Take the Tour: "Drama"
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United States - 2004
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- Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the ...
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United States - 2014
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- An ambitious, talented young drummer (Miles Teller) enters a prestigious music academy to fulfill his dream of becoming one of the greatest known drummers of all time. ...
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United States - 1988
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- Callous hustler Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is busy working on his next deal when he receives word that his estranged father has died. After traveling back to Ohio from ...
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United Kingdom - 2010
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- This is the story of King George VI. When his older brother abdicates the throne, nervous-mannered successor George "Bertie" VI (Colin Firth) reluctantly dons the crown. ...
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Spain - 2002
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- The curtain of salmon colored roses and heavy gold fringing which covers the stage is pulled back to reveal a Pina Bausch spectacle, Café Müller. Among the spectators, ...
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United States - 1956
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- On 24 October 1955, the hard-work geologist of the Hadley Oil Company Mitch Wayne meets the executive secretary Lucy Moore in the office of her boss Bill Ryan in New York ...
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United States - 1995
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- The path of Francesca Johnson's future seems destined when an unexpected fork in the road causes her to question everything she had come to expect from life. While her ...
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United States - 1993
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- Tom Hanks plays Andrew Beckett, a hotshot Philadelphia lawyer who has been keeping his homosexuality, and his AIDS, hidden from his conservative bosses. When he's ...
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United Kingdom - 1996
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- At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
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United States - 1982
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- Sidney Lumet directs Paul Newman as an alcoholic lawyer whose once-promising legal career is on the skids and who gets and one last chance to prove himself in this tense ...
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United States - 1991
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- Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte) is a disillusioned Southern coach who must reveal his tortured childhood in order to help his suicidal sister. Streisand is Susan Lowenstein, the ...
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United States - 1967
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- In the mid-1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by his wealthy family, friends, and associates just days ...
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United States - 1961
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- Set in rural Kansas, "Splendor in the Grass" tells the tragically romantic tale of teenagers Deanie and Bud who repress their desires because of their families' ...
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United Kingdom - 1995
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- When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and ...
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United States - 1969
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- Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real 'hustler', he finds that he is the one getting 'hustled' until he teams up ...
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United States - 1970
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- Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite ...
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United States - 1994
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- Director Edward Zwick's epic romance, set against the backdrop of WWI and the wide sky and rugged terrain of Montana, stars Anthony Hopkins as William Ludlow, an ...
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United States - 1995
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- Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage), a hard-core alcoholic, drives to Las Vegas after being fired from his film production job and divesting himself of all possessions. He plans ...
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United States - 1979
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- When dutiful wife and mother Joanna (Meryl Streep) decides to leave Ted (Dustin Hoffman), an advertising executive, she also leaves him with the responsibility of caring ...
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United States - 1991
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- A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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Australia - 1982
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- Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, Australian reporter Guy Hamilton (Mel Gibson) is covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib ...
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United States - 1997
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- Matt Damon stars as Will Hunting, a closet math genius who ignores his gift in favor of nightly boozing and fighting with South Boston buddies (co-writer Ben Affleck ...
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United Kingdom - 1982
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- Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride ...
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United States - 1991
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- Evelyn's smalltown Alabama existence has become meaningless. But her life takes on new meaning listening to the stories told by Ninnie Thredgoode about the Whistle Stop ...
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United States - 2000
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- Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is a twice-divorced mother of three young children, who struggles to be taken seriously. While working as a file clerk in a small law firm, she ...
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United States - 1989
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- Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, "Driving Miss Daisy" covers the 25 year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica ...
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United States - 1965
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- Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes ...
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United States - 1989
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- Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, ...
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United States - 1995
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- This acclaimed film traces the relationship between a death-row inmate and the local nun to whom he turns for spiritual guidance in the days leading up to his scheduled ...
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United States - 1962
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- Joe Clay is a top-notch public relations man. Anything a client wants Joe can arrange for them, whether it be dancing girls or an article in a prominent magazine. Part of ...
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United States - 1982
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- Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) has nothing--the son of an alcoholic, indifferent military father, hes grown up in the Philippines living on top of a brothel. But after college ...
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Denmark - 2000
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- The story concerns Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma ...
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United States - 1984
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- In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known ...
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United Kingdom - 1966
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- The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More, who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles, are ...
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United Kingdom - 1992
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- The dying Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave) wishes to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), a modest woman of little means who will soon ...
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New Zealand - 1993
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- Set in 1851, a mute Scottish woman (Hunter) arrives in colonial New Zealand for an arranged marriage, with her precocious young daughter (Paquin) and beloved piano in ...
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United States - 1999
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- THE CIDER HOUSE RUES, an expertly crafted and intelligent adapation of John Irving's novel, explores themes of disappointment, ideas of moral ambiguity, and, indeed, ...
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United States - 1959
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- An Army Lieutenant, Frederick Manion (Ben Gazarra), is accused of murdering a man, Barney Quill, for allegedly raping his beautiful wife, Laura Manion (Lee Remick). ...
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United Kingdom - 1984
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- An American journalist from The New York Times, Sidney, is engulfed in the horror of Cambodia, and his native adviser disappears and is thought to be dead.
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United States - 1940
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- When Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) returns home after being released from prison, he discovers his family has been kicked out of their farm. Seeking a better future, he leaves ...
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United States - 1945
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- Don Birnam (Ray Milland), a would-be writer, is a long time alcoholic who is dissatisfied with his life. His brother Wick (Phillip Terry) and girlfriend Helen St. James ...
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United States - 1983
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- An account of the complex and difficult relationship between a mother (Shirley MacLaine) and a daughter (Debra Winger) as they face life's challenges over three decades.
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Argentina - 2009
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- Benjamin Esposito is a judicial employee who decides to retire after writing a novel about a criminal case, which has been a witness and protagonist. Writing the book on ...
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United Kingdom - 2008
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- "Slumdog Millionaire" is the story of Jamal Malik (Dev Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. ...
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United States - 2010
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- Nina (Natalie Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with ...
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Austria - 2012
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- Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne ...
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United States - 2006
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- Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a family man struggling to make ends meet. Despite his valiant attempts to help keep the family afloat, the mother (Thandie Newton) of his ...
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United States - 2013
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- Based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug taking, women loving, homophobic man who, in 1986 was diagnosed with full blown HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to ...
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United States - 2011
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- Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives ...
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