Wednesday 3 August 2011

CRAIG'S TOP 10 GENRE SERIES - DRAMA

"A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes."


#1. THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION - 1994
Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins, William Sadler


#2. CASABLANCA - 1942
 Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains


#3. THE ELEPHANT MAN - 1980
 Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft


#4. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - 1962
 Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Robert Duvall


#5. SCENT OF A WOMAN - 1992
 Director: Martin Brest
Starring: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Phillip Seymour Hoffman


#6. THIS IS ENGLAND - 2006
 Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Joe Gilgun


#7. CRASH - 2004
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton


#8. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - 1975
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito


#9. RAIN MAN - 1988
 Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise


#10. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN - 2005
 Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams


This was a very tough list to compose, simply as I couldn't think of any proper human emotion films. Instead I looked at how each issue in these films I nominated were beneficial to the actual films themselves e.g. Elephant Man - cruelty, This Is England - race, Brokeback Mountain - sexuality. Nonetheless there are some excellent films on this list but I feel that in the future if I do remake this list, then there may be more focus on the dramatic aspect on the film's aim.

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