Sentences with phrase «heartbreaking drama»

This time, though, her central character is male, and the heartbreaking drama shifts from Chains» domestic town houses to graphically described bloody battlefields.

Arriving on Amazon Prime Video just one week after its DVD release, Sean Baker's warm, stunning and heartbreaking drama tells the story of a precocious six - year - old and her rag - tag group of close friends, whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

The Skeleton Twins is one of those films with a superb blend of laugh out loud comedy, and heartbreaking drama.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu takes a break from heady, heartbreaking drama (Biutiful, 21 Grams, Amores Perros) for something lighter and a bit more meta.

This heartbreaking drama won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

Featuring an incredible ensemble cast — including Mathieu Amalric, Jean - Paul Roussillon, Emmanuelle Devos, Melvil Poupaud, and Chiara Mastroianni — A Christmas Tale is told in the emotionally unhinged register Desplechin does best, mixing storybook flights of fancy with genuine, heartbreaking drama.

I Kill Giants faithfully adapts the graphic novel for a striking coming - of - age movie that blends magical realism with heartbreaking drama.

Paweł Pawlikowski's heartbreaking drama (loosely based on his own parents» love story), «Cold War» was picked up by Amazon Studios last August, and the streaming giant is planning on a theatrical release later this year.

Another strong Best Picture contender includes the heartbreaking drama Manchester by the Sea (+800).

Not exact matches

We may be three quarters of the way through the matches already, but with half the teams now gone, the real football starts — exhilarating knockout competition, drama, heartbreak, and of course, penalties.

I'm single with One kid I've been hurt too many times and I really can't stand anymore heartbreak so I decided to be alone by myself for a while but I guess I'm done now I am looking for a long term and serious relationship, no drama; I want a man that is honest, down to earth, mature.

Some people meet and follow a steady timeline of dating with no surprises, no heartbreak, no drama.

Fox's upcoming dating reality show has all the love, lust, drama and heartbreak you can handle and ET has the exclusive first look!

Joshua Z. Weinstein's funny, heartbreaking, impeccably observed, and nearly flawless drama «Menashe» opens on a crowded street in the Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where all the men go about their business, cellphones to their ears, pristinely garbed in black suits, white shirts, and black hats.

The heartbreaking stories are drama enough.

The film's condensation of the years that took Wiseau to get over his heartbreak regarding the unexpected laughter that resulted in screening his «drama», and finally embrace the comedic aspects of the film, takes a bit away from important character development that could have given the third act a bit more substance.

On the surface it looks like any other urban drama, but Tipping's use of whimsical fairy tale and sci - fi elements combines with heartbreaking social commentary for a totally unique experience.

The film marks a nice rebound for director Noah Baumbach, who made the heartbreaking divorce portrait «The Squid and the Whale,» then stumbled with the stagy, phony sibling drama «Margot at the Wedding.»

It took Hollywood stars to get the Academy to notice the plight of AIDS (Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Philadephia), yet Bill Sherwood's 1986 drama, while ragged around the edges, offered the world a first glimpse at Steve Buscemi, both funny and heartbreaking as the dying Nick.

This past weekend's Evolution Championship Series was full of drama, heartbreak, shocking comebacks and, of course, some of the best fighting game action on the planet.

Reilly's skill for playing hopeless optimists was utilised by Anderson with heartbreaking success in the Oscar - nominated 1999 ensemble drama.

The Florida Project, Sean Baker's new, funny, thoughtful, poignant and beautiful film is a realist fairy tale, a gorgeous 35 mm technical experiment, a heartbreaking character drama and a staggering documentation of the many possible meanings of the word «bitch».

Indie - film fans are probably more familiar with Reed Morano than they realize: She's the cinematographer behind the camera on the heartbreaking Melissa Leo drama Frozen River, the Ginsberg / Kerouac meet - cute film Kill Your Darlings, and the Kristen Wiig / Bill Hader angst - off The Skeleton Twins, among many other projects.

Writer / director Sebastian Lelio's drama is ultimately not just about tolerance — plenty of the supporting characters «tolerate» Marina while simultaneously having no idea what to make of her deep down — but about true love and acceptance of our fellow humans, all of whom have their own unique, often heartbreaking stories.

Kathryn Bigelow «s powerful, often - heartbreaking historical drama Detroit is all of these things and more.

However, Trey Edward Shults uses these tools and more to craft one of the most enthralling, heartbreaking family dramas ever put on film.

«Turns the heartbreak and bloodshed of Indian partition in 1947 into a lush costume drama full of political intrigue and melodramatic romance in this not - entirely successful mix of Bollywood and Merchant - Ivory conventions» — KT

«Nina»: Juraj Lehotsky's Heartbreaking TIFF Divorce Drama Packs a Breakthrough Peformance From Young Star — Watch

Silver Linings Playbook deals with serious issues such as cheating spouses, depression, OCD, family struggles, and heartbreak but oddly enough never gets to the point where it turns completely into a drama or a comedy.

A calm and absorbing coming - of - age drama, shot through with a heartbreaking sense of tangible isolation.

Director David O. Russell allowed his actors to take liberties with their characters, and the result is some classic comedy moments in the midst of heartbreak and drama.

The holiday trio, all presented on 35 mm, include: Magnificent Obsession, Sirk's dazzling drama about a reckless playboy who finds his life entwined with that of the woman whose husband's death he caused; Written on the Wind, a visually lush melodrama about a Texas oil magnate's downfall at the hands of his alcoholic son and wanton daughter; and All That Heaven Allows, a heartbreaking examination of love and class taboos in small - town America in the 1950s.

But he's never mounted the total swirl of sultry weather, budding libidos and teenage confusion that marks his new drama, Call Me by Your Name, a triumphant, heartbreaking tale of coming out based on André Aciman's acclaimed 2007 novel.

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal says the most heartbreaking moment in his upcoming boxing drama «Southpaw» was when he was slapped by his 12 - year - old co-star Oona Laurence.

But this New York drama is an impressive and heartbreaking debut from writer - director Elizabeth Wood.

Stephanie Di Giusto's drama «The Dancer» remedies that by telling the story of Fuller's complex, fascinating and often - heartbreaking life and career.

More a spiritual sequel to Hal Ashby's 1973 classic The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid and the late Otis Young than it is a direct continuation, Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying is a movingly meditative drama full of heartbreaking insight and cathartic truth I found extraordinary.

Boy is a curious mixture of outright comedy with coming - of - age drama, balancing moments of laughter with heartbreak, all in a perfectly timed and measured package.

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Brie Larson is nothing short of perfect in this heartbreaking, life - affirming drama brilliantly directed by Lenny Abrahamson

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The Talent: Sarah Polley, after only two films, has garnered a reputation for lovely, quietly heartbreaking romantic dramas with Away From Her and Take This Waltz.

Pam Grady: Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton are heartbreaking as a devoted couple whose mixed - race marriage is deemed illegal in Jim Crow era Virginia in Jeff Nichols» masterwork Loving, a finely etched drama focusing on the couple at the heart of a heart of a historical Supreme Court case.

After Love, the follow - up to The White Knights from director Joachim Lafosse, is a tense and heartbreaking post-marital drama about a couple with twins who have decided to break up, but haven't quite managed to sever all their ties, starting with their home.

Another hit at Cannes was director Michael Haneke's heartbreaking French drama Amour, and 86 - year - old star Emmanuelle Riva enjoyed widespread acclaim for her gut - punch of a performance as an elderly woman whose stroke takes its toll on her relationship with her husband.

G.B.H. (Acorn) A savage satire of Thatcher - era party politics and a devastating drama of power and corruption and simple moral courage, this brilliant British mini-series is dryly funny, constantly surprisingly and thoroughly engrossing, and features such a heartbreaking turn by Michael Palin in a rare dramatic role.

By capturing the onstage and behind - the - scenes drama, competition, heartbreak, and achievements of these young artists, director Scott Hamilton Kennedy shows that reality can be even more inspiring than an episode of «Glee.»

Adams goes into Sunday's ceremony with her seventh nomination, for the heartbreaking sci - fi drama Arrival, which the actress's husband, Darren Le Gallo, told us made him «cry like a baby.»

It is a bald fact that this intimate drama works as well as it does because he is so compelling, so plausible, so heartbreaking as a college professor in early 1960s Los Angeles mourning the death of his longtime partner (Matthew Goode [Leap Year, Watchmen] in flashbacks) at a time when such relationships were barely acknowledged, never mind tolerated.

Carey Mulligan No, it's not just «An Education» — though her vivid, heartbreaking work in Lone Scherfig's coming - of - age drama would be enough of a calling - card for any actor.