TV Show: Death and Nightingales ( 2018 )
Based on Eugene McCabe's modern Irish classic, Death and Nightingales is a riveting story of love, betrayal, deception and revenge, set in the beautiful haunting countryside of Fermanagh in 1885. A place where neighbours observe each other and inform, a world of spies, confessions and double dealing; where a pervading sense of beauty is shot through with menace and impending doom.Set over a desperately tense 24-hour period, it's Beth Winters' 25th birthday - the day she has decided to join the charming Liam Ward and escape from her limited life and difficult and complex relationship with her Protestant landowner stepfather Billy. As decades of pain and betrayal finally build to a devastating climax, Death and Nightingales is a powerful and gripping drama that follows a woman struggling to control her own destiny and will illuminate tensions that tear both families and nations apart.
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Movie: Shame ( 2011 )
A sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
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TV Show: Stateless ( 2020 )
An urgent and compelling drama about four people caught up in an immigration system that profoundly affects their lives. Each character deals with the contradictions of protection and border control from a unique perspective, offering relevant and timely insight into issues that countries are grappling with around the world.
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TV Show: Great Expectations ( 2023 )
Great Expectations is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life until a twist of fate introduces him to the mysterious and eccentric Miss Havisham and Estella, showing him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be.
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Movie: At First Sight ( 1999 )
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
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Movie: The Boys in the Band ( 2020 )
In 1968 New York City - when being gay was still considered to be best kept behind closed doors - a group of friends gather for a raucous birthday party hosted by Michael (Jim Parsons), a screenwriter who spends and drinks too much, in honor of the sharp-dressed and sharp-tongued Harold (Zachary Quinto). Other partygoers include Donald (Matt Bomer), Michael's former flame, now mired in self-analysis; Larry (Andrew Rannells), a randy commercial artist living with Hank (Tuc Watkins), a school teacher who has just left his wife; Bernard (Michael Benjamin Washington), a librarian tiptoeing around fraught codes of friendship alongside Emory (Robin de Jesús), a decorator who never holds back; and a guileless hustler (Charlie Carver) hired to be Harold's gift for the night. What begins as an evening of drinks and laughs gets upended when Alan (Brian Hutchison), Michael's straight-laced college roommate, shows up unexpectedly and each man is challenged to confront long-buried truths that threaten the foundation of the group's tight bond.
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Movie: Ocean Boy ( 2023 )
In the late summer along the Australian coast, Bosch, a young father goes on the run for drug dealing with his surf gang. In tow is his son, Rockit, who believes he is on a magical holiday.
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Movie: Causeway ( 2022 )
A US soldier suffers a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Afghanistan and struggles to adjust to life back home.
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Movie: Black Rain ( 1990 )
Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.
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Movie: Marvin's Room ( 1997 )
After seventeen years, a fiercely independent woman and her rebellious son return home and together they turn the family she left behind upside down.
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TV Show: Shantaram ( 2022 )
Shantaram tells the story of Lin, a man on the run from an Australian prison looking to get lost in the teeming city of Bombay. Cut off from family and friends by distance and fate, he finds a new life in the slums, bars and underworld of India.
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Movie: M. Butterfly ( 1993 )
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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Movie: The Book of Vision ( 2021 )
Eva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr. Anmuth's Book of Vision. Stellan gets involved in her life and is forced to confront his own nature as she faces the biggest decision of her life.
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TV Show: Dirt ( 2007 )
Dirt features Hollywood scandals ripped from the headlines. Lucy Spiller is the stalwart, unrelenting editor-in-chief of the tabloid magazine Dirt Now. With an uncanny sixth sense for the truth and an infallible instinct for cover-ups, Lucy exposes the secrets and lies of the famous and the infamous through her magazine with rancorous accuracy.
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Movie: Until We Meet Again ( 2022 )
A woman discovers that her new house is inhabited by the ghost of a passionate young concert pianist who died tragically thirty-five years earlier.
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Movie: Call Jane ( 2022 )
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America when she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
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Movie: The Pillow Book ( 1997 )
A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
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Movie: All About Eve ( 2019 )
This is performed in the Noël Coward theatre and is an adaptation from the well known film. This story revolves around aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Lily James). Tattered and forlorn, Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing (Gillian Anderson) and tells Margo and her friends a melancholy life story. Margo takes Eve under her wing, only to have Eve use her and connive against her.
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Movie: White Oleander ( 2002 )
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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TV Show: Wakefield ( 2021 )
The compelling eight-part drama series Wakefield explores the fine line between sanity and madness. Set in a hospital in the spectacular Blue Mountains outside Sydney, the show tackles the taboo subject of mental illness head on. It does so through an engaging ensemble of unique characters, each with their own compelling story. At its centre is a psychological mystery: Nik Katira , a gifted psychiatric nurse, is the most stable person in what tends to be a pretty crazy place. But right now his grip on his own sanity is slipping. The question is … why? With both humour and heart, Wakefield is a powerful and highly original series that will be compulsory television viewing.
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Movie: Hillbilly Elegy ( 2020 )
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
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TV Show: The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey ( 2022 )
Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man forgotten by his family, by his friends, by even himself. On the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy experiences a seismic shift when he's given the tremendous opportunity to briefly regain his memories, and uses this precious and fleeting lucidity to solve his nephew's death and come to terms with his past.
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Movie: Reefa ( 2021 )
Israel "Reefa" Hernandez Jr, an 18-year-old Colombian immigrant and talented artist, is spending his last summer in Miami with friends, family and his new girl Frankie before moving to New York City on an art scholarship. While Israel and his friends skateboard the city streets and spray paint the walls of Wynwood, Miami's graffiti Mecca, anxieties emerge twofold: Isr...Read all
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Movie: The Song of Scorpions ( 2021 )
Aadam, a camel trader fell in love with Nooran, a tribal woman. But even before they can get to know each other better, Nooran is poisoned by a treachery that sets her on a perilous journey to avenge herself and find her song.
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Movie: Till ( 2022 )
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
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Movie: 25th Hour ( 2003 )
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
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Movie: Walkout ( 2006 )
A teacher becomes a mentor to Chicano high-school students protesting injustices in schools in 1968.
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Movie: Bright Lights, Big City ( 1988 )
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out bad memories and personal tragedy.