Popular Drama Movies on Fandor - Page 8

Tideland

2005

Tideland

2005
6.5
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Vitalina Varela

2019

Vitalina Varela

2019
6.7
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Raining Stones

1993

Raining Stones

1993
6.9
Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Another Country

1984

Another Country

1984
6.5
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.
The Osterman Weekend

1983

The Osterman Weekend

1983
5.6
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
Wake in Fright

1971

Wake in Fright

1971
7.3
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
Movement + Location

2014

Movement + Location

2014
6.3
Kim Getty is an immigrant from 400 years in the future, sent back to modern day Brooklyn to live out an easier life. She's built a new identity in this time that nearly satisfies: she has a full time job, shares an apartment with a roommate, and is falling in love. But when she finds two other people from the future--a 15-year-old girl and Kim's own long-lost husband--Kim must fight to keep the life she once had from destroying the life she built here.
Stinking Heaven

2015

Stinking Heaven

2015
4.6
A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.
David and Lisa

1962

David and Lisa

1962
7.2
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.
The Baby of Mâcon

1993

The Baby of Mâcon

1993
6.9
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
Unmade Beds

1976

Unmade Beds

1976
4.1
Sketched loosely, the narrative of Poe's first feature is as scrappy and paper-thin as its protagonist Rico, a self-styled loner in New York City circa 1976 who longs to inhabit the "New Wave" scene of mid-60s Paris. In Rico's day-to-day life as an unsuccessful photographer, he wearily searches for authentic connection-- even as he spouts the most inauthentic prose imaginable.
Tokyo Cowboy

1994

Tokyo Cowboy

1994
3.5
When a young Japanese man with an affinity towards American western films is fired from his job, he sets out to become a real live cowboy.
8 ½ Women

1999

8 ½ Women

1999
5.4
Following the death of a mother, a father and son open up their very own harem in their Genevan estate after watching 8½.
Death Watch

1980

Death Watch

1980
6.3
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
Aparajito

1956

Aparajito

1956
7.9
Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.
Knocking

2021

Knocking

2021
5.5
After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night.
A Walk in the Sun

1945

A Walk in the Sun

1945
5.8
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
Riff-Raff

1991

Riff-Raff

1991
6.7
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
Assholes

2017

Assholes

2017
6
Adah and Aaron are recovering addicts who are struggling to stay sober. After meeting in their psychoanalyst’s waiting room, they fall in love, relapse on poppers, and become the biggest assholes in New York City.
The Neon Bible

1995

The Neon Bible

1995
6.1
During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.

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