Sentences with phrase «drama film directed»

Contact is a 1997 American science fiction drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster.

Kidnapping Mr. Heineken is a 2015 British - Dutch crime drama film directed by Daniel Alfredson based on the 1983 kidnapping of Freddy Heineken.

Same Kind of Different Me is a 2017 American Christian drama film directed by Michael Carney starring Greg Kinnear, Renee Zellweger, and Djimon Hounsou.

Gladiator is a 2000 epic historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson....

Lucky Them is a 2013 American comedy - drama film directed by Megan Griffiths.

The Switch is a 2010 American comedy - drama film directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck.

Magic Mike is a 2012 American drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, and Matthew The 45 - year - old actress looked absolutely fantastic while leaving a party with husband Joe Manganiello in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

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The drama, opening in theaters Nov. 23, stars Warren Beatty, who also wrote and directed the film.

Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For Best Director category.

He has also directed film and TV drama.

Those listing the 2012 Ben Affleck - directed drama among their favourite films receive almost twice as many (+90 %) messages than the average eharmony member.

Sisters & Brothers is a 2011 Canadian drama film written and directed by Carl Bessai.

Black Snake Moan is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Craig Brewer, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Timberlake.

Last Chance Harvey is a 2008 British - American romantic drama film written and directed by Joel Hopkins.

For National Public Radio and LA Theater Works Alma performed in the radio versions of Zoot Suit and Nilo Cruz's Pultizer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics opposite Jimmy Smits.As a 25 year member of El Teatro Campesino (ETC) founded by Luis Valdez, she has appeared in landmark ETC productions of; Zoot Suit, both the film and play (1979 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award - Best Play); Corridos, both the TV version (1987 Peabody Award) and play; I Don't Have to Show You Any Stinking Badges; and Mummified Deer (Back Stage West «Honorable Mention» for her role as Mama Chu), all written and directed by Valdez.Ms.

Skilfully written and directed, the film is an involving drama, even if it's overly worthy and sentimental.

The film, a fusion of documentary and drama directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, is a fictional re-creation of the 20,000 th day of Mr. Cave's life, when he started recording his 2013 album, «Push the Sky Away.»

Veteran filmmaker Yoji Yamada — who is perhaps most famous for cranking out most of the 48 films of the Tora - san series — directs this good - natured drama set in the waning years of the Edo period (1600 - 1867).

Other recent films include PRISONERS opposite Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal; OBLIVION, opposite Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman; the blockbuster OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Freeman and Aaron Eckhart; Robert Zemeckis's critically acclaimed drama FLIGHT, with Denzel Washington; THE EQUALIZER which reunited her with both Fuqua and Washington.

As an uberfan of the so - bad - it's - good masterpiece The Room and a solid admirer of The Disaster Artist, The Room co-star Greg Sestero's tell - all book about the making of mysterious vampiric figure Tommy Wiseau's «Tennessee Williams style melodrama as told by an alien who has apparently never seen normal human beings interact» drama - turned - dark - comedy - after - initial - audience - reactions - full - of - howling - laughter, I was a bit reserved in my excitement when I found out that James Franco was going to direct the film adaptation, as well as portraying Wiseau himself.

In 1944 he directed his first film, the low - key combat drama Destination Tokyo.

In addition, she played small parts in two films directed by Gina Prince - Bythewood, the drama Love and Basketball, and the TV movie Disappearing Acts, featuring Sanaa Lathan and Wesley Snipes.

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

During his unprecedented twenty - seven - year tenure at Warner Bros., he directed swashbuckling adventures, westerns, musicals, war epics, historical dramas, horror films, melodramas, comedies, and film noir masterpieces.

Three - time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp («Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,» «Finding Neverland,» the «Pirates of the Caribbean» films) stars as notorious mobster James «Whitey» Bulger in the drama «Black Mass,» directed by Scott Cooper («Crazy Heart»).

Earlier this year I had posted a review of Mark Wahlberg's then - latest film, the Rupert Wyatt - directed drama The Gambler.

And so, while Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water leads the pack with 12 nominations, it's helped by a superb Sally Hawkins, who's up for Best Actress, and is going up against Call Me By Your Name, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri — nine nominations and directed by our own Martin McDonagh — Winston Churchill drama Darkest Hour and Christopher Nolan's bold war film, Dunkirk.

You may think it odd that Dobkin would be chosen to direct this film, but The Judge is not an overly serious and dry drama.

Other films that have chosen to show in Telluride (with a possible first stop in Venice) include Cary Fukunaga's Netflix drama Beasts of No Nation; the Brie Larson - starring Room, based on Emma Donoghue's bestseller; Tom McCarthy's ensemble drama Spotlight, starring Michael Keaton and Rachel McAdams; Legend, in which Tom Hardy plays the Kray twins, who ruled London's gangland during the 1950s and 1960s; and Remember, which, ironically, is directed by one of Canada's most famous auteurs, Atom Egoyan.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

The Fortnight's Europa Cinema Labels Award went to «A Ciambra,» a migrant drama directed by the U.S. - born, Italy - based filmmaker Jonas Carpignano and produced by Martin Scorsese, underscoring the strong contingent of festival films addressing themes of immigration and the refugee crisis.

The Cannes roster has been the subject of wide speculation, and the festival announced this morning that the Javier Bardem - Penelope Cruz drama Everybody Knows will be the opening - night film, directed by Asghar Farhadi.

It's the kind of costume drama that BAFTA usually eats up, about an important historical event, and an excellent film to boot, except of course, it's about a black woman, and directed by a black woman, so why would it be nominated?

Based on a book with the same title written by Matthew Quick, the movie «Silver Linings Playbook» is a 2012 American rom - com drama that is written and directed by David O. Russell (also the director of the film «The Fighter», an Oscar - winning boxing drama).

Guillermo del Toro, who directed the fantasy drama, announced at San Diego Comic - Con on Saturday that the film will be made into a maze at Southern California's most extreme horror experience.

Among the new releases this week is James Gray's discomforting, beautifully directed romantic drama Two Lovers and the offbeat anthology film Tokyo!

Not bad at all.this film keeps you guessing in ways you never do a lot in horror films.Rob Zombie directs theses actors like I've never seen a horror director do before.this movie is truly amazing, people are calling it «terrible» I call it «good» it's the kind of horror film that actually deals with characters and not just pointless blood and guts.I felt like all these characters really did go through something, and this movie is truly just about them overcoming it.I don't consider this a horror film, I consider this a drama / horror film, cause that is what it is, and I love it.this mvie isn't just about a killer killing people, it actually deals with the people he's after anf even deals with himself at times, which I truly loved.Rob Zombie has proved to me again that he could direct.perfect seq...

Soderbergh directed Gray twice, first in the 1993 Great Depression drama King of the Hill and then in the 1996 film Gray's Anatomy.

Anyway, Open Road is on a roll — they already shared great success on The Grey, End of Watch, Chef and recently Nightcrawler, and their upcoming slate is looking good too, with Triple Nine, the upcoming crime - drama heist film directed by John Hillcoat and written by Matt Cook.

Not long after, he signed on to direct the coming - of - age drama Lowriders, and today the first trailer for that film has arrived.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, meaning it's a fictional feature film but uses real documentary elements.

While the basic premise is essentially your typical boxing plot, the film turns out to be very special due to the strong writing and superb acting, as well as a nicely paced drama directed by the extremely talented David O. Russell.

No Hughes - directed film is without some pathos, but The Breakfast Club skews more towards drama and realism than Hughes» typically more escapist fare.

Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, this film is a «docu - drama» hybrid, and this trailer plays that up by pointing out «true stories», and «real people.»

David Robert Mitchell's first film was The Myth Of The American Sleepover, a sensitive teenage relationships drama, and he has a knack for writing and directing youngsters.

Last year he directed his second feature film with the period drama A little Chaos starring both himself and Kate Winslet.

He will also star in Alan Rickman's A Little Chaos, which will close the Toronto film festival in September; romantic war drama Suite Francaise; and novel adaptation Far from the Madding Crowd, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Juno Temple, Michael Sheen and Carey Mulligan.

Scott Cooper is directing the film on location in Boston Principal photography is underway on the as - yet - untitled drama based on...

Just days after Ridley Scott confirmed he's directing a film about the Getty heir's kidnapping in 1973, FX announced that production's begun on Trust, Danny Boyle's drama series about that infamous incident.

Fox has released a trailer for a film called Hidden Figures, directed by Theodore (Ted) Melfi, a drama about the many African - American women who worked at NASA.