Drama

The rich human condition told with a straight face, this is the mother of all genres. So if it doesn't fit snugly anywhere else it's usually Drama...

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Convert, The (2024): Dir. Lee Tamahori
Feat. Guy Pearce, Jacqueline McKenzie, Te Kohe Tuhaka…; A British lay preacher finds himself caught in the middle of a bloody war between Maori tribes in this vivid colonialist epic from dir. Lee Tamahori.
Origin (2023): Dir. Ava DuVernay
Feat. Aunjanue Ellis, Blair Underwood, Vera Farmiga…; Written and directed by Ava DuVernay (Selma), this ambitious docu-drama chronicles the efforts of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson to investigate American racism and its connection to other hierarchies of human divisions that are not necessarily racial. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (King…
One Life (2023): Dir. James Hawes
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn…; the true story of a London broker Nicholas Winton; who secretly organised the rail transport of hundreds of Jewish children from Nazi occupied Europe to England during the short months before World War II. Fifty years after the war. A BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises him by throwing…
How To Have Sex (2023): Dir. Molly Manning Walker
Feat. Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Samuel Bottomley…; A vibrant and sometimes confronting portrait of youth binge culture that clings like day-glo lycra to three British teenage girls at a Greek resort. It won the Un Certain Regard at Cannes, a prize awarded to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works. Following "Cat Person" and…
May December (2023): Dir. Todd Haynes
Feat. Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton; Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman make a formidable double-act in this fascinating, multi-layered drama about an actress doing field research with the woman she is set to play in a movie – one vilified (and convicted) for her notorious romance with a seventh grader whom she later married. Inspired by a…
Priscilla (2023): Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen…; Sofia Coppola's delicate and understated adaptation of Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir about the stifling reality of being Mrs. Elvis Presley. Aussie it-boy Jacob Elordi especially impresses as Elvis who, at 6'5", towers over a diminutive Cailee Spaeny, but this only adds to the imbalance of power at the…
Blue Jean (2022): Dir. Georgia Oakley
Feat. Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Stacy Abalogun…; The story of a closeted lesbian P.E. teacher in Thatcher’s Britain that feels like it could have (and should have) been made in the early 1980's, but wasn’t. Under this shroud of conservatism, Rosy McEwen as Jean lives in Newcastle in constant negotiation with a culture that seems micro-aggressive at…