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Drama Films. Drama. Filmsare serious presentations. A dramatic film shows us human beings at their best. See also crime films.

These films have successfully drawn attention to the. Although. dramatic films have often dealt frankly and realistically with social problems. Hollywood, especially during earlier times of censorship.

Social Problem Dramas: Social. In Yield to the Night.

Diana Dors relived her life and crime as she awaited her execution. The film drew criticism with. Kazan's informant role before the. HUAC. Problems of the poor and dispossessed have often been the. The Good Earth (1.

Chinese. peasants facing famine, storms, and locusts, and John Ford's The Grapes. Wrath (1. 94. 0) about an indomitable, Depression- Era Okie family - . Joads - who survived a tragic journey from Oklahoma to California.

Martin. Scorsese's disturbing and violent Taxi Driver (1. New York. taxi cab driver amidst nighttime urban sprawl. Issues and conflicts within. Sam Mendes' Best Picture- winning American Beauty (1. Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2.

Films About Mental Illness: Two. Anatole Litvak's The Snake Pit. Olivia de Havilland's assistance from a psychiatrist. Milos Forman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1.

Jack Nicholson as a. Nurse Ratched and the repressive system. Bette Davis played a neurotic and domineering woman in John. Huston's In This Our Life (1. Sam Wood's Kings.

Row (1. 94. 2) examined the various fears and phobias in a small- town. Another teenager (Kathleen Quinlan) felt suicidal. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1. The. repressed emotions and tragic crises in a seemingly perfect family were documented. Robert Redford's directorial debut Best Picture and Best Director- winning Ordinary People (1. Films About Alcoholism: A hard look was taken at alcoholism with Ray Milland as a. Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend.

Jack Lemmon (and Lee Remick) in Blake Edwards' Days. Wine and Roses (1. An aging alcoholic singer (Bing Crosby) desperate. The Country Girl (1. Grace Kelly with a Best Actress Oscar. Susan Hayward acted the. Lillian Roth in Daniel Mann's biopic I'll Cry Tomorrow (1.

More recently, Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. Barbet Schroeder's Barfly.

Films about Disaffected Youth and Generational Conflict: Juvenile delinquency, young punks and gangs, and youth rebellion. Dead End (1. 93. 7), Laslo Benedek's The. Wild One (1. 95. 3) with biker Marlon Brando disrupting a small town.

Richard Brooks' The Blackboard Jungle (1. Glenn Ford as an. Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause (1. James Dean as an iconic disaffected.

Race Relations and Civil Rights Dramas: Films. Hollywood's first major indictment. Stanley Kramer's and director Mark Robson's Home. Brave (1. 94. 9), the story of a black WWII soldier facing bigoted. Then, there was John Sturges' Bad. Day At Black Rock (1. Japanese- American prejudice.

Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer's The. Defiant Ones (1. 95. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as bound- together. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1. Sidney Poitier as WHO doctor John Prentiss and Katharine. Houghton as SF socialite Joanna Drayton) planning on marrying who needed parental.

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy (in their ninth and last. Also, In the Heat of the Night (1. Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1.

Brooklyn summer. Strong indictments toward anti- Semitism were made in Elia. Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement (1. Gregory Peck posing. Jew, and Crossfire (1. Jew. Courtroom Dramas: See Filmsite's major analysis of Greatest.

Courtroom Dramas. Hd Quality A Womans Life (2017) Watch. Courtroom legal dramas, which. In addition, director Robert Benton's Best Picture- winning Kramer.

Kramer (1. 97. 9) focused on the subject of a nurturing father. Dustin Hoffman) trying to win a child custody case with divorced. Meryl Streep. The award- winning. Sidney Lumet's The Verdict. Paul Newman as an alcoholic, has- been Boston lawyer. James Mason. Glenn.

Close defended lover/client Jeff Bridges in Richard Marquand's who- dun- it Jagged. Edge (1. 98. 5). Assistant.

DA Kelly Mc. Gillis defended the bar- room gang- raped Jodie Foster (an Oscar- winning. The Accused (1. 98. A Soldier's Story (1. Southern military post in a dramatic courtroom murder/mystery.

Jonathan Demme's AIDS drama, Philadelphia (1. AIDS and the legal defense of an AIDS sufferer (Tom Hanks) who was. Political Dramas: Political. Frank Capra's two political tales - State of the. Union (1. 94. 8) with Tracy/Hepburn, and his classic story of a naive. Senator's fight against political corruption in Mr. In Otto. Preminger's Advise and Consent.

Charles Laughton (in his last film), Franchot Tone. Lew Ayres portrayed scheming Senators during Henry Fonda's crisis- threatened. Presidency. The controversial The Manchurian. Candidate (1. 96. Cold War brainwashing of.

Korean War hero. The. Robert Rossen's All. King's Men (1. 94. Broderick Crawford as rising. Willie Stark - a cynical version of real- life 1. Louisiana governor Huey P. Michael. Ritchie's The.

Candidate (1. 97. Robert. Redford starred as left- wing California lawyer Bill Mc. Kay, a political. Senate hopeful cluelessly running for office. In the final. scene with campaign manager Marvin Lucas (Peter Boyle), Mc. Kay asked. . Underneath the right- wing candidate's folksy demeanor. Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal), in which.

Roberts displayed dark shades of corruption, contempt and cynicism. Aaron. Sorkin's drama The American President (1.

Michael. Douglas as widowed Democratic President Andrew Shepherd, who became. Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening), who was sponsoring. Subsequently, Shepherd became the. Republican presidential hopeful Senator Bob.

Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss) during the crucial passage of his crime control. Travolta took the role of philandering, drawling. Southern Democratic Governor Jack Stanton in the running. President, while Thompson portrayed his intelligent wife Susan. Billy Bob Thornton was redneck political advisor Richard Jemmons. Clinton's campaign manager James Carville) during a dirty- tricks. Stanton's past sexual and political indiscretions.

Bulworth. (1. 99. Warren Beatty as depressed and suicidal. Democratic California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth, who transformed.

PC and following conservative ideals. In writer/director. Rod Lurie's The. Contender (2. Joan Allen starred as Ohio Democratic Senator Laine Hanson, the assailed. VP appointee of President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges), who faced sexist. Illinois Republican Congressman Sheldon . Often regarded as the best film ever made, Orson Welles' Citizen.

Kane (1. 94. 1) was an insightful character study of a self- made. Pakula's All the. President's Men (1. Bernstein and Woodward investigating.

Watergate scandal in the 1. Sidney Lumet's Network.

Peter Finch as a despairing newsman was a critical look at TV news, while. Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice (1. Sally Field) and a wrongly- implicated defendant (Paul. Newman). Brooks' Broadcast News (1. Oliver. Stone's conspiracy- centered drama, JFK (1. President Kennedy's killer acted alone. Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1.

Andy Griffith in his film debut as Larry . Through. the eyes of a cameraman, Haskell Wexler's docu- drama Medium Cool. Chicago's. 1. 96. Democratic Convention. In Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously.

Australia/US), Mel Gibson played the role of an Australian. President Sukarno's coup in mid- 6. Indonesia. And in Oliver Stone's Salvador (1. James Woods. played the role of a photographer in war- torn El Salvador.

WWII. Homefront Dramas: Dramatic films which have portrayed the . Miniver (1. 94. 2) about a separated middle- class. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence. Brown's The Human Comedy (1. Mickey Rooney. bringing news from the front to small- town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1. Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler. The Best Years of Our Lives (1.

Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo. Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.