Drama movies after a long week from the 2000s. Includes Ip Man, Big Fish, Dogville and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Five days of relentless noise, and now this. Finally.
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production, he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life, as well as a very big secret she must keep from Landon.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
After a long week, a film should feel like something you chose rather than endured. These do that.
Gives the week some perspective. Good for decompressing.
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
Driven by tragedy, billionaire Bruce Wayne dedicates his life to uncovering and defeating the corruption that plagues his home, Gotham City. Unable to work within the system, he instead creates a new identity, a symbol of fear for the criminal underworld - The Batman.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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