Drama Movies

A father who is running from the evils of the larger world finds they've arrived on his doorstep in this drama from Australian filmmaker Kriv Stenders. Nat (Aden Young) is a former schoolteacher and widower who idealistically has left the city and traveled with his children Tom (Toby Wallace) and Sarah (Hanna Mangan-Lawrence) to remote area in the bush, where he's taken up farming. Unfortunately, Nat has almost no practical knowledge of agriculture, and while 12-year-old Tom fervently believes in his father, Sarah is older, wiser and certain Nat has made a terrible mistake. One day, three strangers arrive at the farm on horseback, a trio of soldiers returned from the Boer War -- restless adventurer Maj. Henry (Pip Miller), moody and hard-drinking Carver (Neil Pigot), and Jimmy (Eamon Farren), who is innocent, good looking and clearly ill. Nat, who needs help on the farm, regards the arrival of the travelers as a gift from God, while Tom is fascinated by their tales of heroics and Sarah is clearly drawn to Jimmy as she helps nurse him back to health. But Nat discovers one of the reason his children are charmed by the soldiers is they have a cache of stolen gold, and the father believes the love of money is tainting the minds of his children. Lucky Country received its world premiere at the 2009 Adelaide Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A top-secret government experiment yields terrifying results in this gory, low-budget homage to the fright flicks of the 1980s. In their efforts to defeat dangerous drug cartels and decimate coca fields, government scientists genetically engineer a hyper-aggressive strain of mold. When the airborne mold displays an insatiable hunger for human flesh, however, the same scientists once tasked with creating it, must prevent it from escaping the lab, and infecting the outside world. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Conflicted ex-con Bobby Baldano grapples with his intense criminal instincts while struggling to honor his family name by going straight. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

True love turns terrifying for a 17-year-old girl (Taylor Spreitler) impregnated by a dangerously unstable college student (Chuck Hittinger) who threatens to kill her if she attempts prevent him from seeing his child. Brian Krause and Amy Pietz co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Two youngsters struggle in their own ways with the onset of adulthood in this drama from Argentine filmmaker Julia Solomonoff. Young Jorgelina (Guadalupe Alonso) has spent most of her summers traveling with her family, but she's become disenchanted with her big sister Luciana (Maria Clara Merendino), who is blossoming into a woman. Openly disgusted with the changes in her sister's attitude and appearance, Jorgelina doesn't want to spend another holiday with her, and she's instead sent to a cattle ranch, where she becomes fascinated with a young boy named Mario (Nicolas Treise). Mario works with the cattle hands, but he's a quiet youngster who keeps to himself and initially resists Jorgelina's offers of friendship. In time, the two get to know one another, and Mario shares a secret with her -- he's been raised as a boy, but he appears to have the sex organs of both a male and a female, and he's not sure what he is and what he should do about it. El Ultimo Verano De La Boyita (aka The Last Summer Of La Boyita) was an official selection at the 2010 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

A closeted cardiologist in Israel encounters a mysterious patient who leads him into the company of an openly gay IDF officer, giving him hope for a better life in director Eytan Fox's compassionate sequel to Yossi & Jagger. Ten years after Jagger's tragic death, respected cardiologist Yossi has yet to recover from the devastating loss. Surrounding himself with work, he lives alone and isolated. After his closest colleagues fail repeatedly in their efforts to reach out to Yossi, however, he gets a new outlook on life thanks to an enigmatic woman who leads him to the southern city of Eilat, where handsome gay officer Tom (Oz Zehavi) lives without shame. Now the closer Yossi and Tom get, the more Yossi begins to realize that his world is changing faster than he ever could have imagined. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

A shy New Jersey teen strives to get noticed by the girl he's loved since grade school, and faces a series of insurmountable obstacles that prevent him from doing so. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

The made-for-cable biopic Liz & Dick follows the tumultuous relationship between screen legends Elizabeth Taylor (Lindsay Lohan) and Richard Burton (Grant Bowler. The celebrated performers meet on the set of Cleopatra, and their almost instantaneous attraction to each other quickly blossoms into a scandalous affair that results in two different marriages and divorces. The couple contends personal issues like his alcoholism and her constant hounding from the paparazzi, as well as their ongoing attempts to maintain their highly-respected careers. Liz & Dick premiered November 25, 2012 on the Lifetime cable network. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

The walls of perception come crumbling down when a young mental patient claims to have escaped the clutches of a masked psychopath who abducts and tortures gorgeous women. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

12-year-old Caspar Hazard must fend for himself in the Sierra Nevadas after his father makes a break from reality while mining for gold in the 1870s. With vengeful Native Americans lurking around every bend and villainous bandits behind every rock, every moves Caspar makes could be his last. Michael Madsen and John Savage co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

An alcoholic Texan who destroyed his life with liquor seeks a second chance to turn his life around, and repair his relationship with his family in this biopic centered on the life of noted Texas 4-H and FFA contributor Richard Wallrath. His life destroyed by alcohol, Dick (Jon Gries) struggles to remain sober with the guidance of an enigmatic bearded figure (Val Kilmer) whose wisdom instills him with the strength to launch his own business. As Dick becomes more successful, he commits himself to providing educational scholarships to children in Texas 4-H and FFA. Elaine Hendrix and D.B. Sweeney co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Director Robert Townsend tells the tale of a 16-year-old boy who's headed down the road to self-destruction when he's sent to an unorthodox North Carolina school devoted to helping at-risk teens build brighter futures. Loretta Devine, Vivica A. Fox, and Michael Clarke Duncan co-star. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi