Drama Movies 2011 List

With Anthony Mackie • Hugh Jackman • Shawn Levy • Evangeline Lilly • Robert Zemeckis • Hope Davis • Kevin Durand • Steven Spielberg • Don Murphy • Jack Rapke • John Gatins • Steve Starkey • Jeremy Leven • Dan Gilroy • Olga Fonda • James Rebhorn • Karl Yune • Susan Montford • Rick Benatar • Mary McLaglen • Les Bohem • Dakota Goyo

Hugh Jackman stars as Charlie Kenton, a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the boxing ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max (Dakota Goyo) to build and train a championship contender. As the stakes in the brutal, no-holds-barred arena are raised, Charlie and Max, against all odds, get one last shot at a comeback.

With Ryan Gosling • George Clooney • Paul Giamatti • Evan Rachel Wood • Max Minghella • Marisa Tomei • Philip Seymour Hoffman • Beau Willimon • Grant Heslov

A young communications director works for a fast-rising presidential candidate. During the course of the campaign, the idealistic young man falls prey to the backstabbing and other dirty trickery of seasoned rival politicos.

With Martin Sheen • Emilio Estevez • James Nesbitt • Deborah Kara Unger

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his "California bubble life" behind.

With Jackie Chan • Joan Chen

An epic war film that details the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the violent rebellion that brought it down. With China split into warring factions and the starving citizens beginning to revolt, the ruling Qings are building a powerful army to quash any rebellion. But revolutionary leader Huang Xing (Chan) decides he must act before the Qing army becomes too powerful and leads an increasingly desperate series of violent uprisings against the power Qings.

With Stephen Rea • Mateo Gil • Eduardo Noriega • Sam Shepard

An old American named cowboy in Bolivia who dreams of returning to the US. crosses paths with a young Spanish mining engineer accused of robbing a mine, and the two slowly strike up a friendship.