Drama Movies 2013 List

With Norman Reedus • Martha Higareda • John Buffalo Mailer • Michelle Danner • Garrett Backstrom

Set in the not so distant future in Any Town, USA, sixteen-year-old Herman Howards (Garrett Backstrom) makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty-nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, journalist Lax Morales (Norman Reedus). "I want to tell my story on your show." Lax, haunted by his own fateful past and the loss of his love Isa Luz (Martha Higareda), now sits face to face with Herman. As he helps Herman to explore and understand his demons, Lax must finally face his own.

With Danny Trejo • Saoirse Ronan • James Gandolfini • Wendy Finerman • Alexis Bledel • Geoffrey Fletcher

Stars Saoirse Ronan and Alexis Bledel as two young, pop culture-obsessed assassins in New York City who accept what they think will be a quick and easy job until an unexpected target, played by James Gandolfini, throws their plan into chaos.

With Joel Edgerton • Teresa Palmer • Kieran Darcy-Smith • Felicity Price • Antony Starr • Nicholas Cassim

Four friends indulge in a carefree Cambodian holiday, but their sun-soaked retreat quickly takes a horrific turn when one of the travelers disappears. As the search ensues, the others return home, racked with guilt and struggling to return to their daily lives. Does one of them hold the answer to the fate of their lost companion? Tightly-held secrets from their life-altering trip are brought to light, revealing clues to the whereabouts of their missing friend.

With Martina Gedeck • Ulrike Beimpold • Wolfgang M. Bauer • Julian Polsler

Martina Gedeck plays an unnamed woman who inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the beautiful Austrian mountainside where she is vacationing. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the laws of nature. As she grapples with her mysterious circumstances, she begins an inward journey of spiritual growth and transcendence. Based on Marlen Haushofer’s eponymous classic novel, The Wall is both a riveting tale of survival and a gorgeous meditation that raises profound questions about humanity and our relationship to the natural world.

With Tatanka Means • Judy Blume • Cynthia Stevenson • Russell Means • Lawrence Blume • Elise Eberle • Teo Olivares • Amy Jo Johnson • Lucien Dale • Forrest Fyre

After the senseless murder of her father, a 16 year-old girl struggles to accept the loss. At the invitation of an aunt and uncle, she and her mother and little brother travel to New Mexico in hopes that a change of location will help. But for the girl, it’s only made things more confusing, leaving her feeling isolated.

With David Harbour • Taye Diggs • Julia Stiles • Mara New • Annika Pampel • Melissa George • Dan Mirvish • Joe Hortua • Julia Cho

In this darkly comedic drama, two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen. Grace and Carlo are a newly married New York couple who visit their old friends Sharyl and Joel in their huge Midwestern home. Despite their wealth, the hosts are in a bitterly destructive marriage. A few years later, the couples reunite in New York, only to find tables turned.

With Gemma Arterton • Vanessa Redgrave • Terence Stamp • Christopher Eccleston • Anne Reid • Taru Devani • Paul Andrew Williams

A London-set comedy-drama about a grumpy pensioner who joins a local choir.

With James Marsden • Sarah Bolger • Jeremy Sisto • Claire Danes • Jon Tenney • Peter Fonda • Thomas Mann • Alanis Morissette • Anika Noni Rose • Virginia Spragg • Max Mayer

A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.

With Ziad Doueiri • Ali Suliman • John Wells • Evgenia Dodena • Reymond Amsalem • Dvir Benedek • Uri Gavriel • Joelle Touma

Set in modern day Tel Aviv, an Arab surgeon learns a devastating secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

With Ryan Doucette • Peter Fonda • Brian Downey • Angus MacFadyen • Billy Campbell • Ronald Maxwell • Augustus Prew • Francois Arnaud • Lucy Boynton • Casey Brown • Hugh Thompson

Copperhead is the story of Abner Beech, a stubborn and righteous farmer of Upstate New York, who defies his neighbors and his government in the bloody and contentious autumn of 1862.Far from the Virginia battlefields whose names etch our history, the war of Copperhead visits the devastation and unimaginable loss of a civil war upon a family and a community whose strength and very existence are tested by fire, rope, knife, and betrayal. This is the Civil War come home.With Copperhead, director Ron Maxwell, who with Gettysburg and Gods and Generals established himself as our foremost cinematic interpreter of the American Civil War, takes on the War from a stunning and unexpected and richly, unforgettably humanist angle.

With Gemma Arterton • Caleb Landry Jones • Saoirse Ronan • Neil Jordan • Sam Riley • Moira Buffini • Jonny Lee Miller • Stephen Woolley • Sam Englebardt • Elizabeth Karlsen • Alan Moloney • William Johnson

Mother and daughter vampires arrive in a small British town revealing their secret. A teenager dying of leukemia struggles with his mortality, causing the teen vampire to struggle with her own immortality.

With Adam Brody • Kristen Bell • Neil LaBute • Zoe Kazan • Mia Maestro • Jennifer Morrison • Emily Watson • Patty West • Chris Schwartz • Daisy von Scherler Mayer • Andrew Carlberg

​Based on his play by the same name, Neil LaBute's script follows a successful writer (Adam Brody) who, on the eve of his wedding, travels across the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for past relationship transgressions. Crisscrossing from Seattle to Boston, he reunites with high school sweetheart Sam (Jennifer Morrison), sexually free-spirited Tyler (Mia Maestro), married college professor Lindsay (Emily Watson), his best friend’s little sister Reggie (Zoe Kazan), and “the one that got away" Bobbi (Kristen Bell). Daisy von Scherler Mayer (PARTY GIRL) directs this journey of a modern-day Candide stumbling through a landscape familiar to most men—messy breakups.

With Brittany Snow • Thora Birch • Eddie Kaye Thomas • Christine Lahti • Ash Christian • Michael Urie

The story weaves together the lives of brothers Charlie, Adrian and Michael as they unlearn everything their psychoanalyst parents have taught them. While Michael's cynical wife Vivian discovers she is pregnant, the family is also changing. Charlie's would be boyfriend George is in a polyamorous relationship with fitness fanatic Robin and Adrian has developed an unrelenting sex addiction. Meddling parents Felicia and Percy must decide whether to reignite the spark in their relationship or start all over again.

With Demetrius Grosse • Robert Longstreet • Chad Hartigan • Paul Eenhoorn • Richmond Arquette • Sam Buchanan

Martin Bonner has just moved to Nevada from the East Coast, leaving behind his two adult children and a life he spent more than two decades building. He's there working a new job as the volunteer coordinator for a non-profit organization that helps prisoners make the transition from incarceration to freedom. It’s Martin’s first job in two years and he’s recently declared bankruptcy.

At the same time, Travis Holloway, a prisoner in the program, is being released after serving twelve years. Sent back into the world with nothing, Travis also finds life in Reno difficult to adjust to, despite the help from his program sponsor, Steve Helms.

The stories of Martin and Travis slowly converge, as the two men meet and find that they have much in common, not the least of which is an unspoken need for encouragement and support. Their unlikely friendship blossoms but is put to the test when Travis betrays Martin's trust in order to reunite with his estranged daughter.