Drama Movies 2011 List

With James Cameron • Ioan Gruffudd • Richard Roxburgh • Ben Browning • Ryan Kavanaugh • Michael Maher • Christopher Baker • Andrew Wight • John Garvin • Peter Rawlinson • Alister Grierson • Rhys Wakefield • Alice Parkinson • Dan Wyllie

Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team—including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)—are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out.

With Natalie Portman • Lisa Kudrow • Lauren Ambrose • Charlie Tahan • Anthony Rapp • Don Roos • Scott Cohen

Emilia (Natalie Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, having just married Jack (Scott Cohen), a high-powered New York lawyer, who was her boss — and married — when she began working at his law firm. Unfortunately, her life takes an unexpected turn when Jack and Emilia lose their newborn daughter. Emilia struggles through her grief to connect with her new stepson William (Charlie Tahan), but is finding it hard to connect with this precocious child. Perhaps the most difficult obstacle of all for Emilia is trying to cope with the constant interferences of her husband’s angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow).

With Raul Castillo • Aaron Katz • Cris Lankenau • Trieste Kelly Dunn • Lars Knudsen • Brendan McFadden • Ben Stambler • Jay Van Hoy

Doug (Cris Lankenau) has just moved back to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, to move in with his sister (Trieste KellyDunn), hoping for another chance at jumpstarting their grown up lives. When Doug’s ex-girlfriend comes to town unexpectedly, only to disappear shortly after, Doug, Gail, and their new friend Carlos (Raul Castillo) appoint themselves as detectives in what they see as a real life Sherlock Holmes situation.

With Channing Tatum • Jamie Bell • Donald Sutherland • Mark Strong • Kevin Macdonald • Duncan Kenworthy • Jeremy Brock • Paul Ritter

In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca (Bell), Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia - to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and retrieve the lost legion's golden emblem, the Eagle of the Ninth.

With Danny Glover • Nia Long • Evan Ross • Summer Bishil • Qasim Basir • Dana Offenbach

A young Muslim man enrolls in college against the politically charged 9/11 backdrop, with deep personal and familial traumas to overcome.

With Pablo Trapero

This love story begins the night Lujan and Sosa meet, on the street. She is fighting to save a car accident victim's life. He wants the victim to be his client. Together they will try to change the course of their lives, but Sosa's turbulent past will come up against them.

With Ariel Winter • Billy Slaughter • Kevin Corrigan • David Calloway • Stephen Herek • Paul Levesque • Jake Austin Walker • S.J. Roth • Michael Pavone

An ex-con tries to rekindle his relationship with his daughter by being a chaperone on her class trip.

With Gael García Bernal • Luis Tosar • Paul Laverty • Carlos Aduviri • Iciar Bollain

Chronicles some of Christopher Columbus' exploits with the indigenous people he encountered in the Americas, circa 1492.

With Will Canon

College freshman Adam Buckley sits blindfolded in the back of a van outside of a convenience store as the final step of his initiation into the Sigma Zeta Chi fraternity. Minutes later a fellow pledge is shot. The senior fraternity brother is able to get the injured pledge out of the store alive, but the fraternity's troubles are just beginning.

With Philippe Diaz

An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.

With Matthew Porterfield

At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life.

With Louis Gossett Jr. • David G. Evans • Howard Klausner • Michael Joiner • Michael Higgenbottom • Joy Moore • Dawntoya Thomason • Cindy Hodge • John Saunders • John Nasraway

When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about everyone else. Mac's rage stonewalls his career in the police department and makes for a combustible situation when he's partnered with Sam Wright, a rising star on the force-who happens to be a part-time pastor and a loving family man. Can they somehow join forces to help one another when it's impossible for either of them to look past their differences-especially the most obvious one?

With Lambert Wilson • Xavier Beauvois • Michael Lonsdale

Eight French monks live peacefully in a monastery perched in the mountains of Algeria until post-colonial tensions escalate.

With Xavier Dolan

Francis and Marie are close friends and one day they meet Nicolas. As one rendezvous leads to another, whether real or imagined, the two friends slide deeper into obsessive fantasies around Nicolas.

With Philippe Diaz

An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.