Drama Movies 2011 List

With Aaron Kwok • Christina Yao

China, 1899. In a land of exquisite beauty and timeless tradition a young man known as ‘Third Master’ is the heir to a banking fortune he cares little about. However, after his brother’s wife is kidnapped he reluctantly submits to the pressure of his title and his father, Lord Kang. Lord Kang is determined to prepare his son for financial leadership by molding Third Master into his own image. But the strong-willed businessman’s methods do not sit well with Third Master, who sees the salvation of his business in following the righteous path of his ancestors. Third Master and Lord Kang’s tense relationship is further complicated by the son’s feelings for his beautiful young stepmother -- his first and only love -- stolen from him by his own father.

With Ewan McGregor • Christopher Plummer • Melanie Laurent • Lars Knudsen • Goran Visnjic • Mike Mills • Leslie Urdang • Miranda De Pencier • Dean Vanech

Beginners explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Mélanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life.

With Maria Bello • Michael Sheen • Alan Tudyk • Michael Armbruster • Shawn Ku • Richard Gabai • Mark Moran

When an unhappily married couple learns their teenage son is the shooter in a college campus massacre, they struggle to find refuge from both the media and their mutual grief.

With Dermot Mulroney • James Brolin • Kathy Bates • Kellan Lutz • Mandy Moore • Jane Seymour • Jessica Szohr • Anouska Chydzik Bryson • Nathalie Marciano • Michelle Chydzik • Caprice Crane

The story centers on a newlywed marriage counselor (Mandy Moore) who is thrown for a loop when she learns that her parents, whose marriage she's always idealized, are headed for divorce. She sets out on a disastrous path to save their marriage at the expense of her own, manipulating loved ones to achieve her objectives. Kellan Lutz will play her husband; James Brolin and Jane Seymour will play the parents.

With Ben Stiller • Michael Sheen • Paddy Considine • Richard Ayoade • Andy Stebbing • Noah Taylor • Sally Hawkins • Mary Louise Burke • Mark Herbert • Mary Burke • Craig Roberts

A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

With Jean-Luc Godard

As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations and pure cinematographic beauty.

With Jacob Matschenz • Dennis Gansel • Jennifer Ulrich • Frederick Lau • Max Riemelt • Jurgen Vogel • Christiane Paul

Germany today. During project week, high school teacher Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel) comes up with an experiment in order to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. A role-playing game with tragic results begins. Within a few days, what began with harmless notions like discipline and community builds into a real movement: The Wave. By the third day, the students start ostracizing and threatening others. When the conflict finally erupts into violence at an intramural water polo game, the teacher decides to break off the experiment. But it's too late.

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 Patsha Bay • Manie Malone • Hoji Fortuna

Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline.

With Elise Schaap • Karina Smulders • Anna Drijver • Rutger Hauer • Ben Sombogaart • Waldemar Torenstra

Three young women – Ada (Karina Smulders), Esther (Anna Drijver), and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) – emigrate from post-WWII Holland to New Zealand for what they hope will be a better life. They are all awaited by their fiancés, who have already settled in Christchurch. On the plane trip overseas – dubbed the 'Bride Flight' – the three become fast friends and meet a dashing young man, Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), who will come to play a large role in each of their lives.

With Erik Feig • Demian Bichir • Jose Julian • Eric Eason • Chris Weitz • Jami Gertz • Christian McLaughlin • Paul Witt

Carlos Galindo (Demián Bichir), a simple, decent, 40-year-old Mexican man, doesn't ask much from life - just to keep tending the yards of L.A.'s wealthy and to give his estranged son Luis (Jose Julian) a better life than he had. But when a business opportunity that would have allowed him to take control of his destiny is stolen from under his nose, his life is thrown into chaos.

With Michael Rowe • Gustavo Sanchez Parra • Monica del Carmen • Marco Zapata

Laura is 25 years old. She’s a journalist, she’s single and lives in a small apartment in Mexico City. After a series of short-lived affairs, Laura meets Arturo. After the first time they make love, she is left deeply unsettled. They embark on an intense and passionate sexual relationship, in which pleasure, pain and love merge. As days go by which Laura conscientiously crosses out in a calendar, her secret past resurfaces, pushing Arturo to the limit.

With David Guy Levy • Lili Bordan • Jonathan Beckerman • Ivan Kamaras

David Guy (David Guy Levy) and Enci (Lili Bordán) play a couple who meet in a bookstore, where he catches her in the midst of shoplifting, and she sees him in the midst of furtively filming her with his flip camera. Through the course of that day and evening, they start a tentative relationship, with his omnipresent camera serving as both bridge and barrier to their connection. Things are further complicated with the inclusion of Enci's boyfriend Boris (Iván Kamarás), and David's brutally honest friend Jonathan (Jonathan Beckerman, playing himself, and unaware until the end of the film that it was fictional).