Drama Movies of 1996
Marvin's Room
Two sisters try to set their familial differences aside -- one in hopes of saving her ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Sleepers
Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Hamlet
At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Hamsun
This powerful Scandinavian biopic chronicles the fall of one of Norway's most respected authors, Knut Hamsun (played by Max von ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Shine
The true story of a gifted Australian piano prodigy, this biographical drama was nominated for seven Oscars, with actor Geoffrey Rush winning for Best Actor. Rush stars as David ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
City Hall
Three A-list screenwriters -- (Nicholas Pileggi, Bo ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Up Close & Personal
A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and it shares the same screenwriters as those who penned the 1976 version of that film, John Gregory Dunne and Joan ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Crucible
When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The English Patient
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. In a field hospital in Italy, Hana (Juliette Binoche), a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Jane Eyre
Director Franco Zeffirelli stresses emotional realism over gothic chills in this restrained adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's classic. The screenplay, by Zeffirelli and Hugh Whitmore, remains relatively faithful to the original story, ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
A Time to Kill
Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Carried Away
Based on the novel Farmer by Jim Harrison, this drama concerns ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once summarized the moral of his novel Mother Night like ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
September
Adapted from a novel by Rosemunde Pilcher, the British ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Chamber
Based on a novel by John Grisham, this drama deals with a man trying to come to terms with his family and their ugly secrets. Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) is a successful attorney based in Chicago who travels to Mississippi to look into the case ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Kansas City
The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at his childhood hometown. The film's intricate ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Mary Reilly
Based on the novel by Valerie Martin, this gothic suspense story ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Phenomenon
Director Jon Turteltaub followed up the hit While You Were Sleeping (1995) with ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Before and After
Director Barbet Schroeder and screenwriter Ted Tally adapted the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
A Family Thing
In this family drama, a white Southerner discovers that his family history isn't what he thought it was -- with the fact ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Ghosts of Mississippi
This is a long-awaited film telling the story of the trials of Medgar Evers' ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Evening Star
Shirley MacLaine reprises her award-winning performance as Aurora Greenway in this sequel to Terms of Endearment. Fifteen years after the death of her daughter Emma, Aurora is still keeping an ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
The classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy is updated by director Baz Luhrmann to a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Stealing Beauty
This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Carla's Song
British filmmaker Ken Loach blended a love story with strong political commentary in this powerful drama. George ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The War at Home
Jeremy Collier (Emilio Estevez) is the army veteran who returns home ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Michael Collins
The rise and fall of one of the most important and ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
America's Dream
Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Moll Flanders
Written in 1712, Daniel Defoe's bawdy novel Moll Flanders was given a slick movie treatment with Kim Novak in the lead in 1965, then serialized for British television in ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Bastard out of Carolina
Accomplished actress Anjelica Huston, daughter of John Huston, made her directorial debut with this ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Jake's Women
Assembled by the same team responsible for "The Hallmark Hall of Fame", this TV adaptation of Neil Simon's hit play Jake's Woman stars Alan Alda, recreating his Broadway role as Simon-esque writer Jake. Mired in an unhappy marriage with ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Grace of My Heart
Illeana Douglas delivers a superb performance as Denise Waverly, a fictional singer and songwriter whose life bears more than a passing resemblance to that of real-life pop star Carole King. Edna Buxton, the daughter of a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Hard Eight
Before his commercial breakthrough with Boogie Nights (1997), writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson made this low-key drama. John (John C. Reilly), a half-bright loser stranded in Reno, is down to ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Last Dance
The relationship between an unproven lawyer and the female convict ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Hidden in America
This moving drama explores a real, but often hidden American problem, hunger. It tells the story of how a lay-off destroys the life of a widower father and his children, reducing them to ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
johns
Two male hustlers with different ideals and goals struggle through a tough night in this gritty drama. It's Christmas Eve on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Ridicule
This is a French costume drama from director Patrice Leconte that recalls both Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Restoration (1995). Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) is a baron of the 18th ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Race the Sun
Loosely based on a true account, this family drama centers on a group of aimless Hawaiian teens who with the support of two inspirational teachers turn their lives around by building a solar powered car and racing it across the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Preacher's Wife
An angel wonders if love can be Heaven on Earth in this ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault
In this inspirational sports drama, a talented but drug-addicted basketball player cleans up his act and devotes his life to teaching Harlem children to play the game. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
American Buffalo
David Mamet's play about three losers planning a robbery is brought to the screen in an admirably simple, straightforward manner. Don (Dennis Franz) is the owner of an "antique store" (read: ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Basquiat
Andy Warhol was a phenomenon who warrants a lot of explaining: a completely colorless mega-star celebrity, and a kind of LaBrea Tarpit for a vivid and talented collection of oddballs in the New York scene. He fostered their continued degeneration ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Bliss
A provocative drama about sex, love, and trust, Bliss concerns Joseph (Craig Sheffer) and Maria (Sheryl Lee), a young married couple whose ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Danielle Steel's 'The Ring'
In this drama, a German woman treasures a ring, the one tie she has left to her life before WWII. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Innocent Victims
The cautionary phrase "It could happen to you!" was seldom more appropriate than in this two-part, four-hour TV movie, ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Lone Star
Reminiscent of a fine novel in depth and complexity, writer-director John Sayles' acclaimed drama uses the investigation of a 25-year-old murder as the framework ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
I Shot Andy Warhol
The true story of Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who became notorious after shooting art world icon Andy Warhol, is portrayed in this fact-based drama. In an attempt to present a fair assessment of her ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Rose Hill
This made-for-TV drama, produced for the acclaimed anthology series Hallmark Hall of Fame, follows four orphans journeying from New York to the American West during the great migration of the 19th century. En ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Every Woman's Dream
Evidently, the "dream" to which every woman aspires in this made-for-TV drama is Mitch Parker (Jeff Fahey), a handsome, charismatic fellow with a smooth line of ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Whole Wide World
A touching and unusual love story, The Whole Wide World was ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Spitfire Grill
This debut drama from writer-director Lee David Zlotoff (creator of the TV series MacGyver) won the audience award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival. Alison Elliott stars as Percy Talbott, an ex-convict who's come to the small ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Twister
Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt and Carey Elwes may be billed as the stars of Twister, but the film's real attractions ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Substance of Fire
In this adaptation of a stage play by Jon Robin Baitz, a successful head of a New York publishing firm unravels after the death of his wife. Isaac Geldhart (Ron Rifkin) is a German ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Sugartime
This tawdry drama is based on the allegedly true-life love affair between notorious mafioso Sam Giancana and chanteuse Phyllis McGuire. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Fly Away Home
Inspired by a true story, Fly Away Home is a family drama about Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Dalva
Farrah Fawcett delivers a dramatic tour de force in the title role of the made-for-TV Dalva. As a teenager, Dalva had fallen in love ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Sling Blade
Sling Blade marked the directorial debut of country singer turned actor Billy Bob Thornton, who also authored the script (expanding George Hickenlooper's acclaimed short Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade) and ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years
This follow-up to the wildly popular miniseries The ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Siege at Ruby Ridge
The tragic story of the Ruby Ridge "massacre" has been so thoroughly covered and disseminated by the mainstream press that to add anything here would be pointless. Suffice to say that the two-part TV movie The ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Boys
Boys is a coming-of-age tale about an addled prep school student who ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Breaking the Waves
With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
This three-part BBC adaptation of author Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
White Squall
Based on a true incident from 1960, White Squall is the story of the tragic sinking of the Albatross, a prep school educational two-masted schooner, during a Caribbean storm. Screenwriter Todd Robinson wrote the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Elective Affinities
This French-Italian romantic drama is faithfully based on an early 19th century Goethe novel about the destruction of a married couple. They are Charlotte and Edouard, an aristocratic couple who married late in life and happily ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
In Love and War
This romantic historical drama is based on the diaries of Agnes Von Kurowsky, who while ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
In the Lake of the Woods
Based on Tim O'Brien's novel, In the Lake of the Woods is the story of a man driven by demons from his past and a mystery surrounding the disappearance of his wife. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
In this drama, an interracial Virginia couple petition the Supreme Court against the state's miscegenation laws in order to legalize their marriage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Moll Flanders
An orphaned young woman struggles to overcome a difficult childhood and her later experiences ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Trigger Effect
The film's opening sequence takes the audience inside a mall, where a series of minor slights among strangers leads to an inexorable tension. Eventually, the focus settles on the main ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Gang in Blue
In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Inside
A solemn look at South African apartheid, Arthur ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Norma Jean and Marilyn
Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
L'Appartement
With a plot more tangled than a spider's broken web, this French drama follows the romantic obsession ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
ER: Season 03
Season three of ER marks the (temporary) exit of Chicago County emergency-room doctor Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), whose ever-increasing ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Far Harbor
In this emotional drama, a group of young professionals tries to get away from their problems, only to find that their friends create new annoyances. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
Telemovie mainstays Richard Crenna and Patty Duke (who co-starred in the 1982 sitcom It Takes ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Infinity
Actor Matthew Broderick made his directorial debut with this romantic ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The X-Files: Season 04
Just when it seemed as though the conspiracy couldn't get any ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Shiloh
Based on the Newberry Award-winning novel by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, this heartwarming tale of a boy and his dog reaches for greater significance and depth than the typical entry in the kids' movie genre. Blake Heron stars as Marty Preston, a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Bed of Roses
Two lonely people learn to say it with flowers in this romantic drama. Lisa (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Sunset Park
A Jewish high school teacher, Phyllis Saroka (Rhea Perlman), steps in to take on the thankless job of coaching the school's inept basketball team, which is filled with ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Secrets and Lies
A family is forced to confront the personal issues they've been avoiding for years in this powerful, realistic drama. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Foxfire
Loosely based on the book Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, this film is about four high-school girls, dissimilar in every other way, who find that they are ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
True Blue
To Oxford University's rowing team, the annual competitive boat race holds more potential glory than the Olympics. When their ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Indecent Seduction
Based on a true story, the made-for-TV For My Daughter's Honor concerns a torrid sexual relationship between ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Party of Five: Season 03
Season Three of Party of Five opens with the five orphaned Salinger siblings regaining ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Two Deaths
Amid the bloody tumult of Communist dictator Ceausescu in 1989 Romania, a hedonistic and morally sidetracked physician, Daniel Pavenic (Michael Gambon), attempts to ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Caught
Love, lust, loyalty, and betrayal are the themes of this tense adult drama. Joe ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Temptress Moon
Chen Kaige, the director of the international smash Farewell My Concubine, reunited that film's stars, Gong Li and Leslie Cheung, for this complexly layered, visually spectacular historical epic. Opening in 1911, shortly before the collapse of ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
For Love Alone
This made-for-television drama is based on a novel by Ivana Trump and centers on a Czechoslovakian immigrant's rise to the highest levels of the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
A Strange Affair
A cuckolded wife finds renewed happiness in the arms of another after leaving her faithless spouse. But when the husband becomes deathly ill, she agrees to take care of him, even though it could mean losing her new lover. ~ Sandra ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Lea
A woman uses poetry to communicate the emotions she cannot verbalize in this drama. At the age of seven, Lea has already become accustomed to verbal and physical abuse from her father, but when she witnesses the rape and murder of her mother ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Get on the Bus
Released one year to the day after the 1995 Million Man March, in which a million ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Grind
A young man trying to break out of his blue collar life in New Jersey finds himself snared by a web of crime and deceit in this ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Normal Life
A seemingly ordinary couple jump the tracks into disaster in this drama based on a true story. Chris Anderson (Luke Perry) is a straight-arrow cop who meets Pam (Ashley Judd) ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Andersonville
Made for the TNT cable channel, this lengthy ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
West New York
An ex-cop finds himself on the outs with both sides of the law in this drama. Tom Coletti (Frank Vincent) is a former police ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Terror in the Family
Long before she became a two-time Oscar winner, Hilary Swank paid her dues in such hard-hitting TV movies as Terror in the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Hamish MacBeth: Series 02
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The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
No One Would Tell
Teen obsession turns to violence in this gritty made-for-television drama. Child actor Fred Savage plays against type and portrays bullying Bobby Tennison, a high-school senior who dominates and ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Ogre
Based on a novel by French author Michel Tournier, this drama chronicles the redemption of Abel, a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
All over Me
A teenage lesbian comes-of-age in this drama. Claude (Alison Folland) is a raw-boned girl ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Hearts Adrift
A widow returns to see an old flame. She brings her ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
7th Heaven: Season 01
The foundation upon which the WB's 7th Heaven is built consists of Eric Camden (Stephen Collins), pastor of Glen Oak Community Church, and Eric's loving and supportive wife, Annie (Catherine Hicks). That said, an ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Nightjohn
Sarny (Allison Jones) is born into slavery and separated from her mother at an early age. She's raised by Dealey (Lorraine Toussaint), who promises early on that "nuthin' too bad" will happen to her young charge. Clel Waller (Beau Bridges), who ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Danielle Steel's 'Remembrance'
In this heart-tugging romantic drama, a European woman endures much tragedy after she marries into a family of powerful American politicians. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Magdalen
A woman, Magdalen McElhinney (Alix D. Smith), sits in a sleazy Philadelphia bar, offering herself for a price. But she's not selling sex; she's selling stories, and men and women come in and lay ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Brilliant Lies
It begins as a seemingly cut and dried case of sexual harassment, but the more the conciliator assigned to the case investigates, the more obvious it ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Dead Heart
Though not quite a western, this gripping Australian drama contains similar themes as it chronicles the unending struggle between native aborigines and ever-encroaching Europeans. Set in the arid red-rock desert west of Alice ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Kissed
In this strikingly original independent drama from Canada, a young woman finds that her obsession with death is challenged when she falls in love with a handsome medical student. Sandra Larson (Molly Parker) was ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Reggie's Prayer
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Profiler: Season 01
Season One of the intense crime drama Profiler begins as Bailey Malone (Robert Davi), head of the Atlanta-based Violent Criminal Task Force (VCTF), persuades his former colleague, forensic ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
In this visually striking saga of one woman's search for personal and sexual freedom in 16th century India, Maya (Indira Varma) is a servant girl who is a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Crow Road
Director Gavin Miller adapts Scottish author Iain Banks' ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Rowing Through
A man must decide how long can he hold onto his dream in this drama. Tiff Wood (Colin ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Driven
Directed by first-time filmmaker Michael Paradies Shoob, the independent drama Driven tells the story of four L.A. cab drivers working for the Red Star cab company during the week between ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Lost and Found
A beautiful woman suffering from leukemia shares a brief but intense love with a sailor from the North Sea of Scotland in an affecting romance starring Jordan ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Keeper
Much of this absorbing, grim psychological thriller is set within Brooklyn's Kings County House of Detention and follows the moral downfall of an idealistic, straight-arrow black ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Emperor's Shadow
The most expensive film ever made in China up to the time of its release, Qin Song (1996) is an historical epic of that country's first emperor. Jiang ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Prisoner of the Mountains
Political rivals, divided by a bloody war, are forced to come to terms with one another in this drama, which was adapted ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Wilderness
Based on a novel by Dennis Danvers, the three-part British miniseries Wilderness asks the question "Can a nice Quaker girl find happiness as a sometimes-werewolf?" At the beginning of each lunar cycle, heroine Alice White (Amanda ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
No One Could Protect Her
This made-for-TV shocker was inspired by a true story which occurred in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Housewife Jessica Rayner (Joanne Kerns) becomes the latest in a long line of victims when she is attacked in her own ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Ripe
Writer/director Mo Ogrodnik's debut feature is a low-budget independent drama about the dangerous budding sexuality of two teen sisters. Fourteen-year-old fraternal ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
To Brave Alaska
Yuppie couple Denise Harris (Alyssa Milano) and Roger Lewis (Cameron Bancroft) get it in their wee little heads to head off to Alaska, there to work a gold mine some 75 ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
Superb black-and-white photography highlights this independent drama. John Lee (Peter Alexander) is the son of a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulbert's autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South, Once ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Everything Relative
A group of women reunite for a weekend of fun and bittersweet reflection in this ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
God's Lonely Man
An unhinged city dweller becomes a vigilante as he tries to protect a troubled teenager. The fellow is Ernest, who came to LA in search of his fortune and who ends up addicted to coke and managing a pornographic video store. When he makes an ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Squeeze
A real-life inner city Boston youth shelter yielded the plot, ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Quiet Room
Dutch-Australian director Rolf de Heer's second film is a vision of a quickly dissolving marriage ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Libertarias
This big-budget Spanish drama pays tribute to the courageous women who sacrificed their lives during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Maria's peaceful life as a nun is shattered when revolutionary anarchists force her and her sisters to flee ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Traveling Companion
This is a movie about walls, no not physical walls of wood and stone, but the psychological walls that protect and ultimately imprison certain souls, ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Full Throttle
Derek Yee Tung-sing remakes Jacob Cheung's Goodbye Hero with this tale about an aging ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Erzekek Iskolaja
Soft, sensual cinematography abounds in this erotic look back at a gypsy girl's coming of age. It is based on a popular novel penned by famed Hungarian novelist Peter Esterhazy using the pseudonym Lili Csokonai and represents 'Lili's" ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Loser
The mortally wounded victim of a drive-by shooting reflects upon his wasted life as it slowly ebbs away in this grim ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Next Step
Set behind-the-scenes on the Great White Way, this drama is an attempt to revive the dance film as it tells of how a womanizing, arrogant dancer gets his just desserts and ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Bitter Sugar
Gustavo (Rene Lavan) is an engineering student born and raised in Cuba who strongly believes in his nation's socialist ideals at a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Lilian's Story
Loosely based on the real-life story of Bea Miles, an eccentric character living in Sydney, this fine Australian drama tells the tragic tale of Lilian Singer, a woman whose cruel father ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Village of Dreams
Yoichi Higashi directs this blissful look at the magic and terror of childhood. Based on the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The King of Masks
This tender Chinese tale of an aged street performer who begins teaching a young child is filled with warm humanity but not imbued with undue sentiment. It is set about seventy years in ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Bloody Child
Filmmaking siblings Nina and Tinka Menkes collaborate for this nonlinear psychological study of a traumatized Gulf War veteran inspired by a true life tale originally reported in the Los Angeles Times. As the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Ponette
A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Kolya
55-year-old Louka (Zdenek Sverak) is a gifted musician in Czechoslovakia who once made a good living playing in the State Symphony Orchestra. However, he has little use for the government, and after putting a playfully insulting statement on a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Lilies
Love, jealousy, revenge and forbidden homosexual passion color this alternately campy and dramatic adaptation of a play by Michel Marc Bouchard. Operating at different levels, the story begins in 1952 inside a Quebec prison ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Welcome Says the Angel
Told in an unadorned straightforward manner, this drama looks at a very strange relationship between two European wanderers who become hopelessly entangled in an LA loft. Joshua ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Bolse Vita
Set in Central Europe following the 1989 fall of Communism, this German-Hungarian ensemble piece centers on the reactions and attempts to get by in a brand new environment. Yura and Vadim are Russian musicians trying to get to Belgrade for a ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Skin and Bone
Male escorts for homosexual clients ply their trade to tragic result in this semi-experimental and disturbingly violent film. Much of the narrative centers ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Never Met Picasso
This gay-oriented drama centers on the life and exploits ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
A Summer's Tale
The third film in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Making of the Mahatma
This 2 1/2 hour long epic biopic from India recounts the crucial years Ghandi spent in South ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
La Promesse
A young man born into criminal circumstances is forced to deal with his conscience in this ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Gabbeh
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh is just the second Iranian film ever widely distributed in the U.S. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Empty Mirror
Set within a world where Hitler and his closest cadre of followers survived, this speculative psychodrama attempts to explore the dark, twisted mind of the mad ruler as he converses with Eva Braun, Hermann Goering, Josef Goebbels, and ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Malena Es Un Nombre De Tango
In post-Franco Spain, a woman is hard-pressed to figure out what the new rules for women are. In this melodrama based ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Closer to Home
Dean (John Michael Bolger) is tired of wandering around the world as a merchant marine, and is trying to settle down in his hometown of New York City. He is just barely able to keep body and soul ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
There Was No War in '72
An affectionate portrait of a family whose members are behaving at their worst. The story of There Was No War in '72 begins from the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Twisted
It is surprising to note what doesn't change when the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Timeless
Terry (Peter Byrne) has a lot of responsibilities. Ever since his mother left his father, his dad has been drinking his sorrows away, and Terry has to prop him up and somehow keep him going. Besides that, Terry is hopelessly in love with ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
The Broken Giant
This independently produced film, The Broken Giant, depicts the almost affectless life and loves of an eccentric, unpopular preacher in a very remote Maine country community. Ezra Caton (Will Arnett) is the minister with ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Eva Peron
Argentina's own Eva Peron gets an Argentine film biography in this production. For a woman who conducted her life with the bold strokes of grand opera, this effort to depict her human dimension rather than her mythical qualities ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
La Celestina
This is a film of the dramatic Spanish language novel Celestina, written in 1499. In many ways, it resembles Romeo and Juliet, particularly in the need for secrecy ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Beyond Silence
A young woman struggles with her unusual relationship with her mother and father in this drama from Germany. Laura (Tatjana Trieb) is a bright young girl whose parents, Martin (Howie Seago) and Kai (Emmanuelle Laborit), are deaf and ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
If These Walls Could Talk
The compilation film If These Walls Could Talk consists of three short films that each deal with the controversial issue of abortion. Although each of the stories is set in a different decade, the unifying ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Deceptively simple and executed with a documentary feel, this drama represents a highly personal journey home for ex-patriot Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman. The film is divided into two sections. The first ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Honey and Ashes
The lives of three disparate Tunisian women -- united only by the treatment of their gender by their countrymen -- intersect in this provocative drama ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Khamoshi: The Musical
In this musical drama from India, Annie (Manisha Koirala) had known adversity from the moment she was born. The daughter of a pair of deaf-mutes, Joseph (Nana ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Fire
In this India-set Canadian drama, two disparate wives related by marriage and united at ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Trojan Eddie
Set in Ireland, this beautifully rendered drama offers a fascinating portrait of a nomadic peddler who travels about the countryside selling ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Shanghai Grand
Gangsters abound in this lively, romantic crime drama that is set in Shanghai during WW II. The tale of Taiwanese patriot Hsu Wen-Chiang ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Red River Valley
Very much a celebration of Chinese solidarity in ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Once a Thief
This two-hour pilot for the Canadian TV series is inspired by John Woo's 1991 Hong Kong film of the same title, but the story has been altered extensively. ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Lyddie
Based upon Katherine Paterson's acclaimed novel, Lyddie changes the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Her Desperate Choice
When the courts fail to protect her daughter ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Dead Homiez
Filmed on location in South Central Los Angeles and featuring a largely non-professional cast comprised of real gang members, this fact-based urban drama offers a moving, unforgettable account of the effect a drive-by shooting has upon the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Handel's Last Chance
After their music has endured centuries, it's hard to believe that some classical composers were not as successful in their own lifetimes. In this edition of the composer series from HBO, George Friderick Handel travels to Dublin to try to revive ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Poldark
In this historical drama produced for British television, the Poldark family faces the many crises of the moment as Great Britain struggles through the dark days of 1810. Ross Poldark (John Bowe) ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
My Dear Marie [Anime OVA Series]
When Hiroshi falls in love with Mari, the most beautiful girl in his high-school class, he decides that even though she's out of his league, he can ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Sugar: Howling of Angel
In this erotic drama from Japan, Chie is a woman content with her life as a wife and mother, but when her husband and child are both murdered, she suffers a severe emotional collapse, and falls into a life of ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Bramwell: Series 02
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The Valley Between
The 1996 TV miniseries The Valley Between (aka The Sun on the Stubble) is based on the novels of author Colin Thiele. This family drama focuses on a 14-year-old German boy named Bruno Gunther (Jamie Croft) living on an ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Cruz de Madera
A malevolent investor looking to take control of a small ranch town finds his nefarious bid for power challenged when the wealthiest farmer and local ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 04
Season four of Homicide: Life on the Street does without the services of Baltimore homicide detectives Bolander and Felton, who after cutting up at a police convention are suspended for 22 ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Season 05
Additions to the cast of characters on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Princess in Love
The sad end of one of the great real-life love stories of the 20th century is recounted in this made-for-TV drama. When Prince Charles (Christopher Bowen) wed ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
El Asesino del Teatro
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Oedipus Mayor
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The Devil's Diamond
Myles and Tory's marriage has gotten off to a decidedly shaky start, and when the ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
Besos en la Frente
With poignance and compassion, Carissa Carlos's gentle drama Besos en la Frente observes the heartbreaking conflict of intentions and signals between two friends with a considerable age difference between them. China ... [ Drama movie - 1996 ]
