Drama Movies 2016 List

With Dakota Johnson • Ralph Fiennes • Luca Guadagnino • Matthias Schoenaerts • Tilda Swinton • Aurore Clément • Michael Costigan • David Kajganich

In A Bigger Splash, the lives of a high profile couple, a famous rock star and a filmmaker (Matthias Schoenaerts and Tilda Swinton), vacationing and recovering on the idyllic sun-drenched and remote Italian island of Pantelleria are disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter (Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson) - creating a whirlwind of jealousy, passion and ultimate danger for everyone involved.

With Devon Bostick • Cary Elwes • Rob Reiner • Nick Robinson • Common • Nick Reiner • Simon Goldberg • Ricardo Chavira • Stephanie Rennie • Morgan Saylor • Matt Elisofon • Susan Misner • Johnson Chan

Follows an aimless 18-year-old Charlie (Nick Robinson), who drifts in and out of rehab clinics for his drug addiction while his actor-turned-politician father (Cary Elwes) runs for governor of California. Charlie begins a relationship with fellow patient Eva (Morgan Saylor), and the two attempt the straight-and-narrow life.

With Hany Abu-Assad • Teya Hussein • Qais Atallah • Hiba Atallah • Abd-Elkarim Abu-Barakeh • Tawfeek Barhom • Dima Awawdeh • Sameh Zoabi

Gaza. Synonymous to so many with conflict, destruction and despair but to Mohammed Assaf, and his sister Nour, Gaza is their home and their playground. It’s where they, along with their best friends Ahmad and Omar, play music and football and dare to dream big. Their band might play on secondhand, beaten-up instruments, but their ambitions are sky-high. For Mohammed and Nour, nothing less than playing the world-famous Cairo Opera Hall will do. It might take them a lifetime to get there but, as Mohammed will find out, some dreams are worth living for.

With Colm Meaney • Vincent D'Onofrio • Rodrigo Santoro • Seu Jorge • Brian Grazer • Diego González Boneta • Paul Kemsley • Dany Wolf • Michael Zimbalist • Jeff Zimbalist • Ivan Orlic • Kevin de Paula

The film will tell Brazilian soccer Pele's life story, from humble beginnings through leading Brazil to its first ever world cup victory in 1958.

With James Franco • Miles Heizer • Ruby Modine • Thomas Mann • Teo Halm • Keith Stanfield • Sam Dillon • Bo Michell • Nina Ljeti • Vladimir de Fontenay

Based on James Franco’s “Palo Alto Stories” and “A California Childhood”, Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn’t know he exists, and a dysfunctional family life, he is struggling to find his place in the world. Memoria raises questions about the memories we choose to keep, the ones we try desperately to forget, and the ones we use as fuel to create our future.

With Louise Osmond

Set in a former mining village in Wales, DARK HORSE is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners - for whom he's become a source of inspiration and hope - he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.

With Rodrigo Plá • Jana Raluy • Hugo Albores • Sebastián Aguirre

In a desperate attempt to save her husband’s life by accessing the medical treatment that he needs to survive, Sonia embarks on a chase against her corrupt and negligent insurance company and its complicit representatives — leading her son and herself into a vertiginous spiral of violence.

With Jodie Foster • George Clooney • Julia Roberts • Giancarlo Esposito • Jack O'Connell • Emily Meade • Dominic West • Kerry Orent • Caitriona Balfe • Olivia Luccardi • Grant Heslov • Daniel Dubiecki • Jim Kouf • Ben Waisbren • Alan DiFiore • Tim Crane • Regina Sculley

A TV personality's insider trading tips have made him the money guru of Wall Street. When a viewer, who lost all of his family's money on a bad tip from Lee, decides to hold Lee hostage on air, ratings soar as the entire country tunes in to this media frenzy to find out just how much a man's life is worth.

With Colin Farrell • Olivia Colman • Léa Seydoux • John C. Reilly • Yorgos Lanthimos • Rachel Weisz • Ben Whishaw

A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.

With Dakota Johnson • Ralph Fiennes • Luca Guadagnino • Matthias Schoenaerts • Tilda Swinton • Aurore Clément • Michael Costigan • David Kajganich

In A Bigger Splash, the lives of a high profile couple, a famous rock star and a filmmaker (Matthias Schoenaerts and Tilda Swinton), vacationing and recovering on the idyllic sun-drenched and remote Italian island of Pantelleria are disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter (Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson) - creating a whirlwind of jealousy, passion and ultimate danger for everyone involved.

With Peter Mullan • Terence Davies • Agyness Deyn

Set in a rural community, Sunset Song is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land. The First World War reaches out from afar, bringing the modern world to bear on the community in the harshest possible way, yet in a final moment of grace, Chris endures, now a woman of remarkable strength who is able to draw from the ancient land in looking to the future.

With Ciaran Hinds • Ewan McGregor • Tye Sheridan • Ayelet Zurer • Rodrigo Garcia

Last Days in the Desert follows Jesus (Ewan McGregor) in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, he struggles with the Devil, also played by McGregor, over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test with distinctly human conflicts.

With Jacques Audiard • Vincent Rottiers • Jesuthasan Antonythasan • Kalieaswari Srinivasan • Claudine Vinasithamby • Marc Zinga

Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little girl – hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum in Europe. Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker of a run-down housing block in the suburbs. He works to build a new life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and his ‘daughter’, but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan is forced to reconnect with his warrior’s instincts to protect the people he hopes will become his true family.

With Adrien Brody • Jennifer Beals • Linda Lavin • Campbell Scott • Steven Berkoff • Yvonne Strahovski • Brian DeCubellis

Manhattan Night tells the story of Porter Wren (Adrien Brody), a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband to his wife (Jennifer Beals) and father. But when Caroline (Yvonne Strahovski), a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon (Campbell Scott), he can't resist. In this modern version of classic film noir, we follow Porter as he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail - one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

With Damian Lewis • John Sessions • Michael Wilson • Ross Anderson • Marc Samuelson • Andrea Riseborough • Barbara Broccoli • Kate Dickie • Corinna Villari-McFarlane • Steve Milne • Hani Farsi • Christian Eisenbeiss

Features an enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island who’s caught between her commanding minister husband and the vitality of a 17 year-old delinquent who is sent to live with them.

With Penelope Cruz • Luis Tosar • Julio Medem • Asier Etxeandia

Ma ma follows Magda (Penelope Cruz) as she experiences tragedies and miracles alike. Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo (Luis Tosar), a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.

With Penelope Cruz • Luis Tosar • Julio Medem • Asier Etxeandia

Ma ma follows Magda (Penelope Cruz) as she experiences tragedies and miracles alike. Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo (Luis Tosar), a devoted husband and father in the midst of unspeakable loss. Their chance encounter leads both down a path of strength, grace, love, and rebirth.