Drama
The denotative aspects of drama from Aristotle's "Poetics" include a story development with a beginning, middle and an end. In the more conventional sense, dramatic presentations include the portrayal of characters, settings, life situations and stories in the course of a theatrical performance. In theatre, drama usually takes on the scope of dealing with matters of a serious nature.
Drama is Alice's largest section and a treasure trove of great drama catering for every taste. The bulk of the "Drama" section (generally made since 1965 and include psychological dramas) is listed below, however you may also choose from the "Classic Drama" sub-section (generally made before 1965), in blue on left. Also helpful may be "Alices Playhouse", "True Stories" and "Shakespeare" features.
Right: Scene from Kubrick's beautifully mounted "Barry Lyndon"
Deadline Gallipoli (2015)
7.2/10
Director: Michael Rymer
Starring: Sam Worthington, Hugh Dancy, Bryan Brown, Charles Dance, Rachel Griffiths
Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops in 1915.... Read more
Dean Spanley (2008)
7.2/10
Director: Toa Fraser
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Peter O'Toole, Art Malik, Judy Parfitt,...
A whimsical and hypnotic tale, set in Edwardian England, and starring Peter O'Toole as the cantankerous father of an exasperated Jeremy Northam. Their... Read more
Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
6.1/10
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Starring: Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams, Danny Pino, Amandla Stenber...
Film adaptation of the Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical about Evan Hansen, a high school senior with Social Anxiety disorder and his journey of s... Read more
Dear Frankie (2004)
7.8/10
Director: Shona Auerbach
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Gerard Butler, Jack McElhone, Sharon Small
This touching and humorous movie has earned the raves of critics and won the hearts of audiences everywhere! To spare the feelings of her fatherless b... Read more
Dear Mr Gacy (2010)
6.4/10
Director: Svetozar Ristovski
Starring: William Forsythe, Jesse Moss
In 1980, John Wayne Gacy was convicted of the rape and murder of 33 young men and sentenced to death row. Years later, ambitious criminology student J... Read more
Dear White People (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Justin Simien
Starring: Dennis Haysbert, Kyle Gallner, Tessa Thompson, Malcolm Barrett, Tyler James Will...
This film is a social satire that follows the stories of four black students at an Ivy League college where controversy breaks out over a popular but... Read more
Death Comes to Pemberley (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Various
Starring: Tom Ward, Matthew Rhys, Trevor Eve, Matthew Goode, Joanna Scanlan, Nichola Burle...
There is perhaps no greater love story than that between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. But what happened after they w... Read more
Death Defying Acts (2007)
5.8/10
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Starring: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan
In 1926, Harry Houdini lost his beloved mother and became obsessed with contacting her from beyond the grave. Wary of charlatans, he offered a reward... Read more
Death Hunt (1981)
7/10
Director: Peter R Hunt
Starring: Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Andrew Stevens, Carl Weathers, Ed Lauter, Angie Dic...
Unflinching Mountie Lee Marvin withstands the rugged Canadian wilderness to bring in maverick fur trapper Charles Bronson, who's determined not to be... Read more
Death in Venice (1971)
7.5/10
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano
Author Thomas Mann's classic is splendidly brought to the screen in this study of an artist, his loves, his homosexuality and continuous search for be... Read more