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Drama movies

Explore character conflicts, relationships and emotional stories.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 30,801 films · Page 133.

After Ever Happy (2022)

Romance Film, drama film, romance film

A few hours after Christian Vance reveals to Hardin he is his biological father, Hardin returns to his mother's wedding reception with Tessa, where he confronts her about the deception. Vance tries to explain himself, but he storms off with a bottle of whiskey. That evening, Tessa finds a drunk Hardin breaking into Trish's house and setting the place on fire.

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Zoey 102 (2023)

Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film

Zoey Brooks, now 32 years old and a struggling producer for a reality TV show called "LOVE: Fully Charged", is asked to be the maid of honor at the wedding of her best friend Quinn Pensky, now a successful inventor, to Logan Reese, which is on the same weekend as the season finale of Zoey's show. Zoey also has unresolved feelings for best man Chase Matthews, currently an elementary school teacher with whom she has not had any contact for 15 years since leaving him on a Hawaiian vacation after high school. Zoey devises an elaborate plan to fulfill both commitments, hiring Todd Schupert, an actor who auditioned for "LOVE: Fully Charged," to…

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The Professor and the Madman (2019)

Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film

In 1872 London, retired United States Army surgeon William Chester Minor has hallucinations in which he sees himself being persecuted by a soldier he had to brand for desertion. During one of these visions, he mistakenly chases and kills innocent stranger George Merritt: for this crime, he is deemed insane and sent to Broadmoor. Meanwhile, Professor James Murray is admitted by Oxford University Press to the commission responsible for drafting what will be the Oxford English Dictionary, an impressive dictionary capable of listing every term of the English language and explaining its etymology and variations of meaning, with literary…

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Bamboozled (2000)

Satire, comedy drama, musical film

Pierre Delacroix (real name Peerless Dothan) is an uptight, Harvard-educated African-American man in the employment of television network CNS. At work, he endures torment from his boss Thomas Dunwitty, a tactless, boorish white man. Not only does Dunwitty use African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) and the word "nigger" repeatedly in conversations, he also proudly proclaims that since he is married to a black woman and has two mixed-race children with her, he is more black than Delacroix and thus can say "nigger".

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12 Angry Men (1997)

Forensic, trial film

In the murder trial of a teenage boy from a city slum, accused of murdering his father, the judge instructs the jury to determine his guilt or innocence. The verdict must be unanimous and a guilty verdict will possibly (not mandatorily, unlike in the 1957 film) result in the death penalty. The jury of twelve retires to the jury room.

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