Drama Movies 2013 List

With Hong-soo Park

After his father’s botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister’s life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South, he meets another girl named Hye-in, and rescues her when she comes under attack. South Korean Intelligence soon discover Myung-hoon’s activities and begin tracking him, all the while his own government sends a vicious assassin to eliminate him.

With Michelle Monaghan • Radha Mitchell • Mimi Kennedy • Jon Dore • Michael Weston • Jessie McCormack

After years of struggling to conceive with her husband, Lizzie (Radha Mitchell) has given up hope of having a baby on her own. But when her best friend Andie (Michelle Monaghan) finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand, an unexpected solution arises: Andie offers to have the baby and give it to Lizzie. The couple agrees to the plan, on one condition: Andie must move in with them for the duration of the pregnancy. But can the women's friendship survive until birth? Jessie McCormack's debut is a refreshingly candid comedy about planning ahead for life's unexpected detours.

With Penelope Cruz • Sergio Castellitto • Mira Furlan • Emile Hirsch • Jane Birkin • Saadet Aksoy • Branko Djuric

Based on the runaway European bestseller by Margaret Mazzantini, Twice Born begins as the Italian professor Gemma (Cruz) heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo with her discontented teenaged son Pietro. She longs to show him the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, Diego (Hirsch)—but she is about to discover a long-hidden secret, one that will reveal far more to their knotted past than even her haunted memories can disclose.

With Ulrich Seidl

Tells the story of overweight 13-year-old Melanie and her first love. While her mother travels to Kenya (Paradise: Love) and her aunt (Paradise: Faith) does missionary work, Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire, Melanie had imagined her paradise differently.

With Carey Mulligan • John Goodman • Garrett Hedlund • Oscar Isaac • Justin Timberlake • Adam Driver • Scott Rudin • Max Casella • Ethan Coen • F. Murray Abraham • Joel Coen • Robert Graf • Jeanine Serralles

Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York Winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles – some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he can find, Llewyn’s misadventures take him from the basket houses of the village to an empty Chicago club – on an odyssey to audition for music mogul Bud Grossman – and back again.

With Jackson Rathbone • Gillian Jacobs • Kevin Mann • Matt Perniciaro • Jocelin Donahue • Michael Kristoff

After a night of debauchery, a corporate attorney must choose between sticking with his corporate life or pursuing his love of singing.

With Cate Blanchett • Ian McKellen • Benedict Cumberbatch • Peter Jackson • Orlando Bloom • Elijah Wood • Martin Freeman • Evangeline Lilly • Lee Pace • Luke Evans • Andy Serkis • Guillermo del Toro • Stephen Fry • Philippa Boyens • Hugo Weaving • Richard Armitage • Graham McTavish • Adam Brown • James Nesbitt • Jed Brophy • Carolynne Cunningham • Aidan Turner • Rob Kazinsky • Mark Hadlow • Conan Stevens • Ken Stott • Barry Humphries • Zane Weiner • Fran Walsh • Phillippa Boyens • Ken Kamins • John Callen • Stephen Hunter • Peter Hambleton • Sylvester McCoy • Mikael Persbrandt • Ryan Gage • William Kircher • Bret McKenzie • Mike Mizrahi • Dean O'Gorman • Jeffrey Thomas

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.

With Bradley Cooper • Jennifer Lawrence • Christian Bale • Jeremy Renner • Amy Adams • Michael Peña • Louis C.K. • David O. Russell • Jack Huston • Richard Suckle • Elisabeth Rohm • Charles Roven • Eric Singer

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) who, along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

With Tom Hanks • Colin Farrell • Emma Thompson • Paul Giamatti • Bradley Whitford • Kathy Baker • John Lee Hancock • Ruth Wilson • Alison Owen • Jason Schwartzman • B.J. Novak • Philip Steuer • Kelly Marcel • Ian Collie • Rachel Griffiths • Andrew Mason • Paul Trijbits • Annie Buckley • Troy Lum

When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation.

For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.

It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

With Paul Walker • Genesis Rodriguez • Yohance Myles • Peter Safran • Kevin Frakes • Eric Heisserer • Dan Clifton • Kerry Cahill

Before sunrise on August 29, 2005, Nolan Hayes (Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife, Abigail (Rodriguez), who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan's life quickly spirals out of control when the birth goes tragically wrong and Hurricane Katrina ravages the hospital, forcing an evacuation. Nolan and his newborn baby are soon cut off from the world by power outages and rising flood waters. With his baby completely dependent on a ventilator Nolan faces one life-and-death decision after another, fighting to keep his daughter alive, as minute by agonizing minute passes...becoming unimaginable hours.

With Robert Jones • Alexandra Roach • Frances de la Tour • Kerry Fox • Aneurin Barnard • Iain Softley • Dixie Linder • Chris Gerolmo • Tuppence Middleton • Stanley Weber

A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.

With Alice Eve • Stanley Tucci • Neil LaBute

Some Velvet Morning centers on Fred (Stanley Tucci), who arrives on the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress, Velvet (Alice Eve), after four years apart, claiming to have left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts at rekindling their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession -- and a dark history between the ex-lovers comes into focus.

With Joaquin Phoenix • Amy Adams • Sam Jaeger • Rooney Mara • Samantha Morton • Charlie Kaufman • Spike Jonze • Portia Doubleday • Megan Ellison

Set in the Los Angeles of the slight future, Her follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet “Samantha,” a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other.

With Tom Hanks • Colin Farrell • Emma Thompson • Paul Giamatti • Bradley Whitford • Kathy Baker • John Lee Hancock • Ruth Wilson • Alison Owen • Jason Schwartzman • B.J. Novak • Philip Steuer • Kelly Marcel • Ian Collie • Rachel Griffiths • Andrew Mason • Paul Trijbits • Annie Buckley • Troy Lum

When Walt Disney’s daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, P.L. Travers’ “Mary Poppins,” he made them a promise—one that he didn’t realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney’s plans for the adaptation.

For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the prickly author doesn’t budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from his grasp.

It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt discovers the truth about the ghosts that haunt her, and together they set Mary Poppins free to ultimately make one of the most endearing films in cinematic history.

With Shaun Thomas • Sean Gilder • Clio Barnard • Conner Chapman • Lorraine Ashbourne • Ian Burfield

The film tells the story of two schoolmates in a struggling working-class community in Bradford, England: the scrappy, hyperactive Arbor (Conner Chapman) and the reserved, more mature Swifty (Shaun Thomas). To pick up some extra cash, Arbor and Swifty begin collecting scrap metal for Kitten (Sean Gilder), a shady local dealer with a penchant for racing horses. Arbor is eager to please, desiring the wealth that appears to come with Kitten's lifestyle. But it soon becomes evident that Swifty is the favored one, because of his talent with horses. As jealousy sets in, the fragile bond that holds Arbor to his closest mate begins to crumble away.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Matthew McConaughey • Jon Bernthal • Margot Robbie • Martin Scorsese • Jonah Hill • Jon Favreau • Emma Koskoff • Kenneth Choi • Ethan Suplee • Kyle Chandler • Irwin Winkler • Alexandra Milchan • Georgia Kacandes • Terry Winter • Riza Aziz • Joey McFarland • Jean Dujardin

Jordan Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker, served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration.

With Bradley Cooper • Jennifer Lawrence • Christian Bale • Jeremy Renner • Amy Adams • Michael Peña • Louis C.K. • David O. Russell • Jack Huston • Richard Suckle • Elisabeth Rohm • Charles Roven • Eric Singer

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale) who, along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

With Robert De Niro • Sylvester Stallone • Kevin Hart • Mark Steven Johnson • Kim Basinger • Peter Segal • Tim Kelleher • Alan Arkin • Billy Gerber • Doug Ellin

Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone star as old boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one final match. De Niro and Stallone play Billy “The Kid” McDonnen and Henry “Razor” Sharp, two local Pittsburgh fighters whose fierce rivalry put them in the national spotlight. Each had scored a victory against the other during their heyday, but in 1983, on the eve of their decisive third match, Razor suddenly announced his retirement, refusing to explain why but effectively delivering a knock-out punch to both their careers. Thirty years later, boxing promoter Dante Slate Jr., seeing big dollar signs, makes them an offer they can’t refuse: to re-enter the ring and settle the score once and for all. But they may not have to wait that long: on their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.

With Keanu Reeves • Hiroyuki Sanada • Ken Watanabe • Chris Morgan • Erwin Stoff • Walter Hamada • Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa • Rinko Kikuchi • Tadanobu Asano • Scott Stuber • Chris Fenton • Pam Abdy • Hossein Amini • Carl Erik Rinsch • Yorick van Wageningen • Togo Igawa • Ko Shibasaki • Jin Akanishi

After a treacherous warlord kills their master and banishes their kind, 47 leaderless samurai vow to seek vengeance and restore honor to their people. Driven from their homes and dispersed across the land, this band of Ronin must seek the help of Kai (Reeves)—a half-breed they once rejected—as they fight their way across a savage world of mythic beasts, shape-shifting witchcraft and wondrous terrors. As this exiled, enslaved outcast becomes their most deadly weapon, he will transform into the hero who inspires this band of outnumbered rebels to seize eternity.

With Kate Winslet • Josh Brolin • Tobey Maguire • Maika Monroe • James Van Der Beek • Jason Reitman • Clark Gregg • Helen Estabrook • Alexie Gilmore • Brooke Smith • Russell Smith • Lianne Halfon • Gattlin Griffith • Tom Lipinski • Lucas Hedges • Brighid Fleming • Micah Fowler

Follows a 13-year-old Henry Wheeler, who struggles to be the man of his house and care for his reclusive mother Adele while confronting all the pangs of adolescence. On a back-to-school shopping trip, Henry and his mother encounter Frank Chambers, a man both intimidating and clearly in need of help, who convinces them to take him into their home and later is revealed to be an escaped convict. The events of this long Labor Day weekend will shape them for the rest of their lives.

With Ralph Fiennes • Felicity Jones • Kristin Scott Thomas • Tom Hollander • Tom Burke • Michelle Fairley • Abi Morgan • John Kavanagh • Perdita Weeks

Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.

With George Clooney • Julia Roberts • Benedict Cumberbatch • Meryl Streep • Harvey Weinstein • Dermot Mulroney • Juliette Lewis • Abigail Breslin • Chris Cooper • Margo Martindale • Steve Traxler • Jeffrey Richards • Sam Shepard • Grant Heslov • John Wells • Tracy Letts • Jerry Frankel

Story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. Meryl Streep has been cast as pill-popping matriarch Violet Weston, and Julia Roberts will play her complicated adult daughter Barbara.

With Mark Wahlberg • Eric Bana • Taylor Kitsch • Ben Foster • Peter Berg • George Furla • Alexander Ludwig • Jerry Ferrara • Randall Emmett • Akiva Goldsman • Kerry Foster • Yousuf Azami • Emile Hirsch • Sara Aubrey • Norton Herrick • Stephen Levinson • Barry Spikings • Scott Elrod

Tells the story of four Navy SEALs on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative who are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.