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Just for You! - Drama Classics

Viewers who enjoy riveting, character driven films should enjoy this list of classic film dramas from the United States and across the world.

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  • What does reasonable doubt mean? Would you vote to condemn a teenager to death if you're not sure he's guilty? These questions and more are considered in this tense drama about the deliberations of a jury in a murder trial.
    DVD, 2008Beverly Hills, CA : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc, [2008] — DVD T
  • Marlon Brando revolutionizes film acting in this spellbinding drama about dockworkers in Hoboken, New Jersey.
    DVD, 2013[United States] : Image Entertainment, [2013] — DVD O
  • Featuring storied actors like Vivian Leigh and then-newcomer Marlon Brando, this version of the classic play is a meditation on mental health, marital relations and social class.
    DVD, 2006Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2006. — DVD S
  • How should one live? What does it mean to be happy? Iconic Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa takes a break from the battles of samurai to contemplate these concepts through this film about a terminally ill Japanese bureaucrat.
    DVD, 2015[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2015] — DVD FOREIGN I
  • This silent science fiction film from Germany depicts the gap between the rich and the poor with this visually stunning experience featuring robots and mad scientists all in a richly realized dystopian city.
    DVD, 2010New York : Kino International, c2010. — DVD C
  • Driving Marilyn

    the Life and Times of Legendary Hollywood Agent Norman Brokaw

    Brokaw, Joel,
    This biography is for those interested in going beyond the drama on the screen to the drama behind it. A true story that draws the line from Marilyn Monroe to Gerald Ford to Donna Summer.
    Book, 2024Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, Inc., [2024] — B BROKAW