Drama Movies 2016 List

With Mel Gibson • Vince Vaughn • Sam Worthington • Andrew Garfield • Randall Wallace • Luke Bracey • Teresa Palmer • Hugo Weaving • Tyler Thompson • Richard Roxburgh • Bill Mechanic • Christopher Woodrow • Rachel Griffiths • Brian Oliver • David Greathouse • David Permut • Robert Schenkkan • William Johnson • Lauren Selig • Michael Bassick • Matt Nable • Elexa Ruth

The extraordinary true story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss [Andrew Garfield] who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing a gun. Believing that the War was just but killing was nevertheless wrong, he was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon. As an army medic Doss single-handedly evacuated the wounded near enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. He was the first conscientious objector to ever win the Congressional Medal of Honor.

With Kim Coates • Trace Adkins • Michelle Harrison • Judd Nelson • Dan Benamor • Matt Williams • Garry Chalk • Helena Marie • Terry Miles

After retiring from his life as an outlaw, ranch ownder Nathaniel Reed (Trace Adkins) quietly leads an honest existence with his devoted wife, Laura Lee. But his gun-slinging past suddenly comes back to haunt him when he learns that the man he once maimed during a stagecoach robbery is now a U.S. Marshal (Kim Coates) who will stop at nothing to find vengeance. After a violent shootout brings tragic consequences, Nathaniel returns to his old ways and becomes Texas Jack: the most wanted outlaw in the West. Judd Nelson also stars in this action-packed quest for redemption filled with galloping getaways, a beautiful bounty hunter and the possibility of a second chance.

With Colin Firth • Joel Edgerton • Ruth Negga • Nick Kroll • Michael Shannon • Marc Turtletaub • Jeff Nichols • Peter Saraf • Sarah Green • Bill Camp • Ged Doherty

Follows an interracial married couple jailed for their union in 1958 Virginia. The pair fought back against the laws that made their marriage punishable, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case that eventually reversed all restrictions on marriage based on race.

With Mrinmayee Godbole • Kranti Kanadé • Vinay Sharma • Saurabh Saraswat • Abhay Mahajan • Isha Keskar • Dharmakirti Sumant

Follows a young dramatist who rebels against his fascist tutor to form his troop of misfits - aiming to win a prestigious theatre competition and trying to find the hardest thing of all: his voice.

With Shawn Levy • Jeremy Renner • Denis Villeneuve • Amy Adams • Michael Stuhlbarg • Forest Whitaker • Mark O'Brien • Tzi Ma • Eric Heisserer

When mysterious spacecrafts touch down across the globe, an elite team - lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) - is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers – and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

With Jacob Tremblay • Oliver Platt • Naomi Watts • Charlie Heaton • Christina Hodson • Tim Post • Farren Blackburn • David Cubitt

A heart-pounding thriller starring Naomi Watts as a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

With Vin Diesel • Kristen Stewart • Garrett Hedlund • Chris Tucker • Marc Platt • Ben Platt • Joe Alwyn • Ang Lee • Simon Cornwell • Beau Knapp • Brian Bell • Simon Beaufoy • Rhodri Thomas • Deirdre Lovejoy • Ben Waisbren • Stephen Cornwell • Guo Guangchang

The film is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened to the squad – contrasting the realities of the war with America’s perceptions.

With Colin Firth • Joel Edgerton • Ruth Negga • Nick Kroll • Michael Shannon • Marc Turtletaub • Jeff Nichols • Peter Saraf • Sarah Green • Bill Camp • Ged Doherty

Follows an interracial married couple jailed for their union in 1958 Virginia. The pair fought back against the laws that made their marriage punishable, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case that eventually reversed all restrictions on marriage based on race.

With Nicolas Cage • Thomas Jane • Tom Sizemore • Brian Presley • Mario Van Peebles • Matt Lanter • Cam Cannon • Richard Rionda DelCastro

Throughout WWII, the USS INDIANAPOLIS was known as one of the fastest ships in the entire US Navy. Under the command of CAPTAIN MCVAY (Nicolas Cage), its crew fought bravely in every major US campaign in the Pacific. As President Truman negotiates Germany’s surrender, he gives McVay a new mission. The US Government has developed a secret weapon, which McVay and his crew are to transport to Guam.

The mission goes off without a hitch, and McVay is ordered to take the crew to an island in the Pacific where the men are to report for training. But along the way, disaster strikes. A Japanese submarine under the leadership of COMMANDER HASHIMOTO surprises the Indianapolis and launches several torpedoes into the great ship.

In only twelve minutes, the ship goes down. Of the 1,200 men onboard, only 900 survive the sinking. They wait in the water, believing that their rescue is imminent. When day breaks, the weather turns unbearably hot. Thirst and hunger set in. And the attacks begin.

Hundreds of sharks surround the men and attack without mercy or provocation. After several days in the water, the men start to lose hope. Overwhelmed with thirst, many begin to hallucinate. As the days mount up, and more and more men die, the survivors find a new determination to survive.

With Miles Teller • Martin Scorsese • Ciaran Hinds • Aaron Eckhart • Amanda Clayton • Katey Sagal • Emma Koskoff • Ben Younger • Bruce Cohen • Tom DeNucci

Miles Teller stars as Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Pazienza, a local Providence boxer who shot to stardom after winning 2 world title fights. After a near-fatal car accident leaves Vinny with a severed spine, doctors tell him he may never walk again. With the help of renowned trainer Kevin Rooney (Aaron Eckhart), Vinny becomes a legend when he not only walks again, but miraculously returns to the ring to reclaim his title belt only a year after the accident.

With Casey Affleck • Michelle Williams • Gretchen Mol • Gigi Pritzker • Tate Donovan • Kyle Chandler • Kenneth Lonergan • Kara Hayward

A Boston-living ne’er-do-well plumber is forced to return home to the titular town after he learns his brother passed away. There, he finds himself thrust into the care of the man's 16-year old son but finds himself crumbling due to a secret tragedy in his past.

With John Travolta • Sharon Stone • Ryan Robbins • Kate Bosworth • Devon Sawa • Julie Benz • Gil Bellows • David Hackl • Marvin Peart • Primo Brown • Peter I. Horton

Focuses on Beau (John Travolta), his beloved niece Bailey (Kate Bosworth) and the hardworking men who risk their lives to work "on the line" and keep the electric grid running. These unsung heroes brave raging storms and dangerously dizzying heights in their dedication to keeping the populace safe. Toiling hundreds of feet in the air on wires carrying as much as 500,000 volts of electricity, tragedy is often inches away. Haunted by the electrocution death of his brother, Beau is devoted to Bailey and determined to see her go off to college and away from the life of linemen. Bailey has other plans, which include the strapping second-generation lineman Duncan (Devon Sawa), whom Beau despises. A deadly tempest is brewing and headed straight to their Texas town. Beau, Duncan and a legion of linemen are thrust into the eye of the storm and must face down impending disaster to keep their community connected.

With Luke Treadaway • Anthony Head • Roger Spottiswoode • Joanne Froggatt • Ruta Gedmintas • Tim John • Maria Nation

The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

With Barbara-O • Tony King • Trula Hoosier • Julie Dash • Alva Rogers • Bahni Turpin • Cheryl Lynn Bruce • Cora Lee Day

At the dawn of the 20th century, a multigenerational family in the Gullah community in the Sea Islands off of South Carolina -- former West African slaves who adopted many of their ancestors' Yoruba traditions -- suffers a generational split. An older group of sisters return after migrating north to New York with intentions of bringing the rest of their family back across the water to the mainland with them. But, tensions arrive when the newly Americanized sisters view their homeland’s way of living as backwards, all while Nana, the family elder who embodies the traditions and folklore of their African roots, is struggling to keep the family together and to pass on the knowledge of their ancestors.

With Alec Baldwin • Lily Collins • Haley Bennett • Brett Ratner • Matthew Broderick • Martin Sheen • Annette Bening • Taissa Farmiga • Ed Harris • Chace Crawford • Christopher Woodrow • Molly Conners • Warren Beatty • Sarah E. Johnson • James Packer

It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her personal driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), only two weeks on the job and also from a religiously conservative background.

Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have an intimate relationship with a contract actress. But Hughes’ absurd behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.

With Nicole Kidman • Dev Patel • Pallavi Sharda • Rooney Mara • David Wenham • Nawazuddin Siddiqui • Luke Davies • Garth Davis • Menik Gooneratne • Eamon Farren

Follows a five-year-old Indian boy who, after a wrong train takes him thousands of miles away from home and family, survives many challenges before being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only the scantest of clues, he learns of a new technology called Google Earth, and sets out to find his lost family.

With Alanté Kavaïté • Max Brebant • Roxane Duran • Julie-Marie Parmentier • Lucile Hadzihalilovic

Ten-year-old Nicolas (Max Brebant) lives in a remote seaside village populated only by boys his age and adult women. But when he makes a disturbing discovery beneath the ocean waves—a dead boy with a red starfish on his stomach—Nicolas begins to question everything about his existence. What are the half-remembered images he recalls, as if from another life? If the woman he lives with is not his mother, then who is she? And what awaits the boys when they are all suddenly confined to a hospital?

With Jessica Chastain • Michael Stuhlbarg • Kris Thykier • John Lithgow • Gugu Mbatha-Raw • Alison Pill • Sam Waterston • Jake Lacy • Meghann Fahy • Mark Strong • Ben Browning • John Madden • Ariel Zeitoun • Jonathan Perera

In the high-stakes world of political power-brokers, Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain) is the most sought after and formidable lobbyist in D.C. Known equally for her cunning and her track record of success, she has always done whatever is required to win. But when she takes on the most powerful opponent of her career, she finds that winning may come at too high a price.