Sentences with phrase «a powerful drama»

Offering powerful drama and stunning cinematography, this documentary from the BBC illustrates the balancing acts that allow animals to survive in a challenging environment.

well umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch... its got a good cast of actors / actressess throughout this movie... i think that russell collins, rita hayworth, aldo ray, jose ferrer, diosa costello play good roles / parts throughout this movie... i think that the director of this drama / classics movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie... i think that this is a really powerful drama movie 2 watch its got a good cast throughout this movie n this is a enjoayble movie 2 watch

Another light but quite mysterious and powerful drama from Woody Allen, as simple as always..

It is a powerful drama set at the Guantanamo Bay prison.

Siddiq Barmak's powerful drama won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and an honorable mention at the Cannes Film Festival.

This powerful drama unfolds when his father, played by Oscar ® winner Jon Voight, is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.

A powerful drama masquerading as a western that promises slightly more than it is able to deliver.

It doesn't consistently reach the heights of the absolute top tier dramas (The Soprano's, Breaking Bad etc) and relies on convenient plot devices a little too often but the well written script and excellent cast make for a powerful drama series.

Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars this year, this powerful drama heads to UK homes this summer on a wave of hype, but for the more cynical viewers out there do we need another Holocaust movie?

Welcome to the Rileys is a powerful drama about finding hope in the most unusual of places.

It makes for a powerful drama, one that has rightly been topping many critics» polls and gathering up awards, including a Golden Globe for best foreign film.

Originally conceived as a comedy, «Dead Man's Shoes» is a powerful drama (although lightly peppered with gallow's humour) in which a community is revisited by the sins of its past, and forced to pay the price.

In Ken Loach's powerful drama, a middle - aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

A bracing and powerful drama about cultural roots and the nature of identity from director Pawel Pawlikowski.

At the opening of his grimly powerful drama Closeness, director Kantemir Balagov (b. 1991) notes that it reflects his own upbringing in the desolate town of Nalchik, North Caucasus, a place of endemic poverty and assorted clashing ethnicities.

John Marley, who played the Hollywood producer who finds a horse's head in his bed in The Godfather (1972), was nominated for an Oscar for his supporting role in Love Story (1970), and starred in John Cassavettes's powerful drama Faces (1968), plays Charles Brooks, whose son Andy (newcomer Richard Backus) returns from Vietnam in an unnatural state.

The ultimate underdog among the nine Best Picture nominees, it might actually be the most traditional kind of Oscar winner: a powerful drama about a young Indian boy who gets lost from his family, then tries to find them over 20 years later.

This powerful drama looks at the life of the celebrated Chicago chef and inventor who wanted to save the world through food.

Oliver Stone, along with John Travolta, Salma Hayak and Taylor Kitsch, appeared on stage to help promote their movie, Savages, a powerful drama about a marijuana cartel.

The film is a powerful drama that is probably more accessible than many are giving it credit.

Actor - turned - filmmaker Paddy Considine expands his 2007 short Dog Altogether into his first feature, and it's a remarkably powerful drama.

A Vigilante sounds like a very powerful drama about a woman who devotes her time to tracking down domestic abusers.

Remains is a powerful drama that tells the story of an American businessman who arrives in Ireland with the ashes of his parents.

Fox Searchlight has released a new behind - the - scenes featurette for director Steve McQueen's immensely powerful drama 12 Years a Slave, this time focusing on the film's fantastic ensemble cast.

A solid and powerful drama that'll leave you thinking after you've left the theatre.

Powerful drama starring Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard, a violent neo-Nazi who's given a three - year sentence for attacking and killing a black youth.

This powerful drama about a Danish army officer on trial after his patrol suffers a traumatising loss in Afghanistan blurs boundaries between bravery and blame

Multi award - winning Iranian writer - director Asghar Farhadi's great talent lies in finding powerful drama - not in plot, but in the deepest layers of emotion that plot evokes.

Based on a true story, his powerful drama tells an important story from Apartheid - era South Africa with honesty and real sensitivity.

Playing in Un Certain Regard, Nothing Bad Can Happen is a powerful drama about Torre, a member of a group of «punk Christians», the Jesus Freaks.

Ray Lawrence's eagerly awaited third film is a powerful drama that manages to intelligently capture Australia's complex society without being condescending or simplistic.

It may have been easy to forget this powerful drama from way back in February, but John Cameron Mitchell's searing adaptation of the Tony Award - winning play Rabbit Hole demands repeat attention.

In This Corner of the World begins as a domestic drama about a young woman in 1930s Japan entering into an arranged marriage, and then gradually becomes a powerful drama about living during wartime.

A 45 Years within the literary world, it's a powerful drama that showcases in particular Glenn Close's luminous power as an actress - in a role that could see her in awards contention next February.

Six films in all, the Series kicked off on Sunday, December 3 with a 2 pm screening of the powerful drama «Menashe,» directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein.

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with...

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's powerful drama is a prime example of how a smallscale domestic crisis can stand as a microcosm for a much larger crisis within society.

It's becoming commonplace to hear actors, writers and directors claiming that TV is now the place to be for powerful drama with narrative scope and rounded characters.

Her efforts to free herself from a preordained future set off a legal firestorm in this powerful drama inspired by a true story that pits the law against an entrenched cultural mindset.

But with this bruising, powerful drama, he also asks a question: What if the broken social, political and judicial culture around you literally allowed you to do anything for them, without any regard for right or wrong?

Jacques Audiard)- North American Premiere Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, this powerful drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) follows a former Tamil Tiger soldier as he flees from the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war to begin a new life in a Parisian suburb.

This quietly powerful drama looks at a woman returning to the cloistered community that shunned her to find things — including old longings — have not changed.

Originally produced for Disney Channel, Nightjohn (1996, PG - 13) is a powerful drama about an enslaved 12 - year - old girl in the ante-bellum South who learns to read, a «crime» punishable by death.

One of my other favorite films of the festival, Nadine Labaki's powerful drama Capharnaüm, won the Jury Prize (essentially third prize) which is a relief at least.

An intermittently powerful drama loosely derived from real events, Roland Joffé's «The Forgiven» takes place in newly post-apartheid South Africa and is based on a play by Michael Ashton called «The Archbishop and the Antichrist.»

18 - year - old actor is a breakthrough in this powerful drama about a boy who bonds with a broken - down racehorse

Powerful drama from writer - director Kelly Reichardt («Wendy and Lucy») further establishes her as an auteur who finds poignancy in the stillness

If we can separate the art from the artists and overlook the powderkeg role that an undocumented rape plays in this film, there is enough that makes Birth a moving and powerful drama.

Bob Rafelson's powerful drama stars Jack Nicholson as a Philadelphia radio DJ who is reluctantly drawn into the schemes of his unstable brother Jason, who sleeps rough in Atlantic City, does odd jobs for the mob and has a plan to get rich by building a paradise retreat on a Pacific island.

Two powerful dramas from award - winning director Cristian Mungiu join the collection this week.