Genre: Drama
Drama draws its power from conflict between people — the choices, betrayals, and reconciliations that test who characters are. The stakes are emotional, and they land hard.
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The Apartment (1960)
An ambitious insurance clerk lends his apartment to executives for their affairs, until he falls for the boss's mistress at Christmas. -
Meet John Doe (1941)
A reporter invents a fictional everyman who threatens to jump off a building on Christmas Eve, then must find someone to play him. -
Scrooge (1951)
Alastair Sim plays Ebenezer Scrooge in the definitive screen adaptation of Dickens, visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve. -
A Christmas Carol (1984)
George C. Scott plays Scrooge in a faithful television adaptation that became a holiday staple after theatrical release. -
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Satoshi Kon directs the story of three homeless Tokyo residents who find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve and search for the parents. -
Deep Impact (1998)
Mimi Leder's 1998 comet impact drama. Released alongside Armageddon. The serious one. Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman. -
The Theory of Everything (2014)
James Marsh's 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor. Hawking's first marriage perspective. -
The China Syndrome (1979)
James Bridges' 1979 nuclear plant near-meltdown. Lemmon, Fonda, Douglas. Released twelve days before Three Mile Island. Predictive. -
Capote (2005)
Bennett Miller's 2005 Truman Capote biopic. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor. In Cold Blood research period in Kansas. -
Oppenheimer (2023)
Christopher Nolan's 2023 Manhattan Project biopic. Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer. Won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.