Sentences with phrase «of psychological drama»

These raw, gestural works — such as Running with the Mule, Running for Freedom (1990), Everybody Rolling (1995), Dark Day on the Road (1993), and Cousin Irma's Garden (1996)-- build up layers of psychological drama in thick pours and mottled scraps of material that drift along various narrative threads (natural disaster, historical oppression, hope) between the abstract and the figurative.

The suspense of the psychological drama was attempted but never materialized and the ending was sadly dissatisfying.

Gareth Tunley, director of the psychological drama The Ghoul, and Alice Lowe, one of its stars, are a duo with eclectic tastes.

Recommendation: A restrained picture in terms of how it depicts violence and stages action set pieces, Unforgiven is a unique western that reminds one far more of a psychological drama than anything John Wayne or Paul Newman might have starred in.

Stark, intelligent, and supremely suspenseful, 3:10 TO YUMA is a masterpiece of psychological drama coupled with a darn fine action flick that uses the classic western as its idiom.

But the first half plays like a parody of psychological drama.

The Invitation review: A delicious serving of psychological drama, even if it does make you wait for your food.

As she is trying to cope with her loss and searching for a sign of her brother's presence, it becomes clear that Personal Shopper is more of a psychological drama about loneliness and grief rather than a frightening ghost story.

Personal Shopper is more of a psychological drama about loneliness and grief rather than a frightening ghost story.

It's not just the jarring score or the way Perry's camera lingers distrustfully on both Catherine and Virginia that make Queen of the Earth so evocative of its predecessors - Perry's film is more than the basic components of psychological drama.

Invoking both Hitchcock's grasp of psychological drama and Spielberg's genre storytelling precision, producer JJ Abrams and first - time director Dan Trachtenberg don't so much forge a followup to but rather adopt as a reference point the 2008 found - footage monster movie Cloverfield.

Unfortunately The Sleepwalker is nothing more than a tone - deaf attempt at the kind of psychological drama its predecessors did so well.

After being typecast as a gangster he gradually expanded the scope of his roles, and, in the»40s, gave memorable «good guy» performances as in a number of psychological dramas; he played federal agents, scientists, Biblical characters, business men, bank clerks, among other characters.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, the drama of Ted's ideas and psychological issues doesn't mesh well with the drama on the «manhunt» side of things.

It has everything from psychological drama, romance, suspense and it's wrapped in a very nice little bow of crazy.

His investigation gets a boost when the FBI informs him that they have a picture of the murderer... [/ font][font = Century Gothic] The thing that separates superior psychological dramas like «Keane» and «Red Road» from a mediocrity like «Fear X» is a certain fearlessness, not only from the director but also from the lead actor.

The Secret Heart is a psychological drama starring June Allyson as a disturbed teenager obsessed with the memory of her dead father and unable to embrace her stepmother.

Janney's talents have also been put on ample display on the small screen: in 1999, she joined the cast of the acclaimed NBC White House drama The West Wing, originating the role of tough press secretary C.J. Cregg.In addition to continuing her work on The West Wing, Janney played a supporting role in the award winning psychological drama The Hours (2002), and voiced Peach the Starfish in Pixar's wildly successful Finding Nemo (2003).

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

This doesn't mean everyone will line up to see Jan De Bont's picture, «The Haunting,» which can't quite decide whether it's an out - and - out thriller, a psychological drama, or a systematic demonstration of the latest computer - generated effects.

Set in the few years prior to the first 1859 publication of the Origin of Species, Creation, directed by Jon Amiel, is flat psychological drama happening in the head of the young Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany, Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code).

A psychological drama that registered with audiences and critics alike because of its heartfelt painful story.

A dark psychological drama disguised as a comedy about an offbeat, mysterious family, specifically their five girls and how their parents (James Woods, Kathleen Turner) start to take their hands off their leashes after one of the girls (Hanna Hall) takes her life.

Bringing his distinctively low - key delivery to a range of parts that were by turns mystical, sinister and conflicted, Sarsgaard secured his place in the pantheon of great Hollywood character actors.Saarsgard delivered solid performances in Year of the Dog and Rendition (both 2007), and co-starred with Dennis Hopper and Patricia Clarkson for the psychological drama Elegy in 2008.

So we did sort of dial it slightly towards more psychological drama and horror than the monster movie homage that was in the original movie.

Teller is back in another indie, but it's far from the psychological drama of the former title.

First Snow isn't so much a traditional thriller as it is a psychological drama, dealing with how one's future is largely controlled by events of the past.

This tendency to entertain new experiences, to explore the limits of cultural conventions, is fully displayed in The Night Porter, Beyond Good and Evil (1977), and The Berlin Affair (1985), as well as in Cavani's most recent theatrical feature, Ripley's Game (2002), a psychological drama adapted from Patricia Highsmith's celebrated Ripley series.

(In Spanish with subtitles) The Island (Unrated) Psychological drama, set in the mid-Seventies at a monastery in Northern Russia, revolves around a disconsolate WWII veteran - turned - priest (Pyotr Mamonov) still haunted by Nazis» atrocities who suddenly experiences a crisis in faith upon the arrival of an Admiral (Yuri Kuznetzov) and his possessed daughter (Viktoria Isakova) in dire need of an exorcism.

Battle Hymn, a psychological drama set during wartime, tells the story of Colonel Dean E. Hess, an Ohio minister who flew with the US Air Force in the Korean War during the early 1950s.

His focus moves from physical horror associated with freakish events to psychological drama associated with the darkness of human mind, and I was not so surprised when he made a fairly conventional period drama «A Dangerous Method» (2011).

Frost / Nixon won't be regarded as a movie to see for its historical revelations, which are a matter of public record and are given freely away in the trailer, but for being an engaging drama with moments of genuine intrigue and psychological interplay into public figures that are too large in life to grasp without dissection.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer film review: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman in weird and wonderful psychological drama by Yorgos Lanthimos

Two years after the highly esteemed drama «Clouds of Sils Maria», French writer / director Olivier Assayas tackles a psychological drama / thriller bolstered by crime and spiritualism.

Clouzot, perhaps most famous for two films that followed — Diabolique and The Wages of Fear — knew how to create a complex psychological drama that defied easy explanation even though all the elements appeared straightforward.

This makes it more of an adventure than the psychological drama of 1957, though the 2007 Yuma still provides some good character moments.

From there, the film swiftly spirals into one mystery after another, making for an utterly gripping psychological drama infused with the ever - present Cold War paranoia of the midfifties.

Giovanni Ribisi stars in this dark, psychological drama as a successful Hollywood actor who begins to lose his grip on reality after becoming obsessed with the wife of a stalker (Joshua Jackson).

Ahead of its UK release later this month, Lionsgate has debuted the first poster and trailer for director Anna Rose Holmer's award - winning drama The Fits; take a look below... THE FITS is a psychological portrait of 11 - year - old Toni (Royalty Hightower)-- a tomboy assimilating to a tight - knit dance team in Cincinnati's West End.

Here is something most neo-noir miss: the classic noir weren't just super-stylized thrillers or sex dramas (though many were), they were psychological portraits of a nation wounded by war and horrified by the dawning Atomic Age.

Despite Michael Shannon's powerhouse lead performance in the psychological suspense drama Take Shelter, he was somehow left out of the Best Actor race.

Alex Ross Perry's Queen of Earth is apt to draw comparisons to nerve - rattling psychological dramas of the»70s, with names like Polanski and Cassavetes casually tossed around as references.

Figuring that by now viewers have become jaded with the predictable, cross double - cross triple - cross trajectory of your average con film, «Matchstick Men» also offers a psychological profile of a conflicted, conscience - plagued career criminal, and throws a credible family drama into the mix for good measure — all of which makes for a surprisingly substantial film whose many facets leave you with plenty more to digest after the final credits have rolled than just who did what to whom and how (although it certainly has that too).

Three of his nominations came for movies that leaned toward the conventional — David O. Selznick's gothic woman's movie «Rebecca,» psychological drama «Spellbound,» and big - star ensemble «Lifeboat.»

We Have a Pope (Unrated) Psychological drama about a newly - appointed pope (Michel Piccoli) who consults a shrink (Nanni Moretti) after experiencing panic attacks at the start of his tenure as pontiff.

Directed by Mayank Sharma and produced by Vikram Malhotra, Breathe is a gritty psychological drama that follows the lives of ordinary men faced with extraordinary circumstances.

This singular, daft, diverting psychological drama / psychic melodrama caused quite a bit of division when shown at Cannes last year, with some critics proclaiming it is a woefully misconceived dud and others praising it as a masterpiece.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

«American Sniper» wants to have it both ways — as a war - on - terror fantasy and poignant PTSD drama — but while it doesn't shy away from the physical and psychological horrors of battle, the movie is so heavy on pro-military propaganda that it doesn't realize its dramatic potential until it's too late.

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