Category Archives: Drama

Whiplash

Poster for “Whiplash”
Genre Drama, Music
Director Damien Chazelle
Released October 15, 2014
Runtime 106 min.
Plot A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Room

Genre Drama, Thriller
Director Lenny Abrahamson
Released January 22, 2016
Runtime 118 min.
Plot A little boy is held captive in a room with his mother since his birth, so he has never known the world outside.

Drive

Genre Crime, Drama
Director Nicolas Winding Refn
Released September 16, 2011
Runtime 100 min.
Plot A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.

Don Jon

Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Released September 27, 2013
Runtime 90 min.
Plot A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.

The Martian

Genre Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director Ridley Scott
Released October 2, 2015
Runtime 144 min.
Plot An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.

Fido

Genre Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Andrew Currie
Released March 16, 2007
Runtime 93 min.
Plot In an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon has been able to control the zombie populat…