Drama Movies

A gripping drama about a man whose love for the racetrack is ruining his life: stock has been going missing at work; at home, his pregnant wife is tired of living without furniture; and worst of all, a loan shark is getting tired of waiting for his money.

Drawing inspiration from his own childhood in Liverpool, director Terence Davies made his debut with this critically-lauded portrait of a working class family ruled over by a domineering, volatile father (Pete Postlethwaite).

 It’s the summer of 1977 and two young pirate radio DJs are trying to make their mark playing a new funk sound. But a murder in the local park sets off a sub-cultural clash between the soul boys, skinheads and punks.

Four young friends, who spend their nights shooting the breeze in a Copenhagen takeaway joint, find themselves landed with a whole heap of trouble when they come into possession of some stolen hash.

Peter Greenaway's dramatisation of Rembrandt's romantic life and career, including the controversy created by his painting The Night Watch – in which he drew attention to a murder perpetrated by a powerful group.

Abandoned to the convent as a baby, Joaquina is about to take her vows as a nun when she learns the truth about her parentage – that her mother still lives, and her father was real-life revolutionary icon Tiradentes, who fought and died for Brazilian independence.

When straight-laced Jefferson finds out his drug-dealing brother is dead, he returns to São Paulo with his childhood friend to identify the body. The journey raises memories of their shared childhood and poses a choice for their future. 

Under the pretext of writing for a fake magazine, The Next Big Thing, Simon Geist wages war against upcoming actors, models, comics and rock bands. But as his confrontations escalate, he finds himself becoming the very thing he is railing against.

Inspired by Daniel Defoe, the eccentric, unseen Robinson and his researcher companion set off on a tour of England, encompassing the nation's cultural and industrial history.

Filmed in beautiful monochrome and starring Julie Christie, this is Sally Potter’s examination of the relationship between women and money in society. The film’s mind-bending second act surely inspired David Lynch’s Inland Empire.

Raoul Ruiz’s enthralling thriller is made up of four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.

Pleading guilty to murder isn't as simple as it sounds. Having no motive for the crime he's trying to confess to, the presiding judge is reluctant to give Jan Haigerer a prison sentence. But why would the man take credit for a crime he didn't commit?

A mockumentary focusing on a year in the life of fictitious mid-1990s hip-hip outfit NWH, with groupies, gunshots and inter-band rivalries galore. Fear of a Black Hat does for rap what Spinal Tap did for stadium rock.

When Mie's brother is found unconscious after being badly beaten, she is distraught. Her boyfriend, Shadi suspects his brother of the attack but is too frightened to confront him or tell anyone. As Per lies in a coma, confusing rumours begin to filter through to Mie. Will she ever discover the truth?

Philip returns home to his small town after an attempt at making it as an actor. Despite his failure at becoming famous in Hollywood he is seen as a celebrity back home and he uses it to impress his school crush, Dorothy.

This political thriller takes place post-9/11 as four disparate Americans come together to build a truck bomb. In the days leading up to the attack, tensions build.

Adrian Grenier and Paz de la Huerta lead a talented young cast in the story of a group of boarding school students negotiating love, sex, drugs and disaster in their final month together.

Reliant on drugs and alcohol, Clinton is a waste of space. When he meets Casey, a beautiful girl with a lot going for her, he begins to doubt his sanity. Things only get worse when he discovers he's going on nighttime wanderings that he can't remember the next morning.

 When obnoxious, single mother Kimberly accuses respectable Dr Darian of rape, no one believes her, and it's not surprising when DNA tests continue to fail. But something is not right and Kimberly continues to fight her case. Based on a true story.

Tom, an innocent 16-year-old befriends Artur, a Chechen man he meets in Tallinn, after inadvertantly saving him from a car bomb. But the car bomb is only the latest of a series of betrayals which Artur believes he must avenge, and Tom is soon caught up in his dangerous, alien world.