Drama Movies 2016 List

With Samuel L. Jackson • Alexander Skarsgard • Margot Robbie • Jim Broadbent • David Yates • Christoph Waltz • Stuart Beattie • John Collee • Simon Russell Beale • John Hurt • Stephen Sommers • Jerry Weintraub • Dijimon Hounsou • Casper Crump

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

With Amanda Seyfried • Russell Crowe • Aaron Paul • Diane Kruger • Quvenzhane Wallis • Brad Desch • Gabriele Muccino • Bruce Greenwood

A love story between a father and daughter living in New York City 25 years apart. Russell Crowe will portray a famous novelist and widower struggling with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year-old daughter; the story will also focus on the 30-year-old daughter’s life in present-day Manhattan where she battles the aftermath of her troubled childhood.

With Missi Pyle • Kathryn Hahn • Viggo Mortensen • Steve Zahn • Nicholas Hamilton • Annalise Basso • Frank Langella • Erin Moriarty • Samantha Isler • Matt Ross • Ann Dowd • George MacKay • Shree Crooks • Charlie Shotwell

A father (Viggo Mortensen), devoted to teaching his six children how to live and survive in the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest, is forced to leave his self-created paradise. When confronted with the real world, he begins a journey that challenges his ideas of freedom and what it means to raise a family.

With Suzu Asano • Hirokazu Kore-eda • Sachi Koda • Yoshino Koda • Chika Koda

Three sisters - Sachi, Yoshino and Chika - live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father - absent from the family home for the last 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings...

With Lea Thompson • Allison Paige • James Remar • Jayson Blair • Alex Ranarivelo • Ali Afshar

Sara Gold is a rising star at the United Animal Protection Agency (UAPA), a major animal rights organization that conducts animal rescues and lobbies for better animal welfare laws. Handpicked for a major assignment, Sara goes undercover as a college intern to infiltrate a suspected “puppy mill” run by the enigmatic Daniel Holloway. Sara soon ingratiates herself with Daniel and his family, and learns all about the world of dog breeding but is hard pressed to find any sign of animal abuse. The UAPA teams up with local law enforcement and raids the farm, accusing Daniel of the inhumane treatment of animals. Sara finds herself torn between doing her job and doing what’s right, and she awakens to the moral contradictions of her work with the UAPA.

With Bryan Cranston • Diane Kruger • John Leguizamo • Miriam Segal • Alex Holmes • Amy Ryan • Benjamin Bratt • Brad Furman • Joseph Gilgun • Ellen Brown Furman

Based on a true story, Federal agent ROBERT "BOB" MAZUR (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986 by posing as slick, money-laundering businessman Bob Musella. Teamed with impulsive and streetwise fellow agent EMIR ABREU (John Leguizamo) and rookie agent posing as his fiancé KATHY ERTZ (Diane Kruger), Mazur befriends Escobar's top lieutenant ROBERTO ALCAINO (Benjamin Bratt). Navigating a vicious criminal network in which the slightest slip-up could cost him his life, Mazur risks it all building a case that leads to indictments of 85 drug lords and the corrupt bankers who cleaned their dirty money, along with the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, one of the largest money-laundering banks in the world.

With Blake Lively • Steve Carell • Kristen Stewart • Parker Posey • Jesse Eisenberg • Woody Allen • Steve Tenenbaum • Paul Schneider • Jeannie Berlin • Ken Stott • Corey Stoll • Letty Aronson • Anna Camp • Stephen Kunken

The film tells the story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

With Ellen Page • Evan Rachel Wood • Max Minghella • Michael Eklund • Callum Keith Rennie • Aaron L. Gilbert • Niv Fichman • Wendy Crewson • Patricia Rozema

Set in the near future, this riveting and suspenseful apocalyptic drama follows two sisters, Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) who live in the Pacific Northwest with their kindly father, Robert. Nell is focused on her studies and Eva is training to be a dancer, but their peaceful lives are disrupted one day by what turns out to be a continent-wide blackout. Whereas at first the family bond together and try to make the most of their difficult circumstances, as time gone on, the challenges become more serious. In the wake of a shocking and violent confrontation that Robert has with a menacing passerby, the sisters must work together in order to survive in their increasingly treacherous new world.

With Blake Lively • Steve Carell • Kristen Stewart • Parker Posey • Jesse Eisenberg • Woody Allen • Steve Tenenbaum • Paul Schneider • Jeannie Berlin • Ken Stott • Corey Stoll • Letty Aronson • Anna Camp • Stephen Kunken

The film tells the story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

With Emma Roberts • Dave Franco • Juliette Lewis • Samira Wiley • Miles Heizer • Ariel Schulman • Allison Shearmur • Henry Joost • Emily Meade • Jessica Sharzer • Jonny Beauchamp • Kimiko Glenn

In an attempt to broaden her horizons, a high school senior wallflower joins a global online game of provocative truth or dare while an audience of "watchers" vote and comment. But as she becomes a sensation and advances higher and higher, the game evolves and soon she finds herself in a dangerous and life-ending situation.

With Blake Lively • Steve Carell • Kristen Stewart • Parker Posey • Jesse Eisenberg • Woody Allen • Steve Tenenbaum • Paul Schneider • Jeannie Berlin • Ken Stott • Corey Stoll • Letty Aronson • Anna Camp • Stephen Kunken

The film tells the story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

With Ellen Page • Allison Janney • Zachary Quinto • Uzo Aduba • Tammy Blanchard • John Benjamin Hickey • Sian Heder

The story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter incites her to impulsively "rescue" a baby from a negligent mother, Lu, at a loss for what to do, turns to the only responsible adult she knows: Margo (Allison Janney), who mistakenly believes she's the child's grandmother.

With Alysia Reiner • James Purefoy • Amy Fox • Margaret Colin • Anna Gunn • Nick Gehlfuss • Craig Bierko • Nate Corddry • Sarah Megan Thomas • Meera Menon

When Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn) is passed over for a promotion at her firm, she fights for the opportunity to take a start-up public, hoping this promising IPO will secure her a place at the firm’s highest level. But when an employee at the start-up raises questions about a possible crack in the company’s walls, Naomi must decide whether to investigate rumors that may compromise the deal, or push forward with the confidence her superiors expect.

With Moises Arias • Michael K. Williams • Steven Caple Jr. • Colson Baker • Erykah Badu • Rafi Gavron • Kim Coates • Natalie Martinez • Linda Emond • Jorge Lendeborg Jr • Ezri Walker

Teenage buddies Cisco (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), Junior (Moises Arias), Boobie (Ezri Walker), and Patty Cake (Rafi Gavron) shrug off school to practice skateboarding, which they hope will be their ticket to a better life. In the meantime, they steal cars to finance their dream. But when they get mixed up in a drug deal and cross a ruthless crime queen-pin (Linda Emond), they put their friendship—and lives—on the line.

With Sarah Gadon • Logan Lerman • Tracy Letts • James Schamus • Anthony Bregman • Linda Emond • Rodrigo Teixeira • Ben Rosenfield

Indignation takes place in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from Newark, New Jersey, travels on scholarship to a small, conservative college in Ohio, thus exempting him from being drafted into the Korean War. But once there, Marcus’s growing infatuation with his beautiful classmate Olivia Hutton (Sarah Gadon), and his clashes with the college’s imposing Dean, Hawes Caudwell (Tracy Letts), put his and his family’s best laid plans to the ultimate test.