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"
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
6.6/10
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring: Alfred Molina, Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Tina Fey, Margot Robbie
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker (Tina Fey) decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged... Read more
Whistle Down The Wind (1961)
7.8/10
Director: Bryan Forbes
Starring: Hayley Mills, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
A wonderfully honest, touching film about a trio of children who find an escaped criminal in their barn and mistake him for Christ. Hayley Mills, Bern... Read more
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
6.4/10
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, Christopher Meloni, Shiloh Fernandez, Gabourey Sidi...
Kat Connors (Shailene Woodley) is a young woman embracing her newfound sexuality when her glamorous but strange mother Eve (Eva Green) vanishes. At fi... Read more
White Boy Rick (2018)
6.5/10
Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Ro...
Rick Wershe is a single father who's struggling to raise two teenagers during the height of the crack epidemic in 1980s Detroit. Wershe sells guns ill... Read more
White Boy Rick (Blu-Ray) (2018)
6.5/10
Director: Yann Demange
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Ro...
Rick Wershe is a single father who's struggling to raise two teenagers during the height of the crack epidemic in 1980s Detroit. Wershe sells guns ill... Read more
White Elephant (2012)
6.5/10
Director: Pablo Trapero
Starring: Ricardo Darin, Jeremie Renier, Martina Gusman
A powerful and gripping story from Argentina, "White Elephant" follows the lives of two maverick Catholic priests, a community worker and their desper... Read more
White Fang (1991)
6.7/10
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Seymour Cassel
Sprawling, beautiful filmization of Jack London's classic tale. A boy discovers adventure and camaraderie with an orphaned Alaskan husky in the Klondi... Read more
White Lies (2013)
6.7/10
Director: Dana Rotberg
Starring: Antonia Prebble, Rachel House, Whirimako Black
"White Lies" is about the nature of identity: those who deny it and those who strive to protect it. Paraiti (Whirimako Black) is a medicine woman. She... Read more
White Lightnin' (2009)
7.1/10
Director: Dominic Murphy
Starring: Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson, Edward Hogg
Dominic Murphy's feature debut is a semi-fantasised biography of the 'dancing outlaw': legendary Appalachian mountain dancer Jesco White (Edward Hogg)... Read more
White Man's Burden (1995)
5.2/10
Director: Desmond Nakano
Starring: John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Kelly Lynch
Race relations are turned on their head in this thought provoking, speculative drama set in an America where the privileged black majority controls al... Read more