Home
Collection of movies in the Drama genre on our website. Have fun!
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 2005
Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...
HD
2005
135 min
The New World
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 1962
Young Helen Keller blind deaf and mute since infancy is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute which sends them a half-blind Yankee schoolgirl named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love and sheer stubbornness Annie breaks...
1962
106 min
The Miracle Worker
Country: Italy
Year: 1972
Enrico Mattei helped change Italys future first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis then as an investor in methane gas through a public company A.G.I.P. and ultimately as the head of ENI a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27 1962 he died when his private airplane crashed one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially he died of a flight...
1972
116 min
The Mattei Affair (il Caso Mattei)
Country: Australia, United Kingdom
Year: 2013
Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later he met Patti a beautiful woman on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of...
2013
The Railway Man
Country: Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway
Genre: Drama
Year: 2006
Jacob Pederson lives in shanty surroundings in Bombay India and assists in the running of Anand Orphanage and School. He had attempted a number of projects to assist orphans including child prostitutes - all quite in vain. He has adopted a young male orphan Pramod and takes special care of him. With growing pressure on the facilities which is on the verge bankruptcy the orphanage receives...
2006
120 min
After The Wedding
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 1994
A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...
1994
107 min
The Madness Of King George
Year: 1980
Based upon the true story of Jim Jones a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges Jim Jones committed suicide and convinced virtually All of his followers...
1980
192 min
The Mad Messiah (guyana Tragedy: The Story Of Jim Jones)
Country: United Kingdom, France, Vietnam
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1992
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class...
1992
115 min
The Lover
Country: China, Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2011
This historical martial arts film adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Luo Guanzhongs historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In AD 200 during the late Eastern Han Dynasty Cao Cao eliminates his political opponents Dong Cheng and others before turning his attention towards rival warlords Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. To avoid fighting a war on two...
2011
109 min
The Lost Bladesman (guan Yun Chang)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old Bud. A sad and lonely boy Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace he haunts the local movie-house. All the while his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school but Bud is the center of attention both from the cameras angle and from his doting family. With a gray...
85 min
The Long Day Closes
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Year: 1958
William Bonney - Billy the Kid - gets a job with a cattleman known as The Englishman and is befriended by the peaceful religious man. But when a crooked sheriff and his men murder the Englishman because he plans to supply the local Army fort with his beef Billy decides to avenge the death by killing the four men responsible throwing the lives of everyone around him - Tom and Charlie two...
1958
102 min
The Left Handed Gun
Country: United Kingdom, France
THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...
132 min
The Lady
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 1990
The life of a pair of twins Ronald and Reginald Kray who were born in London in 1934 and when they grew up became gangsters selling...
1990
119 min
The Krays
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Year: 1991
Born in St. Louis Missouri Josephine Baker was born poor but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzling erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian count and orchestra leader to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams...
1991
130 min
The Josephine Baker Story
The gaudy rise and dizzy fall of the last great Hollywood blonde bombshell: Jayne...
100 min
The Jayne Mansfield Story
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
In Paris the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue the rude African Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his...
112 min
The Intouchables
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 2012
In the 1960s Richard Kuklinski is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the...
2012
The Iceman
After 31 years at-large detectives in Wichita Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as...
82 min
The Hunt For The Btk Killer
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Year: 2010
THE HAMMER is a sports drama depicting the struggles and successes Matt Hamill faces on the way to becoming a champion. Raised among those with the ability to hear Matt later finds himself no less an outsider amidst the Deaf Community. Through sheer determination he uses his perceived disability as an asset and becomes both the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Championship and...
2010
108 min
Hamill
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Year: 2014
Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe...
2014
Sabotage (2014)
16 year old street-wise Apple Vanessa Hudgens has never had an easy life. Her mother June Bailey Rosario Dawson is an addict and prostitute is verbally and physically abusive and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious tough indomitable spirit and...
101 min
Gimme Shelter (2013)
Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly...
111 min
Labor Day
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Year: 2000
The infamous writer The Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charanton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbe de Coulmier who runs the asylum along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis books are being secretly published. Emperor Napoleon contemplates sending...
2000
124 min
Quills
Country: France, Italy, Germany
The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...
174 min
Queen Margot
Year: 1987
This film is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton. In his teens Orton is befriended by the older more reserved Kenneth Halliwell and while the two begin a relationship its fairly obvious that its not all about sex. Orton loves the dangers of bath-houses and liaisons in public restrooms; Halliwell not as charming or attractive as Orton doesnt...
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
Year: 2009
In Prayers for Bobby Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her children with the conservative teachings of the Presbyterian Church. However when her son Bobby confides to his older brother he may be gay life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. While Bobbys father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality Mary believes God can cure him...
2009
90 min
Prayers For Bobby
Year: 1999
This is a semi-humorous biographical film 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 Corporation and Microsoft...
1999
95 min
Pirates Of Silicon Valley
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his fathers footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion rising to become the best in the land. From early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed 608 people including the Beasts of Belsen war criminals for which he earned the gratitude of a nation. But by the time he hanged...
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1981
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal...
1981
198 min
Peter And Paul
Country: United States, Netherlands
Year: 2003
Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980s thru the 1990s a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig a party organizer whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend roommate and drug dealer Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana Alig moved to New York and came to be an underground...
2003
98 min
Party Monster
Country: United States, Hong Kong
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama, History
On a rooftop high above the bustling streets of Hong Kong a woman practices the ancient art of tai chi as her daughter watches from the shadows. Invisible from below they share their hidden promontory with 30 other families. All live in shanties perched precariously on top of a nine-story building. This film is a porthole to an intimate view of life in these illegal rooftop tenements that exist...
31 min
Once Upon A Rooftop
In a 1950s mining town called Coalwood Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957 everything changes when the first artificial satellite Sputnik goes into orbit. With that event Homer becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With his friends and the local nerd Homer sets to do just that by trial and a...
October Sky
Year: 1995
Director Oliver Stones exploration of former president Richard Nixons strict Quaker upbringing his nascent political strivings in law school and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early in the vicious campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas and the oddly masochistic Checkers speech. His defeat at the hands of the hated and...
1995
Nixon
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...
96 min
Nicky's Family
Country: Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
...
140 min
Isoroku Yamamoto, The Commander-in-chief Of The Combined Fleet
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
In postwar Hong Kong legendary Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man is reluctantly called into action once more when what begin as simple challenges from rival kung fu styles soon draw him into the dark and dangerous underworld of the Triads. Now to defend life and honor he has no choice but to fight one last time...
Ip Man: The Final Fight
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...
Into The Storm
On November 16 1959 Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk then after arrests he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other Perry Smith says little. Capote is implacable wanting the story believing this book will...
110 min
Infamous
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Year: 1996
Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty he is injured and ends up in the hospital where he falls in love with his nurse Agnes von...
1996
113 min
In Love And War
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, News, Thriller
IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front the radical environmental group that the FBI calls Americas number one domestic terrorist threat. With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The...
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front
Country: Canada
Teenager Hubert haughtily regards his mother with contempt and only sees her tacky sweaters and kitsch decorations. In addition to these irritating surface details there is also his parents cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day Hubert drifts through the mysteries of adolescence - artistic discoveries...
I Killed My Mother
Country:
Year: 1993
Based on the life and career of Martial Arts superstar Bruce Lee. Haunted by demons. Bruce was taught Martial arts at childhood. Bruce then was told by his father to flee to the USA. There he opened up a Martial Arts school then was chosen to be the Green Hornets sidekick Kato. Then his big movie career that included The Big Boss and Enter the Dragon. Fighting many enemies along the...
1993
I Am Bruce Lee (1993)
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Year: 2008
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost...
2008
Hunger
Country: United States, Germany
Year: 2004
Called Prok as an adult short for Professor Kinsey Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century despite the criticisms of such being nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University initially focusing on the study of gall...
2004
118 min
Kinsey
Year: 1961
The story of the life of Jesus Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Filmed on a relatively grand scale the film includes all of the major events referred to in the New Testament; his baptism by John the Baptist; the miracles - cripples walking blind men seeing; the fishes and the loaves; and so on. The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by...
1961
168 min
King Of Kings
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1985
This is a movie about the life of Israels king...
1985
114 min
King David
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram befriends him and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzrams past is much more violent than he thought but also that hes capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser...
91 min
Killer: A Journal Of Murder
Country: United States, France
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...
189 min
Jfk
Country: France, United States
One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...
139 min
Jefferson In Paris
Country: Germany, United States
Anthony Swoff Swofford a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp but makes it through as a sniper paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom adrenaline heat worry about his girlfriend finding someone else losing it and...
125 min
Jarhead
Year: 2001
A biopic about the actor James Dean whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life most notably the difficult relationship with his...
2001
92 min
James Dean
Genre: Drama, History, War
Based on J. G. Ballards autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy James Graham whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai December 8 1941. Separated from his parents he is eventually captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
152 min
Empire Of The Sun
Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late...
89 min
Holy Rollers
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Sweden early 1900s - an era of social change and unrest war and poverty. A young working class woman Maria wins a camera in a lottery. The camera grants her the eyes to view the world and empowers her over several decades to raise and nurture her family of six children and an alcoholic womanizing and sometimes violent although ultimately loving...
131 min
Everlasting Moments
A beautiful wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on...
Factory Girl
Country: United States, Australia
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on a true story Fatal Honeymoon tells the shocking story and controversy surrounding a newlywed who tragically dies on her dream honeymoon and the subsequent investigation as to whether or not her husband was guilty of killing her. In the film Alabama couple Gabe Watson and his new bride 26 year-old Tina Watson married just 11 days go on their dream honeymoon to scuba dive near...
99 min
Fatal Honeymoon
Country: United States, Italy
Year: 1976
Casanova is a libertine collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive...
1976
155 min
Fellinis Casanova
Jack Nicholsons portrait of Union leader James R. Hoffa as seen through the eyes of his friend Bobby Ciaro Danny DeVito. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion that negates the theory that he disappeared in...
Hoffa
Country: Canada, United States
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria it describes the first world war from his point of view and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes...
Hitler: The Rise Of Evil
