'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) If you're not normally a fan of war films, this World War II classic is a fascinating drama: British prisoners of war are tasked with building a bridge, and ...

Drama is the inherent motivation behind the construction of narrative art. “Drama” is just a way to tell you it’s going to be a movie about regular people talking in rooms.

The Untouchables (1987) Technically, Brian De Palma's classic gangster movie The Untouchables was based on Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley's memoir recalling their Prohibition-era war on organized crime.

The movie draws on ideas from Italian neorealism and the work of Jean Renoir, but ends up becoming something unique. This is cinema at its most authentic, rooted in the rhythms of everyday ...