Drama Movies 2016 List

With Gabrielle Union • Armie Hammer • Jackie Earle Haley • Penelope Ann Miller • Nate Parker • Dwight Henry • Aunjanue Ellis • Kevin Turen • Aaron L. Gilbert • Jason Michael Berman • Aja Naomi King • Preston L. Holmes • Esther Scott • Roger Guenveur Smith

Set against the antebellum South, The Birth of a Nation follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities - against himself and his fellow slaves - Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

With Steve Bowen • Rob Riggle • Lauren Graham • Isabela Moner • James Patterson • Efren Ramirez • Chris Bowman • Griffin Gluck • Hubbel Palmer • Michael Flynn • Thomas Barbusca • Steve Carr • Leopoldo Gout • Robert Kessel • Susan Cartsonis • Jeff Skoll • Andrew Daly • Adam Pally

Rafe has an epic imagination...and a slight problem with authority. Both collide when he transfers to an oppressive, rule-crazy middle school. Drowning in do's and don'ts, Rafe and his scheming best friend Leo hatch a plan to break every rule in the school's Code of Conduct. It's Ferris Bueller meets Home Alone as their battle with Principal Dwight explodes into chaos both real and imagined. But Dwight displays his own fiendish creativity, striking back at the rulebreakers. Meanwhile, Rafe struggles to hide his misbehavior from Jeanne, the straight-A, overachieving girl of his dreams, and at home, his mother's boyfriend -- a moochy, jack-of-no-trades named Bear -- threatens to become his stepfather.

With Brittany Snow • Maria Bello • J.K. Simmons • Paul Wesley • Kumail Nanjiani • Kevin Pollak • Johnny Simmons • Jane Lynch • Beck Bennett • Joe Nussbaum • Broderick Johnson • Andrew Kosove • Jesse Israel • Heidi Jo Markel • Paul Kaplan • Mark Torgove • Steven Wegner • Raphael Kryszek • Gary A. Rosen

Dr. Pete Newmans (Johnny Simmons) is a successful sex therapist whose practice is devoted to helping people re-channel their sexual impulses. When his doctors discover a pituitary tumor that has delayed his onset of puberty for 15 years, Pete undergoes what would normally be years of puberty in a matter of weeks. Mood swings, voice changes, acne and, of course, near uncontrollable erections greet Pete as he tries to navigate life as both a horny 15 year-old kid and a 30 year-old desperate to be a complete man and get the girl of his dreams.

With Sarah Paulson • Mark Duplass • Alex Lehmann

Follows two former high school sweethearts. They return to their tiny California hometown and meet by chance, reflecting on their shared past through the lens of their differently dissatisfied presents.

With Glenn Close • Octavia Spencer • Danny Glover • Kathy Bates • Julia Stiles • William Teitler • Sophie Nelisse • Stephen Herek • David Paterson

A feisty foster kid’s outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an entertaining film for the entire family. Gilly Hopkins (Sophie Nélisse) has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Mamie Trotter’s (Kathy Bates) endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly’s face it threatens to ruin the only chance she’s ever had to be part of a real family.

With Richard Kind • Evan Jonigkeit • Stephen Spinella • David Zayas • Devin Ratray • Jeremy Profe • Walter Vincent • Adrienne C. Moore

The unheard true story of the moments after John Lennon was shot as seen through the eyes of those who lived it. Alan Weiss, an ambitious young news producer, finds himself in a position to break the biggest story of the year following a violent motorcycle accident. The emergency department at Roosevelt Hospital discovers a John Doe shooting victim is the world’s biggest rock star and struggles to keep the news quiet while working to save his life.

With Jonathan Rhys Meyers • Tom Hughes • Daniel Huttlestone • Dougray Scott • Derrick Borte • Natasha McElhone

When fifteen-year-old Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) hears the music of The Clash for the first time, it’s a revelation, opening up a new world of social consciousness and anti-establishment defiance beyond anything he’s known in his dead-end London suburb. Drawn into the heart of the city’s burgeoning punk scene, he forges two relationships that will change his life, falling in love with rebellious cool girl Vivian (Nell Williams) and finding an unexpected connection with none other than The Clash’s electrifying frontman, Joe Strummer (Jonathan Rhys Meyers).

With Ty Hickson • Joel Potrykus • Amari Cheatom

Young outcast Sean has isolated himself in a trailer in the woods, setting out on alchemic pursuits, with his cat Kaspar as his sole companion. Filled with disdain for authority, he’s fled the daily grind and holed up in the wilderness, escaping a society that has no place for him. But when he turns from chemistry to black magic to crack nature’s secret, things go awry and he awakens something far more sinister and dangerous.

With Ben Affleck • Jon Bernthal • Anna Kendrick • Cynthia Addai-Robinson • John Lithgow • Gavin O'Connor • J.K. Simmons • Bill Dubuque • Jeffrey Tambor

Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is a math savant with more affinity for numbers than people. Behind the cover of a small-town CPA office, he works as a freelance accountant for some of the world’s most dangerous criminal organizations. With the Treasury Department’s Crime Enforcement Division, run by Ray King (J.K. Simmons), starting to close in, Christian takes on a legitimate client: a state-of-the-art robotics company where an accounting clerk (Anna Kendrick) has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it is the body count that starts to rise.

With Jeffrey Dean Morgan • Gael García Bernal • Alfonso Cuarón • Jonas Cuaron • Alondra Hidalgo

What begins as a hopeful journey to seek a better life becomes a harrowing and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they continuously discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.

With Michael C. Hall • Tracy Letts • Antonio Campos • Timothy Simons • J. Smith-Cameron • Maria Dizzia • Craig Shilowich

Based on true events, Christine is about an ambitious 29-year-old news reporter (Rebecca Hall), in Sarasota, FL, circa 1974. Relentlessly motivated to succeed, she knows she has talent, but being a driven career woman in the 1970s comes with its own challenges, especially when competition for a promotion, unrequited love for a coworker (Michael C. Hall) and a tumultuous home life lead to a dissolution of self. With ratings in the cellar, the station manager issues a mandate to deliver juicier and more exploitative stories, a story firmly at odds with Christine’s serious brand of issue-based journalism. To accomplish her goals, she must overcome her self-doubt and give the people what they want.

With Ben Smallbone • David Koechner • Joel Smallbone • Jim Parrack • Chris Dowling • Tyler Poelle • Bianca Santos

Desperately in need of money in hopes of regaining custody of his daughter, James (Joel Smallbone) embarks on a cross-country delivery for cash—no questions asked. But when he discovers what he is delivering is actually who, the questions in his mind begin haunting him mercilessly. James becomes an unlikely hero and must fight to save the innocence and lives of the two young women. One of which he finds himself falling in love with.

With Kristen Stewart • Laura Dern • Michelle Williams • Kelly Reichardt • Lily Gladstone

A look at four women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer (Dern) who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother (Williams) whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student (Stewart) who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand (radiant newcomer Lily Gladstone). As their stories intersect in subtle but powerful ways, a portrait emerges of flawed, but strong-willed individuals in the process of defining themselves.

With Judy Greer • Chris Messina • Fred Armisen • Selma Blair • Billie Joe Armstrong • Kevin Corrigan • John Doman • Lee Kirk • Brian Baumgartner • Madisyn Shipman • Mia Dillon

Perry (Armstrong), a former punk rocker, is ten years into his band’s “indefinite hiatus” and is struggling with his adjustment to the real world, which includes working in his family’s hardware store. When Perry’s hotshot attorney wife (Selma Blair) and precocious young daughter forget his 40th birthday, his brother (Chris Messina) takes pity and gives him the money to throw a huge rockstar blowout in a fancy New York hotel. At the party, Perry’s punk past clashes hilariously with his grown-up reality as he encounters crazy former bandmates, including best pal Gary (Fred Armisen) and an old-flame-turned-manager (Judy Greer), who offers him a chance to revive his stalled career, all in one outrageous day!

With Janelle Monae • Ashton Sanders • Barry Jenkins • Trevante Rhodes • Alex R. Hibbert • Jaden Piner • Naomie Harris • Jharrel Jerome • Andre Holland • Mahershala Ali

During the war on drugs era in Miami, Chiron battles a deteriorating home life and has a dawning sexuality.

With Dakota Fanning • Ewan McGregor • David Strathairn • Jennifer Connelly • Uzo Aduba • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Rupert Evans • Molly Parker • John Romano • Valorie Curry • Peter Riegert

Ewan McGregor stars as Seymour "Swede" Levov, a once legendary high school athlete who is now a successful businessman married to Dawn, a former beauty queen. But turmoil brews beneath the polished veneer of Swede's life. When his beloved teenage daughter, Merry, disappears after being accused of committing a violent act, Swede dedicates himself to finding her and reuniting his family. What he discovers shakes him to the core, forcing him to look beneath the surface and confront the chaos that is shaping the world around him.

With James Franco • Christian Slater • Alicia Silverstone • Justin Kelly • Molly Ringwald • Keegan Allen • Garret Clayton

When a lonely suburban man turned gay porn producer discovers a hot, lucrative new star, he finds himself the target of rival pornographers who will stop at nothing to steal his money maker. Based on the novel "Cobra Killer".

With Masey McLain • Korie Robertson • Jaci Velasquez • Brian Baugh • Ben Davies • Jennifer O'Neill • Sadie Robertson

The inspiring true story of Rachel Joy Scott at Columbine High School. Rachel was the first of 13 people—twelve students and one teacher—killed at Columbine on April 20, 1999, and was singled out because of her Christian faith.

With Nicholas Galitzine • Christian O'Connell • James Tarpey • Luke Perry • Ian Virgo • Lisa Dillon • Verity Pinter • Sarah Find • Simon Lowe • Michael Müller • John Williams (XXIX)

The tale of a teenage loner (Nicholas Galitzine) who discovers that his unruly neighbor (Luke Perry) is really a disgraced rock god who “died” eight years prior, owing a fortune in unpaid taxes. The boy agrees not to reveal the musician's secret on the condition that he teaches him how to become a Rock Legend.

With Dakota Fanning • Ewan McGregor • David Strathairn • Jennifer Connelly • Uzo Aduba • Tom Rosenberg • Gary Lucchesi • Rupert Evans • Molly Parker • John Romano • Valorie Curry • Peter Riegert

Ewan McGregor stars as Seymour "Swede" Levov, a once legendary high school athlete who is now a successful businessman married to Dawn, a former beauty queen. But turmoil brews beneath the polished veneer of Swede's life. When his beloved teenage daughter, Merry, disappears after being accused of committing a violent act, Swede dedicates himself to finding her and reuniting his family. What he discovers shakes him to the core, forcing him to look beneath the surface and confront the chaos that is shaping the world around him.