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...

Show In-store Rental Home-Delivery

Priscilla (2023): Dir. Sofia Coppola
Feat. Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen…; Sofia Coppola's delicate and understated adaptation of Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir about the stifling reality of being Mrs. Elvis Presley. Aussie it-boy Jacob Elordi especially impresses as Elvis who, at 6'5", towers over a diminutive Cailee Spaeny, but this only adds to the imbalance of power at the…
Blue Jean (2022): Dir. Georgia Oakley
Feat. Rosy McEwen, Kerrie Hayes, Stacy Abalogun…; The story of a closeted lesbian P.E. teacher in Thatcher’s Britain that feels like it could have (and should have) been made in the early 1980's, but wasn’t. Under this shroud of conservatism, Rosy McEwen as Jean lives in Newcastle in constant negotiation with a culture that seems micro-aggressive at…
Shayda (2023): Feat. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Selina Zahednia, Osamah Sami; This Australian drama filmed mostly in the Persian language is made something special by two magnetic actresses. Iranian émigré Zar Amir Ebrahimi (Holy Spider) is almost upstaged by her six-year-old co-star as a mother and daughter forced to stay in a Melbourne women's refuge during the two weeks of the…
Scrapper (2023): Dir. Charlotte Regan
Feat. Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell; A cheeky charmer set in East London that refreshingly leans away from the miseries of working-class life, inspired as it was by Taika Waititi's "Boy". Lola Campbell is terrific as a scrappy twelve-year-old living illegally on her own after her mother dies, only for her dead-beat Dad (Harris Dickinson,…
Past Lives (2023): Dir. Celine Song
Feat. Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro…; Two childhood sweethearts are torn apart after one family emigrates from South Korea in this heart-rending and exquisite film that tells an age-old romantic story in a fresh way. In her directing debut, Korean-American director Celine Song informs her intimate drama with a distinctly Korean worldview from…
Oppenheimer (2023): Dir. Christopher Nolan
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon…; Christopher Nolan's grand biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), the American Physicist credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapon. The film chronicles his career from 1926 as a student, his role as…
Carmen (2023): Dir. Benjamin Millepied
Feat. Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal, Rossy de Palma…; Melissa Barrera (In The Heights) and Paul Mescal (Normal People, Aftersun) star as strangers who become shackled to each other's fates after a tragic incident at the Mexican border. For dance fans especially, this owes more to Baz Lurhmann's Romeo & Juliet than it does to the Bizet Opera or the original…