Drama

Against the Wall | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.7 (2,102 votes)
Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.

Kiss of Death | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
5.9 (16339 votes)
Budget
40,000,000.00$
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, a police officer named Calvin Hart is injured and Jimmy lands back in prison. In exchange for an early release, he is asked to help bring down a local crime boss named Little Junior Brown. Jimmy remarries and attempts to renew a relationship with his child. But he is sent undercover by Detective Hart to work with Junior and infiltrate his operations. As soon as Little Junior kills an undercover federal agent with Jimmy watching, the unscrupulous district attorney and the feds further complicate his life. He must take down Junior or face the consequences.

Rules of Engagement | Germany| United States of America| Canada
Genre
IMDB
6.4 (42969 votes)
Budget
60,000,000.00$
Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.

Uncle Tom's Cabin
Genre
IMDB
6.2 (456 votes)
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.

School Daze | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
6.1 (7565 votes)
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

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.

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