Drama

Country of My Skull | United Kingdom| South Africa| Ireland
Genre
IMDB
6.0 (2461 votes)
Budget
12,000,000.00$
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.

Unthinkable | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.1 (81898 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?

Home of the Brave | United States of America| Morocco
Genre
IMDB
5.6 (10268 votes)
Budget
12,000,000.00$
The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.

Freedomland | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
5.1 (15033 votes)
Budget
37,665,000.00$
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

Resurrecting the Champ | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (19844 votes)
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

The Caveman's Valentine | United States of America| Canada
Genre
IMDB
5.8 (6203 votes)
In this spine-tingling and visually stunning thriller, Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Shaft, Pulp Fiction delivers a "full-throttle performance" (People) as Romulus Ledbetter, a misunderstood musician turned recluse, hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave. When Romulus finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree, the authorities - including his police officer daughter (Aunjanne Ellis) - claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by prominent art photographer David Leppenraub (Colm Feore). But how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?

Black Snake Moan | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.9 (59579 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.

Genre
IMDB
7.3 (118272 votes)
Budget
30,000,000.00$
Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

One Eight Seven | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (21341 votes)
Budget
20,000,000.00$
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.

Genre
IMDB
6.7 (6262 votes)
Budget
15,000,000.00$
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn't such a good husband and father.

The Great White Hype | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
5.5 (8184 votes)
When the champ's promoter, Rev. Sultan, decides something new is needed to boost the marketability of the boxing matches, he searches and finds the only man to ever beat the champ. The problem is that he isn't a boxer anymore and he's white. However, once Rev. Sultan convinces him to fight, he goes into heavy training while the confident champ takes it easy and falls out of shape.

The Long Goodbye | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.6 (23763 votes)
Budget
1,700,000.00$
Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

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