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13. The Hunt. 2012 1h 55m R. 8.3 (367K) Rate. 77 Metascore. A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Oct 4, 2023 · The narrative is based on Story of Your Life, a Nebula-winning novella written by Ted Chiang, its themes exploring language barriers and bridging the gap between humanity and things we don’t ...
- 30 'Wild Strawberries'
- 29 'Yi Yi'
- 28 'The Best Years of Our Lives'
- 27 'The Father'
- 26 'The 400 Blows'
- 25 'Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'
- 24 'Scenes from A Marriage'
- 23 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'
- 22 'Magnolia'
- 21 'Titanic'
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergmanhas a reputation (somewhat deservingly) for making some of the grimmest and hardest-hitting movies of all time. Though he was capable of working outside the drama genre, the vast majority of his output does explore the complications that come with being human, often making his filmography feel like a far from happy one. But Bergman's body of work is filled with powerful films, and Wild Strawberries – released the same year as his iconic The Seventh Seal – is one such powerful fi...
Director: Edward Yang
One of the best movies of the year 2000, Yi Yiis a film that might not sound exciting on the surface, but proves to be surprisingly enthralling. It follows a Taiwanese family through a turbulent period in the lives of many of its members, touching upon love, loss, birth, death, and various other very broad themes. Insofar as capturing a feeling of reality on screen, few dramas prove as effective as Yi Yi. That it can also combine naturalistic performances and dialogue with beautiful visuals (...
Director: William Wyler
The Best Years of Our Lives is a nearly three-hour drama about several American soldiers who return home after fighting in World War II, and try to get back into the swing of their pre-war lives. It could technically be called a war film, considering how the then recently concluded global conflict of WW2 is what gets the story going, but as a result, it's certainly not the kind of war film that deals with combator action sequences. In depicting life almost 80 years ago, it's naturally not goi...
Director: Florian Zeller
While it's not the first movie to explore the difficulties of living with dementia, few others have done so quite as powerfully as The Father. It very quickly establishes itself as an intensely psychological drama, putting viewers in the mind of its main character and showing the ways he's frequently disorientated, confused, and untrusting of people he doesn't always recognize. The Father can be an incredibly difficult movie, because while viewers understand why the presentation is all so con...
Director: François Truffaut
A seminal French New Wave classic that also happened to be one of Akira Kurosawa's favorite movies, The 400 Blowsis one of the most effective coming-of-age dramas of all time. Its main character is a young boy named Antoine Doinel, with the film being about how he clashes with those around him, and continually finds himself more disillusioned with life and his future. Films like the aforementioned Wild Strawberries and The Father might suggest older characters have more emotional struggles an...
Director: F. W. Murnau
Frequently considered to be one of the greatest silent movies of all time, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humansis an essential watch for anyone who can still enjoy a movie without dialogue. It follows a married man falling for another woman, and the complications that arise from him no longer feeling that way about his wife. It's very much a melodrama, but an example of how when done correctly, larger-than-life emotions displayed on-screen can still feel impactful or even surprisingly relatable. Sun...
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Though most of his best-known films came out in the 1950s and 60s, a film like Scenes from a Marriage showed that Ingmar Bergman still had what it took to be considered one of the greats later in his career. It runs for almost three hours (in its theatrical cut; a miniseries version is closer to five hours), and depicts the slow deterioration of a marriage. Later classics like Kramer vs. Kramer and Marriage Story would tackle a similar premise, but Scenes from a Marriage beat those two to the...
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
A historical drama about the famed Jeanne d’Arc, 1928's The Passion of Joan of Arcfollows the trial that would eventually see her put to death on charges of heresy. It explores how she grappled with the final stage of her life, and how her infamous burning at the stake inevitably made her a martyr. The Passion of Joan of Arc is a brutally realistic movie by the standards of the 1920s, though it stays groundedwhile also presenting its story in a very dramatic, visually bold manner. The results...
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Few movies that exceed three hours are quite as gripping and consistently riveting as Magnolia. It's a film with a huge ensemble cast, and it covers the lives of various characters living in Los Angeles within a short timeframe, many of them shown to be struggling with their family lives and finding their paths occasionally crossing as the film goes on. It's heightened in its approach to everyday drama, with Paul Thomas Anderson pushing things dangerously close to melodrama before having ever...
Director: James Cameron
Titanic is best remembered for being an unabashedly romantic movie, with it only really becoming more of a disaster/drama movie in its second half. Yet the harrowing sequences in the second half are all the more effective because of the romance established in the first, with the film's epic runtime allowing writer/director James Cameron room to give sufficient time to both areas of Titanic. Whether you want to classify it as a romance movie, a romance/drama movie, or a romance/disaster movie,...
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- Feature Writer/Senior List Writer
DramaBox - movies and drama. I Wish It Were You 78 Episodes Bound by a family alliance, Isabel found herself reluctantly married to a stranger named Jared. Despite being wed for a year, their encounters were so scarce they could barely recall each other's faces. As Isabel navigated her new life at work, she unexpectedly fell deeply for her boss ...
When interviewed by James Cameron for an AMC documentary series, Christopher Nolan said, "If waking life is prose, dreams are poetry." True. Science fiction imagines an incredible yet possible future and fantasy a believable yet mythical past, and in their exploration of the human condition they are universal and timeless, like dreams. Yet drama movies that entirely rely on realism are less ...
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) For those who think Martin Scorsese only makes films about masculinity and gangsters, this underrated classic is strong evidence to the contrary.
- Boyz N the Hood (1991) The impact of John Singleton's coming-of-age drama cannot be overstated, not only for its nuanced examination of young Black men's lives in South Central L.A., but also for being a launching pad for its stars, including Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett, and Regina King.
- Carol (2015) Forbidden love has rarely been as luscious as it is in Todd Haynes' sweeping romantic drama set in 1950s New York. Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) is a quiet department store clerk who encounters Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), an elegant customer who entrances her.
- The Devil All the Time (2020) Based on the novel by Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time features a tangled web of connections spanning the two decades post-WWII.
Mar 7, 2022 · This is just a celebration of 70 movies you need to see to fully understand the power of the drama. 1. The Right Stuff. Read More. Watch Now. 2. Vertigo. Read More. Watch Now.
