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

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 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 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?

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 Saleh Bakri • Ali Suliman • Elia Suleiman

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 • Ed Harris • Mark Strong • Peter Weir • Nigel Sinclair • Jim Sturgess • Guy East • 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 • 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 Jason Statham • Ben Foster • Donald Sutherland • Avi Lerner • Christa Campbell • Joe Gatta • Boaz Davidson • Shane Salerno • Jeff Chase • Simon West • Irwin Winkler • Danny Dimbort • Trevor Short • William Chartoff • 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 • Toby Jones • Alice Braga • Michael Petroni • Beau Flynn • Tripp Vinson • Colin O'Donoghue • Rutger Hauer • Mikael Hafstrom • Merideth Finn • Toby Emmerich • Richard Brener • Christy Fletcher • 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 Alexa Vega • Adriana Barraza • Camilla Belle • Gigi Pritzker • Wilmer Valderrama • Kuno Becker • Nicholas D'Agosto • 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.