Drama Movies of 1993
The House of the Spirits
Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Philadelphia
At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Short Cuts
Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Falling Down
It's just not William Foster's (Michael Douglas) day. Laid off from his ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
And the Band Played On
The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Flesh and Bone
Small-time Texas businessman Arlis Sweeney (Dennis Quaid) can never shake the memory of his ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Remains of the Day
Filmed with the usual meticulous attention to ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Indecent Proposal
Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Age of Innocence
In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Fearless
Adapted by screenwriter Rafael Yglesias from his own novel, Fearless explores the complex struggle back to mental health of post-traumatic stress disorder victim Max Klein (Jeff Bridges). One of few survivors of a fatal plane crash, Klein ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Heaven & Earth
With Heaven and Earth -- cobbled together from two autobiographical reminiscences (When Heaven and ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom's follow-up to the underrated Once Around ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Searching for Bobby Fischer was inspired by the life of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, as written ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
This Boy's Life
A single mother and her difficult son find family life isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be in this drama adapted from writer and professor Tobias Wolff's 1989 memoir of the same name. Nomadic, flaky Caroline (Ellen ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Fire Next Time
This ecological drama, set in 2017, presents a world where pollution has generated ever more unpredictable weather and rendered ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Married to It
Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each other through their marriage difficulties. Claire (Cybill Shepherd) and Leo (Ron Silver) are a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Swing Kids
In 1939 Hamburg, Germany, a group of teenagers express their rebellion against Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime through their affection for American swing music, ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
My Life
In My Life, Michael Keaton stars as Bob Jones, who has just been informed that his wife Gail (Nicole Kidman) is pregnant with their first child. However, he has also been told he ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Piano
Writer/director Jane Campion's third feature unearthed emotional undercurrents and churning intensity in the story of a mute woman's rebellion in the recently ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Sommersby
This Americanized remake of the French classic The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) transports the story's setting from the 16th century Gallic countryside to 19th century Tennessee at the ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Last Light
Kiefer Sutherland directed and stars in this ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Real McCoy
Kim Basinger plays a burglar ex-con who's just been ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
A Perfect World
Clint Eastwood, hot off of his Academy Award win for Unforgiven, directed this small character study, appearing in the guise of a cops-and-robbers action picture. The film takes place during the fall of 1963. ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Schindler's List
Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Shadowlands
This lavishly mounted adaptation of the play by William Nicholson tells the true story of the doomed love affair between novelist and noted Christian scholar ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade
A disturbed man looks back at his past as he faces an uncertain future in ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Program
Eastern State University isn't particularly notable for anything except its football program. Lately, even that hasn't been doing too well, and the athletic staff led by ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Thing Called Love
A handful of up-and-coming songwriters discover that ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Family Pictures
Family Pictures is a two-part TV adaptation of the Sue Miller novel of the same name. Anjelica Huston and Sam Neill are Lainey and ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Morning Glory
Actress Deborah Raffin had a hand in the screenplay ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Bopha!
This 1993 film adaptation of Percy Mtwa's South African ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Calendar
Atom Egoyan casts himself as the lead character in Calendar. He portrays a shutterbug who brings an array of different women to his apartment. Every time one of the women makes a phone call, the character notices a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
In the Name of the Father
The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
A Matter of Justice
In this made-for-TV drama, Patty Duke plays a mother who vows to do everything possible to keep custody of her grandchild following the murder of her son. Though no one believes her, Duke is convinced that her boy was murdered by his ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Faraway, So Close!
Wim Wenders revisits his masterpiece Der Himmel Uber Berlin in this film which picks up several years after the original left off. Cassiel (Otto Sander) is an angel who watches over the lives of the people of recently reunified ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Man without a Face
Mel Gibson made his feature film directing debut with this drama, loosely based on the book ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Heidi
This Disney-produced made-for-TV version of the classic children's tale features Noley Thornton as ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The X-Files: Season 01
Before the black oil, the Cigarette Smoking Man, and ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Mr. Jones
The title character, a manic depressive prone to very irrational behavior (Richard Gere), is hospitalized for treatment. While there, the ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
The brief but eventful life of actor and martial arts trailblazer ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Golem: The Petrified Garden
Instead of simply traveling to eastern Siberia to collect a modern art collection willed to him by a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Boxing Helena
In this stylized art film, which marked the directorial debut ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Sudden Fury: A Family Torn Apart
A brutal murder sends a family into chaos in this made-for-TV drama. Daniel Hannigan (Johnny Galecki) becomes the key suspect in the killing of his foster parents when they're ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Cheatin' Hearts
Rod McCall wrote and directed this slice-of-life melodrama about a woman in a mid-life crisis who struggles to preserve her home and family. Sally ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
When the Party's Over
When the Party's Over is a surprisingly down-spirited drama about a group of twenty-something yuppies trying to survive in Los Angeles. All four main characters -- three women (Sandra Bullock, ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Roosters
Milcha Sanchez-Scott adapted her own play for this moving and poetic tale of family obsessions directed by Robert ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Fire on the Amazon
Two Americans abroad discover how high the price of activism can be in this drama. When a well-known environmental researcher is murdered in the Amazon jungle, an arrogant photojournalist (Craig Sheffer) joins forces with a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Flynn
Errol Flynn (1909-1959) was the son of a highly respected Australian scientist, and was given the opportunity to have an excellent education. However, his athletic and restless spirit caused him to get into trouble ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
JFK: Reckless Youth
Originally aired as a two-part miniseries, this biography looks at the early years of America's most dashing president from his early childhood through his nomination for ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Map of the Human Heart
A white, Inuit boy named Avik is the focus of New Zealand director Vincent Ward's meditation on race and romance. In the opening moments of the movie, ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
American Heart
Following up on Streetwise, his powerful documentary on the homeless kids ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
A Bronx Tale
Robert De Niro made his directorial debut with this expanded adaptation of Chazz Palminteri's one-character play. DeNiro's role of Lorenzo Anello, an Italian-America bus driver, is secondary ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Aspen Extreme
T.J. (Paul Gross) and Dex (Peter Berg) leave Detroit to wax up their skis and find an adventurous new life on the slopes of Aspen in this skiing drama. The two become instructors and take up ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Magician
Two English criminal masterminds determined to flood the market with fake bills skirt the odds and the authorities in an explosive thriller directed by Terry Winsor and starring Jay Acovone, Clive Owen, and Jeremy Kemp. They know that ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Young Americans
Harvey Keitel plays John Harris, an American drug enforcement officer who is asked by London police to help them in cracking an organized drug ring. The syndicate is run by a ruthless young American who turns disaffected young ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Farewell, My Concubine
Until Farewell, My Concubine (Ba Wang Bie Ji), not many people were aware that most members of the Peking Opera were originally ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
What's Love Got to Do with It?
What's Love Got to Do With It? is the filmed biography of R&B/pop singer Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), documenting her ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
A Home of Our Own
Oscar-winner Kathy Bates stars in this tearjerker about a strong-willed widow determined to make it on her own. Bates is Frances Lacey, mother of six, left alone to provide for the family after her husband dies. Hoping to steer the ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
A Woman's Guide to Adultery
Based on a novel by Carol Clewlow, the three-part British miniseries ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Twenty Bucks
This fascinating chronicle of the life and times of a twenty dollar bill was originally written by Endre Boehm in 1935 and languished forgotten on the shelf until his son Leslie resurrected ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Naked
A scathing look at Britain in the post-Thatcher era, Mike Leigh's Naked stars David Thewlis as ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Poetic Justice
R&B star Janet Jackson made an impressive film debut in Poetic Justice as Justice, a hairdresser at a small salon in South Central Los Angeles. ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Strapped
An impoverished African American teen, raised in a grim and desperate Brooklyn project finds himself forced to set aside his dreams in order to face the ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Dark Wind
Noted documentary filmmaker Errol Morris made his dramatic feature debut with this story about murder and other dirty ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Joy Luck Club
Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Clean, Shaven
In this psychological thriller, what at first seem to be the wholly insane (and gruesome) self-mutilations of a madman who is also probably a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Beverly Hills 90210: Season 04
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All or Nothing at All
A charming grifter who boldly feeds off the greed of others must straighten up before he loses everything in this British crime drama featuring House M.D. star Hugh Laurie. Leo Hopkins ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Free Willy
The touching story of a boy and his killer whale made this family drama a surprise box office hit. Jesse (Jason James ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Outrage
An attractive circus performer (Francesca Neri) gets gang raped and takes justice in her own hands using her shooting skills. Things go awry, however, and she ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Menace II Society
This debut offering from twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes was one of ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Acapulco H.E.A.T.: Season 01
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The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan's disturbing novel is given a chilly shimmer in this film adaptation by Andrew Birkin. The film takes place in a concrete slab of a house situated on the outskirts of an English town. The father (Hanns ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Lies and Lullabies
Christina (Susan Dey) is a cocaine addict in a tumultuous relationship with an equally drug-addicted boyfriend. When she becomes pregnant, the baby is born not only prematurely but ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Darkness Before Dawn
Based on a true story, this made-for-television drama chronicles a couple's downward spiral into drug addiction. Meredith ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Secret Garden
The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden is a beautifully produced rendition of the classic Frances ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Romper Stomper
This controversial drama (which earned an NC-17 rating in the U.S.) was a major box-office success in its native Australia, and it made an overnight star of its leading man, Russell Crowe. Hando (Crowe) is a member of a gang of ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Madadayo
Akira Kurosawa's swansong is a delicate, sentimental portrait of his long avowed hero, educator and literary figure Hyakken Uchida. At the film's opening, Uchida -- a professor of German literature at a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Sombras En Una Batalla
Ana (Carmen Maura) is a veterinarian living in the country with her daughter. She has a comfortable, settled life. From time to time, Dario (Fernando Valverde), one of her co-workers, stops by her farmhouse for a meal, but otherwise ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Seasons of the Heart
A grieving mother unable to get over the death of her two young daughters finds her marriage and family life threatened due to her inability to let her newly adopted son into her heart in director T.C. ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Benito
Antonio Banderas steps into the shoes of Italian Fascist dictator and ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Spirit Rider
A teenage Ojibway boy, who has been in foster homes for ten years, is placed ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Amongst Friends
Director Robert K. Weiss gives a good accounting of himself in his first feature-length effort Amongst Friends. The film is set in an affluent Long Island neighborhood, the home of boyhood chums Patrick McGaw, Steve Parlavecchio, and ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Judas Project
The Judas Project is advertised by its distributors as a contemporary fantasy. Let's see if this plotline rings a bell: A young man named Jesse becomes spiritual leader to a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Confessions of Sorority Girls
This campy remake of Roger Corman's 1957 drama Sorority Girl was part of a series of made-for-cable adaptations of old American International ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
In the Middle of Nowhere
Joaquin (Manuel Ojeda) and his beautiful wife Susana (Blanca Guerra) are indeed In ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Like Water for Chocolate
Based on the best-selling novel by Laura Esquival, this internationally popular romantic fable from Mexico centers on a young woman who discovers that her cooking has magical effects. The tale's heroine, Tita, is ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Fiorile
In Fiorile (US title: Wild Flower), Italy's Taviani brothers once again dissect the manners and mores of the Tuscany region. The story ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Salmonberries
Writer/director Percy Adlon's offbeat tale of the friendship between two unusual women: an East German emigre who works as a librarian in ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Intruso
In this drama, a dying man makes a final, desperate bid to steal his ex-wife away from her new spouse. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Fly By Night
Struggling musicians vie for success in the hard world of the ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Scent of Green Papaya
The interior life of a Vietnamese household in the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Dangerous Relations
Originally made for television, this prison drama centers on a hard-core convict who for the past decade has been the king of the other prisoners. Just before he is to be paroled, a young ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Daybreak
In this chilling made-for-cable-television outing, the population of the United States is nearly wiped out by a sexually transmitted disease. In order to ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.
A teen girl struggles to reconcile her desire for self-improvement with her rebellious nature and her lack of maturity in this coming-of-age drama, which won first-time ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Perfect Harmony
Music bridges a gap between two cultures in this made-for-TV drama. In 1957, Derek Sanders (Peter Scolari) is hired to teach music and direct the choir at ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Diana: Her True Story
This British television docu-drama dishes up the turbulent royal marriage of Charles and Lady Di. The story is based on Andrew Morton's tell-all book and is considered the most ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Combination Platter
Made on the proverbial shoestring, Combination Platter represents ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Raining Stones
Bob (Bruce Jones) lives with his wife Anne (Julie Brown) and his ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Blue Kite
Tian Zhuangzhuang, a charter member of China's politically ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
My Crazy Life
Neighborhood pride runs deep in Echo Park, so when two lifelong friends join the local gang as a matter of course, they're handed down gang names from the previous generation of homegirls. Unfortunately, Sad Girl (Angel Aviles) and Mousie ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Dead Before Dawn
In the tradition of such woman-in-jeopardy nail-biters as Extremities and Sleeping With the Enemy comes the ABC made-for-television ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
For Their Own Good
Corporate women launch a bitter courtroom battle when their avaricious employer tells them that ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Pretty Boy
His single mother has been seeing some men whose presence in the house makes it impossible for thirteen-year old Nick (Christian Tafdrup) to remain. He finds shelter with a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Abraham's Valley
In this artful film by 85-year old director Manoel de Oliveira, the heroine, instead of being powerless in the face of a world ruled by men, finds herself to be far too powerful. ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Bed You Sleep In
In this independently produced drama, a timbermill owner is having great difficulty sustaining a livelihood due to overcutting and peculiarities of the international ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Women from the Lake of Scented Souls
In a rural area of China, a woman makes the best sesame oil in the ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Passionata
In this romantic drama, a concert pianist has a second chance at happiness ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Snowy River: The McGregor Saga - The Race
In this made-for-TV movie, originally produced as the premier episode of the television series Snowy River, master horseman Matt McGregor ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Madam
An intelligent, talented woman falls into the dangerous world of prostitution in this drama. ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
A Lost Year
Those who are familiar with social movements in Mexico in the 1970s may ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Hatachi No Binetsu
Shin (Masahi Endo) is a teenaged gymnast who has a problem. Two problems, actually. The first problem is that he's gay and in love. The second problem is that the object of his affections is a hustler ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Maya Memsaab
Maya (Deepa Sahj) says she has everything she could possibly want, with a ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Prinz In Hölleland
The connection between the protagonists' homosexual lifestyle and the seedy ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Doctor Finlay [TV Series]
A doctor still dealing with the aftermath of war ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
End of the Road
Following his 1990 bid for a more serious sort of filmmaking with A Home Too Far, Taiwanese exploitation director Chu Yen-ping continued the war story which that film began with this stirring appeal to Nationalist ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
NYPD Blue: Season 01
NYPD Blue seemed destined to end before it began, ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Sueno de Luces
Fantastic dreams blend with harsh realities in this Mexican drama featuring popular actor Pedro Romo. Young Julian Lopez is convinced that the source of his parent's woes lays in his family's economic despair, and the ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Unnatural Causes
When a mutilated corpse is discovered floating at sea in an abandoned dinghy, Scotland Yard commander Adam Dalgliesh (Roy Marsden) is certain that the cause of death is not natural in this elaborate whodunit that ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Country Teachers
When a woman is forced to work as a teacher in rural mainland China, she sees a clear goal. If she can become a certified, government employee, ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Flood
David Kinghorn's docudrama Flood is based on a real event that took place in Texas in 1987. The film concerns a school bus full of students who get washed into a river during ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Snowy
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The Heritage: An Eternity of Love
Love transcends the laws of time in director Amnon Rubenstein's romantic drama tracing the passion of ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Blood Brothers
While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford (Amir Williams), a young African-American man with a tremendous sense of familial loyalty, happens to witness a gang-related bloodbath and is ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
The Secrets of Lake Success
A rich New England family succumbs to a twisted web of jealousy and greed when the family patriarch, (Brian ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 02
Season two of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman introduces a new arrival in the town of ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Trade Winds
Two rival families clash for control of the Island of St. John in this ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Black Jack OVA: Episode 10
A young woman experiences a startling transformation after being exposed to toxic waste in this entry into AstroBoy creator Osamu Tezuka's chilling medical thriller. Terrified by the changes her body is going ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
House of Eliott: Series 03
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Second Chances [TV Series]
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Tragedia en Waco Texas
Per its title, the Spanish-language docudrama Tragedia en Waco Texas recounts the grisly end of the Branch Davidian compound in April, 1993, in Waco, Texas. This ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Corazon Salvaje
The late Eduardo Palomo winds his impressive career to a spectacular close in this telenovela detailing the attempts of two ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Miracle in the Land of Coffee
Julian Rodriguez's drama Miracle in the Land of Coffee concerns a young monk is ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
Del Lado de La Ley
A determined cop is forced to go above the law in order to catch a high profile drug dealer in this tense criminal tale starring Mario ... [ Drama movie - 1993 ]
