Drama Movies 2011 List

With Bradley Cooper • Robert De Niro • Neil Burger • Abbie Cornish • Tucker Tooley • Scott Kroopf • Ryan Kavanaugh • Leslie Dixon • Johnny Whitworth • Anna Friel • Andrew Howard

The story centers on a down-and-out writer who gets his hands on a top-secret pharmaceutical drug that makes one smarter. He experiences sudden financial and social success but soon discovers that the drug has lethal and lasting side effects, including "trip-switching," a phenomenon in which time moves with a stop-motion quality. Before long, mysterious antagonists are pursuing him.

With Matthew McConaughey • William H. Macy • Bryan Cranston • Michael Peña • Ryan Phillippe • Trace Adkins • John Leguizamo • Tom Rosenberg • Marisa Tomei • Brad Furman • Katherine Moennig • Scott Steindorff • Gary Lucchesi • Bob Gunton • John Romano • Erin Carufel

Mickey Haller (Matthew McConaughey) is a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Haller has spent most of his career defending garden-variety criminals, until he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy accused of murder. But the seemingly straightforward case suddenly develops into a deadly game of survival for Haller.

With J.K. Simmons • Lou Taylor Pucci • Julia Ormond • Cara Seymour • Jim Kohlberg

Chronicles the journey of a father and son adjusting to cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities.

With Ken Loach • Paul Laverty

A tense love triangle between two men and a woman working in Iraq. When Frankie is killed on "Route Irish" -- the road linking Baghdad airport with the Green Zone -- Fergus, wracked with grief and guilt, rejects the official explanation and determines to investigate the truth of his friend's death.

With Martin Koolhoven

Near the end of World War II, 14-year-old Michiel becomes involved with the Resistance after helping a wounded British soldier.

With Eva Green • Imogen Poots • Juno Temple • Maria Valverde • Jordan Scott • Ben Court

"Cracks" follows an elite group of boarding school girls who compete for the attention of their free-thinking and glamorous young teacher Miss G (Green). She encourages them to indulge their desires, flout the establishment and - suggesting a world of adventures in her own past - pursue a life of independence and travel. The girls are thrilled to have such an inspiring teacher, but the status quo is threatened when the arrival of an exotic and beautiful Spanish student (Maria Valverde) disturbs the girl's rigid and remorseless power structure. Favored girl Di Radfield (Juno Temple) feels especially threatened and, as Ms G's hold over the girls progresses from emancipation to obsession, there are tragic consequences for everyone.

With Sherry Horman

The autobiography of Waris Dirie, who fled from an arranged marriage in Somalia when she was 13-years-old and then lived in the streets of London before she became a supermodel and UN spokeswoman.