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Drama Movies
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Movie: Deal ( 2008 )
As an ex-gambler teaches a hot-shot college kid some things about playing cards, he finds himself pulled into the world series of poker, where his protégé is his toughest competition.
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Movie: Snow Angels ( 2008 )
A drama that interweaves the life of a teenager, with his old baby sitter, her estranged husband, and their daughter.
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Movie: Sleepwalking ( 2008 )
The drama follows a twelve-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.
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Movie: Meet the Browns ( 2008 )
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.
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Movie: Under the Same Moon ( 2008 )
A young Mexican boy illegally travels to the U.S. to find his mother (who is illegally in the U.S.) after his grandmother passes away.
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Movie: Chapter 27 ( 2007 )
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.
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Movie: Stop-Loss ( 2008 )
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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Movie: Definitely, Maybe ( 2008 )
A political consultant tries to explain his impending divorce and past relationships to his 11-year-old daughter.
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Movie: Step Up 2: The Streets ( 2008 )
Romantic sparks occur between two dance students from different backgrounds at the Maryland School of the Arts.
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Movie: Sex and Death 101 ( 2007 )
A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale (Ryder) who targets men guilty of sex crime.
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Movie: The Other Boleyn Girl ( 2008 )
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson), driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
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Movie: The Killing of John Lennon ( 2007 )
A dramatization of Mark Chapman's plan to murder John Lennon.
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Movie: How She Move ( 2008 )
Following her sister's death from drug addiction, a high school student is forced to leave her private school to return to her old, crime-filled neighborhood where she re-kindles an unlikely passion for the competitive world of step dancing.
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Movie: The Great Debaters ( 2007 )
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
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Movie: There Will Be Blood ( 2008 )
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
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Movie: Juno ( 2007 )
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
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Movie: Grace Is Gone ( 2008 )
Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip.
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Movie: The Kite Runner ( 2007 )
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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Movie: Charlie Wilson's War ( 2007 )
A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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Movie: P.S. I Love You ( 2007 )
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
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Movie: Love in the Time of Cholera ( 2007 )
Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
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Movie: August Rush ( 2007 )
An orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift to try to find his birth parents.
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Movie: The Savages ( 2008 )
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Movie: Feel the Noise ( 2007 )
A young man from the South Bronx dreams of making it as a rapper, until a run-in with local thugs forces him to hide in Puerto Rico with the father he never knew.
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Movie: Elizabeth: The Golden Age ( 2007 )
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
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Movie: Things We Lost in the Fire ( 2007 )
A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.
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Movie: December Boys ( 2007 )
One summer, four orphans boys who have grown to be the closest of friends find themselves competing for the attention of the same family.
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Movie: The Jane Austen Book Club ( 2007 )
Six Californians start a club to discuss the works of Jane Austen, only to find their relationships -- both old and new -- begin to resemble 21st century versions of her novels.
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Movie: Feast of Love ( 2007 )
A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.
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Movie: Becoming Jane ( 2007 )
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
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Movie: Gracie ( 2007 )
A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.
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Movie: Evening ( 2007 )
A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) and her daughters, Constance Haverford (Natasha Richardson) and Nina Mars (Toni Collette). As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life fifty years ago, when she was a young woman. Harris Arden (Patrick Wilson) is the ...Read all
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Movie: Away from Her ( 2007 )
A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
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Movie: Lucky You ( 2007 )
A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.
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Movie: Georgia Rule ( 2007 )
A troubled young woman is sent to live with her grandmother for the summer, while hiding a secret that could potentially tear her family apart.
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Movie: Once ( 2007 )
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
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Movie: In the Land of Women ( 2007 )
A sleazy writer has a chance to redeem himself when he goes to stay with his grandmother and befriends the neighbors.
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Movie: Black Snake Moan ( 2007 )
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.
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Movie: Pride ( 2007 )
The determined Jim Ellis starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.
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Movie: Reign Over Me ( 2007 )
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
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Movie: Daddy's Little Girls ( 2007 )
A mechanic (Idris Elba) enlists the help of a successful, but lonely, attorney (Gabrielle Union) while trying to win custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. This is a simple, touching story of two people trying to overcome their different backgrounds to find love, a down-on-his-luck man struggling to protect his children from abuse and neglect, and a community looking to purge itself from the criminals terrorizing their neighborhood.
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Movie: Amazing Grace ( 2007 )
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
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Movie: Stomp the Yard ( 2007 )
After the death of his brother, an expert street dancer goes to Georgia to attend Truth University. But his efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he joins in his fraternity's effort to win a step dancing competition.
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Movie: We Are Marshall ( 2006 )
In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancée of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971?
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Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness ( 2006 )
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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Movie: Dreamgirls ( 2006 )
A trio of black female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
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Movie: Bobby ( 2006 )
The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same.
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Movie: Griffin & Phoenix ( 2007 )
Two people face a seemingly-insurmountable obstacle that might stand between them and a last chance at love.
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Movie: Flags of Our Fathers ( 2006 )
The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at the Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II.
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Movie: Marie Antoinette ( 2006 )
The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
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Movie: Babel ( 2006 )
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
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Movie: Step Up ( 2006 )
Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer, Nora.
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Movie: Step Up ( 2010 )
A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown.
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Movie: Trust the Man ( 2006 )
After much drama, cheating, and trial separations, two men fight to save their respective relationships.
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Movie: Invincible ( 2006 )
Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
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Movie: The Banshees of Inisherin ( 2022 )
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
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Movie: Side Effects ( 2013 )
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
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Movie: Light from Light ( 2019 )
A single mom and part-time paranormal investigator is asked to look into a possible "haunting" at a widower's farmhouse in East Tennessee.
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Movie: The Whale ( 2022 )
A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.
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Movie: Dog Gone ( 2023 )
Based on the true story of a father and son who repair their fractured relationship during a forced hike of the Appalachian trail to find their beloved lost dog.
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Movie: Empire of Light ( 2022 )
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
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Movie: Lady Chatterley's Lover ( 2022 )
An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.
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Movie: White Noise ( 2022 )
Dramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
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Movie: The Inspection ( 2022 )
A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.
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Movie: Dear Zoe ( 2022 )
When Tess and her family suffer an unimaginable loss, she finds support from a surprising source: her biological father - a lovable slacker from the wrong side of the tracks - and the charming but dangerous juvenile delinquent next door.
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Movie: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story ( 2022 )
Explores every facet of Yankovic's life, from his meteoric rise to fame with early hits like 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' to his torrid celebrity love affairs and famously depraved lifestyle.
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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: 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: Armageddon Time ( 2022 )
A deeply personal coming-of-age story about the strength of family and the generational pursuit of the American Dream.
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Movie: Aftersun ( 2022 )
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...
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Movie: My Policeman ( 2022 )
The arrival of Patrick into Marion and Tom's home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previously.