Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Amaidhi Padai Online
Director : Manivannan
Genre : Drama
Cast : Satyaraj, Manivannan, Kasturi, Ranjitha, Sujatha..
Music by: Ilaiyaraaja.
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Amaidhi Padai ( ŕ®…ŕ®®ைதிப்படை) is a 1994 Tamil film directed by Manivannan. Sathyaraj played a dual role as father and son in the film which had Ranjitha playing the female lead. The story revolves around an ordinary man who builds his political career through short routes. This film is touted as one of Sathyaraj's best performances till date.
Director: Shawn Levy
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Writers: John Gatins(screenplay),Dan Gilroy(story)
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly and Kevin Durand
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A future-set story where robot boxing is a popular sport and centered on a struggling promoter (Jackman) who thinks he's found a champion in a discarded robot. During his hopeful rise to the top, he also discovers he has an 11-year-old son who wants to know his father.
Director: Wayne Wang
Genres: Drama | History
Writers: Angela Workman (screenplay), Ronald Bass(screenplay)
Stars: Bingbing Li,Gianna Jun and Vivian Wu
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In 19th-century China, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong - or "old sames" - bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language, nu shu, between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in present day Shanghai, the laotong's descendants, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship in the face of demanding careers, complicated love lives, and a relentlessly evolving Shanghai. Drawing on the lessons of the past, the two modern women must understand the story of their ancestral connection, hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan, or risk losing one another forever.
Director: John Singleton
Genres: Action | Drama | Mystery
Writer: Shawn Christensen
Stars: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins and Alfred Molina
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A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Writer: Scott Z. Burns
Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law
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Soon after her return from a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff dies from what is a flu or some other type of infection. Her young son dies a few days later. Her husband Mitch however seems immune. Thus begins the spread of a deadly infection. For doctors and administrators at the U.S. Center for Disease Control, several days pass before anyone realizes the extent or gravity of this new infection. They must first identify the type of virus in question and then find a means of combating it, a process that will likely take several months. As the contagion spreads to millions of people worldwide, societal order begins to break down as people panic.
Director: Steven Silver
Genres: Drama
Writers: Steven Silver(screenplay),JoĂŁo Silva(book)
Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman and Taylor Kitsch
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A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.
Director: Alex Proyas
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson (screenplay),Juliet Snowden(screenplay)
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury and Rose Byrne
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In the fall of 1959, for a time capsule, students draw pictures of life as they imagine it will be in 50 years. Lucinda, an odd child who hears voices, swiftly writes a long string of numbers. In 2009, the capsule is opened; student Caleb Koestler gets Lucinda's "drawing" and his father John, an astrophysicist and grieving widower, takes a look. He discovers dates of disasters over the past 50 years with the number who died. Three dates remain, all coming soon. He investigates, learns of Lucinda, and looks for her family. He fears for his son, who's started to hear voices and who is visited by a silent stranger who shows him a vision of fire and destruction. What's going on?
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Writers: Robert Crais (novel),Doug Richardson(screenplay)
Stars: Bruce Willis,Kevin Pollak and Serena Scott Thomas
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Jeff Talley, a former LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved himself away from his failed career outside of Los Angeles, and away from his wife and daughter. When a convenience store robbery goes wrong in his turf, the three perpetrators move in on an unsuspecting family. But the family's father has a secret which might compromise his kin, and one of the criminals is about to jump over the edge. Jeff Talley has to get everybody to survive the night......if he can.
Director: Mani Ratnam
Genres: Drama | Romance
Writer: Mani Ratnam
Stars: Karthik, Mohan and Revathy
Storyline
Revathi is forced to marry Mohan in an arranged marriage. She lives in the memory of her lost love Karthik and asks for a divorce. The law requires them to stay together for a year before granting the divorce. That gives time for a lot of incidents in their lives and things change.
Director: Olivier Megaton
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Writers: Luc Besson(screenplay),Robert Mark Kamen(screenplay)
Stars: Zoe Saldana, Michael Vartan and Callum Blue
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A young woman grows up to be a stone-cold assassin after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she hopes will lead her to her ultimate target - the mobster responsible for her parents' death.
Director: Roland Joffe
Writer: Roland Joffe
Genres: Biography | Drama
Stars: Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley and Dougray Scott
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A young journalist long ago rejected by his now aged and dying father finds himself investigating one of his father's former friends, a candidate for canonization. Uncovering the two men's complicated relationship from childhood through the horrors of the Spanish Civil War unveils a compelling drama filled with passion, betrayal, love and religion. An action packed story set during a murderous time in history that ultimately serves the present by revealing the importance and timeless power of forgiveness.
Direction: Karu Pazhaniappan
Genre: Drama | Family
Music: Vidyasagar
Cast: Cheran, Sneha, Jeyaram, Murugesan
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Visalakshi (Sneha) is only daughter of her rich Chettiar parents living in Karaikudi town. She is lonely and bored and wishes to be married into a joint family. As per her wish, she is married off to Natesan (Cheran), an engineer working with the State Electricity Board. Natesan comes from an affluent joint family. Visalakshi easily merges with her husband's large family consisting of her in-laws- Natesan's uncles, aunts and children. She is delighted to be in their company. She is affectionately called Sala in the family. But soon Natesan gets a transfer to a hill station (Attakatti).
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Writers: Vidhu Vinod Chopra(screenplay),Rajkumar Hirani (story)
Stars: Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Mona Singh
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Farhan Qureshi and Raju Rastogi want to re-unite with their fellow collegian, Rancho, after faking a stroke abroad an Air India plane, and excusing himself from his wife - trouser less - respectively. Enroute, they encounter another student, Chatur Ramalingam, now a successful businessman, who reminds them of a bet they had undertaken 10 years ago. The trio, while recollecting hilarious antics, including their run-ins with the Dean of Delhi's Imperial College of Engineering, Viru Sahastrabudhe, race to locate Rancho, at his last known address - little knowing the secret that was kept from them all this time.
Director: Zoya Akhtar
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Writers: Zoya Akhtar(story),Farhan Akhtar(dialogue)
Stars: Hrithik Roshan,Abhay Deol and Farhan Akhtar
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Mumbai-based Kabir Dhiman, who comes from a wealthy building construction family, proposes to his long-time girlfriend, Natasha, much to the delight of both their respective families. He then gets together with one of two of his close friends, Imran Habib, a writer by profession, and they contact their London-based financial broker friend, Arjun, to remind him of a pact of traveling to Spain.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Genres: Drama | Romance
Writers: Jeremy Leven (screenplay), Jan Sardi (adaptation)
Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner and Rachel McAdams
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The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who dissaprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.
Director: Yash Chopra
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Drama
Writers: Yash Chopra (screenplay), Tanuja Chandra (screenplay)
Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor
Storyline
Rahul (Shahrukh Khan) is a dancer and the director of a successful music and dance troupe. He believes that Nisha (Karisma Kapoor), one of his dancers, is his best friend; Nisha acts like his pal, but is secretly in love with him. Nisha injures her foot and Rahul needs a new dancer. He hires Pooja (Madhuri Dixit). She and Rahul are increasingly attracted to each other, but they act as if it were not happening. Pooja, unknown to Rahul, is already engaged to Ajay (Akshay Kumar), the son of family friends who raised her when her parents were killed.
Director: Edward Yang
Genres: Drama | Music | Romance
Writer: Edward Yang
Stars: Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin and Issei Ogata
Storyline
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions against his advice, and he reconnects with his first love 30 years after he dumped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting watches emotions roil in their neighbors' flat and is experiencing the first stirrings of love.
