Drama Movies 2011 List

With David Salzberg • Cheech Marin • William Dear • Emilie de Ravin • Bruce McGill • Christian Tureaud • Clifton Collins Jr. • Lou Gossett Jr. • Patricia Manterol • Mark W. Koch • Daniel de Liege • W. William Winokur • Richard M. DeVos Sr. • Helen DeVos

In 1957, former baseball player Cesar Faz returns home to Mexico as he is defeated by the racism of the Major Leagues. He coaches a local youth league team, leading them all the way to the Little League World Series.

With Mel Gibson • Jodie Foster • Jennifer Lawrence • Steve Golin • Anton Yelchin • Keith Redmon • Kyle Killen • Michelle Ang

A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

With Charlie Cox • Olga Kurylenko • Derek Jacobi • Wes Bentley • Roland Joffe • Dougray Scott • Guy J. Louthan • Ignacio Gomez Sancha • Ignacio Nunez

Tells the story of a Spanish journalist trying to mend his relationship with his dying father, a former fighter in the Spanish Civil War. He discovers his father was a close friend of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of the Catholic prelature Opus Dei.

With Keira Knightley • Sam Worthington • Eva Mendes • Nick Wechsler • Massy Tadjedin • Griffin Dunne • Guillaume Canet • Scott Adsit

A married couple is apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.

With Brian Downey • Gregory Smith • Chaz Thorne • Michael Amo • Fiona Highet

When a young man attempts to woo an older woman, he winds up befriending her adopted son.

With Kôji Wakamatsu

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a village woman is given the grueling task of looking after her quadruple-amputee husband, a decorated solider tortured by memories of his war crimes.

With Megan Fox • Mickey Rourke • Bill Murray • Mitch Glazer • Kelly Lynch • Jonah Hirsch • Rebecca Wang • Daniel Dubiecki

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

With Andie MacDowell • Josh Lucas • Kat Dennings • Scott Speedman • Reece Thompson • Michael Goldbach

A teenage girl moves to a small town, to find nothing in common with the stoner-hicks who populate her highschool. So she begins an affair with her teacher. But with a serial killer on the loose and townsfolk disappearing around them, their relationship takes a turn for the worse. She breaks off the relationship and the rejection makes her teacher crazy.

With Jessica Alba • J.K. Simmons • Chris Messina • Mike Ellis • Marilyn Agrelo • Pam Falk

"An Invisible Sign of My Own" is a coming-of-age drama based on Aimee Bender's quirky novel about a 20-year-old loner named Mona Gray (Alba) who as a child turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Gray now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.

With Daniel Vega Vidal • Diego Vega Vidal

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found.

With John Martoccia

Vito Bonafacci is a successful businessman who enjoys his lifestyle and the riches he has accumulated, but all that changes when one night he dreams he is having a heart attack. In that dream his mother appears from her grave and pleads with him to abandon his pursuit of greed and materialism. When Vito wakes, he is deeply affected by this vision and this leads him on a soul-searching journey to understand his life’s purpose. In a series of encounters with family and friends, he questions and explores the meaning of faith and the role religion plays in tempering one’s soul.

With Jim Belushi • Kyle Gallner • Kathryn Morris • Sarah Hyland • Ryan Pinkston • K. Asher Levin • Henry Boger • Graham Larson • Denise Richards • Jack Schuster

When Sam (Kyle Gallner) learns his mother cannot afford to send him to another school after he is kicked out, he and his friends start their own escort service for mature women to pay for his tuition.

With Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Natalie Portman • Rainn Wilson • Piper Laurie • Spencer Susser • Devin Brochu

"Hesher" is the story of a twenty-something long-haired tattooed metal-head who one day unexpectedly enters the life of a grieving family. Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the most unlikely person to help 13-year-old TJ (Devin Brochu) cope with the death of his mother, but he proves to be the only one who can truly free TJ from his overwhelming sadness. The charismatic and dangerous Hesher drags TJ out of loss and confusion by sheer force of will and gives the young boy and his grieving father (Rainn Wilson) a chance to be a family again.

With Will Ferrell • Laura Dern • Michael Peña • Stephen Root • Rebecca Hall • Wyck Godfrey • Dan Rush • Marty Bowen • Christopher Wallace • Gabourey Sidibe

A guy loses his job and gets locked out of the house by his wife. She deposits his belongings on the front lawn, and he spends the next four days trying to sell his possessions.

With Gina Rodriguez • Aimee Garcia • Carmen Marron • Al Bandiero • Jossara Jinaro

Carmen, a young woman living in Chicago, struggles to overcome her fears and follow her dream to be a dancer.

With Zach Braff • Isabelle Blais • Deborah Chow • Patrick Labbe

The story on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully collide one night in an event that will irrevocably change their lives.

With Justin Chadwick • Ann Peacock

Based on a true story, an 84-year-old Kenyan fights to go to school after the country introduces universal education.

With Ashley Greene • Shiloh Fernandez • Taylor Handley • James LeGros • Haley Ramm • Anthony Burns • Heath Freeman • Justin Gilley • Victor Moyers • Nicholas Jayanty

Shiloh Fernandez will play Ritchie Wheeler, a teen forced out of a job when his small-town roller rink shuts down. He faces tough decisions about his future, his parents' divorce and complicated relationships with friends Brent (Heath Freeman) and Kenny (Taylor Handley), his sister Mary (Haley Ramm) and Brent's sister Michelle (Ashely Greene). James LeGros plays Brent and Michelle's father.

With Mel Gibson • Jodie Foster • Jennifer Lawrence • Steve Golin • Anton Yelchin • Keith Redmon • Kyle Killen • Michelle Ang

A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.

With Rachel McAdams • Adrien Brody • Tom Hiddleston • Léa Seydoux • Owen Wilson • Michael Sheen • Elsa Pataky • Kathy Bates • Woody Allen • Steve Tenenbaum • Jaume Roures • Mimi Kennedy • Marion Cotillard • Alison Pill • Kurt Fuller • Corey Stoll • Letty Aronson • Gad Elmaleh • Carla Bruni • Manu Payet

The story centers on a family traveling to Paris for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

With Hilary Duff • Val Kilmer • Frances Conroy • Kris Kristofferson • W. Earl Brown • Hilarie Burton • Dwight Yoakam • Reece Thompson • Shane Dax Taylor

It's been 40 years since E.F. Bloodworth (Kris Kristofferson) abandoned his loving wife and sons for a life on the road. Now at the end of the line, Bloodworth reappears, forced to reckon with the stale aftermath of his departure. With his ex-wife Julia (Frances Conroy) mentally destroyed, his three sons; Warren (Val Kilmer), Boyd (Dwight Yoakam) and Brady (W. Earl Brown) soured by years of anger, Bloodworth's only solace is a budding relationship with Fleming, the grandson he never knew. But when Fleming meets Raven (Hilary Duff), the woman of his dreams, will Bloodworth's presence force history to repeat itself?

With Sean Kirkpatrick • Chris Kerson • Will Blagrove • Mark Borkowski • Judy Jerome • Maddie Morris Jones • Gregg Almquist

A gritty tale of two wounded veterans who return home to the ghetto they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence.

With Radu Muntean

In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress.

With Maria Onetto • Arturo Goetz • Natalia Smirnoff

Maria del Carmen (Maria Onetto) is a forty-something housewife from the suburbs of Buenos Aires, whom everyone, including her indifferent husband and teenage sons, takes for granted. When she discovers her extraordinary gift at assembling puzzles, Maria starts to secretly train with a magnetic millionaire bachelor (Arturo Goetz) for Argentina’s national championship, which, if she wins, would take her to Germany and the World Puzzle Championship. At the risk of alienating her family, Maria nevertheless pursues her new passion, as she gradually comes into her own and asserts her newfound independence.

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.