Drama Movies 2010 List

With Ben Affleck • Kevin Costner • Tommy Lee Jones • Rosemarie DeWitt • Jason Berk • Chris Cooper • Craig T. Nelson • Maria Bello • John Wells • Paula Weinstein • Claire Polstein • Matt Lane • Barbara A. Hall

The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities.

With Anthony Mackie • Kerry Washington • Novella Nelson • Tanya Hamilton • Sean Costello • Jen Roskind • Samara Koffler

The film takes place in 1978 and focuses on the broken love affair between two former Black Panther members (Mos Def and Okonedo) and is told through the eyes of an adolescent girl.

With Winona Ryder • Natalie Portman • Mila Kunis • Darren Aronofsky • Vincent Cassel • Arnie Messer • John McLaughlin • Andres Heinz • Barbara Hershey • Brad Fischer • Eric Watson • Mike Medavoy • David Thwaites • Mark Heyman

Follows the story of Nina (Natalie Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who zealously supports her daughter’s professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

With Steve Morris

After three years of answering phones and picking up laundry, a group of friends, who are working as assistants, conspire to greenlight a movie of their own.

With Paul Giamatti • Minnie Driver • Dustin Hoffman • Scott Speedman • Rosamund Pike • Rachelle Lefevre • Domenico Procacci • Robert Lantos • Richard Lewis • Michael Konyves • Lyse Lafontaine • Richard J. Lewis

A man leads a reckless life highlighted by three marriages, two children and being a "person of interest" in the mysterious disappearance of his bosom buddy.

With Angelina Jolie • Johnny Depp • Paul Bettany • Christopher McQuarrie • Rufus Sewell • Gary Barber • Tim Headington • Steven Berkoff • Timothy Dalton • Jeffrey Nachmanoff • Julian Fellowes • Lloyd Phillips • Roger Birnbaum • Jonathan Glickman • Florian von Donnersmarck

An American tourist (Johnny Depp) is used by an Interpol agent (Angelina Jolie) in an attempt to flush out a criminal with whom she once had an affair.

With Richard E. Grant • Mena Suvari • Matthew Modine • Carmen Maura • Jack Huston • Caterina Murino • John Irvin

A successful American writer and his beautiful wife go on an extended European honeymoon, but she becomes restless and draws an Italian girl into their lives.

With Helen Mirren • Djimon Hounsou • Alfred Molina • Jeremy Irons • Russell Brand • Reeve Carney • Chris Cooper • Geoffrey Rush • Lynn Hendee • Julie Taymor • Robert Chartoff • Julia Taylor-Stanley

In Julie Taymor's version of "The Tempest," the gender of Prospero has been switched to Prospera. Shakespeare's play mixes romance with fraternal politics and the supernatural. As revised for the screen, it will center around Prospera (Mirren), her daughter Miranda (Jones) and a shipwrecked crew full of Prospera's enemies.

With Mark Wahlberg • Christian Bale • Amy Adams • Melissa Leo • Eric Johnson • David O. Russell • Dorothy Auferiero • Lewis Colick • Sue Costello • Jack McGee • David Hoberman • Todd LIeberman • Paul Tamasy • Jenna Lamia • Scott Silver • Keith Dorrington • Leslie Varrelman

"The Fighter" is a drama about boxing champ “Irish” Micky Ward and his half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded after nearly being destroyed by drugs and crime.

With Halle Berry • Stellan Skarsgard • Anna Waterhouse • Simon DeKaric • Jonathan Watters • Geoffrey Sax • Vincent Cirrincione • Joe Shrapnel • Shawn Williamson • Cheryl Edwards • Phylicia Rashad • Chandra Wilson • Alex Diakun • Joanne Baron • Hassain Zaidi • Thomas Sigel • Marko King • Mary King

Frankie & Alice is inspired by the remarkable true story of an African American go-go dancer "Frankie" with dissociative identity disorder (DID) who struggles to remain her true self while fighting against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child named “Genius” and a Southern white racist woman named “Alice.” In order to stop the multiple voices in her head, Frankie (Halle Berry) works together with a psychotherapist (Stellan Skarsgård) to uncover and overcome the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.

With Winona Ryder • Natalie Portman • Mila Kunis • Darren Aronofsky • Vincent Cassel • Arnie Messer • John McLaughlin • Andres Heinz • Barbara Hershey • Brad Fischer • Eric Watson • Mike Medavoy • David Thwaites • Mark Heyman

Follows the story of Nina (Natalie Portman), a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her retired ballerina mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) who zealously supports her daughter’s professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.

With Reese Witherspoon • Paul Rudd • Owen Wilson • Kathryn Hahn • James L. Brooks • Laurence Mark • Jack Nicholson • Andrew Wilson • Tara Subkoff • Paula Weinstein • Julie Ansell

Lisa (Witherspoon) is a woman whose athletic ability is the defining passion of her life, having been her focus since early childhood. When she is cut from her team, everything she has ever known is suddenly taken from her. Not knowing what to do, she stumbles toward regular life. In this mode, she begins a fling with Matty (Wilson), a major league baseball pitcher, a self-centered ladies man – a narcissist with a code of honor.

George Madison (Rudd) is a straight-arrow businessman whose complicated relationship with his father, Charles (Nicholson), takes a turn when George is accused of a financial crime, even though he’s done nothing wrong. Though he may be headed to jail, George’s honesty, integrity, and unceasing optimism may be his only path to keeping his sanity.

Before Lisa’s relationship with Matty takes root, she meets George for a first date on the worst evening of each of their lives: she has just been cut, and he has just been served. When everything else seems to be falling apart, they will discover what it means to have something wonderful happen.

With Mark Wahlberg • Christian Bale • Amy Adams • Melissa Leo • Eric Johnson • David O. Russell • Dorothy Auferiero • Lewis Colick • Sue Costello • Jack McGee • David Hoberman • Todd LIeberman • Paul Tamasy • Jenna Lamia • Scott Silver • Keith Dorrington • Leslie Varrelman

"The Fighter" is a drama about boxing champ “Irish” Micky Ward and his half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded after nearly being destroyed by drugs and crime.

With Nicole Kidman • Miles Teller • Aaron Eckhart • Giancarlo Esposito • Dianne Wiest • Gigi Pritzker • Sandra Oh • Per Saari • Geoff Linville • Patricia Kalember • William Lischak • Jon Tenney • Tammy Blanchard • John Cameron Mitchell • Linda McDonough • Leslie Urdang • David Lindsay-Abaire • Dean Vanech • Dan Revers • Julie Lauren • Brian O'Shea • Caroline Jaczko

Becca and Howie Corbett (Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart) are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. While Becca finds pain in the familiar, Howie finds comfort. The shifts come in abrupt, unforeseen moments. Becca hesitantly opens up to her opinionated, loving mother (Dianne Wiest) and secretly reaches out to the teenager involved in the accident that changed everything (Miles Teller); while Howie lashes out and imagines solace with another woman (Sandra Oh).

With Kevin Spacey • Kelly Preston • George Hickenlooper • Barry Pepper • Christian Campbell • Jon Lovitz • Richard Rionda • Gary Howsam • Bill Marks • George Vitezakis • Norman Snider • Conrad Pla • Yannick Bisson

Disgraced Washington power broker Jack Abramoff's bribery schemes and fraudulent dealings with Indian casinos ultimately land him in jail.

With Matt Damon • Josh Brolin • Hailee Steinfeld • Jeff Bridges • Steven Spielberg • Scott Rudin • Barry Pepper • Ethan Coen • Joel Coen • Adam Goodman • Megan Ellison

14-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man.

With Michelle Monaghan • Benicio Del Toro • Francis Ford Coppola • Sofia Coppola • Chris Pontius • Stephen Dorff • G. Mac Brown • Roman Coppola • Fred Roos • Paul Rassam

A bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont is forced to reexamine his life with an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter.

With Tobey Maguire • Garrett Hedlund • Leighton Meester • Gwyneth Paltrow • Jenno Topping • Tim McGraw • Shana Feste

A rising young singer-songwriter becomes involved with a fallen country singer. As they embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband and manager and a beauty queen-turned singer, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.

With Chang-dong Lee

A mother moves with her son to the birthplace of dead husband. As she tries establish a new beginning, another tragedy overturns her life.

With Bruno Dumont

Hadewijch, a novice nun, shocks the mother superior of her convent with her ecstatic blind faith, and is kicked out of the order. Hadewijch becomes Celine again, a young Parisian girl and daughter of a diplomat, and is led down dangerous paths in the real world, balancing between grace and madness in her rage and passionate love for God.

With Sylvain Chomet • Jacques Tati

The film details the story of a dying breed of stage entertainer whose thunder is being stolen by emerging rock stars. Forced to accept increasingly obscure assignments in fringe theaters, garden parties and bars, he meets a young fan who changes his life forever.

With Imelda Staunton • Stuart McQuarrie • Lesley Manville • Jim Broadbent • Mike Leigh • David Bradley • Ruth Sheen • Gail Egan • Georgina Lowe

An happily married couple and their troubled friends deal with the emotions of getting old.

With Ryan Gosling • Michelle Williams • Derek Cianfrance • Cami Delavigne • Mike Vogel • Lynette Howell • Jamie Patricof • Joey Curtis • John Doman • Faith Wladyka • Alex Orlovsky

On the far side of a once-passionate romance, Cindy (Michelle Williams) and Dean (Ryan Gosling) are married with a young daughter. Hoping to save their marriage, they steal away to a theme hotel. We then encounter them years earlier, when they met and fell in love—full of life and hope. The film begs the question, where did their love go?