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Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance

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Call Her Savage

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Certified Copy

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Chicken With Plums

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La Ciénaga

Caesar Must Die

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The Conversation

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A Dangerous Method

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Different for Girls

Don't Look for Me

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The Flower of My Secret

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Get On Up

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Gun Hill Road

Hamlet (2000)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

High and Low

A History of Violence

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How Green Was My Valley

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I Am Love

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In the Mood for Love

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Inside Llewyn Davis

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It's a Funny Kind of Story

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Jamaica Inn (1939)

Jane Eyre (2011)

The Kids Are All Right

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Kongo (1932)

Kundun

Leave Her To Heaven

Like Crazy

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Matador

A Matter of Life and Death

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Les Miserables (2012)

Miss Bala

Moneyball

A Most Wanted Man

Mr. Holmes

Mud

Nana

Napoleon (1927)

No

No Country for Old Men

No Man of her Own (1950)

Noise

Only Angels Have Wings

Only Lovers Left Alive

Open

Out of Sight

Pariah

Passage to Marseille

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The Place Beyond the Pines

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Quanto Dura o Amor?

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A Snake of June

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Synedoche, New York

Take Shelter

Talk to Her

The Tempest (2010)

Tess of the Storm Country (1914)

That Obscure Object of Desire

The Theory of Everything

Theeb

There Will Be Blood

Three Days of the Condor

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

Tiresia

Titanic

Titus

To Have and Have Not

Tokyo Sonata

Tomboy (2011)

Torch Singer

Transamerica

The Tree of Life

The Trojan Women

The Truman Show

20 Cigarettes

24 Hour Party People

Two Days One Night

Under Capricorn

Valhalla Rising

The Violin

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Viridiana

The Wayward Cloud

Weekend (2011)

Die Welt

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Winter's Bone

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wise Kids

The Yellow Sea

Your Sister's Sister

XXY

I am not entirely sure of what constitutes a "drama." For my purposes, "drama" is a dumping ground for anything that doesn't fit my other categories. For instance, some "epic" dramas of the sort made by David Lean stradle this category and the Action/Adventure category. Certainly, Douglas Sirk worked in a different idiom than Frank Capra, but both made "dramatic" films. We get melodramas here, as well as biographies, hagiographies, spectacles, romances, courtroom dramas, and expose`. As a result, films as diverse as Raging Bull, Beckett, and American Beauty will rub elbows here. When in doubt, I will probably just continue my practice of listing some films in multiple categories. This category in particular will probably have a lot of redundancies. My apologies to all.

A word about foreign films: It is common practice among movie guides to list foreign language films in their own separate category. Even within this framework, categorization breaks down, since films like Mario Bava's Black Sunday still wind up listed with horror movies. Now, I generally don't care for genre distinctions--there is an implied qualitative judgement involved in segregating some movies from others. When I first began to work on this site, I didn't want to break things out by genre at all, but nobody liked that idea but me. The categories on my site are a capitulation to popular demand. However, I am not going to create a foreign film archive. I think it makes more sense to treat foreign films like any other movies, so I am arbitrarily placing them in with the genres to which I think they belong. Many of the greatest foreign films will wind up here. A word to the wise...






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