List of Drama Movies

About family honor killings among Muslims in Britain and other European countries.

A high school senior who is generally dissatisfied with her life mistakenly drops her phone in a fountain. When she fishes it out, she discovers the only call she can make is to herself - at age 14, when anything seemed possible.

About a Chicago banker who gets swindled in a Nigerian Internet scam.

Based on Jonathan Mahler's book "The Challenge," about the long campaign waged by U.S. Navy lawyer Charles Swift and Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal to ensure a fair trial for Salim Hamdan, the bodyguard and driver of Osama bin Laden.

Film based on the true story of an "American Idol"-like singing contest held in an Arizona jail. Bret Kaiser, a heavy-metal musician-turned-detention officer at Arizona's Tent City, the fourth-largest jail in the country. Kaiser, whose life rights are part of the package, rall...

Based on the NY Times journalist Helene Cooper's memoir. The movie follows Cooper's family escape and survival, and 23 years later, Cooper's return to her native country to find the foster sister that her family left behind.

A road movie/crime drama in the vein of "Badlands" and "True Romance". After six years, Jason Starkweather is released from prison. Placed in a halfway house and in a dead end job he seeks redemption for his criminal past. His ex-girlfriend Sarah Fugate works in a brothel to p...

Venkatesh is a Columbia U. professor, and "Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets" recounted years he spent chronicling a crack-dealing gang in Chicago for a research project. He befriended the Black Kings and their leader and was invited to observe cl...

A charismatic young man at the dawn of adulthood spirals down the wrong path in life and is brought into the underworld by his once trusted mentor, only to become one of the most powerful and feared kingpins in the city. Eventually his conscience gets the better of him and he...

"The Au Pairs," takes up as three teenage girls learn how the other half lives when they take summer jobs as au pairs for a wealthy family with a home in the Hamptons.