Drama Movies 2011 List

With Shawn Levy • Hugh Jackman • Steven Spielberg • Evangeline Lilly • Anthony Mackie • Hope Davis • Mary McLaglen • Jack Rapke • Kevin Durand • Robert Zemeckis • Don Murphy • Dakota Goyo • Karl Yune • John Gatins • Steve Starkey • Jeremy Leven • Dan Gilroy • James Rebhorn • Susan Montford • Rick Benatar • Les Bohem • Olga Fonda

Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the boxing ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

With Ryan Gosling • George Clooney • Evan Rachel Wood • Paul Giamatti • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Max Minghella • Marisa Tomei • Grant Heslov • Beau Willimon

A young communications director works for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rival politicos.

With Emilio Estevez • James Nesbitt • Martin Sheen • Deborah Kara Unger

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his "California bubble life" behind.

With Jackie Chan • Joan Chen

An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings.

With Stephen Rea • Eduardo Noriega • Sam Shepard • Mateo Gil

An old American named cowboy in Bolivia who dreams of returning to the US. crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship.

With Kevin Spacey • Heather Graham • Johnny Knoxville • Craig Robinson • Virginia Madsen • Camilla Belle • Dana Brunetti • Trent Cooper • Jonathan Krane • Nichole Beattie

A humble inventor-turned-egomaniacal billionaire loses it all when one of his inventions goes horribly awry. After eight years in federal prison, he returns bankrupt, homeless and determined to rebuild his reputation and fortune.

With Ryan Reynolds • Julia Roberts • Willem Dafoe • Hayden Panettiere • Sukee Chew • Philip Rose • Carrie-Anne Moss • Ioan Gruffudd • Dennis Lee • Emily Watson • Marco Weber

The complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart by an unexpected tragedy.

With Bradley Cooper • Sam Worthington • Jessica Chastain • Chloë Grace Moretz • Michael Mann • Jeffrey Dean Morgan • Michael Jaffe • Stephen Graham • Jason Clarke • Don Ferrarone • Bill Block • Annabeth Gish • Ami Mann

Story centers on two cops who realize that the latest murder in their jurisdiction connects their case to the notorious killing fields murders. The killing field murders concern four bodies that were found in the same place in Texas.

With Antonio Banderas • Pedro Almodovar • Elena Anaya • Marisa Paredes • Jan Cornet • Roberto Alamo • Fernando Cayo

A plastic surgeon hunts down the man who raped his daughter.

With Felicity Jones • Christine Baranski • Phil Traill • Tamsin Egerton • Ed Westwick • Bill Nighy • Pippa Cross • Tom Williams • Harriet Rees

A working-class girl lands a job in a posh ski resort and discovers her natural snowboarding genius while dating the boss’ son.

With Lavinia Currier

25 years ago, ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno traveled from New Jersey to the forests of Central Africa to record the music of the Bayaka Pygmies. Falling in love with a Bayaka girl and her forest lifestyle, he decided to stay.

With Jonathan Lee

Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer and family man, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the '60s.

With Ellen Burstyn • Carla Gugino • David Boreanaz • Marley Shelton • James Rebhorn • Phyllis Somerville • Tim Chambers • Whitney Springer

Set against the backdrop of the 1972 feminist movement, "Victory" tells the true story of sassy newlywed Cathy Rush (Gugino), who becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college, a team with no gym and no uniforms. She eventually leads the team to the first national championship in women's basketball, while the school's nuns fight to keep the owners from selling the institution and its land to developers.

With Yan Vizinberg • Natasha Rinis • Sayed Badreya • Philip Willingham

A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter, hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that threatens to derail the traffickers’ plans.

With Kevin Spacey • Demi Moore • Jeremy Irons • Stanley Tucci • Zachary Quinto • Carla Gugino • Simon Baker • Paul Bettany • Mary McDonnell • Cassian Elwes • J.C. Chandor • Penn Badgley • Laura Rister • Neal Dodson • Corey Moosa • Michael Benaroya • Rob Barnum

In the early stages of the financial crisis, eight people at large investment banks attempt to position themselves in anticipation of the coming collapse.

With Christopher Lloyd • Ray Liotta • Bobby Coleman • Beverley Mitchell • Talon G. Ackerman • Robert Kirbyson

Convinced that he only has weeks to live, 10-year-old Billy Kirkfield enlists his misfit friends in a scheme to ensure that he will be remembered in the record books forever.

With Harry Thomason • Kaley Cuoco • Henry Thomas • Rick Dial • Howard Klausner • Stephen Tobolowsky • Jesse James • Ray McKinnon • Dub Cornett • Will Koberg

Henry Thomas stars as country crooner Hank Williams, revolves around Williams' final days and the young man (Jesse James) hired to drive him from Alabama to a New Year's Eve concert in Canton, Ohio. Kaley Cuoco will play a gas-station owner the duo meet during their travels who has a brief, innocent romance with the driver.

With Hugo Weaving • David Wenham • Emily Watson • Jim Loach • Tara Morice

Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia.

With Elizabeth Olsen • Sarah Paulson • Hugh Dancy • Sean Durkin • Antonio Campos • Ted Hope • Josh Mond

The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.

With Gustavo Taretto

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a a long relationship. Her head is a mess, just like the apartment where she takes refuge. Martin and Mariana are perfect for each other-- they live in the same street, in opposite buildings, but they never meet. Can the movement of a modern city of three million people bring them together?

With Amber Heard • Johnny Depp • Greg Shapiro • Giovanni Ribisi • Anthony Rhulen • Richard Jenkins • Aaron Eckhart • Robert S. Kravis • Bruce Robinson • A.J. Dix • William Shively

Tiring of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper, The San Juan Star, run by downtrodden editor Lotterman (Richard Jenkins). Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Paul soon becomes obsessed with Chenault (Amber Heard), the wildly attractive Connecticut-born fiancée of Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart). Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals, is one of a growing number of American entrepreneurs who are determined to convert Puerto Rico into a capitalist paradise in service of the wealthy. When Kemp is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, the journalist is presented with a choice: to use his words for the corrupt businessmen’s financial benefit, or use them to take the bastards down.

With Richard Gere • Topher Grace • Michael Brandt • Martin Sheen • Stana Katic • Stephen Moyer • Derek Haas • Odette Yustman • Ashok Amritraj • Patrick Aiello • Andrew Deane

The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin "Cassius," forces Paul Shepherdson (Richard Gere), a retired CIA operative, to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary (Topher Grace), to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland (Martin Sheen). Meanwhile, Agent Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced. As Shepherdson and Geary work their way through crimes both past and present, they discover that Cassius may not be the person they always thought him to be, forcing both to re-examine everything and everyone around them.

With Roland Emmerich • David Thewlis • John Orloff • Vanessa Redgrave • Rhys Ifans • Edward Hogg

Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was an accomplished poet and dramatist for Queen Elizabeth I in the 16th Century. In the 20th Century theories arose crediting Edward as the true author of Shakespeare's works.

With Jennifer Lawrence • Felicity Jones • Jonathan Schwartz • Ben York Jones • Anton Yelchin • Andrea Sperling • Charlie Bewley • Drake Doremus

The story centers on a long-distance relationship between a young American man and a young British woman who meet while in college.

With Brittany Snow • Elisabeth Shue • Abigail Breslin • Frank Whaley • Eric Bassett • David M. Rosenthal • Alessandro Nivola • Keith Kjarval

The story centers on a young girl who is abandoned by her drug-addicted, former-groupie mother at a concert and surprises the fading rock singer who’s performing with news that she is his daughter.