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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.

Jude

2451. Jude

Drama Romance
6.9

19962h 3min

United Kingdom

Director: Michael Winterbottom

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.


The Fisher King

2452. The Fisher King

Comedy Drama
7.5

19912h 18min

United States

Director: Terry Gilliam

Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.


Europa

2453. Europa

Crime Drama Thriller
7.5

19911h 53min

Denmark, France

Director: Lars von Trier

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.


La Belle Noiseuse

2454. La Belle Noiseuse

Drama
7.5

19913h 58min

France, Switzerland

Director: Jacques Rivette

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.


Kids

2455. Kids

Drama Crime Coming-of-Age Drama Narcotics Crime
7.0

19951h 31min

United States

Director: Larry Clark

A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

Themes

Illicit youth culture, Urban alienation, Peer pressure dynamics, Reckless experimentation, Health risk and stigma, Street violence and consequence

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Nixon

2456. Nixon

Drama History
7.0

19953h 12min

United States

Director: Oliver Stone

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.


The Flower of My Secret

2457. The Flower of My Secret

Drama Romance
7.0

19951h 46min

France, Spain

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Middle-aged romance author Leo writes under a pseudonym, since she despises her own work. At home, her husband, who works overseas, is distant both physically and emotionally. As she reevaluates her life and writing, Leo is led to an unexpected relationship with Ángel, a sensitive newspaper editor.


Double Jeopardy

2458. Double Jeopardy

Drama Thriller Mystery
6.5

19991h 45min

Germany, United States

Director: Bruce Beresford

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants to settle the score and find their son. As she has been tried for the crime, she cannot be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills Nick.


Varsity Blues

2459. Varsity Blues

Comedy Drama Romance
6.5

19991h 46min

United States

Director: Brian Robbins

In small-town Texas, high school football is a religion, 17-year-old schoolboys carry the hopes of an entire community onto the gridiron every Friday night. When star quarterback Lance Harbor suffers an injury, the Coyotes are forced to regroup under the questionable leadership of John Moxon, a second-string quarterback with a slightly irreverent approach to the game.


Instinct

2460. Instinct

Drama Thriller
6.5

19992h 4min

United States

Director: Jon Turteltaub

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.