Drama Movie Genre
Andrew is a drummer and a first year student at the Schaffer Conservatory. He’s selected by the school’s senior instructor, Mr. Fletcher, to play on his studio band. Fletcher is – to say the least – a difficult and demanding task master who accepts and expects nothing less that perfection from his students. His methods […]
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In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne is convicted of a double murder, even though he claims his innocence. He’s sentenced to two life sentences at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another prisoner serving a life sentence, Ellis “Red” Redding, picks him as the new guy most likely to crack under the pressure.
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When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Army to defend the country from Northern invaders, Hua Mulan (Yifei Liu), the oldest daughter of an honoured warrior, steps in to take the place of her father. Pretending to be a man, Hua Jun, she is
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A fresh take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical novel, The Personal History of David Copperfield. This movie is set in the 1840’s and shows the life David Copperfield as he navigates a chaotic world to find his place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, his
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s Wikipedia page is more interesting than the story in this movie. This movie rather focuses more on her private, romantic life with Pierre Curie than her achievements in science and chemistry… That’s what disappointed me about this movie. This movie could have been way more awesome if it focused on her achievements much
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This is a semi-biographic movie about the lead actor and stand-up comedian Pete Davidson’s life who lost his firefighter dad in the 9/11 terrorist attack when Pete was only seven years old. This movie is very personal to him and it shows in his great performance. He is really great in this movie. As far
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Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek and works in the family restaurant in Chicago. Her father Gus wants her to marry a nice Greek man. But, she is looking for more in life. She takes some computer classes at college and after she’s done she then takes over her aunt’s travel agency. She falls in love
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Rewatching this movie, it made me feel very happy, very nostalgic. I even remembered the opening title music before I even pressed PLAY on the remote. That’s how many times I have watched this movie when I was a kid. Baby Bink couldn’t ask for a better life. He has loving parents, lives in a
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This movie is based on the autobiography “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945,” Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody), a Polish Jewish that plays the piano at a radio station, sees his hometown Warsaw slowly change as World War II begins. Szpilman is forced into the Warsaw ghetto, but is
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Rural Texas… Welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug dealers who have all killed each other in a drug deal gone wrong. Rather than report to the police, Moss decides to simply take the briefcase he found at the crime scene which had $2 million inside for himself. This sets the
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