Drama Movies 2011 List

With Rebekah Brandes • Evan Glodell • Jessie Wiseman • Tyler Dawson • Vincent Grashaw

A pair of eccentric L.A.-based friends spend their time preparing for the apocalypse.

With David Strathairn • Rachel Weisz • Vanessa Redgrave • Monica Bellucci • Christina Piovesan • Larysa Kondracki • Amy Kaufman • Eilis Kirwan

In Bosnia in 1999, Kathryn Bolkovac, a U.N. peacekeeper whose post with the Intl. Police Task Force was arranged by DynCorp Inc., is assigned to run the IPTF office that investigates sex trafficking, domestic abuse and sexual assault. She ultimately alleges that peacekeepers, U.N. workers and international police are visiting brothels and facilitating sex trafficking by forging documents and aiding the illegal transport of woman into Bosnia. DynCorp responds by firing Bolkovac, who returns to the U.S. and files a wrongful termination case. She wins the suit but says she's still blacklisted.

With Jason Ritter • Kevin Zegers • Taryn Manning • Scott Rosenbaum • Rose Atropos • Clifton Hangar

Two estranged childhood friends channel their talent and passion for music into a cross-country road trip that brings them face to face with their past on a quest to confront the future.

With Léa Seydoux • Clotilde Hesme • Melvil Poupaud • Raoul Ruiz • Carlos Saboga

The drama follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy.

With Emma Stone • Jessica Chastain • Viola Davis • Allison Janney • Octavia Spencer • Bryce Dallas Howard • Tate Taylor • David Oyelowo • Chris Columbus • Cicely Tyson • Michael Barnathan • Kathryn Stockett • Jennifer Blum • Michael Radcliffe • Brunson Green • Nate Berkus • Dean Jones • Mohamed Khalef Al-Mazrouei • Lila Rogers

Story follows a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the African-American domestic servants that every family has working for them. She writes their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreak, all just before the Civil Rights revolution.

With Léa Seydoux • Clotilde Hesme • Melvil Poupaud • Raoul Ruiz • Carlos Saboga

The drama follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy.

With Miyavi Matsunoi • Lan Yan • Christopher Sun Lap Key • Hiro Hayama

Follows Ming Dynasty scholar Yangsheng (Hiro Hayama) as he seeks to gain the stamina needed to satisfy his beautiful new bride, Yuxiang (Leni Lan).

With Chris Cooper • Yul Vazquez • D.J. Qualls • Garret Dillahunt • John Sayles • Maggie Renzi • Joel Torre

The U.S. occupation of the Philippines in 1900 provides the backdrop to this story of squad of American soldiers who occupy a village and learn how to live and negotiate with the natives. They focus on the local head man who finds himself torn between loyalty to his family and the Americans.

With Rene Feret • Marie Feret • Marce Barbe

riginally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold (Marc Barbe) tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or compose, Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed on her gender. But a friendship with the son and daughter of Louis XV offers her ways to challenge the established sexual and social order.

With Mona Achache • Josiane Balasko • Togo Igawa • Anne-Dominique Toussaint • Ariane Ascaride

The timely story of Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic), a young girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father’s old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renée Michel (Josiane Balasko). When Paloma’s camera reveals the extensive secret library in Renée’s back room, and that the often gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath the prickliest of exteriors. As the unlikely friendship deepens, Paloma’s own coming of age becomes a much less pessimistic prospect.

With Christina Hendricks • Bow Wow • Rachael Leigh Cook • Hope Davis • Max Thieriot • Selma Blair • Chi McBride • J. Todd Harris • Madeline Zima • Keith Carradine • Dermot Mulrony • Brittany Robertson • Allan Jones • Mark Lisson • Vivi Friedman

Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. And just when the Burnett family - Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 year olds Eric (Max Theriot) and Kelly (Britt Robertson) - seems a lost cause, they get an unlikely and unexpected second chance at happiness when an unusual accident leaves Bunnie with a case of amnesia.

With Mona Achache • Josiane Balasko • Togo Igawa • Anne-Dominique Toussaint • Ariane Ascaride

The timely story of Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic), a young girl bent on ending it all on her upcoming twelfth birthday. Using her father’s old camcorder to chronicle the hypocrisy she sees in adults, Paloma begins to learn about life from the grumpy building concierge, Renée Michel (Josiane Balasko). When Paloma’s camera reveals the extensive secret library in Renée’s back room, and that the often gruff matron reads Tolstoy to her cat, Paloma begins to understand that there are allies to be found beneath the prickliest of exteriors. As the unlikely friendship deepens, Paloma’s own coming of age becomes a much less pessimistic prospect.

With Sean Harris • Andy Serkis • Andrea Riseborough • Sam Riley • Paul Webster • Rowan Joffe • Pete Postlethwaite • John Hurt • Steven Robertson

The story centers on a small-time gangster who kills a rival and finds his life in turmoil as he faces blackmail threats from a waitress (Andrea Riseborough) who knows about the murder.

With Tom Skerritt • Michael Clarke Duncan • Mario Van Peebles • Kiele Sanchez • Taryn Manning • Luke Perry • Morgan Simpson • George Richards

Two seemingly different men (Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson) embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn't about where you end up - it's how you get there that matters. Somewhere along the 900 miles between Austin, TX and Huntsville, AL the two men become unlikely friends.

With Isabelle Huppert • Sabila Moussadek • Bouli Lanners • Jeanne Labrune • Richard Debuisne

A high class prostitute (Isabelle Huppert) and an eminent psychoanalyst discover that they share many things in common. They are both unhappy with their professions, seeking a way out that involves unique contact with each other's worlds.

With Maryam Keshavarz • Nikohl Boosheri • Sarah Kazemy

A wealthy family in Iran struggling to contain a teen's growing sexual rebellion.

With Vera Farmiga • Taissa Farmiga • Bill Irwin • John Hawkes • Jonathan Burkhart • Joshua Leonard • Matt Parker • Norbert Leo Butz • Donna Murphy • Tim Metcalfe • Carly Hugo

Carolyn Briggs grew up with modest means in the Iowa heartland. Pregnant at seventeen, married a few months later, by the age of 18 she found herself living in a trailer with no plans beyond having more babies-until she found Jesus.

With Malcolm McDowell • Tom Sizemore • Corbin Bernsen • Timothy A. Chey • Shannen Fields • Bart Bronson • Rebecca St. James • Jeff Gannon

A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself and the trial of the century takes place.

With Jessica Chastain • Matthew Vaughn • Ciaran Hinds • Kris Thykier • Jane Goldman • Helen Mirren • Tom Wilkinson • John Madden • David Greenbaum

Twenty years after World War II's end, three Mossad agents learn that a Nazi war criminal is still alive and set out to pursue him across Europe.

With Al Pacino • Michelle Pfeiffer • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio • Robert Loggia • Steven Bauer • Brian De Palma

Released in 1983, Scarface is directed by Brian Del Palma and written by Oliver Stone and stars Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer. Scarface is the rags-to-riches story of Tony “Scarface” Montana (Al Pacino), a Cuban immigrant who finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams…at a price he never imagined. Tony Montana’s meteoric rise, lavish life and soul-destroying fall anchor an epic film that inspired a worldwide following.

With Mylene Jampanoi • Didier Lupfer • Anna Mouglalis • Marc DuPontavice • Joann Sfar • Eric Elmosnino • Laetitia Casta

Lucien Ginsberg grows up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, and then later transforms into the hard-living showman Serge Gainsbourg. He becomes as famous for his glamorous lovers, including Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin, as he for writing such hits as Je t'aime ... moi non plus.