Drama

The rich human condition told with a straight face, this is the mother of all genres. So if it doesn't fit snugly anywhere else it's usually Drama...

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Master, The (2012): Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams…; Paul Thomas Anderson masterfully directs this searching period drama of a disaffected war veteran (Phoenix) who falls under the spell of the charismatic leader of a cult (Hoffman).
Love Story (2010): Dir. Florian Habicht; Ebullient Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht turns his camera to a beautiful Russian model in New York and his own creative misdirection around the making of a new film in this joyously unclassifiable romance.
Les Miserables (2012): Dir. Tom Hooper
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway…; Victor Hugo's classic novel set during the French revolution receives its latest big screen musical adaptation courtesy of dir. Tom Hooper (THE KING'S SPEECH).
Life of Pi (2012): Dir. Ang Lee
Feat. Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Tabu …; An Indian storyteller recalls the events of his extraordinary life, beginning as a boy shipwrecked along with animals from his family's zoo, in this visionary fantasy from dir. Ang Lee.
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Dir. Benh Zeitlin
Feat. Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry; An acclaimed dramatic fantasy centred on a motherless child who, together with her hard-drinking father and a group of loveable rogues, navigates the water-logged fringes of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina.
Compliance (2012): Dir. Craig Zobel
Feat. Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy; When a prank caller masquerading as a police officer convinces a fast food restaurant manager to interrogate an innocent young employee, no-one is left unharmed. This tense chamber-thriller might not be entirely psychologically water-tight, but the subtext of authoritarian control is strong enough to…
Sessions, The (2012): Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy…; A compassionate, entertaining drama adapted from the memoir of a writer whose lifelong confinement to an iron lung compels him to lose his virginity with the help of a professional 'sex surrogate' and unconventional priest. Sensitively and refreshingly handled, and featuring two brave and brilliant…