Category Drama

Dark Waters

Attorney Robert Bilott works in Cincinnati for a firm specializing in the defense of large chemical companies. On the verge of receiving a promotion, Bilott receives an unannounced visit from a farmer named Wilbur Tennant. Tennant, who knows Bilott’s grandmother, wants the lawyer to help him figure out what killed his cattle. Out of debt, Bilott visits Tennant’s farm – and is shocked by what he sees. He decides to investigate the situation, being sure he will win the case...

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The Last Thing He Wanted

The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) follows the story of a journalist who becomes the subject of his own report after deciding to help his sick father negotiate a gun deal in Central America. Elena McMahon, a successful journalist and single mom, is investigating a gun deal in Central America, but things take an unexpected turn when the woman discovers her own father right in the middle of the business. Now a pawn in a risky and unknown game, Elena passes the other side of the law, putting her career and her own life in danger. Along with an American official with a tumultuous past, Elena has to analyze her own story in order to survive...

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Little Women

For 150 years, the novel “Little Women” by writer Louisa May Alcott has motivated women of all ages to dream together and celebrate the family. A modern account of the classic Roman by the same name, Little Women (2019) follows the lives of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March on the backdrop of civil war, on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, and while their father is at war, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from brotherly rivalry and first love, to loss and marriage. However, growth sometimes means separation. An aspiring writer, Jo leaves for New York determined to publish a novel. After the project is rejected, the publisher challenges Jo to write about something more interesting: her family. When tragedy brings the sisters back home, solidarity has a new meaning. As Jo eases her sick sister, Beth asks for one thing: a story...

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21 Bridges

21 Bridges (2019) follows the story of a discredited NYPD detective, who gets the chance to redeem his past mistakes when he embarks on a dangerous mission. Involved in the fierce pursuit of criminals, he discovers a massive conspiracy that links his fellow police officers to a criminal empire. As the night unfolds, he is in a situation where he has to figure out who is actually following and who is following in his footsteps. As the search intensifies, extreme measures are being taken to prevent killers from escaping Manhattan, while authorities close all 17 bridges to prevent any entry or exit...

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Eye for an Eye

Mario, an exemplary man, works as a nurse in an asylum where everyone appreciates him. Antonio Padín is a well-known drug dealer from Galicia who, after leaving prison, enters the center where Mario works, due to a serious illness. Now, his two sons, Kike and Toño, are responsible for the family business. However, the failure of an operation will take Kike to prison, generating a huge debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño appeals to Mario to convince his father to take on his duty, but the man has his own plans. Eager to avenge his younger brother, one of Antonio’s drug dealers and an addict who died from an overdose, Mario wants Antonio to pay...

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Uncut Gems

A New York jeweler by the name of Howard goes into all sorts of trouble. He makes risky bets, owes money to the mafia, cheats some of his clients by giving them fake watches that he claims are very expensive, holds up valuables that do not belong to him. It is not very clear how he got to live his life like that, with his soul at his mouth, on the edge of the precipice. The Safdie brothers don’t give us much information about his past, but we see that he is part of a Jewish business family. He has to maintain his family (three children and a wife who moved away from him), but also a separate apartment where he spends some evenings with his mistress, an employee of his shop...

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Horse Girl

A misfit with a passion for crafts, horses and serials on supernatural crimes realizes that her lucid dreams are beginning to affect her daily life. Sarah has a quiet and simple life, contented with her favorite solitary activities. However, when a gift arouses his curiosity about his family history, unexpected and strange dreams begin to disturb him. Joan, apparently her only confidant, offers her a DNA kit, triggering an obsession with her late grandmother, with whom Sarah shares an unusual likeness and family stories about mental illness, a fate the young woman clearly fears. A series of surrealistic dreams overwhelm the simplicity of life, while Sarah strives to distinguish her visions from reality...

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The Goldfinch

Based on author Donna Tartt’s bestseller, The Goldfinch (2019) follows the story of Theodore “Theo” Decker, a 13-year-old boy whose life is turned upside down when his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, he retains only one tangible hope from that dreadful day: “The Goldfinch,” a painting that eventually draws him into a world of crime. After losing his mother, he encounters a series of difficulties and unexpected adventures that later find him involved in art forgeries...

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Midway

Midway (2019) focuses on the Battle of Midway, the most important naval battle in the Pacific War, part of World War II. The film, based on real-life events, tells the story of leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, strength and bravery to overcome all obstacles. Following the Pearl Harbor attack that left the American Fleet devastated, the Japanese Imperial Navy is preparing a new attack that should permanently eliminate the remaining naval air forces of its adversary. The Pacific Campaign will play in a small isolated North Pacific atoll: Midway. Admiral Nimitz, at the head of the American Fleet, sees this battle as a final chance to overthrow Japanese superiority...

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Motherless Brooklyn

Based on the novel by the same name of writer Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (2019) follows the story of a private investigator with Tourette syndrome who tries to solve the mystery of his mentor’s murder. In New York in the 1950s, Lionel Essrog, a lonely detective affected by Tourette’s syndrome, strives to elucidate the mystery of the murder of his only friend, Frank Minna. For Lionel Essrog, a victim of Tourette’s syndrome, Frank Minna is a savior. On a fateful night, Frank Minna is stabbed to death, and Lionel is forced to plunge into a complex and dangerous network of relationships, threats and favors. However, no one and nothing is what it seems: not even Frank or his grieving wife, Julia...

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