Drama Movies 2015 List

With Carey Mulligan • Juno Temple • Michael Sheen • Tom Sturridge • Matthias Schoenaerts • Andrew Macdonald • Jessica Barden • Bradley Hall • Allon Reich • Thomas Vinterberg • David Nicholls • Hilton McRae

The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy (Tom Sturridge), a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood (Michael Sheen), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba’s choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

With Will Ferrell • James Marsden • Kristen Wiig • Adam McKay • Alan Tudyk • Linda Cardellini • Jennifer Jason Leigh • Wes Bentley • Joan Cusack • Tim Robbins • Jessica Elbaum • Shira Piven • Eliot Laurence

A woman with Borderline Personality Disorder wins the lottery, quits her meds and buys herself a talk show on an infomercial channel where she talks and creates segments exclusively about herself. Welcome To Me is a dark comedic look at our obsession with celebrity and narcissism.

With Danny Trejo • James Caan • Paul Campbell • Jacob Tierney • Sonja Bennett

When Ruth ruins a baby shower with her drunken, juvenile antics, her old high school cronies, who are all mothers now, promptly de-friend her. But when she is later mistakenly thought to be "with child," she is inexplicably welcomed back into the group. Ruth plans on coming clean, but when her dad has a heart attack and tells her that the only thing keeping him alive is the promise of grandkids, Ruth decides to continue to fake the pregnancy. Things get even more complicated when Ruth falls in love with her new boss, who seems to wants nothing more than to raise her unborn child as his own. Can she get out of this without losing her job, friends, respect of her family, and the new love of her life?

With Arnold Schwarzenegger • Timur Bekmambetov • Abigail Breslin • John Scott 3 • Joely Richardson • Laura Cayouette • Pierre-Ange Le Pogam • Matthew Baer • Henry Hobson • Trevor Kaufman

Maggie is a 16-year old girl from a town in middle America who becomes infected by a zombie. It will take six months for her to turn, and the film tracks the transformation as she stays with her family.

With Ruth Negga • Stephen Bradley • Brendan Coyle • Liam Cunningham • Mark Huberman • Sarah Greene • Deirdre O'Kane

They broke everything but her spirit. They took everything but her dream. Noble is the incredible true story of a fearless Irish heroine driven by her daring vision who escapes the slums of Ireland and risks everything on the streets of Vietnam.

With Maria Bello • Josh Duhamel • Lucas Till • Tom Everett Scott • Daniel Duran • Oscar Torres

Follows Alex, an Army veteran and counselor in a small town who takes a casual approach when treating Josh (Lucas Till). Alex slowly earns his patient’s trust and respect, but their camaraderie is challenged when Josh makes a shocking discovery.

With Laura Dern • Maria Bello • Josh Duhamel • Lucas Till • Jae Head • Tom Everett Scott • Daniel Duran • Katrina Norman

Josh Harvest, a hardened New York City teen from a broken home - and quietly one of the country's top dance club DJs and remixers - is sentenced to counseling for a minor drug infraction, along with an extended stay with his estranged father, who lives in a small town in North Dakota. He is slow to warm to his new environment, a town best-known for sending its young off to war, many of whom never return. But when Josh is asked to help out the last-place dance team as they vie for the state competition title, his rough exterior begins to soften. As his relationships emerge with both the team's captain, Mary, and his therapist, each of whom have lost someone special to war, it forces all three to begin to face and heal their pasts.

With Léa Seydoux • Gaspard Ulliel • Louis Garrel • Amira Casar • Jeremie Renier • Bertrand Bonello • Aymeline Valade • Micha Lescot

As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

With Dakota Fanning • Elizabeth Banks • Diane Lane • Frances McDormand • Common • Nate Parker • Anthony Bregman • Nicole Holofcener • Danielle Macdonald

Detective Nancy Porter (Elizabeth Banks) is still haunted by her failure to save the life of a missing child from the hands of two young girls. Eight years later, another child goes missing in the same town just days after Ronnie and Alice (Dakota Fanning and newcomer Danielle Macdonald), the two girls convicted of the former crime, were released from juvenile detention. Porter and her partner (Nate Parker) must race against the clock to prevent history from repeating itself. But as they begin to investigate the girls and their families, especially Alice's protective mother (Diane Lane), they unearth a web of secrets and deceptions that calls everything into question.

With Sam Elliott • Blythe Danner • Martin Starr • Brett Haley • Marc Basch • June Squibb • Rhea Perlman

After the death of her beloved dog, Carol (Blythe Danner) finds the everyday activities that have given her life structure – her regular bridge game, gardening, a glass of wine or two – have lost their luster. With the support of three loyal girlfriends (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, and Mary Kay Place), Carol decides to embrace the world, embarking on an unlikely friendship with her pool maintenance man (Martin Starr), pursuing a new love interest (Sam Elliott), and reconnecting with her daughter (Malin Akerman).

With Ethan Hawke • Zoe Kravitz • Kristen Rakes • Jake Abel • January Jones • Peter Coyote • Andrew Niccol • Bruce Greenwood • Alma Sisneros

In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves—and his relationship with his wife (Mad Men's January Jones)—begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their fight against insurgents.

With Ethan Hawke • Zoe Kravitz • Kristen Rakes • Jake Abel • January Jones • Peter Coyote • Andrew Niccol • Bruce Greenwood • Alma Sisneros

In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan (Ethan Hawke) yearns to get back into the cockpit of a real plane, but he now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned box in the Las Vegas desert. When he and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA, and the stakes are raised, Egan's nerves—and his relationship with his wife (Mad Men's January Jones)—begin to unravel. Revealing the psychological toll drone pilots endure as they are forced to witness the aftermath of their fight against insurgents.

With Cillian Murphy • Jennifer Connelly • Melanie Laurent • Claudia Llosa

As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart.

She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will grow into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of a double absence.

In the present, a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question, so that we may contemplate the possibility of living life to its fullest, despite the uncertainties littering our paths.

With Tal Granit • Sharon Maymon

Follows a group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home who decide to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of their assistance begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with a life and death dilemma.

With Sam Elliott • Blythe Danner • Martin Starr • Brett Haley • Marc Basch • June Squibb • Rhea Perlman

After the death of her beloved dog, Carol (Blythe Danner) finds the everyday activities that have given her life structure – her regular bridge game, gardening, a glass of wine or two – have lost their luster. With the support of three loyal girlfriends (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman, and Mary Kay Place), Carol decides to embrace the world, embarking on an unlikely friendship with her pool maintenance man (Martin Starr), pursuing a new love interest (Sam Elliott), and reconnecting with her daughter (Malin Akerman).

With Caleb Landry Jones • Ben Safdie • Joshua Safdie • Arielle Holmes

Harley loves Ilya. He gives her life purpose, sets her passion ablaze. So when he asks her to prove her love by slitting her wrists, she obliges with only mild hesitation, perhaps because of her other all-consuming love: heroin.

With Gemma Arterton • Jason Flemyng • Anne Fontaine • Pascal Bonitzer • Fabrice Luchini

Life begins to imitate art in uncanny ways when earthy British beauty Gemma (Gemma Arterton) and her furniture restorer husband Charles Bovery (Jason Flemyng) move to the very same Norman village where the novel was written. Local baker and Flaubert fan Martin Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) falls for the lovely and charming newcomer and sets out to be her mentor. It doesn't take long before his wild imagination leads him to draw parallels between the literary and real life woman, as he insinuates himself into her life. She soon finds herself at a crossroads that seems to be fulfilling Joubert's worst fears that her destiny is mirroring that of Flaubert’s doomed heroine.