Drama Movies 2014 List

With Hugh Laurie • Andrew Adamson • Robin Scholes • Leslie Urdang • Dean Vanech

Set in the Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville during an ongoing war between soldiers and rebels over copper mining, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel "Great Expectations," which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.

With Felicity Jones • Harry Lloyd • Eddie Redmayne • Tim Bevan • David Thewlis • Lesley Manville • Maxine Peake • Emily Watson • James Marsh • Eric Fellner • Lisa Bruce • Anthony McCarten

Follows Eddie Redmayne as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, world-famous as the author of A Brief History of Time, opposite Felicity Jones. The movie explores the excitement of the 1960s for Stephen as he studies at Cambridge University. At the dawn of a brilliant life’s work, he falls passionately in love with arts student Jane Wilde. Their relationship leads him through personal and scientific challenges and breakthroughs, and as his world opens up he opens up the entire world to new ways of seeing.

With Jason Clarke • Brit Marling • Diane Kruger • Terrence Malick • Nicolas Gonda • Jake DeVito • Wes Bentley • Charley Beil • A.J. Edwards • Joseph Krigsfeld • Jason Krigsfeld • Suzanne Deal Booth • Braydon Denney • Cameron Mitchell Williams

Abraham Lincoln's character is shaped by the hardships and tragedy of his youth, as well as the two women who guided him on the path to becoming one of the most influential Presidents in United States history

With Christian Schwochow • Jordis Triebel • Tristan Gobel

East Germany. Summer, late 70’s. Three years after her boyfriend Wassilij’s apparent death, Nelly Senff decides to escape from behind the Berlin wall with her son Alexej, leaving her traumatic memories and past behind. Pretending to marry a West German, she crosses the border to start a new life in the West. But soon her past starts to haunt her as the Allied Secret Service begin to question Wassilij’s mysterious disappearance. Is he still alive? Was he a spy? Plagued by her past and fraught with paranoia, Nelly is forced to choose between discovering the truth about her former lover and her hopes for a better tomorrow.

With Channing Tatum • Mark Ruffalo • Sienna Miller • Steve Carell • E. Max Frye • Anthony Michael Hall • Tara Subkoff • Bennett Miller • Vanessa Redgrave • Dan Futterman • Jon Kilik • Brett Rice

Tells the story of Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Tatum), who sees a way out from the shadow of his more celebrated wrestling brother Dave (Ruffalo) and a life of poverty when he is summoned by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont (Carell) to move onto his estate and train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Desperate to gain the respect of his disapproving mother, du Pont begins "coaching" a world-class athletic team and, in the process, lures Mark into dangerous habits, breaks his confidence and drives him into a self-destructive spiral.

With Golshifteh Farahani • Shohreh Aghdashloo • Scott Rudin • Gael García Bernal • Gigi Pritzker • Arian Moayed • Jon Stewart • Dimitri Leonidas • Haluk Bilginer • Andrew Gower • Nasser Faris

Reporter Maziar Bahari is accused of being a spy and imprisoned by the Iranian government shortly after a "Daily Show" correspondent interviews him in Iran in 2009. He spends the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knows only by his smell: Rosewater. Bahari later reveals he was not imprisoned because of the TV show interview, but because his captors wanted an excuse to lock him up.

With Danny Glover • Minnie Driver • Gugu Mbatha-Raw • Nate Parker • Tucker Tooley • Ryan Kavanaugh • Aisha Hinds • Gina Prince-Bythewood • Matt Alvarez

Beyond the Lights is the story of Noni Jean, the music world’s latest superstar. But not all is what it seems, and the pressures cause Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who’s been assigned to her detail. Drawn to each other, Noni and Kaz fall fast and hard, despite the protests of those around them who urge them to put their career ambitions ahead of their romance. But it is ultimately Kaz's love that gives Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.

With Katie Holmes • James Badge Dale • Karen Leigh Hopkins • Eric Brenner • Callan Mulvey • Rob Carliner

Katie Holmes plays a sweet and proper elementary school teacher whose perfect manners and pretty floral dresses hide a dark secret: when she's not teaching at the local elementary school or tending to her garden, she's moonlighting as a gun-toting vigilante.

With Meryl Streep • Tommy Lee Jones • Hilary Swank • James Spader • John Lithgow • Miranda Otto • Grace Gummer • Tim Blake Nelson • Michael Fitzgerald • David Dencik

A pioneer woman and a claim-jumping rascal of a man usher three insane women on an odyssey from Nebraska to Iowa, braving the elements along the way.

With Ryan Eggold • Brett Dalton • Beck Bennett • Chris Lowell • Will Brill • Erin Darke

Mourning the sudden death of his parents, Daniel invites his childhood friends up to their lake house in an attempt to relive the glory days of their youth -- whether they like it or not. Things take a turn for the worse when it becomes clear that none of his friends share his nostalgia for the good old days -- and his ex-girlfriend shows up with a new fiancé. But as the night progresses, secrets are confessed, romances are rekindled, and a particularly epic game of Whiskey Slaps is played.

With Keira Knightley • Benedict Cumberbatch • Charles Dance • Matthew Goode • Morten Tyldum • Mark Strong • Teddy Schwarzman • Graham Moore • Allen Leech • Nora Grossman • Ido Ostrowsky • Tuppence Middleton • Tom Goodman-Hill

A dramatic portrayal of the life and work of one of Britain’s most extraordinary unsung heroes, Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch).

The pioneer of modern-day computing, Turing is credited with cracking the German Enigma code and the film is a nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British Establishment, but his work and legacy live on.

Keira Knightley also stars as Turing's close friend and fellow code-breaker Joan Clarke.

With Viggo Mortensen • Ghita Nørby • Esteban Bigliardi • Andy Kleinman • Viilbjørk Malling Agger • Fabian Casas • Alonso Casas • Lisandro Alonso • Adrián Fondari • Brian Patterso

Set in Denmark and Argentina, a man and his daughter journey to a desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.