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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Great Lillian Hall, The (2024): Dir. Michael Cristofer
Feat. Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Pierce Brosnan…; A superb showcase for Jessica Lange as Lillian Hall, a grand dame of Broadway who has never missed a performance throughout her long, illustrious career, but whose ailing health presents her with her greatest challenge yet. It’s a literate, quality drama about theatre that does just about everything…
Salt Path, The (2024): Dir. Marianne Elliott
Feat. Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs; Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs play down their seasoned star status as an ordinary long-married couple who cope with the trauma of losing their home by embarking on a year-long trek along the South West British coastline. Based on the best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn, her life-affirming story asserts…
Tina (2024): Dir. Miki Magasiva
Feat. Anapela Polataivao, Nicole Whippy, Beulah Koale…; Anapela Polataivao is superb in this local smash-hit tearjerker set in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake. She plays Mareta, a sassy but broken-hearted Samoan mother and teacher who mentors a fledgling youth choir from a private school to the finale of The Big Sing competition.
Brutalist, The (2024): Dir. Brady Corbet
Feat. Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce…; Lauded 3.5-hour epic starring Adrien Brody as a holocaust survivor who travels to the USA, where he succeeds as an architect but struggles with traumatic memories and drug addiction. Nominated for ten Academy Awards, of which it won Best Actor, Score and Cinematography.
Queer (2025): Dir. Luca Guadagnino
Feat. Daniel Craig; Daniel Craig is drop dead brilliant as the alter ego of William S. Burroughs in this drama based on the author’s 1985 novella about an American émigré looking for meaningful romantic connection in 1950’s Mexico City. Billed as “a Luca Guadagnino love story”, the Italian director of Call Me By…
Last Showgirl, The (2025): Dir. Gia Coppola
Feat. Pamela Anderson, Kiernan Shipka, Jamie Lee Curtis…; A middle-aged Pamela Anderson glitters in more ways than one in this moving portrait of seasoned Las Vegas showgirl in career crisis, directed by Gia Coppola. When the Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will soon close, she must reconcile with the decisions she’s made and the…
Room Next Door, The (2024): Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro…; A chamber drama starring Swinton and Moore as Close friends who are reunited after of being out of touch for years. Meeting again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. Eccentric Spanish director Almodovar’s English-language debut is a deliberately downplayed take on the euthanasia discussion.