Drama Movies 2011 List

With Nicole Kidman • Leighton Meester • Andie MacDowell • Denise Di Novi • Selena Gomez • Arnon Milchan • Katie Cassidy • Alison Greenspan • Rick Schwartz • Ron Bass • Tom Bezucha • Maria Maggenti • April Blair • Cory Monteith

While on a trip to Paris with her best friend and soon-to-be-stepsister, Grace is mistaken for a British socialite, resulting in all three young women flying to Monte Carlo for a charity ball, auction, and the chance for international romance. However, when a million-dollar necklace goes missing, Grace and her friends must scramble to find it before the auction is ruined and their identities are exposed.

With Tom Hanks • Taraji P. Henson • Bryan Cranston • Julia Roberts • Rami Malek • Wilmer Valderrama • Philippe Rousselet • Cedric the Entertainer • Bob Stephenson • Nia Vardalos • Gary Goetzman • George Takei

When he's downsized from his job, Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) decides to reinvent himself by enrolling in college, where he forms some unexpected bonds with fellow students, while also catching the eye of Mercedes Tainot, a female professor played by Julia Roberts.

With Michael Tully • Rachel Korine • Robert Longstreet • John Maringouin • Mark Darby Robinson

Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his family's farm.

With Brad Pitt • Sean Penn • Jessica Chastain • Tye Sheridan • Terrence Malick

The story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father (Brad Pitt). Jack (played as an adult by Sean Penn) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

With Ellen Barkin • Natalie Carter • Nick Stahl • Famke Janssen • Emilie de Ravin • Ram Bergman • Marc-Andre Grondin • Jean Paul Salome • Bill Perkins • Cooper Richey • Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar • Pierre Kubel

The reunion of a young man and his family after being positively identified in an unsolved missing-persons case. The reunion turns bittersweet when suspicions arise about whether he really is their son.

With Li Bingbing • Zhang Ziyi • Angela Workman • Ron Bass • Wendi Murdoch • Florence Sloan

Set in 19th century remote China, the movie revolves around the lifelong friendship of Lily and Snow Flower and their imprisonment by rigid cultural codes of conduct for women.

With Pierce Brosnan • Jennifer Connelly • Greg Kinnear • Ed Harris • Marisa Tomei • Isabelle Fuhrman • Howard Hesseman • Cathy Schulman • Jim Gaffigan • George Ratliff • Celine Rattray • Douglas Stone

A private detective investigates the killing of a professor and it becomes a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish.

With Oliver Schmitz

A drama, based on the novel Chanda's Secrets, about AIDS orphans in South Africa.

With Jackson Rathbone • Patch Mackenzie • Shannon Marie Woodward • Justin Lerner • Evan Sneider • Amanda Plummer

A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.

With Christian Byers • Marton Csokas • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Morgana Davies • Julie Bertuccelli

After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots.

With Rohit Shetty

Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) is a police sub- inspector who hails from a small town of Sawantwadi in Maharashtra. He fights against corruption with the valor of lion. When Kavya (Kaajal Aggarwal) comes to Sawantwadi, from Goa to visit her grandparents on a vacation she is charmed by Bajirao’s bold and courageous demeanor. Everything goes well for Singham until there is a clash with a goon that eventually escalates into a full blown fight. Singham eventually gets promoted & is transferred to Goa which also happens to be the operational hub of the goon. While this move brings Singham closer to Kavya, it also brings him in the clutches of the very same goon who is on a mission to destroy him. How Singham rises to the challenge to expose this crook and put an end to his malicious activities forms the rest of the story.

With Jenna Fischer • Michael J. Weithorn • Dena Hysell • Joe Gressis

A recently widowed single mom reconnects with an old flame, who happens to be her sister's husband.

With Kristin Scott Thomas • Gilles Paquet-Brenner • Niels Arestrup

Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah's family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia's life becomes entwined with Sarah's heart-breaking story she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward.

With Brit Marling • William Mapother • Mark Cahill • Jordan Baker

Rhonda, an ambitious MIT astrophysics student, kills a man's family in a car accident after leaning out of the window to catch sight of a newly discovered planet. After she spends four years in prison, she returns home compelled to meet the bereaved husband and father.

With David Robert Mitchell • Adele Romanski

Storyline follows four teens on the last night of summer.

With Daniel Craig • Sam Rockwell • Jon Favreau • Olivia Wilde • Clancy Brown • Alex Kurtzman • Harrison Ford • Steven Spielberg • Brian Grazer • Paul Dano • Ron Howard • Keith Carradine • Adam Beach • Roberto Orci • Scott Mitchell Rosenberg • Damon Lindelof • Mark Fergus • Hawk Ostby • Ervin Rustemagic • Noah Ringer • Abigail Spencer

1875. New Mexico Territory. A stranger (Daniel Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). It's a town that lives in fear.

But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents—townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors—all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

With Kristin Scott Thomas • Gilles Paquet-Brenner • Niels Arestrup

Sarah's Key is the story of an American journalist living in Paris, Julia Jarmond (Kristen Scott Thomas), whose research for an article about the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942 in France ends up turning her own world upside down. In July 1942, Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door in the middle of the night arresting Jewish families. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place – and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Nearly seventy years later, Julia stumbles on the terrible secret that the home Sarah's family was forced to leave is about to become her own. As Julia's life becomes entwined with Sarah's heart-breaking story she must tackle the complex issue of how to live with the past and keep moving forward.

With Daniel Meisel • Julio Cedillo • Amy Wendel

In a small Texas town, a high school student enters a powerlifting competition in order to earn a college scholarship.

With Hamish Linklater • Gerhard Meixner • Roman Paul • Miranda July • Gina Kwon

A story about a thirtysomething couple grappling with their personal and professional malaise, which is narrated by a talking shelter cat named Paw Paw.