Agora
All
About Eve
American
Beauty
American
Movie
Animal Kingdom
Anna Karenina (2012)
Anne of the Thousand Days
Argo
The Artist
The Attack
Baby Face
Beasts of the Southern Wild
A Beautiful Mind
Becket
Belle (2014)
Beowulf and Grendel
Bernie
The
Big Knife
Birdman: or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance
Blancanieves
Blast of Silence
Blue is the Warmest Color
Bringing
Out the Dead
Blonde Crazy
Blue Jasmine
Branded to Kill
Broken Embraces
Call Her Savage
Calvary
Cast
Away
Cell 211
Certified Copy
Chicago (1927)
Chicken With Plums
The Choirboys
The Christine Jorgensen Story
The
Cider House Rules
La Ciénaga
Caesar Must Die
Citizen Kane
City Girl
Cloud Atlas
Club Sandwich
The
Conversation
Coriolanus
Cosmopolis
Dallas Buyer's Club
A Dangerous Method
Dear White People
Diary of a Teenage Girl
Different for Girls
Don't Look for Me
Drug War
Dry Summer
Drive
The East
Elizabeth
Everyone Else
The Fast Runner
Female
The Flower of My Secret
Force Majeure
Frances Ha
Gangs of New York
The Gate of Flesh
Get On Up
The Grandmaster
The Great Beauty
The
Green Mile
The Grey
Gun Hill Road
Hamlet (2000)
Hedwig
and the Angry
Inch
High
and Low
A History of Violence
The Holy Girl
The Homesman
Honour
How Green Was My Valley
Hugo
The Hurt Locker
I Am Love
I Know Where I'm Going
The Imitation Game
The Impossible
In Bloom
In the Family
In the Mood for Love
Inglourious Basterds
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Intouchables
It's a Funny Kind of Story
Jackie Brown
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jane Eyre (2011)
The Kids Are All Right
The King and the Clown
Kingdom of Heaven
The King's Speech
Kongo (1932)
Kundun
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Leave Her To Heaven
Like Crazy
Lucky Star
Magnolia
Maps to the Stars
Margin Call
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Matador
A Matter of Life and Death
Melinda and Melinda
Men in White
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
Phoenix
The Place Beyond the Pines
The Pleasure Garden
Poetry
La pointe-courte
Phenomenon
Philomena
Princesa
Quanto Dura o Amor?
Queen Margot
The Quiet Duel
A Quiet Life
Ran
The Red Riding Trilogy
The Road to Perdition
The Rover
Rust and Bone
Safe in Hell
Samurai
Rebellion
The Scarlet Empress
The Secret in Their Eyes
Secret Sunshine
A Separation
A Serious Man
The Sessions
Seven Samurai
Shanghai
Show People
Shun Li and the Poet
Shutter Island
Silent Souls
A Simple Life
Sister
Sling
Blade
Small Pond
A Snake of June
The Spectacular Now
The Sting
Stoker
Summer
of Sam
Sunrise
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
The
Virgin Suicides
Viridiana
The
Wayward Cloud
Weekend (2011)
Die Welt
Whiplash
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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