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"
A Simple Favour (2018)
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Jean Smart, Linda Cardellini, Blake Lively, Rupert Friend, Anna Kendrick, Andrew...
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. W... Read more
A Simple Favour (Blu-Ray) (2018)
Director: Paul Feig
Starring: Jean Smart, Linda Cardellini, Blake Lively, Rupert Friend, Anna Kendrick, Andrew...
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. W... Read more
A Simple Twist Of Fate (1994)
6.3/10
Director: Gillies MacKinnon
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Steve Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Stephen Baldwin
Circumstances drive a man to become a recluse and a miser, until an orphaned toddler wanders into his life. Steve Martin produced, wrote and starred i... Read more
A Single Man (2009)
7.6/10
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, "A Single Man" is the story of a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is... Read more
A Single Man ( Blu-ray ) (2009)
7.6/10
Director: Tom Ford
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode
Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, "A Single Man" is the story of a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is... Read more
A Single Shot (2013)
5.8/10
Starring: Sam Rockwell, William H Macy, Ted Levine, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs, Joe Anders...
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater cr... Read more
A Soldier's Story (1984)
7.2/10
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Howard E Rollins Jr, Adolph Caesar, Art Evans
A spellbinding mystery and drama about a black army attorney, sent to investigate a murder on a black army base. Starring Howard E Rollins, music by H... Read more
A Soldier's Tale (1989)
6.3/10
Director: Larry Parr
Starring: Benoit Regent, Gabriel Byrne, Judge Reinhold, Maurice Garrel, Marianne Basler, P...
In wartime France a New Zealand soldier on a weekend leave meets a young French woman who is under suspicion of colluding with the occupying Germans t... Read more
A Song of Good (2008)
5.7/10
Director: Gregory King
Starring: Gareth Reeves, Matthew Sunderland, Ian Mune, Danielle Cormack, Johnathon Hendry
20-something slacker Gary Cradle (Gareth Reeves) has made a pig's ear of his life so far and after a series of botched attempts to get money for drugs... Read more
A Song To Remember (1945)
6.7/10
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde
Professor Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. At a recital in a duke's home Chop... Read more