Contemporary Drama
Contemporary dramas are revealing films often dealing with difficult themes. Empathic characters embroiled in challenging circumstances are usually the focus and the result is compelling tales – The Lives of Others and The Shawshank Redemption are brilliant examples of this.
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Contemporary Drama Film Listing
Dustin Hoffman, 2012
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Quartet
Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet is a charming comedy drama about a group of opera sin...
Ang Lee, 2012
£12.99
Life of Pi
Director Ang Lee brings Yann Martel's 'unfilmable' Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi to the s...
Sydney Pollack, 1975
£11.99
Three Days of the Condor
One of the finest of the conspiracy thrillers of the 1970s, Three Days of the Con...
Tom Hooper, 2012
£12.99
Les Misérables
The powerful Oscar-winning big-screen adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's clas...
Yves Robert, 1990-91
£15.99
La Gloire de Mon Pere / Le Chateau de Ma Mere (Restored)
A pairing of Yves Robert's glorious Provencal films...
Ken Loach, 2012
£6.99
The Angels' Share
The Angels' Share, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty's whisky-heist comedy, finds the director on fine, ...
Dustin Hoffman, 2012
£14.99
Quartet
Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut, Quartet is a charming comedy drama about a group of opera sin...
Nikolaj Arcel, 2012
£7.99
A Royal Affair
A Danish period drama based on the true story of Caroline Mathilde (Alicia Vikander), the English...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011
£6.99
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Grand Prix winner at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ...
Ken Russell, 1971
£9.49
The Devils
Ken Russell's controversial film based on the exorcisms of Loudun, The Devils sees Cardinal Riche...
Woody Allen, 2011
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Midnight in Paris
A magical-realist romantic comedy from Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris pays nostalgic tribute to t...
John Madden, 2011
£11.99
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
From the Director of Shakespeare In Love and featuring an all-star British cast, ...
Peter Greenaway, 1991
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Prospero's Books
Prospero's Books is Peter Greenaway's complex, innovative and typically ravishing retelling of Sh...
Juan Antonio Bayona, 2012
£14.99
The Impossible
A powerful story based on one family's survival of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocea...
Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970
£8.99
Deep End
Jerzy Skolimowski's darkly poetic portrait of Britain in an era of uncertainty and changing sexua...
Peter Greenaway, 1987
£9.99
The Belly of an Architect
Visually striking and formally precise, The Belly of an Architect - Peter Greenaw...
Carlos Saura, 1976
£13.99
Cría Cuervos
A moody, absorbing film, full of repressed passions and simmering unease, Carlos Saura's 1976 fil...
Roman Polanski, 1979
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Tess
Roman Polanski’s acclaimed 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Nastassia...
