Drama Movies 2016 List

With Grimur Hákonarson

In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country’s best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi’s sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. This is a near death sentence for the farmers, whose sheep are their main source of income, and many abandon their land. But Gummi and Kiddi don’t give up so easily – and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits. As the authorities close in, the brothers will need to come together to save the special breed passed down for generations, and themselves, from extinction.

With Francisco Reyes • Alejandro Sieveking • Alfredo Castro • Antonia Zegers • Pablo Larrain • Roberto Farias • Jaime Vadell • Alejandro Goic • Marcelo Alonso • José Soza

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

Their fragile stability is disrupted by the arrival of an emissary from the Vatican who seeks to understand the effects of their isolation, and a newly-disgraced housemate. Both bring with them the outside world from which the men have long been removed, and the secrets they had thought deeply buried. T

With Paddy Breathnach • Jorge Perugorría

Jesus does make up for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams of being a performer. When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face. The stranger is his father Angel, a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15 years. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again.

With Dakota Johnson • Leslie Mann • Rebel Wilson • Drew Barrymore • Dan Stevens • Alison Brie • Abby Kohn • Jason Mantzoukas • Damon Wayans • Dana Fox • Marc Silverstein • Nancy Juvonen • Christian Ditter • Damon Wayans Jr.

There’s a right way to be single, a wrong way to be single, and then...there’s Alice. And Robin. Lucy. Meg. Tom. David. New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, be it a love connection, a hook-up, or something in the middle. And somewhere between the teasing texts and one-night stands, what these unmarrieds all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love. Sleeping around in the city that never sleeps was never so much fun.

With Katie Holmes • Griffin Dunne • Luke Kirby • Paul Dalio • Christine Lahti

Follows two poets with bipolar disorder whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they meet in a treatment facility, their chemistry is instant and intense driving each other's mania to new heights. They pursue their passion which breaks outside the bounds of sanity, swinging them from fantastical highs to tormented lows until they ultimately must choose between sanity and love.

With Josh Allen • Juli Tapken • Rich Swingle • Stacey Bradshaw • Emily Knapp • Chase Anderson • Irene Santiago • Sharon Wilharm

Rachel Cartwright and Mitchell Little grow up in the small town of Providence, Tennessee. Their paths keep intersecting and at one point it looks like they'll finally get together. But the opportunity slips away and they go their separate ways. It takes a tragedy many years later before they're reunited. This time will they let the moment pass or will they finally overcome their insecurities and connect with their soulmate?

With Karen Allen • Iris Gilad • Ashley Williams • Jamieson Stern • Johnny Whitworth • Michael Harney • Theo Rossi • Calvin Dutton • Mark Kemble

Life for the Kendalls has been burdened by grief and claustrophobia. Faced with caring for one child with special needs and another with PTSD, the family struggles for a sense of stability at home in their Staten Island, NY hamlet. When a secret from the past is revealed, it threatens to tear them apart.

With Wes Miller • Clifton Davis • Eric Roberts • Lynn Whitfield • Nick Lashaway • Corbin Bernsen • Lorenzo Lamas

Prayer Never Fails is a story about a high school basketball coach who is fired for praying with a student. He fights, through the courts, to get his job back and for the right to pray in school while being represented by a troubled lawyer with a gambling addiction that happens to be an atheist. In the lawyer’s pursuit of justice, he is the person who ends up finding redemption.

With Antonio Bolivar • Ciro Guerra • Jan Bijvoet • Nilbio Torres • Brionne Davis • Yauenkü Migue • Nicolás Cancino

Centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evan Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

With Tom Felton • Cliff Curtis • Joseph Fiennes • Stewart Scudamore • Stephen Hagan • Peter Firth • Maria Botto • Patrick Aiello • Mickey Liddell • Kevin Reynolds • Paul Aiello

Risen is the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection and the weeks that followed, as seen through the eyes of an unbelieving Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), a high-ranking Roman Military Tribune. Clavius and his aide Lucius (Tom Felton) are instructed by Pontius Pilate to ensure Jesus’ radical followers don’t steal his body and claim resurrection. When the body goes missing within days, Clavius sets out on a mission to locate the missing body in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.

With Jason Sudeikis • Jeremy Irons • Carice van Houten • Stephen Hopkins • Giacomo Gianniotti • Amanda Crew • Joe Shrapnel • William Hurt • Jonathan Aris • Anna Waterhouse • Stephan James • Jean Charles Levy • Luc Dayan • Kate Garwood • Eli Goree

Race is based on the incredible true story of Jesse Owens, the legendary athletic superstar whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler’s vision of Aryan supremacy. Race is an enthralling film about courage, determination, tolerance, and friendship, and an inspiring drama about one man’s fight to become an Olympic legend.

With Federico Fellini

Federico Fellini's epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start of the Maestro's delirious late period.

With Gal Gadot • Kate Winslet • Aaron Paul • Casey Affleck • Woody Harrelson • Anthony Mackie • Norman Reedus • Teresa Palmer • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Anthony Katagas • John Hillcoat • Peter Lawson • Molly Conners • Marc Butan • Steve Golin • Kimberly Fox • Tom Ortenberg • Christopher Woodrow • Maria Cestone • Clifton Collins Jr. • Keith Redmon • Bard Dorros • Paul Green • Matt Cook • Sarah E. Johnson • Isabel Dos Santos

In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for “officer down”. Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggering a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge.

With Hugh Jackman • Matthew Vaughn • Christopher Walken • Taron Egerton • Tim McInnerny • Dexter Fletcher • Rupert Maconick • John Heyman • Adam Bohling

Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael "Eddie" Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (played by Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

With Dev Patel • Daisy Ridley • Isao Takahata

It’s 1982, and Taeko (voiced by Daisy Ridley) is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature stirrings of romance, the onset of puberty, and the frustrations of math and boys. At the station she is met by young farmer Toshio (voiced by Dev Patel), and the encounters with him begin to reconnect her to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

With Imogen Poots • Mackenzie Davis • Shea Whigham • Ryan Bingham • Josh Helman • Mary McCormack • June Squibb • Jim Beggarly • Anna Axster

A Country Called Home tells the story of Ellie (Imogen Poots), a young woman living in Los Angeles who learns that her estranged alcoholic father has died. Having had no contact with him since childhood, she’s reluctant to make the effort to attend his funeral, but something draws her to the dusty corner of Texas where he spent the last years of his life. At first dismayed by the small town vibe, she’s soon intrigued by the people she meets, among them a distraught stepmother, her apprehensive son, a gutsy young musician, and a set of doting grandparents she’s never met. As she finds glimpses of the father she once knew, she also discovers a new attitude towards friendship, loyalty, and family.