Drama
The denotative aspects of drama from Aristotle's "Poetics" include a story development with a beginning, middle and an end. In the more conventional sense, dramatic presentations include the portrayal of characters, settings, life situations and stories in the course of a theatrical performance. In theatre, drama usually takes on the scope of dealing with matters of a serious nature.
Drama is Alice's largest section and a treasure trove of great drama catering for every taste. The bulk of the "Drama" section (generally made since 1965 and include psychological dramas) is listed below, however you may also choose from the "Classic Drama" sub-section (generally made before 1965), in blue on left. Also helpful may be "Alices Playhouse", "True Stories" and "Shakespeare" features.
Right: Scene from Kubrick's beautifully mounted "Barry Lyndon"
Le Quattro Volte ( Four Times ) (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Starring: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
An unclassifiably brilliant reverie on life, death, nature and the splendours of Calabria, "Le Quattro Volte" is a deceptively simple and playfully ph... Read more
Le Redoubtable (Godard Mon Amour) (2017)
6.7/10
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Louis Garrel, Berenice Bejo, Gregory Gadebois, Stacy Martin, Micha Lescot
During the making of one of his films, French film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 17-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and later marries he... Read more
Le trou ( The Hole ) (1960)
8.5/10
Director: Jacques Becker
Starring: Marc Michel
Marc Michel plays a man awaiting trial for the attempted murder of his wife. He is transferred to another cell where his fellow prisoners are planning... Read more
Le Week-End (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Jim Broadbent, Olivier Audibert, Igor Gotesman, Lindsay Duncan, S...
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. The new film from the director of... Read more
Lean on Pete (2017)
7.2/10
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Charlie Plummer, Travis Fimmel, Amy Seimetz, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn, Chloe Se...
Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter... Read more
Leave No Trace (2018)
7.3/10
Director: Debra Granik
Starring: Ben Foster, Thomasin McKenzie, Jeff Kober, Dale Dickey
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact... Read more
Leaves of Grass (2009)
6.5/10
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Starring: Edward Norton, Melanie Lynskey, Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Sarandon, Tim Blake Nels...
A comic thriller seen through the dual perspectives of identical twins Bill and Brady Kincaid (both played by Edward Norton). Bill, a classics profess... Read more
Leaving (2009)
6.3/10
Director: Catherine Corsini
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sergi Lopez, Yvan Attal, Bernard Blancan
Suzanne (Kristin Scott Thomas) is about forty years old, a doctor's wife and mother of two teenagers living in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois... Read more
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
7.6/10
Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands
Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage stars as a troubled creative executive who decides to exit out by drinking himself to death where the bars never clo... Read more
Leaving Las Vegas ( Blu-ray ) (1995)
7.6/10
Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Nicolas Cage
Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage stars as a troubled creative executive who decides to exit out by drinking himself to death where the bars never clo... Read more