Drama

Winner of four CTsar awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche's the Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling French-Arab family. It has the texture of a documentary but a classic,...

Acclaimed independent filmmaker Wayne Wang ("Chan Is Missing") wrote and directed this comedy/drama about the ups and downs of a Chinese-American family living in San Francisco. The film focuses on a middle-aged widow (Kim Chew) who, believing she will...

A car crash in Mexico City links together the lives of three people-a young man obsessed with his brother's wife and a fighting dog; a model, scarred and crippled by the accident, whose beloved Lhasa Apso is trapped under her apartment floor; and a...

The first Iranian film to win the Palme d'Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree...

This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) about the give-and-take between life and art marked the director's first use of the hypnotic long takes and eloquent camera movements that would come to define his films. The adopted son of...

The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Black Narcissus, the Small Back Room), is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor visual feasts ever concocted for the...

It's a matter of record that on February 25, 1964, Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) upset Sonny Liston in Miami for the title. Afterwards, he convened in the hotel room of Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir) with Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) and Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom, Jr...

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance), discovers that his...

This explosive work about the conflict between the spirit and the flesh is the epitome of the sensuous style of filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (I Know Where I'm Going!, the Red Shoes). a group of nuns - played by some of Britain's best...

A powerful film debut by Emily Watson fuels writer/director Lars Von Trier's unusual, passionate drama. Bess McNeill (Watson), a naive and pious girl from a remote Scottish village, is happy after marrying virile oil rig worker Jan Nyman (Stellan...

Reckless playboy Bob Merrick (Rock Hudson, in his breakthrough role) crashes his speedboat, requiring emergency attention from the town's only resuscitator at the very moment that a beloved local doctor has a heart attack and dies waiting for the...

Set in Depression-era St. Louis, Steven Soderbergh's stunning drama, based on the A.E. Hotchner novel, focuses on a 12-year-old boy who uses his imagination to survive poverty, his mother's mental illness, his father's absence, and the authorities who...