Drama Movies

Jake MacIllaney will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters young upright attorney Dan Cabot and Cabot's attractive wife, Linda, MacIllaney breaks up their marriage,

In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.

First Man Into Space is a movie starring Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, and Bill Edwards. The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...

A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a movie starring Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, and Joseph Schildkraut. During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

A young American serviceman, stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his position with the Marshall Plan relief effort by breaking the non-fraternisatiom rule and falling in love with a young German woman.

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

Japanese version of 'Cyrano de Bergerac', a poet/swordsman with a huge nose who loves a woman who loves another. Ignoring his true feelings, he helps them get together.

The World, the Flesh and the Devil is a movie starring Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, and Mel Ferrer. A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find...

Several stories depicting the landscapes and fauna of India are mixed with documentary footage.

Ohayô is a movie starring Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, and Chishû Ryû. Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Look Back in Anger is a movie starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Mary Ure. A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

Jirôchô Fuji is a movie starring Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, and Shintarô Katsu. An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made "the ultimate Jirocho movie" about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in...

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

Warlock is a movie starring Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, and Anthony Quinn. A famous gunman becomes the marshal of Warlock to end a gang's rampages, but is met with some opposition by a former gang member turned deputy sheriff who...

Hiroshima mon amour is a movie starring Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, and Stella Dassas. A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing...

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

A centenarian artist and scientist in 1890 Paris maintains his youth and health by periodically replacing a gland with that of a living person.

In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?

A marshal tries to bring the son of an old friend, an autocratic cattle baron, to justice for his role in the rape and murder of the marshal's Native American wife.

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.

Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigre

Kyô mo mata kakute ari nan is a movie starring Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga, and Kanzaburô Nakamura. A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents' home while an unpaid mortgage forces the...

An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

Ung flukt is a movie starring Liv Ullmann, Atle Merton, and Rolf Søder. The story of a young Gerd, played by Liv Ullmann in her first leading role, who falls in love with a young boy. She is considered a 'loose' woman, and the boy's...

Dave Burke hires two very different debt-burdened men for a bank robbery. Suspicion and prejudice threaten to end their partnership.

Deux hommes dans Manhattan is a movie starring Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, and Ginger Hall. A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer...

While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried.

In 1945, Germany is being overrun, and nobody is left to fight but teenagers.

Un maledetto imbroglio is a movie starring Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, and Franco Fabrizi. A police detective and his team attempt to solve two crimes committed within a day of each other in neighboring apartment rooms.

The film follows an American captain searching for sunken treasure who becomes entangled with criminals and is arrested by the Dutch police.

In 1942 submarine commander Jeff Conway secretly photographs Japanese aircraft carriers in the Coral Sea but his submarine is damaged and he's forced to surrender.

Sapphire is a movie starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, and Michael Craig. The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.

Nobi is a movie starring Eiji Funakoshi, Mantarô Ushio, and Yoshihiro Hamaguchi. In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

Cassavetes' jazz-scored improvisational film explores interracial friendships and relationships in Beat-Era (1950s) New York City.

La notte brava is a movie starring Rosanna Schiaffino, Elsa Martinelli, and Laurent Terzieff. In Rome, the smalltime thieves Scinttilone and Ruggeretto steal four rifles and catch the prostitutes Anna and Supplizia on the street to...

Young Greasers gather in at a café outside Stockholm. Roffe is the toughest greaser and kidnaps his girlfriend Bibban, when he discovers that she is out riding with other guys. Bibban falls in love with the sensitive Lasse.

Estate violenta is a movie starring Eleonora Rossi Drago, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Lilla Brignone. Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who...

Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Pickpocket is a movie starring Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, and Jean Pélégri. Michel passes the time by picking pockets, careful to never be caught despite being watched by the police. His friend Jacques may suspect, while both men...

Suddenly, Last Summer is a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift. A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

Solomon and Sheba is a movie starring Yul Brynner, Gina Lollobrigida, and George Sanders. After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and...

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.