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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. 30,814 films · Page 188.

Metropolitan (1990)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, romance film

During Manhattan debutante season, middle-class Princeton student Tom Townsend attends a deb ball on a whim. A mix-up over a taxi home introduces him to a small group of young Upper East Side socialites known as the Sally Fowler Rat Pack, after the girl whose fancy apartment they use for afterparties. The Rat Pack invites him to the night's afterparty to prevent ill feelings.

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Starter for 10 (2007)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, romantic comedy

In 1985, Brian Jackson is a first-year university student in English Literature and an information sponge. Since his working-class childhood in Southend-on-Sea, Brian has loved the TV quiz show University Challenge. After arriving at University of Bristol, Brian attends a party where he meets left-wing Jewish student Rebecca.

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Oliver Twist (2005)

Drama, family film, Justice Drama

Nine-year-old orphan Oliver Twist is taken to the workhouse by the beadle Mr Bumble. After daring to ask for more food, Oliver is sold as an apprentice to Mr Sowerberry, a local undertaker, but runs away when Sowerberry's other apprentice, Noah Claypole, gets Oliver in trouble. Oliver travels a seven-day journey to London where he befriends a young boy named Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, who takes him to join a gang of pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin.

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Trespass (2011)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

The Miller family lives in a mansion in Shreveport, Louisiana where the father Kyle Miller works as diamond merchant. The house is later invaded by robbers masquerading as police. They consist of leader Elias, his girlfriend Petal, his younger brother Jonah and a large man named Ty.

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Der amerikanische Freund (1977)

Crime, Drama, neo-noir, thriller film

Tom Ripley is a rich American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he drives up auction prices of supposedly newly found—but really newly produced—paintings by an artist who has faked his own death. At an auction he is introduced to Jonathan Zimmermann, a picture framer who has framed one of the fakes in good faith and is dying of leukemia.

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Out of the Blue (1980)

Coming-of-age, Destiny, Drama, Family Drama

Cindy "Cebe" Barnes is a rebellious adolescent tomboy being raised by her heroin-addicted mother, Kathy, in rural British Columbia. Cebe's father, Don, an abusive alcoholic, is serving a prison sentence for a road accident in which he drunkenly crashed his semi-truck into a school bus, killing all of the school children on board; Cebe was in the truck cab with him when the crash occurred. In Don's absence, Kathy has carried on an affair with Paul, the owner of the restaurant where she is employed as a waitress.

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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

Drama, musical film, romance film

In 1924, Arthur Chipping, or "Chips", is an established member of the teaching staff at Brookfield School, a public school just outside of London. A stodgy teacher of Latin and Greek, he is disliked by his pupils, who find him boring and call him "Ditchy", short for "dull as ditchwater". In the dining room of the Savoy Hotel, on the eve of his summer holiday, Chips meets Katherine Bridges, a music hall soubrette.

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The Day of the Locust (1975)

Drama, Political Satire, Satire On Media

Aspiring artist and recent Yale graduate Tod Hackett arrives in 1930s Hollywood to work as an art department production illustrator at a major film studio. He rents an apartment in the San Bernardino Arms, a rundown bungalow court occupied by various people, many on the fringes of the industry: Among them are Faye Greener, a tawdry aspiring actress; her father Harry, an ex-vaudevillian; Abe Kusich, a dwarf who carries on a tempestuous relationship with his girlfriend, Mary; and Adore Loomis, a young boy whose mother is hoping to turn him into a child star. Faye later meets Homer Simpson, a repressed accountant who lives in a nearby…

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Rampart (2011)

Crime, Drama, hood film, thriller film

Dave Brown, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), patrols the Rampart Division. While training a new officer, he roughs up a suspect to find the location of a meth lab. After work, he goes home to his two daughters and two ex-wives, who are also sisters.

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