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Drama movies

Emotional and character-driven narratives that explore the complexities of the human condition and relationships.

Subgenres include: Psychological Drama, Professional Drama, Entertainment Industry Drama.

Five Times Two

2141. Five Times Two

Drama Romance
6.6

20041h 30min

France

Director: François Ozon

As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.


Election

2142. Election

Comedy Drama
7.2

19991h 43min

United States

Director: Alexander Payne

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.


Arlington Road

2143. Arlington Road

Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
7.2

19991h 57min

United States

Director: Mark Pellington

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begins to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.


Sweet and Lowdown

2144. Sweet and Lowdown

Comedy Drama Music
7.2

19991h 35min

United States

Director: Woody Allen

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.


Pirates of Silicon Valley

2145. Pirates of Silicon Valley

Drama TV Movie
7.2

19991h 37min

United States

Director: Martyn Burke

The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer Inc. and Microsoft Corporation.


The War Zone

2146. The War Zone

Drama
7.2

19991h 38min

Italy, United Kingdom

Director: Tim Roth

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.


Ed Wood

2147. Ed Wood

Comedy Drama History
7.8

19942h 7min

United States

Director: Tim Burton

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.


The Postman

2148. The Postman

Comedy Drama Romance
7.8

19941h 54min

Belgium, France

Director: Michael Radford

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.


Eat Drink Man Woman

2149. Eat Drink Man Woman

Comedy Drama Romance
7.8

19942h 3min

Taiwan, United States

Director: Ang Lee

Retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu lives in modern day Taipei, with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each daughter encounters a new man in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes.


Before the Rain

2150. Before the Rain

Drama War
7.8

19941h 53min

United Kingdom, North Macedonia

Director: Milcho Manchevski

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.