The best Roger Corman’s drama movies

Roger Corman

Roger Corman

05/04/1926 (98 años)
Today we present the best Roger Corman’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Roger Corman’s movies.
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The Godfather: Part II

The Godfather: Part II
9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/12/1974
  • Character: Senator #2
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Apollo 13

Apollo 13
7.7/10
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia
7.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/12/1993
  • Character: Mr. Laird
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

The Second Civil War

The Second Civil War
6.6/10
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges, who won an Emmy) defies the president (Phil Hartman) and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
6.6/10
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/10/2008
  • Character: Wedding Guest
A young woman who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her sister's wedding.

The Silence of the Lambs

The Silence of the Lambs
8.6/10
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

Swing Shift

Swing Shift
5.9/10
In 1941 America Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, his wife takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way the two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on Kay finally dates her trumpet playing foreman and life gets complicated

The State of Things

The State of Things
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/03/1982
  • Character: The Lawyer
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956) . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Naked Paradise

Naked Paradise
4.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1957
  • Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Gangster Zac Cotton and his two henchmen, Mitch and Sonny, try to get a boat to get off a tropical island after a botched robbery heist.

The Fast and the Furious

The Fast and the Furious
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionCrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/11/1954
  • Character: Roadblock State Trooper
A man wrongly imprisoned for murder breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him.

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