Successfully Dating recommends feature drama DVD movies that will
help you build a movie library that will impress. Our
recommendations will help you find the drama classics and the
story-telling
movies that you should have, so you can be prepared to pull out an
entertaining movie to watch, at any time, that your dates and
friends will actually want to watch.
Dogville - The latest galvanizing and controversial film
from Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, The
Kingdom), Dogville uses ingenious theatricality to tell the
Depression-era story of Grace (Nicole Kidman, The Others), a
beautiful fugitive who stumbles onto a tiny town in the Rocky
Mountains. Spurred on by Tom (Paul Bettany, Master and Commander),
who fancies himself the town's moral guide, the citizens of
Dogville first resist Grace, then embrace her, then resent and
torment her--little realizing they will pay a price for their
selfish brutality.
The Last Samurai - While Japan undergoes tumultuous
transition to a more Westernized society in 1876-77, The Last
Samurai gives epic sweep to an intimate story of cultures at a
crossroads. In America, tormented Civil War veteran Capt. Nathan
Algren (Tom Cruise) is coerced by a mercenary officer (Tony
Goldwyn) to train the Japanese Emperor's troops in the use of
modern weaponry. Opposing this "progress" is a rebellion of
samurai warriors, holding fast to their traditions of honor
despite strategic disadvantage. As a captive of the samurai leader
(Ken Watanabe), Algren learns, appreciates, and adopts the samurai
code, switching sides for a climactic battle that will put
everyone's honor to the ultimate test. All of which makes director
Edward Zwick's noble epic eminently worthwhile.
The Butterfly Effect - The Butterfly Effect is well suited
to guilty-pleasure viewing at home. In a role-reversal from his
That '70s Show persona, Ashton Kutcher plays a college-age
psychology student who discovers, by re-reading his childhood
journals, that he can revisit his past and alter traumatic events,
hoping to improve their previously unfortunate outcomes. Instead,
this foolhardy experiment in chaos theory results in a variety of
nightmarish permutations, each having dire consequences for him
and/or his friends.
Browse our DVD library suggestions by category:
