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The Reader
2008 • Drama • Romance
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Hummingbird
2013 • Thriller • Action
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Action
Stop-Loss
2008 • Drama • War
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
The Mission
1986 • Drama • Adventure • History
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his m…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
London Boulevard
2010 • Drama • Crime
A parolee falls for a reclusive movie star while trying to evade a ruthless gangster.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Pledge
2001 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Notes on a Scandal
2006 • Drama • Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 • Drama
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the m…
Why matched: genres Drama
Waiting for the Barbarians
2019 • Drama • History
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising,…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
North Country
2005 • Drama
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while wo…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Boxer
1997 • Drama • Romance
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourt…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Killing Fields
1984 • Drama • History • War
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff.…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Local Hero
1983 • Drama • Comedy
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Dirty Pretty Things
2002 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An undocumented immigrant finds a human heart in one of the toilets of the west London hotel where he works with other undocumented immigrants.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Michael Collins
1996 • Drama • Thriller • History
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish rep…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Shy People
1987 • Drama
A Cosmo Magazine journalist and her daughter leave New York City to visit their distant relatives deep in the bayous of Louisiana.
Why matched: genres Drama
Criminal
2004 • Thriller • Comedy • Action
Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certifi…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Comedy
The Good Thief
2003 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Kes
1970 • Drama
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet k…
Why matched: genres Drama
Marie: A True Story
1985 • Drama
In 1978 Tennessee, a single mother and political appointee risks her career and her life to blow the whistle on rampant corruption in the penal system.
Why matched: genres Drama