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Acclaimed Dramas Movies
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Starring Tom HanksRobin Wright PennGary Sinise
By Robert Zemeckis, 1994.
Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, director Robert Zemeckis's charming blend of comedy and drama stars Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, a simpleminded man who finds himself in the middle of nearly every major event of the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, he makes friends, changes lives...
- Titanic
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly Zane
By James Cameron, 1997.
Winner of 11 Oscars, director James Cameron's effects-filled blockbuster weds the historical tale of the doomed ocean liner with a fictional romance between two of the ship's ill-fated passengers -- putting a human face on a tragedy of epic proportions.
- American Beauty
Starring Kevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora Birch
By Sam Mendes, 1999.
Lester Burnham (Spacey) is dead. This isn't any shock--Lester tells you this himself in his opening narration. It's the time leading up to his death Lester wants to remember. Lester is a middle-aged drone with a brittle, status-conscious wife, Carolyn (Bening), and a sullen teenaged daughter, Jane...
- A Beautiful Mind
Starring Russell CroweJennifer ConnellyEd Harris
By Ron Howard, 2001.
Biopic of the famed mathematician John Nash and his lifelong struggles with his mental health. Nash enrolled as a graduate student at Princeton in 1948 and almost immediately stood out as an odd duck. He devoted himself to finding something unique, a mathematical theorem that would be completely...
- Little Miss Sunshine
Starring Steve CarellToni ColletteGreg Kinnear
By Jonathan Dayton, 2006.
Convinced little Olive (Abigail Breslin) is beauty queen material, parents Richard (Greg Kinnear) and Sheryl (Toni Collette) and the rest of the family embark on a life-altering road trip to a pageant in this madcap comedy. Struggling motivational speaker Richard pushes Olive to win, while her...
- The Social Network
Starring Jesse EisenbergAndrew GarfieldJustin Timberlake
By David Fincher, 2010.
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication...
- Big Fish
Starring Ewan McGregorAlbert FinneyBilly Crudup
By Tim Burton, 2003.
William Bloom (Billy Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward (Albert Finney), by piecing together the facts out of the various fantastic tales and legends of epic proportions he's been told over the years. Edward was a traveling salesman, and his journeys throughout the South are...
- Good Will Hunting
Starring Matt DamonRobin WilliamsMinnie Driver
By Gus Van Sant, 1997.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won an Oscar for their script about friendship and risk for this film directed by Gus Van Sant. With an abuse-filled past and a janitorial job, Will Hunting (Damon) spends his days hanging out with best friend Chuckie Sullivan (Affleck).
- The Green Mile
Starring Tom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid Morse
By Frank Darabont, 1999.
Director Frank Darabont's powerful adaptation of Stephen King's supernatural tale is set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cellblock's head guard, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks)...
- Million Dollar Baby
Starring Clint EastwoodHilary SwankMorgan Freeman
By Clint Eastwood, 2004.
This multiple Oscar winner follows a determined young athlete who, through her sheer determination, awakens a long-lost fire within two aging boxers. Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) isn't prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary...
- Crash
Starring Sandra BullockDon CheadleMatt Dillon
By Paul Haggis, 2005.
Tensions erupt when the tangled lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge over a 36-hour period in the diverse metropolis of post-9/11 Los Angeles. Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle...
- No Country for Old Men
Starring Tommy Lee JonesJavier BardemJosh Brolin
By Ethan Coen, 2007.
A hunter (Josh Brolin) who stumbles upon a dead body, $2 million and a stash of heroin in a Texas desert absconds with the cash. But brutal thief Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) comes looking for it, with a local sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) hot on his trail.
- Erin Brockovich
Starring Julia RobertsAlbert FinneyAaron Eckhart
By Steven Soderbergh, 2000.
A stirring, funny and unconventional drama based on true events, Erin Brockovich stars Julia Roberts as a twice-divorced mother of three children who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins. Desperately needing a job, Erin goes to work for her attorney (Albert Finney) and comes across some...
- Mystic River
Starring Sean PennTim RobbinsKevin Bacon
By Clint Eastwood, 2003.
Three childhood friends, Sean (Kevin Bacon), Dave (Tim Robbins) and Jimmy (Sean Penn) are reunited in Boston 25 years later when they are linked together in the murder investigation of Jimmy's daughter. This taut thriller from director Clint Eastwood won two acting Oscars (for Robbins and Penn) and...
- Finding Neverland
Starring Johnny DeppJulie ChristieIan Hart
By Marc Forster, 2004.
Peter Pan and the denizens of Neverland have captured the hearts and minds of J.M. Barrie's readers. But how did the imaginative author ever envision a world so wondrous yet perilous? Johnny Depp plays Barrie, a writer inspired by genius and dedicated to seeing his vision come to life onstage at...
- Brokeback Mountain
Starring Jake GyllenhaalHeath LedgerMichelle Williams
By Ang Lee, 2005.
Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 romantic drama film that depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983.The film was directed by Taiwanese American director Ang Lee from a screenplay by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry, which they adapted...
- The Aviator
Starring Leonardo DiCaprioCate BlanchettKate Beckinsale
By Martin Scorsese, 2004.
Martin Scorsese directs this Best Picture nominee about Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio), who turned a small fortune into a massive one by producing such classics as Hell's Angels, The Front Page, Flying Leathernecks and Scarface. He simultaneously branched into and transformed industry after...
- The Pianist
Starring Adrien BrodyThomas KretschmannFrank Finlay
By Roman Polanski, 2002.
A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the...
- Ray
Starring Regina KingPatrick BauchauJamie Foxx
By Taylor Hackford, 2004.
This biopic tells the life story of rhythm and blues legend Ray Charles (Jamie Foxx, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal). Born to a poor family in Albany, Ga., Charles contracted glaucoma at age 6 (which robbed him of his eyesight) and nonetheless went on to become a world-famous pianist...
- Milk
Starring Sean PennJames FrancoJosh Brolin
By Gus Van Sant, 2008.
Sean Penn (in an Oscar-winning role) stars in this fact-based drama about Harvey Milk, the openly gay activist and San Francisco politician who was murdered along with Mayor George Moscone (Victor Garber) by disgruntled city supervisor Dan White (Josh Brolin) in 1978.
- Changeling
Starring Angelina JolieJohn MalkovichJeffrey Donovan
By Clint Eastwood, 2008.
Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie, in an Oscar-nominated role) is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain (Jeffrey Donovan) has her committed to an asylum.
- Sideways
Starring Paul GiamattiThomas Haden ChurchVirginia Madsen
By Alexander Payne, 2004.
Two men go on an excursion and end up inducing midlife crises in this comedy-drama that won six Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature and Best Director. Pinot Noir lover Miles (Paul Giamatti) convinces friend Jack (Thomas Haden Church) to enjoy his last days of bachelorhood with a wine...
- Citizen Kane
Starring Orson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy Comingore
By Orson Welles, 1941.
Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane (in essence, a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst), who rises from poverty to become one of America's most influential men.
- Traffic
Starring Michael DouglasDon CheadleBenicio Del Toro
By Steven Soderbergh, 2000.
Not since "Nashville" or maybe even "The Godfather" has Hollywood turned out an epic as resonant as Steven Soderbergh's densely layered study of the Mexican drug trade and its devastating impact on the United States.
- The English Patient
Starring Ralph FiennesJuliette BinocheWillem Dafoe
By Anthony Minghella, 1996.
Anthony Minghella wrote and directed this award-winning adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel about a doomed and tragic romance set against the backdrop of World War II.
- Babel
Starring Cate BlanchettBrad PittGael García Bernal
By Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006.
When an American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) vacationing in Morocco fall victim to a random act of violence, a series of events unfolds across four countries that demonstrates both the necessity and impossibility of human communication. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu artfully...
- The Reader
Starring Kate WinsletRalph FiennesAlexandra Maria Lara
By Stephen Daldry, 2008.
Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) reflects on the formative sexual relationship he had with older woman Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet, in a Golden Globe- and Oscar-winning role) as a young teenager in this poignant drama set in post-World War II Germany. The passionate affair ended when Hanna disappeared.
- The Constant Gardener
Starring Ralph FiennesRachel WeiszHubert Koundé
By Fernando Meirelles, 2005.
This tale of political intrigue centers on Justin Quayle (Ralph Fiennes), a member of the British High Commission based in Africa, and his quest for truth. When his wife (Rachel Weisz, in an Oscar-winning turn for her supporting role) is murdered, Justin begins his own international investigation.
- The Cider House Rules
Starring Tobey MaguireCharlize TheronDelroy Lindo
By Lasse Hallström, 1999.
Radically downsized in scope, and its examination of the issue of abortion greatly softened, John Irving's sixth novel (with a Dickensian screenplay by the author) has been turned into a lovely World War II-era fable about a young man venturing out into the world.
- The Hours
Starring Nicole KidmanMeryl StreepJulianne Moore
By Stephen Daldry, 2002.
Spanning across various time periods in the 20th Century, a drama which revolves around three very different women: two of whom have been profoundly affected by the works of Virginia Woolf; the other woman is Woolf, herself. All three are battling with issues of freedom, responsibility and identity.
- Good Night, and Good Luck
Starring George ClooneyRobert Downey Jr.Alex Borstein
By George Clooney, 2005.
George Clooney's Academy Award-nominated docudrama pits veteran television newsman Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) against a determined Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his single-minded crusade to quell the red threat at home. Despite corporate pressure to back off, Murrow and his CBS staff vow to...
- In the Bedroom
Starring Tom WilkinsonSissy SpacekMarisa Tomei
By Todd Field, 2001.
In this perfectly observed, wrenchingly acted drama, Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson are the Fowlers, a middle-class couple living in Camden, a quiet, picturesque Maine fishing town.
