Movies to Watch With Dramas

Superboys of Malegaon

Dir. Reema Kagti

Based on the life of a real small town filmmaker, this coming-of-age film is a familiar underdog story. After their…

Sound of Falling

Dir. Mascha Schilinski

Previous depictions of provincial living tend to paint the pastoral experience as idyllic, simple, and much more innocent compared to…

Bob Trevino Likes It

Dir. Tracie Laymon

With the anonymity of the internet, it’s hard to trust that the stranger on the other side would be a…

La Grazia

Dir. Paolo Sorrentino

In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…

Left-Handed Girl

Dir. Shih-Ching Tsou & Tsou Shih-ching

Left-Handed Girl is titled after I-Jing, the youngest daughter of the Ching family, whose left-handedness puts her at odds with…

Twinless

Dir. James Sweeney

Twinless starts off something like one of those quirky indies in the 2010s about awkwardly navigating grief and sharing that…

Belén

Dir. Dolores Fonzi & Female director

Given that this is based on a recent, real life case, and the defendant has chosen to remain behind the…

Train Dreams

Dir. Clint Bentley

Based on the 2011 novella of the same name, Train Dreams depicts the life of Robert Grainier in the first…

Souleymane’s Story

Dir. Boris Lojkine

What is Souleymane’s Story? Right off the bat, that’s what everyone asks from Souleymane. It’s what his fellow immigrant asks,…

A Samurai In Time

Dir. Junichi Yasuda

Usually, time travellers journey back to the past. This indie comedy takes the other path instead, with one samurai travelling…

Pillion

Dir. Harry Lighton

Given the other depictions of BDSM on film, we weren’t sure how Pillion would turn out. Much more so with…

Black Warrant

With the fresh-faced cast and the sleek camerawork, Black Warrant, at first, didn’t seem to be the gritty adaptation of…

Young Hearts

Dir. Anthony Schatteman

Because of the progress society has made, modern day gay romances don’t need to rely on tragedy for conflict. That’s…

His Three Daughters

Dir. Azazel Jacobs

Not everybody holds a good relationship with their sisters, but ideally, we get to reunite and repair things in a…

One Hundred Years of Solitude

It’s a tall order to depict One Hundred Years of Solitude. Considered to be one of the world’s most important…

It Was Just an Accident

Dir. Jafar Panahi

You can probably predict from the title that an accident starts this thriller but what happens after is totally unexpected.…

Nickel Boys

Dir. RaMell Ross

The first things that grab your attention in Nickel Boys are its beauty and technicality. Director RaMell Ross, a large-format…

Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain

Dir. Kenji Nakamura

While based on the Mononoke series, which is in turn, a spin-off of Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales, it might seem…

Goodbye Julia

Dir. Mohamed Kordofani

Amidst the chaos that occurred when South Sudan split from the nation, a man is shot dead. To make up…

All Shall Be Well

Dir. Ray Yeung

While the film is calm, contemplative, and never goes into histrionics, there’s a deep-seated anger in All Shall Be Well…

Pyramid Game

Dir. Park So-yeon

High school can be an incredibly cruel place, but it’s not as systematically cruel as the Baekyeon Girls’ High School…

The Glassworker

Dir. Usman Riaz

Who hasn’t been inspired by Studio Ghibli? Pakistan’s first ever hand-drawn animated feature clearly takes inspiration from the famed film…

Fancy Dance

Dir. Erica Tremblay

Before she captivated the film world with her performance in Scorcese’s crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily Gladstone…

Touch

Dir. Baltasar Kormákur

With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…

Mutt

Dir. Vuk Lungulov-Klotz

Just based off its title, Mutt is already a film that tackles a state of in-between, and perhaps what makes…

Fingernails

Dir. Christos Nikou

In what is only his second feature, Greek director Christos Nikou crafts a singular universe that is orderly and enticing. The…

Exhibiting Forgiveness

Dir. Titus Kaphar

Exhibiting Forgiveness does what it says in the title. The plot moves when a repentant family member returns to the…

Stonewalling

Dir. Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka

At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…

Twilight of the Gods

Partially due to the surviving Norse myths, as well as certain modernized cinematic depictions, most people think of the Norse…

We Grown Now

Dir. Minhal Baig

Places evoke certain emotions, but even the most rundown, cramped projects feel special when they’re home. We Grown Now is…

Out of My Mind

Dir. Amber Sealey

You’d think a Disney movie about a sweet kid overcoming the difficulties of cerebral palsy would be overly sweet or…

The Unknown Country

Dir. Morrisa Maltz

It’s hard not to watch The Unknown Country and think of Nomadland: along with similarities in their Terrence Malick-inspired visuals,…

The Beast

Dir. Bertrand Bonello

Are connections truly fated, completely chosen, or purely circumstantial? The slow tragedy of Henry James’ The Beast in the Jungle…

Terrestrial Verses

Dir. Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami

Since we live in a society, interacting with authority is inescapable. Terrestrial Verses depict fairly mundane day-to-day interactions– getting a…