Drama Movies 2016 List

With Joel Edgerton • Adam Driver • Kirsten Dunst • Michael Shannon • Jeff Nichols • Brian Kavanaugh-Jones • Sam Shepard • Sarah Green • Glen Basner • Christos V. Konstantakopoulos • Scott Haze • Jaeden Lieberher

In the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father (Michael Shannon), goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special powers.

What starts as a race from religious extremists and local law enforcement quickly escalates to a nationwide manhunt involving the highest levels of the Federal Government. Ultimately his father risks everything to protect Alton and help fulfill a destiny that could change the world forever, in this genre–defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human.

With Krisha Fairchild • Olivia Grace Applegate • Trey Edward Shults • Bryan Casserly • Alex Dobrenko

Krisha attends Thanksgiving with her family, after not seeing them for ten years. The past comes back to haunt and destroys the festivities.

With Clive Owen • Patton Oswalt • Maria Bello • Stephen Tobolowsky • Bob Nelson • Michael Eklund • Spencer Drever

Follows eight-year-old Anthony (Lieberher) and his estranged father (Owen) spending two days together for the first time in forever, as the boy’s mom (Bello) and new husband (Modine) head off to a religious retreat. Their mutual unease is exacerbated when the father’s truck breaks down, his landlord locks him out of his house, and the toolbox that provides his living gets stolen. As they search for the stolen tools with help from an odd neighbor (Oswalt), the father and son begin to establish a connection.

With Lucy Fry • Thomas Mann • Jessica Rothe • Ashley Rudden • Logan Huffman • Dylan Blue • Adam Folk • Carlo Sirtori • Bill Sage • Amy Hargreaves • Ryan Ward • Joseph Castelo • Sam Page • Joseph Mensch • Billy Raftery • Charlie Bunting • Eric Schultz

A working class prodigy (Thomas Mann) steps into the elite corridors of a prep school in his hometown and learns that the path into the world of “Preppies” is to supply them with cocaine. He uses his connections and fearlessness to impress his new friends, but finds that accessing the world of privilege comes at a steep cost.

With Kirin Kiki • Masatoshi Nagase • Naomi Kawase • Kyara Uchida • Miyoko Asada • Etsuko Ichihara

Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis—pastries filled with sweet red bean paste. When an old lady, Tokue, offers to help in the kitchen, he reluctantly accepts. But Tokue proves to have magic in her hands when it comes to making sweet bean paste. Thanks to her secret recipe, the little business soon flourishes. And with time, Sentaro and Tokue will open their hearts to reveal old wounds.

With Sebastian Stan • Thomas Middleditch • Mark Duplass • Haley Lu Richardson • Gary Cole • Jay Duplass • Stephanie Langhoff • Melissa Rauch • Bryan Buckley • Winston Rauch • Cecily Strong

Rauch plays a foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist who must fight for her local celebrity status when a young athlete’s star rises in town.

With Jesse Plemons • Lee Pace • Dustin Hoffman • Ben Foster • Guillaume Canet • Tim Bevan • Chris O'Dowd • Stephen Frears • Edward Hogg • Elaine Cassidy • Eric Fellner • Tracey Seaward • Laura Donnelly

The true story of the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most celebrated and controversial men in recent history: Lance Armstrong, the world-renowned Tour de France champion.

With Mathieu Amalric • Arnaud Desplechin

The story of Paul Dédalus, an anthropologist preparing to leave Tajikistan (played in his middle age by Matheiu Amalric). Reflecting on his life, he has a series of flashbacks starting from his childhood in Roubaix—his mother’s attacks of madness, his father’s alienating depression. He remembers a student trip to the USSR, where a clandestine mission led him to offer up his own identity for a young Russian, whom he considered a phantom twin for the remainder of his life. He remembers University life, and returning to his hometown to party with his sister and her best friend, his shifting circle of friends and their casual betrayals.

With Lanny Joon • Danny Cho • Sunn Wee • Peter Jae • Bobby Choy • Daniel Park

Based on the wildly successful web-series of the same name, Ktown Cowboys is a bro-mantic dramedy that follows a group of ball-busting, hard-partying friends wrestling with their evolution into adulthood. As their individual struggles come to light, the group of friends band together in Koreatown and through late nights at seedy after-hour soju bars, karaoke drinking girls and even a stint in jail, each emerges as a better version of himself.