Drama Movies 2013 List

With Gus Van Sant • Lindsay Lohan • Braxton Pope • Nolan Gerald Funk • Tenille Houston • Paul Schrader • Bret Easton Ellis • Lauren Schacher • James Deen • Amanda Brooks

Christian is a young LA trust-fund dude with casual rich-kid ties to moviemaking--he's financing a horror film simply to keep his dad off his back about doing something with his life. Christian has been dating Tara for about a year--she was an aspiring actress/model who settled down with Christian when the reality of the business became apparent to her. She's now just Christian's bored plaything. Christian's assistant Gina is producing the film for him and casting it with assistance from Tara. Gina is pushing Ryan, her boyfriend and struggling actor, for the lead in the horror movie Christian is producing. Unbeknownst to either Christian or Gina: Ryan and Tara were a couple three years ago. When Ryan came back into Tara's life during the auditions for the movie, they reignited their affair. But Christian, a dangerous control-freak, finds out about the affair and starts playing cruel mind games with both Tara and Ryan, which escalate into an act of bloody violence.

With Miles Teller • Shawn Levy • Brie Larson • Shailene Woodley • Bob Odenkirk • Mary Elizabeth Winstead • Scott Neustadter • Kyle Chandler • Jennifer Jason Leigh • Michael H. Weber • Lee Toland Krieger • Tom McNulty

Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) lives in the now. It’s a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he’s the life of the party, loves his job at a men’s clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he’s never far from his supersized, whisky-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky (Shailene Woodley) hovering over him. She’s different: the “nice girl” who reads science fiction and doesn’t have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.

With Sam Worthington • Jeremy Piven • Morgan O'Neill • Xavier Samuel • Ben Nott • Tim Duffy • Myles Pollard

After their mother escapes from Sydney to Margaret River in the 1970fs, the two Kelly brothers spend their youth searching for the perfect wave. Out of necessity the family launches a backyard surf business ] re]thinking board design, crafting homemade wetsuits and selling merchandise out of their van. Battling big waves, small town conservatism and criminals, the brothers give rise to a global brand.

With Tahar Rahim • Emilie Dequenne • Joachim Lafosse

Murielle and Mounir love each other passionately. Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget who provides him with a comfortable life. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the couple's dependence on the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds herself caught up in an unhealthy emotional climate that insidiously leads the family towards a tragic outcome.

With Matt Damon • Jodie Foster • Simon Kinberg • Diego Luna • Wagner Moura • William Fichtner • Neill Blomkamp • Sharlto Copley • Alice Braga • Bill Block • Carly Pope • Talisa Soto • Michael Shanks

In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn't stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max (Matt Damon) is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that if successful will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

With Amanda Seyfried • Adam Brody • Juno Temple • Sharon Stone • Bobby Cannavale • Robert Patrick • Debi Mazar • Sarah Jessica Parker • Wes Bentley • Peter Sarsgaard • Hank Azaria • Eric Roberts • Cory Hardrict • Chris Noth • Chloë Sevigny • Rob Epstein • Jeffrey Friedman • Laura Rister • Jim Young • Heidi Jo Markel • Merritt Johnson

Story follows Linda Boreman’s rise to fame as iconic porn star Linda Lovelace, and her subsequent transformation into feminist, anti-pornography supporter Linda Marchiano.

With Sam Mendes • Paul Bettany • Mark Strong • Brian Cox • Pippa Harris • Nick Murphy • Bill Gallagher

When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns (Paul Bettany) and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert (Mark Strong) to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local sex offender and social outcast.

Forced to release Jason from police custody, the Fairburns take matters into their own hands in an attempt to coerce a confession. All the while, Joe and Chrissie’s father Lenny Fairburns (Brian Cox), the former chief of police, remains in the car, a quiet spectator to the fatal tragedy that begins to tear his sons apart. Unspoken secrets and unvoiced suspicions drive the ominous suspense as Joe spirals into an obsessive confrontation between crimes of the present and crimes of the past.

With Tim Blake Nelson • Ashley Hinshaw • Wayne Holloway • Jesse Williams • Ian Ziering • Noah Wyle • John Heard • Stephen Nemeth • Robin Broidy • Alan Paradise • Leslie Castanuela • Eddie Michaels • Betsy Stahl • Charlie Katz • Richard Blake

Southern California drag racers Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen combine with corporate giants to change the face of sports and ultimately become the most famous rivalry in racing history.

With Tahar Rahim • Emilie Dequenne • Joachim Lafosse

Murielle and Mounir love each other passionately. Ever since he was a boy, the young man has been living with Doctor Pinget who provides him with a comfortable life. When Mounir and Murielle decide to marry and have children, the couple's dependence on the doctor becomes excessive. Murielle finds herself caught up in an unhealthy emotional climate that insidiously leads the family towards a tragic outcome.

With Golshifteh Farahani • Michael Gentile • Atiq Rahimi • Jean-Claude Carriere • Hamid Djavadan • Massi Mrowat • Hassina Burgan

Golshifteh Farahani plays a soft-spoken woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country. As war rages around her, her husband lies in a coma and she is forced to send her two children to live with her aunt, she struggles to keep her husband alive. After falling into a relationship with a young soldier, she begins a secret dialogue with her ailing husband as a means of freeing herself.

With Ashton Kutcher • James Woods • Dermot Mulroney • Josh Gad • J.K. Simmons • Matthew Modine • Lukas Haas • Lesley Ann Warren • Ron Eldard • Mark Hulme • Russell Carpenter • John Getz • Joshua Michael Stern • Matt Whiteley • David Traub • Marcos Rodriguez

Titled jOBS, the biopic stars Ashton Kutcher as the iconic Silicon Valley visionary, and will shed new light on Steve Jobs' most defining and personal moments, motivations, and the people that drove him. The film covers Jobs from his early years as an impressionable youth and wayward hippie, through his initial successes and infamous ousting, to his storybook return and ultimate triumphs as a man who set out to change the world and did just that.

With Forest Whitaker • Alex Pettyfer • Cuba Gooding Jr. • James Marsden • Robin Williams • Alan Rickman • John Cusack • Terrence Howard • Minka Kelly • Colman Domingo • David Oyelowo • Liev Schreiber • Cassian Elwes • Pamela Oas Williams • Oprah Winfrey • Jesse Williams • Melissa Leo • Lenny Kravitz • Laura Ziskin • Danny Strong • Jane Fonda • Lee Daniels • Hilary Shor • Wil Haygood • Nelsan Ellis • Buddy Patrick

The Butler is inspired by Wil Haygood’s Washington Post article about an African-American man who served as a butler (Forest Whitaker) to eight Presidents in the White House for over thirty years. From this unique vantage point, The Butler traces the dramatic changes that swept American society, from the civil rights movement to Vietnam and beyond, and how those changes affected this man’s life and family.

With Amber Heard • Harrison Ford • Gary Oldman • Liam Hemsworth • Richard Dreyfuss • Lucas Till • Julian McMahon • Josh Holloway • Embeth Davidtz • Barry L. Levy • Robert Luketic • Alexandra Milchan

In this high-stakes thriller, Adam Cassidy (Liam Hemsworth) is a charming, blue collar guy trying to get ahead in his entry-level job at Wyatt Telecom. But after one costly and illegal mistake, Adam is confronted by ruthless CEO Nicholas Wyatt. He won’t turn Adam in under one condition: Adam must agree to infiltrate the competition as a corporate spy. Adam soon finds himself packaged for success, surrounded by glamorous boardrooms, expensive cars, and a life he only dreamed of. But behind the scenes, Wyatt is pulling the strings – stopping at nothing, even murder, to win a multi-billion dollar advantage. Realizing he’s nothing more than a pawn in his boss’s ruthless game, Adam’s only way out – is to go in deeper.

With Gilles Legrand • Niels Arestrup • Patrick Chesnais • Anne Marivin

Paul de Marseul (Niels Aretrup) is the passionate, demanding proprietor of his prestigious family wine estate. But he has no faith in his son, Martin (Loran Deutsch), who works at the vineyard. Paul dreams of a harder-working, successful son—a dream that one day seemingly materializes when he meets Philip (Nicolas Bridet), the son of his dying estate manager (Patrick Chesnais). Can Paul turn against his own blood and turn Philip into the rightful heir of his family estate?

With Paul Rudd • Emile Hirsch • David Gordon Green • Lynn Shelton • Lance LeGault

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.

With Casey Affleck • Rooney Mara • Cassian Elwes • David Lowery • Ben Foster • Nate Parker • Keith Carradine • Jay Van Hoy • Toby Halbrooks

Story follows an outlaw (Ben Affleck) who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife (Rooney Mara) and the daughter he has never met.

With Steve Brown • Jessie Deeter

Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenzy. Rooted in principles of self-expression, self-reliance and community effort, Burning Man has grown famous for stirring ordinary people to shed their nine-to-five existence and act on their dreams. Spark takes us behind the curtain with Burning Man organizers and participants, revealing a year of unprecedented challenges and growth. When ideals of a new world based on freedom and inclusion collide with realities of the "default world," we wonder which dreams can survive.

With Lena Headey • Lily Collins • CCH Pounder • Dylan Sellers • Robert Sheehan • Jonathan Rhys-Meyers • Michael Lynne • Robert Kulzer • Kevin Durand • Jared Harris • Jamie Campbell-Bower • Martin Moszkowicz • Kevin Zegers • Harald Zwart • Bob Shaye • Jessica Postigo • Marlene King • Robert Maillet • Godfrey Gao • Jemima West

Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray (Lily Collins), discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother (Lena Headey), Clary must join forces with a group of Shadowhunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called Downworld, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures.

With Ivan Kavalsky • Zachery Bryan • Melanie Griffith • Michael Cudlitz • Frank John Hughes • Suri Krishnamma • Eddie J. Fernandez • Suzanne Quast • Suzanne DeLaurentiis • Adam Targum

Centers on a disturbed and troubled man whose fascination with serial killers leads him and the audience on a horrific and menacing journey through his obsessive and twisted mind as he retraces their footsteps.

With Jim Caviezel • Bradley Whitford • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Jack McBrayer • Jaimie Alexander • Hal Holbrook • Annette Haywood-Carter

Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah’s markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

With Josh Duhamel • Michael Goetz • Dan Fogler • Kyle Killen • Kevin Goetz • Paul Jensen • Brion Hambel • Miracle Laurie • Peter Goetz

Mitchell (Josh Duhamel) and Carter (Dan Fogler), life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. Nobody can pick apart a man like his best friend, and as the relentless elements of the desert grind them down, they start to attack each other’s life decisions with unwavering brutality. As they question who they are and who they could have been, their agitation leads to physical confrontation and ultimately knife-wielding madness, and what begins as an inconvenience becomes a very real life or death struggle.

With Rami Malek • Brie Larson • Kaitlyn Dever • Destin Daniel Cretton • Stephanie Beatriz • Kevin Hernandez • John Gallagher Jr. • Alex Calloway

The story of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something social worker who has channeled the demons of her own troubled past into a passion for helping at-risk teens. Her newest ward, Jayden (Kaitlyn Dever), forces Grace to relive her own difficult upbringing just as she and her boyfriend Mason (John Gallagher Jr.) are on the cusp of making a decision that will change their lives.

With Anais Demoustier • Claude Miller

Audrey Tautou stars as a provincial housewife in 1920s France, whose suffocating marriage to a boorish landowner inspires her to a fatal bid for freedom.

With Eugenio Derbez • Loreto Peralta • Jessica Lindsey

Valentin (Eugenio Derbez) is Acapulco’s resident playboy–until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and takes off without a trace. Valentin leaves Mexico for Los Angeles to find the baby’s mother, but only ends up finding a new home for himself and his newfound daughter, Maggie (Loreto Peralta). An unlikely father figure, Valentin raises Maggie for six years, while also establishing himself as one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen to pay the bills, with Maggie acting as his on-set coach. As Valentin raises Maggie, she forces him to grow up too. But their unique and offbeat family is threatened when Maggie’s birth mom shows up out of the blue, and Valentin realizes he’s in danger of losing his daughter- and his best friend.

With Kristen Bell • Martin Starr • Mamie Gummer • Amy Madigan • David Lambert • Liz Garcia • Alex Shaffer • Sendhil Ramamurthy

Leigh (Kristen Bell) is almost 30, and living a seemingly perfect life in New York. But when her career and love life both come crashing down, she flees to her suburban hometown and regresses right back into teenage life and behavior. She moves into her old room with her parents, hangs around with friends who never left town, and reclaims her high school job as a condo-complex lifeguard. But as Leigh enjoys shirking adult life and responsibilities and enters into an illicit affair, she begins a chain reaction that affects those closest to her.

With Kathryn Hahn • Juno Temple • Josh Radnor • Jane Lynch • Jessica St. Clair • John Kapelos • Jill Soloway • Michaela Watkins • Josh Stamberg

Follows Rachel, a stay-at-home mom who becomes obsessed with saving a stripper named McKenna. Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable, yet tightly coiled, thirty-something steeped in the creative class of Los Angeles’s bohemian, affluent Silver Lake neighborhood. Everything looks just right—chic modernist home, successful husband, adorable child, hipster wardrobe. But when she visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and gets a private dance from McKenna, something cracks open. Rachel returns to the scene of the dance to get to know McKenna, and soon after, adopt her as a live-in nanny.

With Rachel McAdams • Karoline Herfurth • Paul Anderson • Brian De Palma

The offices of a prominent multinational corporation is the setting for this story of a power struggle between two contemporary women. Isabelle has unlimited admiration for her direct superior, Christine, a woman well-schooled in the ways of power. Christine enjoys holding sway over Isabelle, leads her one step at a time and ever more deeply into a game of seduction and manipulation, of dominance and servitude. The game is played for keeps, and there is no turning back.