Category Archives: Drama

Red Sparrow

Poster for “Red Sparrow”
GenreAction, Drama, Thriller
DirectorFrancis Lawrence
ReleasedMarch 2, 2018
Runtime140 min.
PlotBallerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both na…

Downsizing

GenreDrama, Sci-Fi
DirectorAlexander Payne
ReleasedDecember 22, 2017
Runtime135 min.
PlotA social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.

Top Gun

GenreAction, Drama
DirectorTony Scott
ReleasedMay 16, 1986
Runtime109 min.
PlotAs students at the United States Navy’s elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

Lucky Number Slevin

GenreCrime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
DirectorPaul McGuigan
ReleasedApril 7, 2006
Runtime110 min.
PlotA case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city’s most rival crime bosses. Under constant surveillance by Detective Brikowski and assassin Goodkat, he must get them before they ge…

Under Fire

GenreDrama, War
DirectorRoger Spottiswoode
ReleasedOctober 21, 1983
Runtime128 min.
PlotThree journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somozoa regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.

Gold

GenreAdventure, Drama, Thriller
DirectorStephen Gaghan
ReleasedJanuary 27, 2017
Runtime120 min.
PlotKenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

Spring Breakers

GenreComedy, Crime, Drama
DirectorHarmony Korine
ReleasedMarch 22, 2013
Runtime94 min.
PlotFour college girls hold up a restaurant in order to fund their spring break vacation. While partying, drinking, and taking drugs, they are arrested, only to be bailed out by a drug and arms dealer.