Drama Movies 2007 List

With Denzel Washington • Russell Crowe • Josh Brolin • Ridley Scott • Brian Grazer • Carla Gugino • Ron Howard • John Ortiz • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Ted Levine • Yul Vazquez • Dania Ramirez • Terry George • Steve Zaillian

Based on the life of drug-kingpin-turned-informant, Frank Lucas, who grew up in segregated North Carolina where he watched as his cousin was shot by the Klan for looking at a white girl. He eventually made his way to Harlem where he became a heroin kingpin by traveling to Asia's Golden Triangle to make connections, shipping heroin back to the US in the coffins of soldiers killed in Vietnam. He soon made upwards of one million dollars a day in drug sales. Lucas was shadowed by lawman, Richie Roberts, who finally helped bring the kingpin to justice. The two then worked together to expose the crooked cops and foreign nationals who made importing heroin so easy.

With John Cusack • Sophie Okonedo • Seth Bass • David Gerrold • Bobby Coleman • Corey Sienega • Ed Albert • Oliver Platt • Menno Meyjes • David Kirschner • Toby Emmerich • Jonathan Tolins • Mark Kaufman • Matt Moore • Mike Drake

The romantic drama "Martian Child" stars John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts that claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower's sister (Joan Cusack) and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences lead them to believe that the child's claim may be true. Based

With Tommy Lee Jones • Javier Bardem • Woody Harrelson • Stephen Root • James Brolin • Joel Coen • Ethan Coen • Scott Rudin • Cormac McCarthy

The thriller begins when Llewelyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back trunk. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law--namely aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell--can contain. Moss tries to evade his pursuers, in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives, as the crime drama broadens.

With Patrick Wachsberger • Erik Feig • Wes Bentley • Rachel Nichols • Franck Khalfoun • Simon Reynolds • Grace Lynn Kung • Alix Taylor

It's Christmas Eve. Angela Bridges (Rachel Nichols) works late before she leaves for her family's holiday party. When she gets down to the parking garage, she discovers that her car won't start. The garage is deserted and her cell phone doesn't get a signal underground. Thomas (Wes Bentley), a friendly security guard, comes along and offers to help. After a failed attempt to start her car, he invites her to stay and share a small Christmas dinner in the parking office, but she laughs it off. Angela doesn't realize this is no laughing matter – Thomas has been watching her closely...for months. His dinner invitation is not optional. If Angela wants to live to see Christmas morning, she must find a way to escape from level P2 of the parking garage.

With Tom Cruise • Michael Peña • Meryl Streep • Robert Redford • Derek Luke • Matthew Michael Carnahan • Paula Wagner • Andrew Hauptman

Two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student, who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest''s fates. As arguments, memories and bullets fly, the three stories are woven ever more tightly together, revealing how each of these Americans has a profound impact on each other--and the world.

With Brian Presley • George Furla • Jeff Rice • Jose Maria Yazpik • Steve Whitney • Martha Higareda • Damian Alcazar • Rider Strong • Jake Muxworthy • Roberto Sosa • Zev Berman • Lauren Moews • Elisa Salinas • Susan Jackson • Deborah Davis • Keith Previte • Rafael Gutierrez Rodriguez

In "Borderland", three Texas University seniors, on the eve of their graduation, road-trip to a Mexican Border town for a final weekend of drinking and debauchery. Their vacation becomes a living nightmare as the trio runs afoul of an ancient blood cult looking for human sacrifice. Based on true events, Borderland blends the raw fear of Texas Chainsaw Massacre with the gritty true crime realism of In Cold Blood, evoking a world of paranoia, death and terror.

With Javier Bardem • John Leguizamo • Ron Harwood • Benjamin Bratt • Scott Steindorff • Giovanna Mezzogiorno • Hector Elizondo • Mike Newell • Scott Lastaiti • Brantley Dunaway

Florentino (Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

With Nicole Kidman • Jack Black • Noah Baumbach • Jennifer Jason Leigh • Scott Rudin • Halley Feiffe • Zane Pais • Flora Cross

Margot Zeller, a savagely bright, razor-tongued short-story writer who creates chaos wherever she goes, sets off on a surprise journey to the wedding of her estranged and free-spirited, unassuming sister Pauline. Margot, with her all-too-rapidly maturing son Claude in tow, arrives with the gale force of a hurricane. From the minute she meets Pauline's fiance--the unemployed artist Malcolm--Margot starts to plant seeds of doubt about the union. As the wedding approaches, one complication crashes into the next: vengeful neighbors, a beloved tree in the backyard and Margot's own marital turmoil. The two sisters find themselves at the precipice of an unexpected transformation ultimately revealing that even when your family is about to implode the one thing you can cling to for solace and comfort is your imploding family.

With Vin Diesel • Olga Kurylenko • Timothy Olyphant • Chuck Gordon • Xavier Gens • Daniel Alter • Ulrich Thomsen • Robert Knepper • Michael Offei • Adrian Askarieh • Skip Woods

The "Hitman" is a genetically-engineered, elite assassin known only as Agent 47. His hallmarks are lethal grace, unwavering precision, and resolute pride in his work. But even 47 couldn't anticipate a "random equation" in his life exactitude: the unexpected stirrings of his conscience and the unfamiliar emotions aroused in him by a mysterious Russian woman.

With Cate Blanchett • Christian Bale • Richard Gere • Julianne Moore • Heath Ledger • Michelle Williams • Christine Vachon • David Cross • John Goldwyn • Bruce Greenwood • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Marcus Carl Franklin • Todd Haynes • John Rosen • John Goldwy

"I'm Not There," the highly anticipated biographical film about legendary singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, follows six distinct characters, depicting different stages of Dylan's life, embodying a different aspect of his life story and music. It's the first biographical feature project to secure the approval of the music legend.

With Idris Elba • Regina King • Loretta Devine • Damon Lee • Mekhi Phifer • Chris Brown • Paddy Cullen • Laz Alonso • Preston Whitmore

This year, Christmas with the Whitfield's promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are hung, secrets are revealed and family bonds are tested. As their lives converge, they join together and help each other discover the true meaning of family.

With Philip Seymour Hoffman • Laura Linney • Tamara Jenkins • Philip Bosco • Peter Friedman • Gbenga Akinnagbe • Cara Seymour

The last thing the two Savage siblings ever wanted to do was look back at their difficult family history. Having wriggled their way out from beneath their father's domineering thumb, they are now firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. Wendy is a struggling East Village playwright, AKA a temp who spends her days applying for grants, stealing office supplies and dating her very married neighbor. Jon is a neurotic college professor writing books on obscure subjects in Buffalo. Then comes the call that informs them that the father they have long feared and avoided, Lenny Savage, is slowly being consumed by dementia and they are the only ones that can help. Now, as they put their already arrested lives on hold, Wendy and Jon are forced to live together under one roof for the first time since childhood, rediscovering the eccentricities that drove each other crazy. Faced with complete upheaval and battling over how to handle their father's final days, they are confronted with what adulthood, family and, most surprisingly, each other are really about.

With Jessica Alba • Hayden Christensen • Harvey Weinstein • Joana Vicente • Lena Olin • Sam Robards • Bob Weinstein • Jason Kliot • Joby Harold • Terence Howard • Tim Williams

In "Awake," a psychological thriller that tells the story of a man (Christensen) undergoing heart surgery while experiencing a phenomenon called "anesthetic awareness," which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife (Alba) must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

With Mathieu Amalric • Emmanuelle Seigner • Anne Consigny • Max von Sydow • Jim Lemley • Ronald Harwood • Emma de Caunes • Jon Kilik • Pierre Grunstein

Jean-Dominique Bauby AKA "Jean-Do," the high-flying editor of French Elle and father of two, was renowned for his sense of humor and style, his joie de vivre and amorous energy, when, in an instant, his world was plunged into the depths of catastrophe. Faced with a harrowing predicament, Jean-Do will use enormous courage and determination but, most of all, his soaring imagination to escape from his trap. Tapping into the limitlessness of his memories, fantasies, wit and wishes, he finds a way to race through experiences of wonder and grief, sex and love, fatherhood and childhood, faith and questioning, ecstasy and absurdity--and touches the very essence of what it is to be human. Along the way he is buoyed by a quintet of remarkable women: Céline, the mother of his children who remains devoted to him despite his betrayal; Inés, the girlfriend who still haunts him; Henriette and Marie, who give Jean-Do the power to re-connect with the world and his loved ones; and Claude, who becomes his ravishing literary assistant.

With Milo Ventimiglia • Brian Taylor • Skip Williamson • Alyssa Milano • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Lauren Lee Smith • Johnny Whitworth • Mark Neveldine

The thriller follows a group of med students who hatch a scheme to see who can commit the perfect crime -- one that even a fellow pathologist couldn't unravel.