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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Wild Rose (2018): Dir. Tom Harper
Feat. Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson; Music-filled drama following a young Glaswegian mother who sets out to become a Nashville country star after being released from prison.
Gloria Bell (2019): Dir. Sebastián Lelio
Feat. Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius…; Another winner from Chilean director Sebastian Lelio, who remakes his superb Spanish-language mid-life romance with absolute assurance and Julianne Moore expectedly radiant a free-spirited divorcee who strikes up a chemistry with John Turturro - a union that proves both joyous and complicated.
Rocketman (2019): Dir. Dexter Fletcher
Feat. Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden…; Musical biopic with Taron Egerton playing Elton John, capturing the flamboyant and troubled extremes of his life. Set in his early years when he was a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music, and exploring the development of his creative relationship with lyricist Bernie Taupin. A heartfelt and hugely…
Aftermath, The (2019): Dir. James Kent
Feat. Keira Knightley, Jason Clarke, Alexander Skarsgard; Period melodrama of some distinction due to its strong cast, set in postwar Germany in 1945, where a British colonel and his wife move into a requisitioned house in the ruined city of Hamburg but face tensions with the architect who previously owned the house.
Keep the Change (2018): Dir. Rachel Israel
Feat. Brandon Polansky, Samantha Elisofon; A tender, funny and unique New York romantic-comedy that melts the heart with two engaging performances from the thirty-something leads who both suffer from autism. An expansion of a 2013 short film of the same name that features the same actors, this feature gleans its refreshing authenticity from…
Miseducation of Cameron Post, The (2018): Dir. Desiree Akhavan
Feat. Chloe Grace Moretz, John Gallagher, Jr., Sasha Lane…; Winner of the U.S. Grand Jury prize at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, this heartbreaking indie drama stars Chloe Grace Moretz as a queer teenage girl who is forced into a gay conversion therapy centre by her conservative guardians in the early 1990's. A British-American co-production based on the novel…
Kindergarten Teacher, The (2018): Dir. Sara Colangelo
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar…; English-language remake of the 2014 Israeli film of the same name about a jaded teacher, mother and aspiring poet who becomes obsessed with one of her five-year-old students whom she believes has a prodigious gift for poetry. The character's questionable choices are arguably questionable turns in the…