Drama Movies 2015 List

With Roy Andersson

Two traveling salesmen peddling novelty items wander through a series of darkly comic vignettes on their way to a shop called Party.

With James Franco • Robert Duvall • Josh Hartnett • Luciana Duvall

Texas Ranger Samantha Payne (Luciana Duvall) reopens a 15-year-old Missing Persons case, uncovering clues linking a local boy’s death to wealthy family man, Scott Briggs (Robert Duvall).

The Texas Ranger will stop at nothing to discover the truth even if it means risking her own life. With the unexpected return of his estranged son Ben (James Franco), Briggs must find a way to either silence the law for good, or come to terms with the relationship between Ben and the boy that he tried to silence all those years ago.

With Elizabeth Banks • Bill Pohlad • Paul Dano • Paul Giamatti • Dee Wallace • John Cusack • Jake Abel • Kenny Wormald • Oren Moverman • Jim Lefkowitz • John Wells

Brian Wilson, the leader of the Beach Boys, writes more than 15 Top 40 hit singles including the groundbreaking 1966 "Pet Sounds" album before suffering a nervous breakdown during the making of its follow-up album "Smile." He struggles with mental illness, but Brian manages to persevere as an artist with the love and support of his wife Melinda.

With Mia Wasikowska • Paul Giamatti • Ezra Miller • Felipe Marino • Sophie Barthes • Joe Neurauter • Rose Barreneche • Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Set in Normandy, France, Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert's classic story of Emma Bovary (Mia Wasikowska), a young beauty who impulsively marries small-town doctor, Charles Bovary (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), to leave her father's pig farm far behind. But after being introduced to the glamorous world of high society, she soon becomes bored with her stodgy husband and mundane life, and seeks prestige and excitement outside the bonds of marriage.

With Jon Bernthal • Molly Shannon • Nick Offerman • Thomas Mann • Matt Bennett • Olivia Cooke • Dan Fogelman • Alfonso Gomez-Rejon • Jesse Andrews

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is the story of Greg (Thomas Mann), a high school senior who is trying to blend in anonymously, avoiding deeper relationships as a survival strategy for navigating the social minefield that is teenage life. He even describes his constant companion Earl (RJ Cyler), with whom he makes short film parodies of classic movies, as more of a 'co-worker’ than a best friend. But when Greg’s mom (Connie Britton) insists he spend time with Rachel (Olivia Cooke) – a girl in his class who has just been diagnosed with cancer - he slowly discovers how worthwhile the true bonds of friendship can be.

With Elijah Wood • Shirley Henderson • Celyn Jones • Kelly Reilly • Steven Mackintosh • Andy Goddard

Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet—tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss—who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the Fifties and challenged Brinnin’s hero worship of his work. In the face of the Welsh poet’s wilder excesses in the Big Apple—angel, beast and madman—John has no choice but to hijack Dylan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights that follow will change his life forever. Part literary biopic and—shot in cut-glass black-and-white—part love-letter to the American B-movies of the Forties and Fifties, Andy Goddard’s debut feature is both a character-driven chamber piece and a cautionary tale about the flytrap of meeting your heroes.

With Forest Whitaker • Zoe Kravitz • Tony Revolori • Kiersey Clemons • Kimberly Elise • Rick Famuyiwa • Blake Anderson • Keith Stanfield

In Dope, Malcolm (Shameik Moore) is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

With J.J. Abrams • Mark Ruffalo • Zoe Saldana • Wallace Wolodarsky • Maya Forbes • Megan Ellison • Keir Dullea

While most fathers spend their days at work, CAM STUART (Mark Ruffalo) is more likely to be found mushroom-hunting, cooking elaborate meals, or working on one of his many half-completed projects. His family's wealth keeps his family just barely afloat, while Cam struggles to live with manic depression. When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife MAGGIE (Zoe Saldana) and their two young daughters, AMELIA and FAITH, are forced to leave their house in the country and move into a cramped apartment in Cambridge, where Maggie tries to find a decent job, with no luck.

Broke, stressed, and overwhelmed, Maggie applies to business school and is accepted to Columbia University's MBA program. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited girls are not interested in making things easy for him.

With Maggie away in New York, Cam quickly realizes that he's in over his head. Over the course of the next 18 months, as Maggie rushes to complete her degree, he learns, through trial and a lot of error, how to take care of his precocious daughters as well as himself. After years of struggling to find his place in the world, Cam may finally have found where he fits in.

With Al Pacino • Danny McBride • Holly Hunter • Chris Messina • Jody Hill • David Gordon Green • Molly Conners • Christopher Woodrow • Maria Cestone • Harmony Korine • Derrick Tseng • Lisa Muskat • Hoyt David Morgan • Paul Logan • Melissa Coolidge • Sarah E. Johnson • Todd Labarowski • Brad Coolidge • Amanda Bowers

A.J. Manglehorn, an aging, ordinary guy in a small town nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s an ex-con who, 40 years ago, gave up the woman of his dreams for a big “job”. He now obsesses daily over the choices he made. After a dramatic effort to start over, Manglehorn faces a terrifying moment and is unmasked as a guy with a very, very dark past.

With Mia Hansen-Løve • Felix de Givry

A 20-year journey through the electronic dance music scene following a DJ whose love for the turntables stay strong even after the craze has ended.

With Elijah Wood • Shirley Henderson • Celyn Jones • Kelly Reilly • Steven Mackintosh • Andy Goddard

Based on true events, Elijah Wood stars as John Malcolm Brinnin, the New York academic who brought Dylan Thomas to America. Actor/co-writer Celyn Jones plays the volatile celebrity poet—tormented by anonymity, alcohol and the abyss—who scandalized the Manhattan literati of the Fifties and challenged Brinnin’s hero worship of his work. In the face of the Welsh poet’s wilder excesses in the Big Apple—angel, beast and madman—John has no choice but to hijack Dylan to a private retreat to get him ready for America. The days and nights that follow will change his life forever. Part literary biopic and—shot in cut-glass black-and-white—part love-letter to the American B-movies of the Forties and Fifties, Andy Goddard’s debut feature is both a character-driven chamber piece and a cautionary tale about the flytrap of meeting your heroes.

With Kristen Stewart • Mia Wasikowska • Juliette Binoche • Tom Sturridge • Daniel Brühl • Olivier Assayas

Follows an actress (JoAnn) who becomes the obsession of the actress played by Binoche after JoAnn takes on a role that made the older woman famous when she was young.

With Billy Crudup • Kelly Lynch • Corey Stoll • Elizabeth Rodriguez • Noah Buschel

After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon (Corey Stoll) bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restauranteur (Billy Crudup). But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his ambitions.

With Kate Winslet • Stanley Tucci • Alan Rickman • Matthias Schoenaerts • Adrian Scarborough • Helen McCrory • Jennifer Ehle • Danny Webb • Allison Deegan • Steven Waddington

A romantic drama following Sabine (Academy Award winner Kate Winslet), a strong-willed and talented landscape designer who is chosen to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV’s new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court’s renowned landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts).

With Samuel L. Jackson • Jim Broadbent • Ray Stevenson • Victor Garber • Felicity Huffman • Jalmari Helander • Ted Levine • Will Clarke • Jaymes Butler

In the rugged countryside of Finland, a young thirteen-year-old (Onni Tommila) embarks on a traditional quest to prove himself by spending 24 hours alone in the wild, armed with only a bow and arrow. After witnessing a spectacular crash, he discovers the escape pod from Air Force One, containing the President of the United States (Samuel L. Jackson). When they realize a group of kidnappers is hot on their trail with the intention of taking the president, this unlikely duo must escape their hunters as they search for the American Special Forces team sent out to find them.