Drama Movies 2015 List

With Michael Caine • Harvey Keitel • Jane Fonda • Paolo Sorrentino • Paul Dano • Rachel Weisz

Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel as Mick, Youth explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena (Rachel Weisz), Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda (Academy Award winner Jane Fonda). And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy (Paul Dano), an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

With James Franco • Rachel McAdams • Peter Stormare • Robert Naylor • Wim Wenders • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Bjørn Olaf Johannessen

This drama charts the emotional odyssey of a struggling novelist (James Franco) whose life is turned upside down one wintry night when following a fatal car accident. The incident sets him on a soul-searching, decades-long journey towards redemption, a quest that profoundly touches the lives of both his girlfriend (Rachel McAdams) and the accident victim’s mother (Charlotte Gainsbourg).

With Martin Scorsese • Vincent Piazza • Patricia Arquette • Michael Imperioli • David Zayas • Nick Sandow

A story about Thomas (Piazza), a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas' failed attempts to fix the trail of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, a sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend Rose (Arquette) by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.

With Samuel L. Jackson • John Cusack • Wesley Snipes • Nick Cannon • Spike Lee • Angela Bassett • Jennifer Hudson • D.B. Sweeney • Teyonah Parris

Women abstain from sex to persuade their significant others to end gang violence in Chicago.

With Jennifer Ehle • Peter Firth • Bharat Nalluri • Kit Harington • Sam Vincenti • Jonathan Brackley

When a terrorist escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London.

With Dominic Cooper • James Corden • Maggie Smith • Roger Allam • Jim Broadbent • Alan Bennett • Alex Jennings • Nicholas Hytner

Alan Bennett's story is based on the true story of Miss Shepherd (played by Maggie Smith), a woman of uncertain origins who "temporarily" parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. What begins as a begrudged favor becomes a relationship that will change both their lives.

With Justin Kurzel • Michael Fassbender • Marion Cotillard • Todd Louiso • Jeffrey Levy-Hinte • Mary Jane Skalski • Angus Finney

The story revolves around Macbeth and Banquo, generals under the command of Duncan, the King of Scotland.

With Robert Pattinson • Ben Kingsley • Dane DeHaan • Anton Corbijn • Luke Davies

Dennis Stock is a young photographer working for the Magnum agency receives an assignment that changes his life: shoot a free-spirited actor named James Dean. The gig becomes a personal journey for both as they travel from L.A. to New York to Indiana.

With Tom Holland • Chris Hemsworth • Cillian Murphy • Ron Howard • Ben Whishaw • Benjamin Walker • Brendan Gleeson • Charlotte Riley • Brian Grazer • Joe Roth • Palak Patel • Ed Zwick • Peter Morgan • Paula Weinstein • Marshall Herskovitz • Joseph Mawle • William Ward

In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. “In the Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.

With Ryan Gosling • Brad Pitt • Christian Bale • Steve Carell • Adam McKay • Melissa Leo • Marisa Tomei • Dede Gardner • Tracy Letts • Rafe Spall • John Magaro • Byron Mann • Charles Randolph

When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.

With Laszlo Nemes

Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination.

While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son.

As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

With Ryan Gosling • Brad Pitt • Christian Bale • Steve Carell • Adam McKay • Melissa Leo • Marisa Tomei • Dede Gardner • Tracy Letts • Rafe Spall • John Magaro • Byron Mann • Charles Randolph

When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.

With Tom Courtenay • Geraldine James • Charlotte Rampling • Andrew Haigh • Dolly Wells

In the five days leading up to Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary, the planning for the party is going well, but then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

With Robert De Niro • Bradley Cooper • Virginia Madsen • Jennifer Lawrence • Elisabeth Rohm • Dascha Polanco • Edgar Ramirez • John Fox • Isabella Rossellini • David O. Russell • Annie Mumolo • Jimmy Jean-Louis • Diane Ladd • John Davis • Ken Mok

Joy is the wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce. Allies become adversaries and adversaries become allies, both inside and outside the family, as Joy’s inner life and fierce imagination carry her through the storm she faces.

With Will Smith • Gugu Mbatha-Raw • Ridley Scott • Alec Baldwin • Eddie Marsan • Luke Wilson • Paul Reiser • Giannina Facio • Peter Landesman • David Morse • Albert Brooks • Stephen Moyer • Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje • Mike O'Malley • Bitsie Tulloch • Matthew Willig • Michael Schaefer

Will Smith stars in Concussion, a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

With Michael Mosley • Liz Hinlein • Sofia Vassilieva • Chad Michael Murray • Breanne Racano • Diane Marshall-Green • Harrison Thomas • Adrienne Harris

A homeless, charismatic drifter named P.K. becomes the subject of a documentary film being shot by a young woman named Sam. Sam is the daughter of a famous artist who has recently passed away and she is at loose ends until P.K. gives her renewed purpose. Their affair, however, threatens to tear apart the fabric of both of their lives.

With Duke Johnson • Jennifer Jason Leigh • David Thewlis • Tom Noonan • Charlie Kaufman

Michael Stone, husband, father and respected author of "How May I Help You Help Them?" is a man crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip to Cincinnati, where he's scheduled to speak at a convention of customer service professionals, he checks into the Fregoli Hotel. There, he is amazed to discover a possible escape from his desperation in the form of an unassuming Akron baked goods sales rep, Lisa, who may or may not be the love of his life.