Popular Drama Movies - Page 197
Meet the Barbarians
2024
Meet the Barbarians
2024
star 6.1The municipality of a small Breton village has decided to welcome a family of Ukrainian refugees. To their surprise, they receive Fayad family – coming from Syria. They thwart all the clichés that the French expected: they are friendly, refined, educated… So much so that, in this small, humming village, it is no longer clear which side the barbarians are on…Making Babies
2019
Making Babies
2019
star 5.9After years of "manually" trying to conceive, John and Katie Kelly put their bodies, wallet and marriage through the ringer of modern infertility treatments.Julie & Julia
2009
Julie & Julia
2009
star 6.7Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.Inspector Lavardin
1986
Inspector Lavardin
1986
star 6.2Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.The Manny
2022
The Manny
2022
star 3.5Lani McCall is a successful social media chef on the verge of getting her own TV show. Needing someone to help care for her young son, she hires a handsome male nanny named Morgan Washington. Lani starts catching feelings for Morgan, but little does she know, he’s a twisted and emotionally-stunted “boy” who’ll stop at nothing to get the family he never had.Street Corner
1953
Street Corner
1953
star 5.4A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.Ms. Scrooge
1997
Ms. Scrooge
1997
star 5.6Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.Loro 1
2018
Loro 1
2018
star 6.8"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.Stranger Things
2013
Stranger Things
2013
star 8.5Oona, a recent graduate in anthropology, has returned to her dead mother’s seaside cottage in southern England to prepare it for sale. Her arrival disturbs Mani, a wary vagrant who has been squatting on the property.Scratch
2003
Strange Weather
2016
Strange Weather
2016
star 5.8Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.Pharaoh
1966
Pharaoh
1966
star 6.7Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.Americano
2011
Americano
2011
star 4.9A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola.Union Depot
1932
Union Depot
1932
star 5.8Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.The Butcher
1998
The Butcher
1998
star 6Alina is a brilliant and enterprising woman who runs a successful art gallery in Palermo. Her husband Daniele, a successful orchestra conductor, cultured and intelligent, is not a regular presence. One day, while accompanying Daniele to the airport, Alina feels a sense of emptiness. She will try to fill it with a butcher who is always joking and full of erotic allusions and who arouses a strong attraction in her.Three Sisters
1970
Three Sisters
1970
star 3.8Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.War Machine
2017
War Machine
2017
star 5.6A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true story of General Stanley McChrystal.Drum
1976
Drum
1976
star 4.8A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.3 1/2 Hours
2021
3 1/2 Hours
2021
star 6.5August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours before crossing the border that the Wall is being built in Berlin. They have 3½ hours to make a life-changing decision: to get off the train or keep going.The Torture Club
2014
The Torture Club
2014
star 5.2The "Torture Club" is an official after-school activity at the private school Saint Honesty Gakuen. Yuzuki has no idea about the club when she enrolls, and gets abducted by the club members and hauled off the club-room. There, she finds out that upper-class student Aoi, her secret idol, is in the club, and decides to join, but…
