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"
Across the Bridge (1957)
7.3/10
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: Bernard Lee, Rod Steiger, Marla Landi, David Knight, Noel Willman
Based on a novel by Graham Greene, this compelling crime drama stars Rod Steiger as an embezzling financier who flees to Mexico to avoid capture. Stei... Read more
Across the Pacific (1942)
6.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
John Huston reunites with his 'Maltese Falcon' cast in this lively espionage drama originally focused on a Japanese invasion of Hawaii until real life... Read more
Actress (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Robert Greene
Starring: Brandy Burre
When Brandy decides to reclaim her life as an actor, the domestic world she's carefully created crumbles around her. Actress is both a present tense p... Read more
Acts Of Vengeance (2017)
5.7/10
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega
A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his... Read more
Ad Astra (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7/10
Director: James Gray
Starring: Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland, John Ortiz...
Thirty years ago, Clifford McBride led a voyage into deep space, but the ship and crew were never heard from again. Now his son -- a fearless astronau... Read more
Adam Resurrected (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Ayelet Zurer
A German Jew (Jeff Goldblum) once imprisoned in a Nazi death camp uses his comic skills to entertain fellow Holocaust survivors while institutionalize... Read more
Adam's Apples (2005)
7.8/10
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen
A wickedly dark comedy about an overly-optimistic preacher with a penchant for taking in lost causes to help around his remote church who finds his ro... Read more
Adoration (2008)
6.3/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Scott Speedman, Rachel Blanchard, Kenneth Welsh, Devon Bostick
Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan tells the story of Simon, a bright young student whose parents were killed in a car crash. Following a conversation wit... Read more
Adrift (2018)
6.7/10
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Starring: Elizabeth Hawthorne, Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Grace Palmer
Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history... Read more
Adrift ( aka Open Water 2 ) (2006)
6.7/10
Director: Hans Horn
Starring: Susan May Pratt, Richard Speight Jr, Niklaus Lange, Ali Hillis, Eric Dane, Camer...
Promoted as a sequel to 2003's 'Open Water', this is related in no other way except that it is also based on a terrible true story of being helplessly... Read more