List of Drama Movies

Follows the true story of a Georgia lawyer, who after a failed marriage and failed political career agrees to defend a sinister reclusive television repairman charged with holding his wife in their home for almost thirty years and then killing her.

The story of a white Jewish lawyer living in the South over several decades.

A drama about the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. Jack Greenberg is an idealistic lawyer fresh out of law school, joined with NAACP Legal Defense Fund head and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to win a Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in...

Desperate to secure life-saving treatment for her critically ill brother, a compassionate young woman named Iris, played by Brittany Snow, accepts a mysterious invitation to a dinner party hosted by the enigmatic aristocrat Shepard Lambrick, portrayed by Jeffrey Combs...

A linguistics professor (Carell) who finds his wife dead, and though police rule her death an accident, he's not so sure. The only witness is his dog, and in his grief-stricken state, the professor tries to teach the animal to talk.

Jacinda, a young girl who is a "draki," a descendant of dragons who can morph into human form, and who is ordained to marry another of her kind. When the girl's mother moves the family to live among humans for safety reasons, Jacinda puts her family at risk when she falls for...

In a world where art, faith, and violence collide, a priceless literary artifact becomes the focal point of a dangerous quest. Directed by Julian Schnabel, "In the Hand of Dante" weaves together the perilous journey of a lost manuscript of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Co...

Thad Roberts, a once-promising young scientist working for NASA who back in 2004 hatched a crazy plan to steal highly prized moon rocks from his bosses at the Johnson Space Center and sell them on the Internet. The motivation: wanting to impress his girlfriend (i.e., 'giving h...

The adventures across space and time of a super-intelligent alien in human form, who battles a variety of cosmic bad guys aided by plucky human companions.

Gertrude Bell was a well-to-do student from England who attended Oxford University before finding her calling in the desert, where she became a seminal figure in Middle Eastern politics before the start of World War I. She helped sort out the borders of Iraq after the fall of...

A story of class and the single woman in contemporary New York. It centers on Ivy Ames, an Upper East Side woman who, after losing her high-powered job and getting divorced, starts over again in a less ritzy downtown apartment. After pulling her children from private school, A...

A film about Milli Vanilli, the duo that rose to the top of the pop charts and fell just as quickly when they were exposed as frauds

In the sprawling, sun-baked metropolis of Ciudad del Sol, a desperate father’s search for his missing daughter exposes a city’s dark underbelly in this gripping drama-thriller. Directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the film follows John, a weary but determ...

A look at the realities of modern dating and what woman have to go through to find their perfect match.

Directed by Michael Mayer, the movie "American Idiot" is a 159-minute drama. The film features Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool, the members of the iconic punk rock band Green Day. Also appearing in the cast is Samuel Bayer. This cinematic a...

In the vast, breathtaking landscapes of the American Southwest, a disparate quartet of environmental activists find their cause turning radical. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, this action-driven drama follows a disillusioned Vietnam veteran, a passionate...

An adaptation of the Paulette Jiles novel. A freed slave named Britt Johnson has plans to move his family to Texas and start up a new business, but while he's away Native Americans kill his oldest son and take his family hostage, leading Johnson to plot revenge.

A coming of age drama that follows two 15-year old girls, Zoe and Shelby (Sarah Bolger & Emily Osment), through the physical and emotional growing pains of their youth. As they test the limits of their relationship and the impact of an older married man (John Corbett), they fo...

Pippi Longstocking, a child of incredible strength, moves by herself to a Swedish town with her monkey, horse, and a bag full of gold coins. She befriends two children, Annika and Tommy, shocks the adults of the town, defends herself from bandits, and has a reunion with her se...

The story of a boy who has a mysterious imaginary friend with whom he frequently argues. As the boy's father gets increasingly suspicious, it becomes clear that an alien entity has taken up residence in the boy's consciousness.