Drama

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1000 Rupee Note

1000 Rupee Note

Drama · World Cinema

Budhi, a widow lives in a small village in Maharashtra, India. Her only son, a young farmer, has committed suicide. Though poor and left alone in the world, she leads a cheerful life. She is particularly fond of her neighbor, young Sudama with whom she shares the small pleasures of life. A local pol…

3 Faces

3 Faces

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · World Cinema

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari travel to the rural northwest of Iran after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbid her from studying acting in Tehran. Amusing encounters abound, but they soon discover that the local hospitality is rivaled by the desire to prot…

52 Tuesdays

52 Tuesdays

Sexuality · RT Certified Fresh · Drama

A teenage girl's coming of age told as her mother begins his gender transition.

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

Ballet · Art Documentaries · Music & Dance

Of the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. She was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. At age 27, Tanny was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again.

Ahed's Knee

Ahed's Knee

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · World Cinema

In this Cannes Jury Prize winner, a celebrated Israeli filmmaker is pushed into a spiral of rage when a government employee asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at a Q&A following a screening of his latest film at a remote desert library.

All Together

All Together

Tribeca Film Festival · Drama · World Cinema

Five aging friends decide to move in together in Stephane Robelin's crowd-pleasing comedy, starring Jane Fonda (in her first French-language film since Godard's 1972 Tout Va Bien). When elderly lothario Claude (Claude Rich, THE BRIDE WORE BLACK) is put into an old folks home, his friends bust him ou…

Alma's Rainbow

Alma's Rainbow

Lesbian · Comedy · Drama

Ayoka Chenzira’s overlooked classic, newly restored and ripe for rediscovery, is a coming-of-age comedy-drama about three Black women living in Brooklyn who live, love, and wrestle with what it means to exert and exercise their agency.

Alps

Alps

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · World Cinema

Yorgos Lanthimos's follow-up to his Academy Award nominee (and cult sensation) DOGTOOTH is another darkly comic, absurdist vision of (in)human relationships, focusing on a mysterious underground organization that helps mourners get over their losses by impersonating the deceased.

Amrum

Amrum

War · Drama · History

Director Fatih Akin (In the Fade) reunites with frequent collaborator Diane Kruger in this tender coming-of-age tale about the loss of innocence in the waning days of WWII. On the windswept island of Amrum in northern Germany, a young farmboy sets out on a quest in an attempt to bring solace to his …

The Annihilation of Fish

The Annihilation of Fish

Romance · Drama

This charming film by celebrated Black independent filmmaker Charles Burnett stars Lynn Redgrave as a woman with an imaginary lover, Margot Kidder as her energetic landlady, and James Earl Jones as her love interest who is also battling unseen demons.  

Applause

Applause

Drama

Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen) has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys.

Arabian Nights (2015)

Arabian Nights (2015)

Based on Literature · Drama · World Cinema

Arabian Nights is a monumental and dazzlingly original three-part film by Miguel Gomes (Tabu) that uses the structure of one thousand and one nights in order to tell the story of contemporary Portugal.

Archipelago

Archipelago

Earth Day · Drama

A quietly devastating portrayal of a family in emotional crisis. Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) and his sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell tri…

As I Open My Eyes

As I Open My Eyes

Musical · Sexuality · Drama

As I Open My Eyes gives us a look at Tunisian youth on the eve of the Jasmine Revolution as they are pulled in all directions by conflicting forces: disenchantment, fear, creativity, rebellion against dictatorship, rejection of conservatism, and the courage to pursue their desires.

Back in Crime

Back in Crime

Action & Adventure · Drama · World Cinema

When a Paris detective is injured in the course of a criminal investigation, he is transported twenty years into the past, and has a second chance at solving the most frustrating mystery of his career.

Bacurau

Bacurau

Drama · World Cinema · Action

A small village in the Brazilian sertão town finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed when its inhabitants (among them Sônia Braga) are targeted by a group of armed mercenaries led by Udo Kier… who may have met their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens of little Bacurau.

Bad Banks

Bad Banks

Drama · Crime

Bad Banks follows Jana Liekam, an up-and-coming investment banker in Luxembourg. After firing her from her previous job, Jana's conniving boss Christelle Leblanc continues to manipulate Jana for her own obscure plans, tipping her off to an attractive deal. Now indebted, Jana is expected to deliver s…

Banel & Adama

Banel & Adama

Drama

Senegal's official submission to the Academy Awards®, Banel & Adama is a lush and lyrical fable that soars to the heights of longing and descends deep into the realm of myth, sending its protagonists' idyllic love on a collision course with their community’s customs.

Beanpole

Beanpole

Drama · World Cinema · Cannes Film Festival

In post-WWII Leningrad, two women, intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world when a shocking accident brings them closer… and also seals their fates.

Being Maria

Being Maria

Based on True Story · Drama

Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on her life and career.

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Drama · World Cinema

An African immigrant struggles to make a new life for himself in the big city in director-co-writer Burhan Qurbani's audacious, neon-lit reinterpretation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel. 

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts

Art Documentaries · Documentary

This illuminating documentary tells the incredible story of Bill Traylor, a former slave who turned to drawing at age 85, creating colorful, strikingly modernist work that eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retr…

Black Gravel

Black Gravel

War · Drama · Film Noir

In this gripping Cold War noir, tensions simmer between residents of a small German village and the soldiers of a U.S. military base.

Blank City

Blank City

Film Documentaries · Art Documentaries · Documentary

BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (LA Times) when a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history.

Bleak Street

Bleak Street

Based on True Story · Drama · Crime

Bleak Street is the latest provocation from Mexican master Arturo Ripstein (Deep Crimson), a surreally entertaining neo-noir based on a true crime that shocked Mexico. Bleak Street tracks the nocturnal adventures and ill-fated encounter between two desperate old prostitutes and twin mini-luchadores.

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

Drama · Crime

Bobbie Jo (Lynda Carter) is a shapely drive-in waitress who imagines herself a country star; Lyle Wheeler (Marjoe Gortner, When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?) is a quick-draw expert who fancies himself a modern day Billy the Kid. Together, they're Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw - a pair of modern bandits to …

Boneshop of the Heart

Boneshop of the Heart

Art Documentaries · Documentary · Fine Art

This acclaimed and thought-provoking documentary provides a rare and illuminating exploration of the creative process through incisive portraits of five seminal figures from a significant chapter in contemporary American folk art. Variously described as outsiders, naive, or visionary, the artists pr…

Bonneville

Bonneville

Drama

Jessica Lange (Tootsie), Joan Allen (Nixon) and Kathy Bates (Misery) hit the road in Bonneville, a story about three friends who “come of age” for a second time on a trip across the great American West.

The Boy in the Woods

The Boy in the Woods

Drama · History

The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe

Breathing

Breathing

Drama · World Cinema

The acclaimed directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics is an eloquent, affecting portrait of an incarcerated teenager attempting to win parole by working at a local morgue.

Brighton 4th

Brighton 4th

Comedy · Drama · World Cinema

In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, a former Georgian wrestling champion travels from Tbilisi to Brooklyn to help his son find a way out of a gambling debt.

Buoyancy

Buoyancy

Drama

This story of a 14-year-old Cambodian sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.

The Bureau (Season One)

The Bureau (Season One)

Episodic Cinema · Spies · Drama

Based on real-life accounts by former French spies, The Bureau tells the story of a man torn between love and loyalty, in a world where a single lie can kill.

The Bureau (Season Two)

The Bureau (Season Two)

Episodic Cinema · Spies · Drama

Season 2 of the critically-acclaimed French series The Bureau picks up four months after the end of Season 1. Malotru (Mathieu Kassovitz) has been promoted to Deputy Director of the Bureau and is a newly recruited double-agent for the CIA.

The Bureau (Season Four)

The Bureau (Season Four)

TV series · Episodic Cinema · Drama

In Season 4 of the critically-acclaimed French spy series The Bureau, Malotru (Mathieu Kassovitz, Amélie) is hiding out in Moscow while being relentlessly pursued by the CIA and DGSE (France’s Directorate-General for External Security). In order to survive, he must collaborate with the …

The Business of Fancydancing

The Business of Fancydancing

Drama

Since their high school graduation, former Spokane Reservation best friends Seymour (Evan Adams, Smoke Signals) and Aristotle (Gene Tagaban) have taken different paths. Both ventured off to college in Seattle, but while Seymour embraced the opportunities of the white world, Aristotle returned home e…

Calloused Hands

Calloused Hands

Drama

Despite life's many disappointments Byrd (Andre Royo, The Wire) still believes in the promise of the American Dream. In the powerfully moving drama CALLOUSED HANDS, he battles his addictions and the recession to get a shot at happiness.

Camille Claudel 1915

Camille Claudel 1915

Biography · Historic Drama · RT Certified Fresh

In CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as Auguste Rodin's protégé (and later mistress), and sister of the Christian/mystic poet Paul Claudel. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, writer/director Bruno Dumont (Humanité, La Vi…

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters

Peabody Award Winners · Art Documentaries · Music & Dance

Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters traces the powerful story of how one of the most celebrated works of art to come out of the AIDS epidemic revitalized two disparate communities, 30 years apart, both struggling to make sense of the plagues of their generations.

Casablanca Beats

Casablanca Beats

Romance · Drama · World Cinema

A former rapper takes a job at a cultural center in an underprivileged neighborhood in Casablanca and inspires his students to break free from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to live their passions and express themselves through the arts.

Caterpillar

Caterpillar

War · Drama

Caterpillar tells the story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor. The film serves as a powerful indictment of …

Chained For Life

Chained For Life

RT Certified Fresh · Comedy · Drama

Jess Weixler (Teeth) and Adam Pearson (Under the Skin) star in this brilliantly oddball, acerbically funny foray into gonzo surrealism about a movie star "slumming it" in an outré art-horror film being shot in a semi-abandoned hospital.

The Chambermaid

The Chambermaid

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · World Cinema

A young maid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding friendships that nourish her newfound and determined dream for a better life.

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Sexuality · Documentary · Film Documentaries

THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.

Chile '76

Chile '76

Thriller · Historic Drama · RT Certified Fresh

Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Chile ‘76 builds from quiet character study to gripping suspense thriller as it explores a sheltered upper middle class woman’s precarious flirtation with political engagement.

Cinema Sabaya

Cinema Sabaya

Drama

A young filmmaker (Dana Ivgy, Zero Motivation) teaching a workshop in a community center puts cameras into the hands of eight women, Palestinian and Israeli, and asks them to film their lives. As they share their footage, barriers are broken down, beliefs are challenged, and the women learn more abo…

Clash

Clash

RT Certified Fresh · Drama · World Cinema

Set entirely within the confines of a police van where rival demonstrators are trapped together, Clash is a white-knuckled tale of resistance that evokes the political fault lines of Egypt two years after the Arab Spring.

Cosmos

Cosmos

Drama · World Cinema · Avant Garde

The late Andrzej Zulawski's final film, a literary adaptation suffused with his trademark freneticism, transforms Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz's novel of the same name into an ominous and manic exploration of desire.

Costa Brava, Lebanon

Costa Brava, Lebanon

Environment · Drama · World Cinema

Nadine Labaki stars in this award-winning near-future drama about a close-knit family who have built a mountain refuge from the environmental crisis, only to have their serenity intruded upon by a government sponsored landfill that threatens to upend their relationships and way of life.

Counterpoint

Counterpoint

War · Drama · Music

A symphony orchestra and their conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, and  forced to perform at private concerts for the Nazi generals.

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future

Drama · World Cinema

When the long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface of a polluted river gasping for air, her shocking return sends her family into turmoil while also offering an opportunity for healing in this poignant and stunning magical realist tale.

The Currents

The Currents

Drama

In this gripping psychological mystery, Argentinian fashion designer Lina travels to Switzerland to accept an award, where she is seized by the sudden urge to plunge into an icy river. Back in Buenos Aires, she tells no one of the incident, but a transformation has taken place within her. Left with …

Custody

Custody

World Cinema · RT Certified Fresh · Drama

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this tense family drama that will keep audiences guessing and leave them with their hearts in their throats.

The Daughter

The Daughter

Drama · World Cinema

Adapted from The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, a man returns to his hometown and unearths a long-buried family secret. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.

The Day of the Dolphin

The Day of the Dolphin

Drama · Thriller · Sci-Fi

A marine biologist finds a way to teach dolphins to communicate in English, but sinister figures plan to kidnap the trained animals for an assassination attempt.

Deutschland 83

Deutschland 83

War · Spies · Thriller

Emmy Award Winner - Best International Drama: Deutschland 83 is a groundbreaking new series from the producers of the international Emmy award-winning Generation War. It's 1983. The Cold War is hot. Russian SS20 Missiles in East Germany are already pointed West. American Pershing II Missiles will so…

Dormant Beauty

Dormant Beauty

Drama · World Cinema

Isabelle Huppert (THE PIANO TEACHER) and Toni Servillo (THE GREAT BEAUTY,) star in Italian master Bellocchio's compelling ensemble drama in which characters in three interrelated storylines struggle with the moral impasses and compromises of modern life. Based on a real-life right-to-euthanasia case…

The Dwarvenaut

The Dwarvenaut

Art Documentaries · Documentary

The Dwarvenaut gives viewers a glimpse into the visionary mind of Brooklyn-based artist and entrepreneur Stefan Pokorny. Director Josh Bishop weaves together memories of Stefan’s tumultuous childhood with his modern day escapades to paint a mesmerizing portrait.

Elles

Elles

Drama · Sexuality · Culture

Academy Award- winner Juliette Binoche as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes for a magazine article. What begins as a routine assignment, though, quickly turns personal, as Anne is drawn into the lives of these fiercely independent young women and…

Elza

Elza

Drama · World Cinema

Elza is a riveting, deeply personal story about the emotional journey of a young Parisian woman returning home to her native island of Guadeloupe.