Movies to Watch With Dramas (Page 2)

Fremont

Dir. Babak Jalali

Aptly for a film partly set in a fortune cookie factory, Fremont deals with luck — specifically, the other side…

Mary & George

After the likes of The Favourite six years ago, modern historical portrayals have now become more interested in the salacious…

Number 24

Dir. John Andreas Andersen

A good biography remains fully faithful to the actual history, but a great one understands what their life story means…

Zorro

Remakes are a dime a dozen, but Prime Video’s Spanish reinterpretation of Zorro gives justice to the masked vigilante. With…

The Royal Hotel

Dir. Kitty Green

The Royal Hotel sees Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) resorting to take up a dire live-in job behind…

Bird

Dir. Andrea Arnold

Given the genre being centered on a child protagonist, many coming-of-age stories sideline parents in the narrative, sometimes to the…

Doi Boy

Dir. Nontawat Numbenchapol

After years of documentaries covering Thailand’s controversial issues, some of which have been temporarily banned by the Ministry of Culture,…

Nonnas

Dir. Stephen Chbosky

To be honest, when the film starts out with all the usual Italian soundtracks and shots of Italian food, it…

Manodrome

Dir. John Trengove

South African director John Trengove follows-up his debut The Wound with another take on masculinity, this time set in the…

Falling in Love Like in Movies

Dir. Yandy Laurens

Given the title, it isn’t surprising that Falling in Love Like in Movies would be a metanarrative with the main…

Blue Giant

Dir. Yuzuru Tachikawa

2023 was a great year for animation with films like Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Nimona, and The Boy and the…

Blanquita

Dir. Fernando Guzzoni

Inspired by the Spiniak case, Blanquita reimagines the infamous scandal through mirrored interrogations and disorienting viewpoints. Blanquita rewrites the original…

Bheed

Dir. Anubhav Sinha

COVID-19 raised concerns about sanitation and cleanliness, but in a society that just banned discrimination against “impure” castes seventy years…

Champion

Dir. Adeyemi Michael & Caleb Femi

After being released on BBC in July 2023, Champion made it across the Atlantic and has been recently released globally…

Simón

Dir. Diego Vicentini & Diego Vincentini

While we would like to think that we would do all we can to fight against a tyrannical regime, it’s…

Remy & Arletta

Dir. Arthur De Larroche

Based on the novel from writer, producer, and lead Micaela Wittman, indie drama Remy & Arletta is deeply personal. It’s…

18×2 Beyond Youthful Days

Dir. Michihito Fujii

We sacrifice so much for our dreams, so if it all fails, whether that be because of ourselves or because…

The Secret Agent

Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

From 1964-1985, Brazil was under a military dictatorship. If you’re looking for films about this period of time, you can…

Oddity

Dir. Damian Mc Carthy & Damian McCarthy

When modern systems like law enforcement and forensics fail to come up with definite answers to a murder, loved ones…

Chicken for Linda!

Dir. Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach

While the market for animation is mostly dominated by American 3D and Japanese anime, once in a while, a film…

The Parades

Dir. Michihito Fujii

When it comes to ghosts, plenty of films are centered around personal, unresolved business in the living world, but rarely…

Jules

Dir. Marc Turtletaub

Jules’ wacky premise — an extra-terrestrial crash-lands in eccentric widower Milton’s (Ben Kingsley) flowerbeds — is a bit of a…

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize

When vampires choose not to kill a human, it’s usually played up with so much drama, angst, and maybe a…

Revenant

Dir. Lee Jeong-lim

Mysterious and hair-raising, Revenant is a supernatural drama whose demonic possession deals with modern-day detectives and Korean folklore. This strange…

Mambar Pierrette

Dir. Rosine Mbakam

If given the outline of this film, it might be easy to just call it poverty porn. But there’s a…

Nyad

Dir. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin

After winning Oscars for their documentary work, filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin make their narrative feature debut with…

Forgotten Love

Dir. Michał Gazda

After two adaptations, with the 1982 version considered a Christmastime classic for Polish families, Forgotten Love can seem like a…

Abang Adik

Dir. Jin Ong

At the fringes of society, sometimes, all you have is your family. You would do all you can to feed,…

About Dry Grasses

Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Given the controversial subject matter, there’s something remarkably placid about the way About Dry Grasses proceeds. Amidst the snowy white…

Maestra: Strings of Truth

Dir. Kim Jeong-kwon

After titles like Tár (2022) and the Dutch film The Conductor (2018), Western female conductors continue to intrigue audiences as…

Last Film Show

Dir. Pan Nalin

Like many coming-of-age films about films, it’s easy to assume that Last Film Show would be a derivative of all-time…

Here

Dir. Bas Devos

You would think that a movie about making soup for your friends and studying moss would be a strange mix,…

Amar Singh Chamkila

Dir. Imtiaz Ali

At times of great societal turmoil, sometimes stars are born, not just to entertain the masses but to challenge the…

A Thousand and One

Dir. A.V. Rockwell

At once intimate and sweeping, A Thousand and One seamlessly weaves Inez’s personal turmoil and familial troubles with the systemic…

My First Film

Dir. Zia Anger

Aspiring writer-director Vita of My First Film is insufferable. When she starts out making her first feature, she’s pleasantly surprised…

The Settlers

Dir. Felipe Gálvez

Horse riding. Gunslinging. Revenge and protection. These are notable elements in a Western, Spaghetti or otherwise. But rarely do these…