Tag Archives: psychological drama

Proof

IMDB Rating: 7.00
9210 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settle his affairs.
Actors
CatherineGwyneth Paltrow
RobertAnthony Hopkins
HalJake Gyllenhaal
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Hard Candy

IMDB Rating: 7.10
14176 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark has been chatting on-line with 'Lensmaster319', a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff. The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks. They hit it off, despite the massive age difference. Hayley appears to flirt with Jeff, and Jeff generally restrains himself, even admitting that he must wait 4-years until he can be with her. But his reservations are apparently not enough to decline when Hayley all but invites herself over to his house. Once at the house, manipulation becomes the name of the game, and the pedophile seems to be on the non-traditional side of it.
Actors
Jeff KohlverPatrick Wilson
Hayley StarkEllen Page
Judy TokudaSandra Oh
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Match Point

IMDB Rating: 7.80
29715 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy. Tom's sister Chloe falls in love with Chris but Chris has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the luscious Nola. Both Chris and Nola know it's wrong but what could be more right than love? Chris tries to juggle both women but at some point, he must choose between them...
Actors
Chris WiltonJonathan Rhys-Meyers
Mr. TownsendAlexander Armstrong
Estate AgentPaul Kaye
Also posted in 2005, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Little Fish

IMDB Rating: 6.60
1760 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
In Sidney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey's mother Janelle fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend.
Actors
Tracy HeartCate Blanchett
BradSam Neill
Lionel DawsonHugo Weaving
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Danny the Dog

IMDB Rating: 7.10
17347 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
A man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.
Actors
DannyJet Li
SamMorgan Freeman
BartBob Hoskins
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Butterfly Effect

IMDB Rating: 7.70
49477 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans' friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!
Actors
Evan TrebornAshton Kutcher
Andrea TrebornMelora Walters
Kayleigh MillerAmy Smart
Also posted in 2004, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (6)

Mystic River

IMDB Rating: 8.00
37630 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Summer, 1975: in a tight blue-collar Boston neighborhood, three kids are playing when one is abducted and sexually abused for several days. Jump ahead: the victim, Dave, is haunted by memories and protective of his own son. Jimmy's an ex-con, father of three. Sean is a homicide detective, estranged from his pregnant wife. When Jimmy's teen daughter dies, Sean investigates, Dave's a suspect, and Jimmy vows to find the killer before the cops. The dead girl has a boyfriend whose long-missing father has a history with Jimmy. The boyfriend's a suspect, and when ballistics turns up a link to a gun owned by the young man's father, the case breaks. In the background, wives move events along.
Actors
Jimmy MarkumSean Penn
Dave BoyleTim Robbins
Sean DevineKevin Bacon
Also posted in 2003, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (3)

Identity

IMDB Rating: 7.30
30933 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they're there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.
Actors
EdJohn Cusack
RhodesRay Liotta
ParisAmanda Peet
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (7)

The Human Stain

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7706 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.
Actors
Coleman SilkAnthony Hopkins
Faunia FarleyNicole Kidman
Lester FarleyEd Harris
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lost in Translation

IMDB Rating: 7.90
77219 votes

from $1.99

 Storyline
Bob Harris is an American film actor, far past his prime. He visits Tokyo to appear in commercials, and he meets Charlotte, the young wife of a visiting photographer. Bored and weary, Bob and Charlotte make ideal if improbable traveling companions. Charlotte is looking for "her place in life," and Bob is tolerating a mediocre stateside marriage. Both separately and together, they live the experience of the American in Tokyo. Bob and Charlotte suffer both confusion and hilarity due to the cultural and language differences between themselves and the Japanese. As the relationship between Bob and Charlotte deepens, they come to the realization that their visits to Japan, and one another, must soon end. Or must they?
Actors
CharlotteScarlett Johansson
Bob HarrisBill Murray
Ms. KawasakiAkiko Takeshita
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (2)