Drama Movies 2011 List

With Tom Hardy • Joel Edgerton • Frank Grillo • Nick Nolte • Jennifer Morrison • Gavin O'Connor • Greg O'Connor • Cliff Dorfman • A.M. Tambakis

An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Riordan returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family. Even though years have passed, recriminations and past betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.

But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.

With AnnaSophia Robb • Melissa Leo • Brad William Henke • Anthony Keyvan • Travis Fine

A flight attendant grounded in Texas with an unaccompanied Arab-American boy on the morning of September 11, 2001. They desperately head east when she discovers his father works at the World Trade Center.

With Amy Sedaris • Rooney Mara • Chris Kattan • Tom Everett Scott • Julie Snyder • Tatiana von Furstenberg • Francesca Gregorini

Set in a boarding school, four teenage girls navigate adolescence while the adults in their world, the parents and teachers, struggle with their own midlife hurdles.

With Jackie Chan • Benny Chan • Bingbing Fan • Andy Lau • Nicholas Tse

As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin Temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. General Hou (Andy Lau) has caused much of this mess with his violent and ruthless tactics that rarely discriminate between soldiers and civilians. When Hao is betrayed by fellow general Cao Man (Nicholas Tse), he is forced into hiding, and takes refuge with the monks at their hidden mountain temple. As the days pass, he finds himself more and more at ease as he learns the ways of peace, and begins to release his hatred through Martial Zen. But Cao is not far behind, and war soon reaches the temple, where the monks are ready to fight back- with their unstoppable Shaolin Kung Fu.

With Colin Firth • Orlando Bloom • Patricia Clarkson • Ellen Burstyn • Amber Tamblyn • Thom Mount • Horton Foote • John Doyle

Set in Durham, North Carolina, the story of a decaying small town and its desperate hope for renewal.

With Rip Torn • Michael Kelly • Craig Macneill • Alexei Kaleina • Jicky Schnee • Ana Asensio • Morgan Taddeo

A young couple moves into an old schoolhouse on a desolate stretch of farm country. Hoping for a new beginning, their lives are instead drawn toward dark and unforeseen ends.