Cinema
Drama films
Every film in the archive tagged Drama.
No Country for Old Men
A welder takes money from a drug deal gone wrong and is followed by something implacable.
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There Will Be Blood
An oil prospector and a young preacher fight over a California town and each other's souls.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A man erasing his ex-girlfriend from his memory changes his mind halfway through the procedure.
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The Pianist
A Polish-Jewish pianist survives the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins that follow it.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A hobbit leaves the Shire with a ring that must be destroyed, and a company forms around him.
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Pulp Fiction
Hitmen, a boxer and a gangster's wife cross paths in a story told deliberately out of order.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A banker convicted of murder spends decades quietly outlasting the prison that holds him.
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Goodfellas
Thirty years inside the New York mob, narrated by a man who always wanted to be a gangster.
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Come and See
A Belarusian boy joins the partisans in 1943 and is aged past recognition by what he sees.
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Amadeus
A court composer confesses his envy of a vulgar young genius he could not out-write.
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Taxi Driver
An insomniac Vietnam veteran drives nights in New York and decides someone should act.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A convict feigning insanity lands in a psychiatric ward run on quiet, total control.
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Blade Runner 2049
A quiet, monumental sequel about memory, loneliness, artificial life, and the need to matter.
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A mother rents three billboards to shame the police over her daughter's unsolved murder.
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Manchester by the Sea
A janitor returns to his home town as guardian of his nephew and meets his own past.
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Mr. Robot
A security engineer with severe social anxiety is recruited by an anarchist hacking collective.
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Birdman
A washed-up superhero actor stages a Broadway play in one apparently unbroken take.
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
A legendary concierge and his lobby boy are drawn into a fight over a stolen painting.
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Whiplash
A jazz drummer and a conservatory teacher push each other toward greatness or ruin.
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Her
A lonely letter writer falls in love with an operating system, and the film takes it seriously.
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The Hunt
A kindergarten teacher is accused by a child, and his town decides before the facts do.
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Drive
A stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway man breaks his own rule for a neighbour.
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Inglourious Basterds
A Jewish-American commando unit and a cinema owner separately plot the end of the Third Reich.
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In Bruges
Two hitmen are sent to wait in a Belgian tourist town after a job goes wrong.
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Zodiac
A cartoonist, a reporter and a detective are consumed by a case that never closes.
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Children of Men
Eighteen years into global infertility, one man is asked to move the only pregnant woman alive.
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The Prestige
Two Victorian magicians destroy each other over a trick neither will explain.
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Gladiator
A betrayed Roman general is sold into the arena and fights his way back toward the emperor.
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Memento
A man who cannot form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes and tattoos.
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Requiem for a Dream
Four people in Coney Island chase separate highs and arrive at the same place.
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American Beauty
A suburban father blows up his own life and narrates it from somewhere after the end.
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Fight Club
An insomniac office worker and a soap salesman start a club that quickly stops being about fighting.
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The Green Mile
Death row guards in the 1930s meet a giant of a prisoner with an inexplicable gift.
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American History X
A neo-Nazi leaves prison determined to pull his younger brother back before it is too late.
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The Truman Show
A man discovers his hometown is a television set and his life a broadcast.
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Good Will Hunting
A janitor at MIT with a gift for mathematics is pushed toward therapy and out of his defences.
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Trainspotting
A group of Edinburgh heroin users try, in various bad-faith ways, to choose life.
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Before Sunrise
Two strangers get off a train in Vienna and spend one night walking and talking.
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Casino
A mob-run Las Vegas casino is lost to greed, a marriage and an old friend.
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Forrest Gump
A guileless man from Alabama keeps stumbling into the century while waiting for one person.
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Léon: The Professional
A silent hitman takes in the orphaned girl next door, and neither of them knows how to stop.
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Dead Poets Society
A new English teacher at a rigid boarding school teaches his students to read as if it mattered.
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Full Metal Jacket
Marine recruits are broken down in boot camp, then sent to Vietnam to find out why.
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Platoon
A volunteer infantryman in Vietnam is caught between two sergeants and their two moralities.
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A Clockwork Orange
A violent young man is conditioned by the state into being incapable of choosing wrong.
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The Summit of the Gods
A photographer follows a solitary climber and a camera that may rewrite Everest's history.
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Interstellar
A large-scale space film about time, distance, survival, and love under impossible pressure.
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The Dark Knight Rises
Eight years after taking the blame, a retired Batman faces a man who breaks him first.
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The Place Beyond the Pines
A stunt rider robs banks for his son, and the consequences reach the next generation.
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The son of a camp commandant befriends a boy on the other side of the fence.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A man born elderly ages backwards, and every love he has runs out of shared time.
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American Gangster
A Harlem heroin importer builds an empire while an outcast detective assembles a case.
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Atonement
A child's lie about what she saw ruins two lives, and the war finishes what she started.
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Eastern Promises
A London midwife's discovery pulls her into a Russian crime family and its driver.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
A young admirer joins the James gang and circles the man he will eventually shoot.
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Blood Diamond
A smuggler, a fisherman and a journalist converge on one stone in wartime Sierra Leone.
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The Last King of Scotland
A young Scottish doctor becomes Idi Amin's personal physician and cannot get out.
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Cinderella Man
A ruined Depression-era boxer returns to the ring to feed his family.
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Lord of War
An arms dealer narrates his rise through every war that needed him.
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Big Fish
A dying father's tall tales are finally taken apart, and put back together, by his son.
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Mystic River
Three childhood friends are reunited by a murder and by what happened to one of them.
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Lilya 4-ever
Abandoned by her mother in a post-Soviet housing block, a teenage girl is trafficked abroad.
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A Beautiful Mind
A brilliant mathematician's work and his schizophrenia become impossible to tell apart.
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The Royal Tenenbaums
A family of former child prodigies reassembles around a father faking his own death.
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Training Day
A rookie narcotics officer spends one day with a detective who makes his own law.
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American Psycho
A Manhattan investment banker narrates his grooming routine and his murders in the same voice.
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Billy Elliot
A miner's son in a striking County Durham town discovers he wants to dance.
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Eyes Wide Shut
A doctor spends one night following his wife's confession into places he should not be.
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
A journalist and his attorney drive to Las Vegas with a trunk full of drugs and no assignment left.
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Boogie Nights
A young man becomes a star of the Californian porn industry just as the era ends.
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Gattaca
In a society sorted by genetics, a man borrows another's DNA to reach space.
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Two terminally ill strangers steal a car and drive for the sea neither has ever seen.
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The Game
A cold investment banker is given a birthday game that takes his life apart.
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Sleepers
Four boys abused in a juvenile facility engineer their revenge as adults, through the courts.
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Dazed and Confused
The last day of school in 1976 Texas, followed hour by hour across a dozen teenagers.
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
A young man holds together a family in a small Iowa town that has nowhere left to go.
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Good Morning, Vietnam
An armed forces radio DJ in Saigon is loved by the troops and resented by command.
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The Courier
A sardonic Moscow school-leaver drifts between jobs and adults who want him to become someone.
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The Breakfast Club
Five students from five cliques serve Saturday detention together and stop performing.
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T2 Trainspotting
Twenty years on, the same men meet again with nothing resolved and less time left.
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Preacher
A small-town Texas preacher gains an impossible power and goes looking for God.
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I Origins
A molecular biologist studying the eye finds evidence that unsettles everything he believes.
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Filth
A corrupt Edinburgh detective schemes his way toward a promotion while coming apart entirely.
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The Double
A nonentity clerk meets his exact double, who is everything he is not.
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The Frozen Ground
An Alaska state trooper works with a teenage survivor to convict a serial killer.
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Red Lights
Two debunkers of the paranormal take on a famous psychic returning after decades.
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Seven Psychopaths
A blocked screenwriter is dragged into his friend's dog-kidnapping business.
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Misfits
Young offenders on community service are given powers none of them wanted.
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Burn After Reading
Two gym employees find a disc they cannot read and try to sell it to the Russians.
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The Bucket List
Two terminally ill men leave the hospital to finish a list before they run out of time.
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Green Street
An expelled Harvard student falls in with a West Ham football firm and learns its rules.
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Inside I'm Dancing
Two disabled young men leave institutional care and try to live on their own terms.
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The Dreamers
Three film-obsessed students shut themselves in a Paris flat while 1968 happens outside.
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K-PAX
A psychiatric patient claims to be from another planet and is impossible to disprove.
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The Pledge
A retiring detective promises a mother he will find her daughter's killer, and cannot stop.
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Pay It Forward
A boy answers a school assignment with a scheme for changing the world three people at a time.
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Girl, Interrupted
A young woman signs herself into a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and finds the ward hard to leave.
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Meet Joe Black
Death takes human form to understand what he has been ending, and stays for a while.
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Rounders
A law student who swore off poker is pulled back to the table by a friend's debt.
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Velvet Goldmine
A journalist investigates the staged death of a glam rock star he once worshipped.
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Chasing Amy
A comic book artist falls for a woman whose past he cannot stop interrogating.
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The Devil's Own
An IRA gunman hides in the home of a New York cop who does not know who he is.
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Kids
A day in the life of New York teenagers, filmed with documentary flatness and no comfort.
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The Basketball Diaries
A promising teenage athlete and writer slides into heroin addiction on the streets of New York.
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Legends of the Fall
Three brothers on a Montana ranch are pulled apart by war and by the same woman.
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Arizona Dream
A young New Yorker is dragged to Arizona for a wedding and into other people's dreams.
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The Good Son
A boy sent to stay with relatives realises his young cousin is dangerous and no one believes him.
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Proof
A blind man photographs the world so someone else can tell him whether it is true.
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Above the Rainbow
A daydreaming Soviet schoolboy is granted the ability to make his boasts come true.
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