Drama Movies 2015 List

With John Cusack • Ken Watanabe • Jeffrey Dean Morgan • Chow Yun-Fat • Arnie Messer • Hossein Amini • Gong Li • Rinko Kikuchi • Mikael Hafstrom

An American returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

With Steve Carell • Josh Charles • Ellen Page • Michael Shannon • Luke Grimes • Julianne Moore • Peter Sollett • Mary Birdsong • Michael Shamberg • Stacey Sher • Ron Nyswaner

The film chronicles the true story of the late Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), a New Jersey police detective whose world was shattered when she became terminally ill and government officials prevented her from assigning her pension benefits to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree (Ellen Page). Laurel's conservative detective partner Dane Wells was shocked when he learned of her sexual orientation, but he became the leader in the fight for the same-sex couple's rights.

With Vincent Cassel • Sarah Shaw • Anna McLeish • Ariel Kleiman • Jeremy Chabriel • Florence Mezzara

On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander (Jeremy Chabriel) lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori (Vincent Cassel). Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community - and how to kill. With the birth of a new baby brother weighing on his mind, Alexander begins to question Gregori’s overpowering influence on the children and their training to become assassins. Threatened by his increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son.

With Carlos Bolado • Damian Alcazar • Rafael Ferro • Carla Ortiz • Tomas Fonzi

After suffering a heart attack, retired General José Mendieta (Damián Alcázar) is haunted by his dark past as an officer in Operation Condor, the CIA-backed campaign of political repression in Latin America that was responsible for executions, torture, and imprisonments in the 1970’s. It is estimated that over 400,000 people were imprisoned and 30,000 forcibly disappeared as a result of these government actions.

In a letter to his son Pablo (Bernardo Peña), Mendieta confesses the role he played in the abduction, persecution, and execution of countless men and women during his posting to Chile. Journalist Marco (Carlotto Cotta) and his pregnant wife Luciá (Carla Ortiz) are among those who were arrested, along with their activist friend Antonio (Tomás Fonzi) and revolutionary Andrea (Ana Calentano). They suffer terribly under Mendieta and his cohort Sanera (Rafael Ferro), which leads to a cascade of betrayals, secrets, and stolen lives that spans generations.

With Kate Winslet • Seth Rogen • Michael Fassbender • Scott Rudin • Mark Gordon • Aaron Sorkin • Sarah Snook • Katherine Waterston • Danny Boyle • Adam Shapiro • Michael Stuhlbarg • Jeff Daniels • Guymon Casady

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

With Jay Ellis • John Swetnam • Sophie Aguiar • Marissa Heart

When Casey, a dancer who is discovered on YouTube, gets thrust into the modern world of internet celebrity and culture, she must find a way to balance her true identity with her online persona, or risk losing everything she cares about.

With Kurt Fuller • Taryn Manning • Madison Davenport • Rob Johnson • Valerie Weiss • Moira McMahon Leeper • Maddie Hasson

A teen (Madison Davenport) must decide whether to attend a faraway college or stay near home to care for her bipolar mother (Taryn Manning).

With Ben Schwartz • Ben Kingsley • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Robert Zemeckis • James Badge Dale • Steve Starkey • Charlotte Le Bon • Jack Rapke

Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan.

With Steve Carell • Josh Charles • Ellen Page • Michael Shannon • Luke Grimes • Julianne Moore • Peter Sollett • Mary Birdsong • Michael Shamberg • Stacey Sher • Ron Nyswaner

The film chronicles the true story of the late Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore), a New Jersey police detective whose world was shattered when she became terminally ill and government officials prevented her from assigning her pension benefits to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree (Ellen Page). Laurel's conservative detective partner Dane Wells was shocked when he learned of her sexual orientation, but he became the leader in the fight for the same-sex couple's rights.

With Cate Blanchett • Topher Grace • Dennis Quaid • Robert Redford • James Vanderbilt • John Benjamin Hickey • Brad Fischer • Bruce Greenwood • David Lyons • Mikkel Bondesen • William Sherak • Elisabeth Moss • Rachael Blake

A firestorm erupts in September of 2004 when Dan Rather reports that George W. Bush had received special treatment while serving in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War, a report that was based on documents of an unknown authenticity. Subsequently, story producer Mary Mapes is accused of lapses in judgment and is fired, while Rather's career and reputation are jeopardized.

With Jon Voight • Sean Astin • Jon Erwin • Sherri Shepherd • Quinton Peeples • Rhoda Griffis • C. Thomas Howell • Andrew Erwin • Brando Eaton • Richard Kohnke • Virginia Williams • Nic Bishop

In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.

With Winona Ryder • Jim Gaffigan • Kellan Lutz • Peter Sarsgaard • Edoardo Ballerini • Michael Almereyda

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) stands by him through it all.

With Cary Joji Fukunaga • Idris Elba • Abraham Attah

Follows a child soldier torn from his family and pressed into fighting a civil war in an African country.

With Brie Larson • Jacob Tremblay • William H. Macy • David Gross • Joan Allen • Megan Park • Ed Guiney • Lenny Abrahamson • Emma Donoghue

Told through the eyes of five-year-old-Jack (Jacob Tremblay), Room is a thrilling and emotional tale that celebrates the resilience and power of the human spirit. To Jack, Room is the world.... It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma (Brie Larson) eat and sleep and play and learn. But while it’s home to Jack, to Ma it’s a prison. Through her fierce love for her son, Ma has managed to create a childhood for him in their ten-by-ten-foot space. But as Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s own desperation – she knows that Room cannot contain either indefinitely.

With Bruce Willis • Kate Hudson • Zooey Deschanel • Bill Murray • Barry Levinson • Mitch Glazer • Danny R. McBride • Scott Caan • Steve Bing • Yousuf Azami • Jacob Pechenik

“Rock the Kasbah” is the story of Richie Lanz, a rock manager with a golden ear and a taste for talent, who has seen better times. When he takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan, she gets cold feet and leaves him penniless and without his passport in Kabul. While trying to find his way home, Richie befriends a band of misfits and discovers a young girl with an extraordinary voice. Against all odds, Richie will take his last shot at creating an unlikely superstar.

With Meryl Streep • Carey Mulligan • Ben Whishaw • Brendan Gleeson • Helena Bonham Carter • Geoff Bell • Romola Garai • Sarah Gavron • Abi Morgan • Anne-Marie Duff • Samuel West

Suffragette is a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life.

With Kimberly Much • Ross Partridge • Jennifer Lafleur • Kentucker Audley • Patrick Underwood • Joslyn Jensen

In the wake of his father’s death, Neil Mercer must travel back home to the Midwest for the first time in years to help sell his estranged parents’ cottage. When his brother must leave unexpectedly, Neil finds himself marooned in the house with his brother’s fiancé – a wickedly smart, fiercely independent woman whose impressive exterior masks the quietly despairing spirit hiding beneath.

With Josh Charles • Sarah Silverman • Adam Salky • Thomas Sadoski • Amy Koppelman • Mia Barron • Skylar Gaertner • Shayne Coleman

Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next activity. However, just beneath the façade lie depression and disillusionment that send her careening into a secret world of reckless compulsion. Only very real danger will force her to face the painful root of her destructiveness and its crumbling effect on those she loves.

With Kristen Wiig • Tunde Adebimpe • Sebastian Silva

Nasty Baby centers around a Brooklyn couple, Freddy (Sebastian Silva) and his boyfriend Mo (Tunde Adebimpe), who are trying to have a baby with the help of their best friend, Polly (Kristen Wiig). Freddy is an artist, and his latest work is all about babies – it’s clear he’s dying to be a father. Polly is a family practitioner who is more interested in having a baby than having a man. Mo is hesitant about the entire idea, especially when Polly isn’t having success with Freddyʼs sperm and the donor responsibility shifts to him. Set almost entirely in the multicultural vibrancy of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the trio navigates the idea of creating life, when they are confronted by unexpected harassment from particularly aggressive neighborhood man, nicknamed The Bishop (Reg E. Cathey). The Bishop is bothersome in small, yet persistent ways, with a hint of danger. As their clashes become increasingly aggressive, someone is bound to get hurt.

With Sandra Bullock • George Clooney • Billy Bob Thornton • Anthony Mackie • Peter Straughan • Zoe Kazan • David Gordon Green • Grant Heslov • Scoot McNairy • Ann Dowd

The original documentary was a behind-the-scenes look at the Bolivian presidential election of 2002, when candidate Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (aka Goni) hired James Carville's Washington-based political consulting firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner to help him win. Goni's poll numbers were dismal, with Bolivians accusing him of being too closely aligned with U.S. interests. Employing the same tactics they do in the U.S., Carville -- who himself flew in -- and his team used focus groups, sloganeering and smear tactics. Goni won by a narrow margin, but the work had only just begun for Carville's team. Bolivia descended into crisis under Goni's rule, and he was ultimately forced to resign.

With Vivica A. Fox • Arthur Muhammad • Charles S. Dutton • Pooch Hall • David Banner • Kelly Gray • Ty Walker

The true story of the powerhouse 1988 Carter High School Football Team from Dallas, Texas. Carter has to overcome tremendous difficulties to reach their ultimate goal of winning a state championship. As parents and community leaders come together to support the youth through their hardships, the team becomes the hero of the community.

With Alice Rohrwacher • Alba Rohrwacher

The drama centers on a family of beekeepers living in stark isolation in the Tuscan countryside. The dynamic of their overcrowded household is disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenagedboy taken in as a farmhand and a reality TV show (featuring a host played by Monica Bellucci) intent on showcasing the family. Both intrusions are of particular interest to the eldest daughter, Gelsomina (Maria Alexandra Lungu), who is struggling to find her footing in the world, and Rohrwacher conveys her adolescent sense of wonder and confusion with graceful naturalism.