Drama Movies 2011 List

With Florin Serban • Catalin Mitulescu • Pistireanu George • Ada Condeescu • Mihai Constantin

Romania's official selection for the 2011 Academy Award centers around an 18-year-old about to be released from a juvenile detention center.

With Brenda Song • Andrew Garfield • Justin Timberlake • Kevin Spacey • David Fincher • Armie Hammer • Caleb Landry Jones • Rooney Mara • Rashida Jones • Jesse Eisenberg • Scott Rudin • Michael De Luca • Dana Brunetti • Aaron Sorkin • Joe Mazzello

Jesse Eisenberg will play Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg; Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder who became Facebook's founding president; and Andrew Garfield will play Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder who fell out with Zuckerberg over money. The film will focus on the evolution of Facebook, the online social network created in 2004 on the Harvard campus, and how success and wealth changed the lives of the classmates who created it.

With Leighton Meester • Gwyneth Paltrow • Jenno Topping • Tobey Maguire • Tim McGraw • Garrett Hedlund • 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 Ryan Gosling • Lynette Howell • Michelle Williams • Derek Cianfrance • Mike Vogel • Cami Delavigne • Alex Orlovsky • Jamie Patricof • Joey Curtis • John Doman • Faith Wladyka

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?

With Raj Kumar Gupta

Jessica, a young attractive model trying her hand at bartending, is shot dead at a celebrity party for refusing to serve a drink after closing hours. The culprit Manish, son of a prominent politician, inebriated by a deadly cocktail of alcohol and a sense of entitlement, pulls the trigger in a fit of rage. With 300 of Delhi's swish set present at the party, many of whom are witnesses to the murder, Manish looks all set to go to the gallows. Except, that it doesn't quite turn out that way. Now two women, Jessica's sister, Sabrina and the feisty TV reporter, Meera will have to drum up every resource at their disposal to outwit Manish at his own game, if the truth is to have any chance of prevailing over money and political clout.

With Elia Suleiman • Saleh Bakri • Ali Suliman

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

With Rosamund Pike • Jamie Chung • Lake Bell • Zoe Saldana • Dylan McDermott • Nick Stahl • Paz Vega • Christopher B. Landon

Five dark and comedic stories that take place in Los Angeles.

With Carla Gugino • Helen Hunt • Liev Schreiber • Brian Dennehy • Richard Levine • Eddie Izzard

Liev Schreiber and Helen Hunt play a couple whose troubled marriage escalates into crisis when a sexy colleague, played by Carla Gugino, enters the mix.

With Rosamund Pike • Dustin Hoffman • Paul Giamatti • Minnie Driver • Scott Speedman • 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 Gaspar Noe • Nathaniel Brown

Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta star in a visceral journey set against the thumping, neon club scene of Tokyo, which hurls the viewer into an astonishing trip through life, death, and the universally wonderful and horrible moments between.

With Colin Farrell • Saoirse Ronan • Jim Sturgess • Mark Strong • Ed Harris • Peter Weir • Guy East • Nigel Sinclair • Duncan Henderson • Joni Levin • Keith Clarke

Based on a memoir by Slavomir Rawicz about his escape from a Siberian gulag and subsequent 4000-mile walk to freedom in India.

With Kiran Rao

Four people from different background intersect in Mumbai and alter eachother's lives profoundly.

With Ben Affleck • Tommy Lee Jones • Kevin Costner • Maria Bello • Rosemarie DeWitt • Craig T. Nelson • Jason Berk • Chris Cooper • 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 Jason Statham • Donald Sutherland • Danny Dimbort • Avi Lerner • Ben Foster • Christa Campbell • Simon West • William Chartoff • Shane Salerno • Jeff Chase • Irwin Winkler • Trevor Short • Joe Gatta • Boaz Davidson • David Winkler • Rene Besson • Beau Brasso

Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a well-paid assassin who executes people at the request of the American government. But after assassinating a former close associate, Bishop does something that's unprofessional and out of control: he takes on a apprentice (Ben Foster), the son of the man he just killed.

With Anthony Hopkins • Ciaran Hinds • Richard Brener • Michael Petroni • Toby Jones • Mikael Hafstrom • Alice Braga • Tripp Vinson • Beau Flynn • Rutger Hauer • Merideth Finn • Toby Emmerich • Christy Fletcher • Colin O'Donoghue • Marta Gastini

Follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.

With James Franco • Kate Mara • Danny Boyle • Lizzy Caplan • Christian Colson • Amber Tamblyn • Clemence Poesy

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's (James Franco) adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days, Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers (Clemence Poesy), family, and the two hikers (Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara) he met before his accident.

With Wilmer Valderrama • Camilla Belle • Kuno Becker • Alexa Vega • Adriana Barraza • Nicholas D'Agosto • Gigi Pritzker • Fina Torres • Luis Alfaro • April Bowlby

It's a whimsical fish-out-of-water story of two spoiled sisters: Nora (Camilla Belle), a law student, and Mary (Alexa Vega), an undergrad party girl, living with their father in a luxurious mansion in Beverly Hills. Mary has become so "90210" she refuses to admit she is of Mexican descent. When dad suddenly passes away, their posh lives are turned upside down. They discover they have been left penniless and are forced to move into their estranged aunt Aurelia's (Adriana Barraza) modest but lively home in the Latino-centric Boyle Heights neighborhood of East LA. They are terrified to leave their world of privilege; neither Nora nor Mary speak Spanish or have ever had to take on actual responsibility. The girls gradually adapt to their new environment; their BMW and Prius are traded for the public bus and a used car. As they embrace the culture that for so long they refused to accept, they both discover romance, the true meaning of family, and they learn that the life of PRADA actually means NADA without love, family and community.

With Javier Bardem • Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu • Maricel Alvarez

The story is about a troubled man who is confronted by a former friend, now a police officer.