Drama Movies 2011 List

With Robert Duvall • Lucas Black • Deborah Ann Woll • Melissa Leo • Matt Russell

Luke Chisolm, a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour but his first big shot turns out to be a public disaster. Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas. It is home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford who forces Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.

With Tom Hardy • Frank Grillo • Joel Edgerton • Nick Nolte • Gavin O'Connor • Jennifer Morrison • Greg O'Connor • Cliff Dorfman • A.M. Tambakis

An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.

But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.

With AnnaSophia Robb • Brad William Henke • Melissa Leo • Anthony Keyvan • Travis Fine

A flight attendant grounded in Texas with an unaccompanied Arab-American boy on the morning of September 11, 2001. They desperately head east when she discovers his father works at the World Trade Center.

With Amy Sedaris • Rooney Mara • Chris Kattan • Tom Everett Scott • Julie Snyder • Tatiana von Furstenberg • Francesca Gregorini

Set in a boarding school, four teenage girls navigate adolescence while the adults in their world, the parents and teachers, struggle with their own midlife hurdles.

With Michael Kelly • Rip Torn • Craig Macneill • Alexei Kaleina • Jicky Schnee • Ana Asensio • Morgan Taddeo

A young couple moves into an old schoolhouse on a desolate stretch of farm country. Hoping for a new beginning, their lives are instead drawn toward dark and unforeseen ends.

With Orlando Bloom • Colin Firth • Ellen Burstyn • Patricia Clarkson • Amber Tamblyn • Thom Mount • Horton Foote • John Doyle

Set in Durham, North Carolina, the story of a decaying small town and its desperate hope for renewal.

With Jackie Chan • Andy Lau • Nicholas Tse • Benny Chan • Bingbing Fan

As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin Temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. General Hou (Andy Lau) has caused much of this mess with his violent and ruthless tactics that rarely discriminate between soldiers and civilians. When Hao is betrayed by fellow general Cao Man (Nicholas Tse), he is forced into hiding, and takes refuge with the monks at their hidden mountain temple. As the days pass, he finds himself more and more at ease as he learns the ways of peace, and begins to release his hatred through Martial Zen. But Cao is not far behind, and war soon reaches the temple, where the monks are ready to fight back- with their unstoppable Shaolin Kung Fu.

With Bryan Cranston • Carey Mulligan • Christina Hendricks • Oscar Isaac • Marc Platt • Hossein Amini • Albert Brooks • David Lancaster • Nicolas Winding Refn • Michel Litvak • Gigi Pritzker • Linda McDonough • Adam Siegel • Jon Gordon

A nameless Hollywood stuntman (Ryan Gosling) who moonlights as a freelance getaway driver during robberies. When a bank heist goes wrong, he ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con’s girlfriend (Carey Mulligan) in his car.

With Alexander Skarsgard • James Marsden • Kate Bosworth • James Woods • Dominic Purcell • Gilbert Dumontet • Rod Lurie • Reed Steiner • Marc Frydman

James Marsden as a Hollywood screenwriter who accompanies his wife (Kate Bosworth) as she returns to her hometown in Mississippi. Her ex-boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard), a former high school football hero, sees her return as an opportunity to reclaim glory.

With Eliu Armas • Marcel Rasquin • Fernando Moreno

Raised as brothers, intense teammates and competitors on the soccer field – the gregarious, swaggering Julio (Eliu Armas) and the more wiry and focused Daniel “Gato” (Fernando Moreno) have remained virtually inseparable ever since the newborn Daniel was found abandoned in a trash heap in their La Ceniza slum. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a football scout invites them to tryout for the city’s top professional team, just as a tragic act of violence threatens to tear them apart and prevent them from achieving their dreams.

With Anne Sewitsky • Agnes Kittelsen • Henrik Rafaelsen • Joachim Rafaelsen • Maibritt Saerens • Ragnhild Tronvoll

With Gerard Depardieu • Jean Becker • Sophie Guillemin • Claire Maurier • Jean-Loup Dabadie

An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

With Mia Wasikowska • Brian Grazer • Ron Howard • Bryce Dallas Howard • Gus Van Sant • Henry Lee Hopper • Schuyler Fisk • Jason Lew • Ryo Kase • Jane Adams

In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love. Director Gus Van Sant will present a take on friendship and young love as engaging and true as it is provocative and stirring.

With Luke Grimes • Ellen Barkin • Lars Knudsen • Jay Van Hoy • Cam Archer • Melora Waters • Bob Einstein

Follows an actress (Ellen Barkin) who find herself adrift when she quits performing.

With Brad Pitt • Chris Pratt • Jonah Hill • Robin Wright • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Scott Rudin • Kathryn Morris • Michael De Luca • Bennett Miller • Michael Polaire • Stephen Bishop • Royce Clayton • Aaron Sorkin • Greg Jacobs • Sidney Kimmel • Andrew Karsch

Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball's conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It's more than baseball, it's a revolution - one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he's tearing out the heart and soul of the game.

With Morgan Freeman • Kris Kristofferson • Harry Connick Jr. • Austin Stowell • Ashley Judd • Charles Martin Smith • Juliana Harkavy • Kim Ostrenko • Nathan Gamble • Jordan Roberts • Broderick Johnson • Andrew Kosove • Karen Janszen • Richard Ingber • Cozi Zuehlsdorff • Jim Fitzpatrick • Austin Highsmith

A young boy befriends Winter, an injured dolphin who lost her tail in a crab trap, and motivates everyone around him to help save the dolphin by creating a prosthetic appendage to replace the dolphin's missing tail. Harry Connick Jr. plays a vet who rescues the mammal and brings her to runs the marine hospital he runs. Ashley Judd plays the boy's mother while Morgan Freeman is a doctor who creates a prosthetic limb for Winter.

With Taylor Lautner • Sigourney Weaver • Lily Collins • Maria Bello • Alfred Molina • Roy Lee • Jason Isaacs • Shawn Christensen • Ellen Goldsmith-Vein • Doug Davison • Denzel Whitaker • Michael Nyqvist • John Singleton • Jeffrey Nachmanoff • Jeremy Bell • Pat Crowley • Gabriel Mason • Lee Stollman

Taylor Lautner will star in "Abduction" as a teen who has long felt disconnected from his parents, and figures out why, which unleashes a chain of violent events.

With Rachel Nichols • Linda Emond • Margaret Whitton • Jackson Hurst • Anjanette Comer

Lyman (Jackson Hurst) is a loner, working the graveyard shift for the Courtesy Patrol. When a green parrot flies in to his trailer he becomes obsessed with finding its owner, which leads him to Fiona (Rachel Nichols). She has been eyeing Lyman from a distance and decides to help with his parrot search, whether he wants her to or not. The pair set off on a search that doesn't always lead them where they think they're going, but gradually leads them to one another.

With David Carradine • Nora Dunn • Mariel Hemingway • Michael Welch • Brooke Nevin • Gabriel Sunday • David Lee Miller

Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he's going to kill himself - on camera - for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra - the most beautiful girl in school (Brooke Nevin), and a "Shady Bunch" of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Some are hoping to save him, some want to imitate him, others try to push him over the brink. Archie films every moment of his high school experience, hiding nothing from his audience: realities of life, death, violence, sex, drugs, and the intense media overload and hypocrisy that bombard all teenagers.

With John Goodman • Dermot Mulroney • Stephen Root • Kevin Smith • Michael Angarano • Kyle Gallner • Melissa Leo • Michael Parks • Kevin Pollack • Jeff Anderson • Scott Mosier

The story of a group of teens in Middle America who receive an online invitation for sex.

With Chris Evans • Brett Cullen • Mark Kassen • Michael Biehn • Vinessa Shaw • Jesse L. Martin • Marshall Bell • Kate Burton • Adam Kassen • Chris Lopta • Jordan Foley • Craig Cohen • Tess Parker

The story follows a troubled young attorney who must come to terms with his own demons when taking on a healthcare giant.

With Andrew Haigh • Tom Cullen • Chris New

On a Friday night after hanging out with his straight mates, Russell heads out to a nightclub, alone and on the pull. Just before closing, he meets Glen. And so begins a weekend that will resonate throughout their lives

With Alex Kendrick • Ken Bevel • Stephen Kendrick • Kevin Downes • Ben Davies • Rusty Martin • Robert Amaya

Four men, one calling: To serve and protect. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God … and to their children?

With Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Anna Kendrick • Seth Rogen • Bryce Dallas Howard • Anjelica Huston • Evan Goldberg • Jonathan Levine • Ben Karlin • Tendo Nagenda • Philip Baker Hall • Nathan Kahane • Will Reiser

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis.

With Matt Damon • Mark Ruffalo • Matthew Broderick • Anna Paquin • Gary Gilbert • Scott Rudin • Jeannie Berlin • Anthony Minghella • Jean Reno • Sydney Pollack • Dan Halsted • J. Smith-Cameron • Kenneth Lonergan

A 17-year-old New York City high-school student feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world.

With Jessica Chastain • Tyler Davidson • Michael Shannon • Jeff Nichols • Shea Whigham • Sophia Lin

Chronicles a man's descent into madness. He fears an apocalyptic cloud he believes will engulf his town, and builds a storm shelter in his yard.