Top Rated Drama Movies on Fandor - Page 9

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While

2018

A Bread Factory, Part Two: Walk With Me A While

2018
6.3
The Bread Factory is the scene for rehearsals of the Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside the theater, with the town invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. There is a new normal in Checkford, if it is even really Checkford any longer.
Life and Nothing More

2018

Life and Nothing More

2018
7.3
Standing on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young African-American in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life then parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.
Green

2011

Green

2011
5.1
A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
Class Relations

1984

Class Relations

1984
6.8
A young man, recently arrived in New York from Europe, becomes swept up in a series of events that are beyond his knowledge or control.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976

Bernice Bobs Her Hair

1976
5.2
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.
Ape

2012

Ape

2012
6.3
Trevor Newandyke is a struggling comedian. Not only does he bomb on stage, but he bombs in everyday life. He’s fed up with all the jerks who push him around. All he wants is a break, and for someone to get him. Instead of taking a breath and getting himself together or taking his anger to the stage, he turns to the loud din of his headphones and the crackling glow of fire to ease his mind. He’s not only a lousy comic, but a pyromaniac, as well.
Martin Luther

1953

Martin Luther

1953
7.1
A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
Kid-Thing

2012

Kid-Thing

2012
6.2
On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat-farmer-cum-demolition-derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, so her daily routine is filled with solitary mischief. Playing in the woods one day, she hears a woman’s plaintive call for help from an abandoned well. Though Annie feels driven to visit the well daily, she is unsure about how to deal with the woman’s plight.
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 Academy of Muses

2015

The Academy of Muses

2015
6.8
On returning from class, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who distrusts his pedagogic project: an “Academy of the Muses” inspired by classical references, which is supposed to contribute to regenerating the world through poetry. The controversial project triggers a series of situations dominated by words and desire.
Stinking Heaven

2015

Stinking Heaven

2015
4.4
A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.
A Touch of Fever

1993

A Touch of Fever

1993
5.5
Tatsuru and Shinichiro’s relationship shifts from casual to complicated as love and emotions blur the lines between their work and personal lives.
Casting Blossoms to the Sky

2012

Casting Blossoms to the Sky

2012
6.9
In the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, a journalist arrives in Nagaoka, a city decimated during a WWII air raid and by the 2004 Chūetsu earthquakes, to report on the disaster; there, she learns about the experiences of its inhabitants and stumbles upon a stage play written by an enigmatic student of her ex-boyfriend.
All the Cities of the North

2016

All the Cities of the North

2016
4.4
It’s like almost all is lost. Yet still they are here – abandoned bungalows, an artificial lake, dirty plastic bottles, lost donkeys and stray dogs, draining pipes running over fields of salt, deserted factories, statues of revolutionaries, concrete playgrounds covered with weeds, rotten fruit, folded T-shirts, pop songs, decades of forgetting, a single room with a blue tent inside. And it felt like a kiss.
The Final Comedown

1972

The Final Comedown

1972
6.2
Prejudice transforms a young black man into an armed militant leader, who believes the only answer to racism is violent revolution.
Mean Johnny Barrows

1975

Mean Johnny Barrows

1975
5.5
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.
Velvet Smooth

1976

Velvet Smooth

1976
3.2
A crime lord hires Velvet Smooth, the head of a detective agency, to find out who is stealing his business.
South Mountain

2019

South Mountain

2019
5.1
When her teenagers head off to camp and her husband abruptly leaves her to begin a new family, Lila is left to her own curious and chaotic devices for a summer in her rural home in the Catskill mountains.
American Folk

2018

American Folk

2018
5.9
Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of strangers and the power of music.
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

1984

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

1984
4.9
Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock, find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are discovered and taken under the wing of rock manager Johnny Tremaine (played by Steven McDonald) who uses them for sex and his own aspirations of wealth. The Love Dolls set out to get revenge on those who have wronged them, and rise to the top of the rock world.