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.

RoboCop

Genre Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director Paul Verhoeven
Released July 17, 1987
Runtime 102 min.
Plot In a dystopian, crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan, young police officer Alex Murphy is brutally murdered by a ruthless gang, only to be resurrected by a powerful corporation as the cyborg RoboCop, who soon seeks revenge on his killers.