Drama Movies 2016 List

With Dominic Monaghan • Jeremy Slater • Jennette McCurdy • Carles Torrens • Ksenia Solo • Nathan Parsons • Nick Phillips • Kelly Wagner • Da'Vone McDonald • John Ross Bowie

Sweet but lonely Seth (Dominic Monaghan) spends his days working in an animal shelter. In a hopeless daze, he has a chance encounter with beautiful young waitress Holly (Ksenia Solo) who awakens something within him. Obsessed, he tries everything to win her over. Time and again, she rejects him, leading him to steal her journal and make a plan: to kidnap Holly. After Seth takes Holly, she wakes up in a cage beneath the animal shelter, treated like the dogs living above her. As Seth's lies begin to catch up to him, Holly toys with his emotions and his certainty of the situation falls apart. A bloody psychological battle begins where the line between prey and predator, victim and criminal blurs, leaving a deadly trail along the way.

With Taylor Lautner • Constance Zimmer • Rajiv Shah • Kenny Johnson • Johanna Braddy • Nico Christou • Soham Mehta

When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.

With Meagan Good • Romeo Miller • Paige Hurd • Garcelle Beauvais • Raven-Symone • Marcus Lyle Brown • Blair Redford • Ryan Destiny • Ty Hodges • Tony Delerme • Savanna Smith • Clyde Jones • Ameer Baraka

Raised by a single mother in a dysfunctional home and bullied relentlessly at school, Grace (Ryan Destiny) seeks guidance from her best friend Andrea (Paige Hurd) and her older sister Share (Meagan Good) during her trying high-school life.

With Isabelle Huppert • Edith Scob • Mia Hansen-Løve • André Marcon • Roman Kolinka

Nathalie (Isabelle Huppert) is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie’s life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets out to define this new phase of her life and to rediscover herself.

With Emma Stone • Ryan Gosling • J.K. Simmons • Rosemarie DeWitt • Finn Wittrock • Damien Chazelle • Sonoya Mizuno • John Legend

Tells the story of Mia [Emma Stone], an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.

With Patrick Wilson • Michael Keaton • Jeremy Renner • Nick Offerman • John Lee Hancock • Laura Dern • John Carroll Lynch • Steve Coulter • B.J. Novak • Aaron Ryder • Karen Lunder • Robert Siegel • Kimberly Battista • Catherine Dyer • Linda Cardellini • Don Handfield • Mike Pniewski

Tells the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

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.

With Emma Stone • Ryan Gosling • J.K. Simmons • Rosemarie DeWitt • Finn Wittrock • Damien Chazelle • Sonoya Mizuno • John Legend

Tells the story of Mia [Emma Stone], an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.

With James Franco • Melissa Leo • Rachel Brosnahan • Ian Olds • Thomas Jay Ryan • Paul Felten • Dominic Rains • James Oliver Wheatley

An Afghan journalist is exiled from his war-torn country to a small bohemian community in Northern California. When he attempts to turn his menial job on the local police blotter into "Afghan-style" coverage of local crime, he gets drawn into the backwoods of this small town — a shadow Northern California where sex is casual, true friendship is hard to come by and an unfamiliar form of violence lurks all around.

With Luke Wilson • Katie Holmes • Judy Greer • Jane Rosenthal • Richard Kind • Mark Consuelos • Berry Welsh • Stefania Owen • Eve Lindley

A mother and her 13-year-old daughter, living on the edge of poverty, find an unlikely home amid the quirky residents of small town America.

With Natalie Portman • John Hurt • Darren Aronofsky • Beth Grant • Peter Sarsgaard • Max Casella • Greta Gerwig • Billy Crudup • Mickey Liddell • Scott Franklin • Noah Oppenheim • Ari Handel • Pablo Larrain • Caspar Phillipson • Sunnie Pelant

An intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband’s legacy and the world of "Camelot" that they created and loved so well.

With Shahab Hosseini • Mina Sadati • Asghar Farhadi • Taraneh Alidoosti • Babak Karimi • Farid Sajjadi Hosseini • Maral Bani Adam • Mehdi Kooshki • Emad Emami • Shirin Aghakashi • Mojtaba Pirzadeh • Sahra Asadollahe • Ehteram Borourmand • Sam Valipour

After their old flat becomes damaged, Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), a young couple living in Tehran, are forced to move into a new apartment. Eventually, an incident linked to the previous tenant of their new home dramatically changes the couple’s life.

With Will Smith • Edward Norton • Helen Mirren • Keira Knightley • Michael Peña • Allan Loeb • Peter Cron • Naomie Harris • David Frankel • Michael Sugar • Kevin Frakes • Michael Disco • Anthony Bregman • Bruce Berman • Bard Dorros • Toby Emmerich • Richard Brener • Michael Bederman

When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it’s not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

With Emma Stone • Ryan Gosling • J.K. Simmons • Rosemarie DeWitt • Finn Wittrock • Damien Chazelle • Sonoya Mizuno • John Legend

Tells the story of Mia [Emma Stone], an aspiring actress, and Sebastian [Ryan Gosling], a dedicated jazz musician, who are struggling to make ends meet in a city known for crushing hopes and breaking hearts. Set in modern day Los Angeles, this original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing your dreams.

With Ian McShane • William Green • Lynn Collins • John Leguizamo • Jim Belushi • Timothy Olyphant • Nils Lyew • Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego • Aaron Ginsburg

After a botched Mexican cartel deal in the back roads of a border town, the town’s new sheriff must team up with the retired lawman he replaced to investigate the source of the deal in order to stop a mysterious cartel butcher and his systematic brutalization of the town’s residents.

With Mercedes Morán • Pablo Larraín • Guillermo Calderon • Luis Gnecco

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has reached Chile. In congress, Senator Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betrayal and is swiftly impeached by President Videla. Police Prefect Óscar Peluchonneau is assigned to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to flee the country with his wife Delia del Carril, but they are forced into hiding. In the struggle with his nemesis Peluchonneau, Neruda sees an opportunity to reinvent himself. He plays with the Prefect, leaving clues designed to make their game of cat-and-mouse more dangerous, more intimate. In this story of persecution, Neruda recognizes his own heroic possibilities: a chance to become both a symbol for liberty and a literary legend.

With Michelle Monaghan • Mark Wahlberg • Kevin Bacon • John Goodman • J.K. Simmons • Michael Beach • Alex Wolff • Peter Berg • Matt Charman • Rachel Brosnahan • Vincent Curatola • Scott Stuber • Dylan Clark • Christopher O'Shea • Hutch Parker • Stephen Levinson • James Colby • Erica McDermott • Cliff Moylan • Themo Melikidze • Jimmy O. Yang.

In the aftermath of an unspeakable attack, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the bombers before they strike again. Weaving together the stories of Special Agent Richard DesLauriers (Kevin Bacon), Police Commissioner Ed Davis (John Goodman), Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese (J.K. Simmons) and nurse Carol Saunders (Michelle Monaghan) this visceral and unflinching chronicle captures the suspense of one of the most sophisticated manhunts in law enforcement history and celebrates the strength of the people of Boston.

With Michelle Jenner and Rossy de Palma • Pedro Almodovar • Inma Cuesta • Daniel Grao • Darío Grandinetti

Julieta lives in Madrid with her daughter Antía. They both suffer in silence over the loss of Xoan, Antía’s father and Julieta’s husband. But at times grief doesn’t bring people closer, it drives them apart.

With Liam Neeson • Andrew Garfield • Martin Scorsese • Ciaran Hinds • Adam Driver • George Furla • Randall Emmett • Jay Cocks • Graham King • Issei Ogata

Tells the story of two Christian missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) – at a time when Christianity was outlawed and their presence forbidden.

With Ken Loach • Hayley Squires • Dave Johns

Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, for the first time ever, he needs help from the State. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know, some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.

With Denzel Washington • Viola Davis • Mykelti Williamson • Scott Rudin • Jovan Adepo • Todd Black • Russell Hornsby • Stephen Henderson • Saniyya Sidney • August Wilson

The story of a one-time promising baseball player, now working as a Pittsburgh garbage collector, and the complicated relationships with his wife, son and friends.

With Kristen Wiig • Will Ferrell • Adam McKay • Lisa Cholodenko • Sandra Hüller • Maren Ade • Peter Simonischek • Michael Wittenborn • Jonas Dornbach • Janine Jackowski. • Jessica Elbuam

A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Ben Affleck • Sienna Miller • Elle Fanning • Chris Messina • Zoe Saldana • Chris Cooper • Benny Ciaramello • Jennifer Davisson Killoran

Live by Night is set in the roaring '20s, when Prohibition hasn’t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve, and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules, and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing his money and his moll. The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa’s steamy rum-running underworld.

With Elle Fanning • Lucas Jade Zumann • Annette Bening • Greta Gerwig • Billy Crudup • Mike Mills

Set in Santa Barbara, the film follows Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening), a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann, in a breakout performance) at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie’s upbringing -- via Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor.

With Glen Powell • Kevin Costner • Taraji P. Henson • Peter Chernin • Kirsten Dunst • Jenno Topping • Octavia Spencer • Allison Schroeder • Aldis Hodge • Jim Parsons • Pharrell Williams • Ted Melfi • Donna Gigliotti • Mahershala Ali • Janelle Monae

Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanized the world. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.

With Adam Driver • Golshifteh Farahani • Barry Shabaka Henley • Jim Jarmusch • Joshua Astrachan • Masatoshi Nagase • Cliff Smith • Chasten Harmon • William Jackson Harper

Paterson (Adam Driver) is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey – they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him; he writes poetry into a notebook; he walks his dog; he stops in a bar and drinks exactly one beer. He goes home to his wife, Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). By contrast, Laura’s world is ever changing. New dreams come to her almost daily, each a different and inspired project. Paterson loves Laura and she loves him. He supports her newfound ambitions; she champions his secret gift for poetry. The history and energy of the City of Paterson is a felt presence in the film and its simple structure unfolds over the course of a single week. The quiet triumphs and defeats of daily life are observed, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

With Tomomi Mochizuki • Kaori Nakamura

Taku and his best friend Yutaka are headed back to school for what looks like another uneventful year. But they soon find their friendship tested by the arrival of Rikako, a beautiful new transfer student from Tokyo whose attitude vacillates wildly from flirty and flippant to melancholic. When Taku joins Rikako on a trip to Tokyo, the school erupts with rumors, and the three friends are forced to come to terms with their changing relationships.