Drama Movies 2017 List

With Ryan Gosling • Jared Leto • Mackenzie Davis • Ana de Armas • Dave Bautista • Denis Villeneuve • Harrison Ford • Ridley Scott • Sylvia Hoeks • Lennie James • Cynthia Yorkin • Carla Juri • Val Hill • Robin Wright • Frank Giustra • Tim Gamble • Broderick Johnson • Andrew Kosove • Michael Green • Bill Carraro • Bud Yorkin • Hampton Fancher • Yale Badick

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

With Kate Winslet • Idris Elba • Peter Chernin • Dermot Mulroney • Jenno Topping • Hany Abu-Assad • Chris Weitz • Dylan Clark • Scott Frank • J. Mills Goodloe

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a terrifying journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing one another to endure and igniting an unexpected attraction.

With John Heard • Stephen Gyllenhaal • Alfre Woodard • Dash Mihok • Cloris Leachman • Jacinda Barrett • Jessica Collins • J. Todd Harris • Michael Nelson • Talitha Bateman • Garry Williams • Orien Richman • Adam Tenenbaum

Follows a girl named Heidi (Bateman) who lives with her mentally challenged mother (Barrett) and agoraphobic caretaker (Woodard). Heidi travels alone across the country to learn the truth about her family and herself.

With Michael Cassidy • Scott Christopher • Connor Corum • Mitch Davis • Parker Davis • Sarah Lancaster • Eliza de Azevedo Brown

‪The Stray tells the true story of how a stray dog, “Pluto,” comes out of nowhere and impacts the Davis family, who are struggling in many ways. In just a short time, Pluto the “wonderdog” manages to save a toddler, bring comfort and companionship to a hurting 9-year-old boy, help restore a marriage, and repair a broken father-son relationship. Pluto is not only a guard dog - he’s a guardian angel. Sometimes help comes from the most unlikely places. Sometimes our prayers get answered in strange ways. Sometimes one dog can change everything.

With Allison Tolman • Sophie Reid • Luis Bordonada. • Julia Halperin • JoBeth Williams • Jason Cortlund

A young British woman named Sinaloa comes to Texas to find Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. It doesn’t take long for Sinaloa to charm her way into Merle’s life. Her singing awakens something in Merle and erases any lingering doubts about their shared bloodline. But an all-too-familiar chaos comes with it, which soon starts to unravel Merle’s stable world—her job, her upcoming marriage, and an already tense relationship with her mother, Patricia. And while the family music legacy brought this stranger to town, darker motives are woven into the songs she sings, showing glimpses of a violent rage that’s been building for years.

With Spencer Folmar

The movie is about estranged brothers who try to honor their mother's dying wish by reconciling with their abusive, alcoholic father.

With Bill Pullman • Matt Bomer • Alex Smith • Andrew Smith • Josh Wiggins

Once a year, fourteen-year-old David (Josh Wiggins) travels from his mother’s home in Texas to visit his loner father, Cal (Matt Bomer), in the remote mountains of Montana. There, the two embark on their annual hunting excursion, during which the taciturn Cal attempts to connect with his smartphone-addicted son. But when a terrifying turn of events leaves Cal critically wounded, it’s up to the teenage David to summon enough strength for both of them.

With Vince Vaughn • Don Johnson • Jennifer Carpenter • S. Craig Zahler • Marc Blucas • Udo Kier

In BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, a former boxer named Bradley (Vince Vaughn) loses his job as an auto mechanic, and his troubled marriage is about to end. At this crossroads in his life, he feels that he has no better option than to work for an old buddy as a drug courier. This improves his situation until the terrible day that he finds himself in a gunfight between a group of police officers and his own ruthless allies. When the smoke clears, Bradley is badly hurt and thrown in prison, where his enemies force him to commit acts of violence that turn the place into a savage battleground.

With Ben Mendelsohn • Tara Fitzgerald • Rooney Mara • Riz Ahmed • David Harrower • Ruby Stokes • Benedict Andrews

A young woman (Rooney Mara) decides to pay a visit to the older man (Ben Mendelsohn) with whom she had a sexual relationship when she was only 13 years old.

With Saoirse Ronan • Douglas Booth • Helen McCrory • John Sessions • Aidan Turner • Eleanor Tomlinson • Jerome Flynn • Dorota Kobiela • Hugh Welchman • Chris O’Dowd • Jacek Dehnel

Brings the artwork of Vincent van Gogh to life in an exploration of the complicated life and controversial death of one of history’s most celebrated artists. More than six years in the making with the help of 125 specially trained painters, Loving Vincent is a uniquely animated film composed of 65,000 painted frames. Drawn from meticulous research and inspired by Van Gogh’s masterpieces, subjects, and 800 personal letters, Loving Vincent captures the world of Van Gogh in a cinematic experience like no other.

With Josh Hartnett • Mira Sorvino • Scott Waugh • Sarah Dumont • Madison Turner

When a snowstorm strands former professional hockey player Eric LeMarque (Josh Hartnett) atop a Mountain for eight days, he is forced to face his past and come to terms with his personal demons and rediscover the power of faith within him in order to survive.

With Josh Gad • Kate Hudson • Dan Stevens • Chadwick Boseman • Sterling K. Brown • Jacob Koskoff • Reggie Hudlin • Belton Lee • James Cromwell • Paula Wagner • Jonathan Sanger • Michael Koskoff • Peter Luo • Keesha Sharp

Starring Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell. Director Reginald Hudlin’s Marshall, is based on an early trial in the career of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. It follows the young lawyer (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur (Sterling K. Brown) charged with sexual assault and attempted murder of his white socialite employer (Kate Hudson). Muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall partners with a courageous young Jewish lawyer, Samuel Friedman (Josh Gad). Together they mount the defense in an environment of racism and Anti-Semitism. The high profile case and the partnership with Friedman served as a template for Marshall’s creation of the NAACP legal defense fund.

With John Cusack • Willa Fitzgerald • Lucky McKee • Ellar Coltrane

Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hell-bent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other.

With Andrew Garfield • Andy Serkis • Hugh Bonneville • Claire Foy • Tom Hollander • William Nicholson

Robin Cavendish, a man who is paralyzed from the neck down by polio, and his wife travel the world together, campaigning for people with disabilities.

With Margot Robbie • Ewan McGregor • Kelly MacDonald • Domhnall Gleeson • Hayley Atwell • Simon Vaughan • Damian Jones • Steve Christian • Will Tilston • Frank Cottrell Boyce • Simon Curtis

The Untitled AA Milne Project gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children's author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Macdonald), Christopher Robin and his family are swept up in the international success of the books; the enchanting tales bringing hope and comfort to England after the First World War. But with the eyes of the world on Christopher Robin, what will the cost be to the family?

With Rebecca Hall • Luke Evans • Connie Britton • Bella Heathcote • Amy Redford • Angela Robinson • Andrea Sperling • Terry Leonard

In a superhero origin tale unlike any other, the film is the incredible true story of what inspired Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston to create the iconic Wonder Woman character in the 1940's. While Marston's feminist superhero was criticized by censors for her 'sexual perversity', he was keeping a secret that could have destroyed him. Marston's muses for the Wonder Woman character were his wife Elizabeth Marston and their lover Olive Byrne, two empowered women who defied convention: working with Marston on human behavior research -- while building a hidden life with him that rivaled the greatest of superhero disguises.

With Dome Karukoski • Aleksi Bardy

A trailblazing figure in post-World War II erotic art, Touko Laaksonen drew thousands of fantasy-filled, homoerotic images of intensely masculine (and muscular) men, often liberated from the moral codes of their times. Quickly spreading throughout the world, these images went on to play a significant role in the transnational gay liberation movement that continues to make strides to this day, also becoming iconic symbols for generations of LGBT people worldwide.

With Graham Greene • Nathan Frankowski • Q’orianka Kilcher • Brigid Brannagh • Esther Luttrell • Mackenzie Astin • Gil Birmingham • Cindy Pickett

Set primarily in the early 20th century and tells the story of Mary Frances Thompson, a young Chickasaw woman born in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), better known as “Te Ata,” which means “bearer of the morning.”

With Ben Mendelsohn • Tara Fitzgerald • Rooney Mara • Riz Ahmed • David Harrower • Ruby Stokes • Benedict Andrews

A young woman (Rooney Mara) decides to pay a visit to the older man (Ben Mendelsohn) with whom she had a sexual relationship when she was only 13 years old.

With Miles Teller • Josh Brolin • Andie MacDowell • Jennifer Connelly • Taylor Kitsch • Jeff Bridges • Ben Hardy • James Badge Dale • Molly Smith • Joseph Kosinski • Lorenzo di Bonaventura • Dawn Ostroff • Mike Menchel • Ken Nolan • Erik Howsam • Eric Warren Singer

All men are created equal… then, a few become firefighters. Only the Brave, based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the country. As most of us run from danger, they run toward it – they watch over our lives, our homes, everything we hold dear, as they forge a unique brotherhood that comes into focus with one fateful fire.

With Martin Scorsese • Michael Fassbender • Tomas Alfredson • Tim Bevan • Rebecca Ferguson • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Matthew Michael Carnahan • Jo Nesbo • Soren Sveistrup • Eric Fellner • Niclas Salomonsson • Piodor Gustafsson

When an elite crime squad’s lead detective (Fassbender) investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit (Ferguson), the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.

With Nicole Kidman • Colin Farrell • Barry Keoghan • Yorgos Lanthimos • Alicia Silverstone • Sunny Suljic • Raffey Cassidy • Bill Camp • Efthymis Filipou

A young man needs to take revenge, a doctor has to make a decision, and his family must survive.

With Kurt Voelker • Julie Delpy • JK Simmons

After the loss of his wife, Bill Ponder and his 17-year-old son move out of their small town into the big city to get a fresh start. As they begin to adjust to their new life, they both find comfort in newfound romance, growing apart and back together again while discovering their true selves in the process.

With Julianne Moore • Michelle Williams • Todd Haynes • Oakes Fegley • Amy Hargreaves • Brian Selznick • Millicent Simmonds

Ben and Rose are children from two different eras who secretly wish their lives were different. Ben longs for the father he has never known, while Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. When Ben discovers a puzzling clue in his home and Rose reads an enticing headline in the newspaper, both children set out on quests to find what they are missing that unfold with mesmerizing symmetry.

With Blake Lively • Ron Perlman • Jason Clarke • Danny Huston • Miguel Rernandez • Brian Wilkins • Ahna O'Reilly • Xavi Sanchez • Wes Chatham • Marc Forster • Craig Baumgarten • Yvonne Strahovski • Michael Selby • Jillian Kugler • Kaitlin Orem • Renée Wolfe

Gina (Blake Lively) and husband James (Jason Clarke) have an almost perfect marriage. After being blinded as a child in a nearly fatal car crash that claimed her parent's lives, Gina depends on James to be her eyes-a dependence that appears to solidify their passionate relationship. She sees her world in her own vivid imagination with help from James' descriptions. Despite her disability, the two enjoy a colorful existence in Bangkok, Thailand where James works in insurance and Gina explores life in a foreign country. It seems the only real hardship this loving couple faces is difficulty conceiving a child but when Gina is given the opportunity to have a corneal transplant and regains her vision, their life and relationship are upended. Gina now sees the world with a new sense of wonder and independence which James finds threatening. It is only when Gina suddenly begins to lose her sight again that she finally realizes the disturbing reality of their marriage and their lives.

With Miles Teller • Joe Cole • Haley Bennett • Amy Schumer • Keisha Castle-Hughes • Jason Hall • Jon Kilik • Scott Haze • Joel Cole • Ann Ruark • Beulah Koale • Brad Beyer • Omar Dorsey • Jayson Warner Smith • Jane Evans

Follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they’ve left the battlefield.

With Matt Damon • George Clooney • Oscar Isaac • Noah Jupe • Julianne Moore • Joel Silver • Ethan Coen • Megan Ferguson • Glenn Fleshler • Joel Coen

Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns…the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices. This is Suburbicon.

With Josh O’Connor • Gemma Jones • Francis Lee • Alec Secareanu

Johnny Saxby (O’Connor) works long hours in brutal isolation on his family’s remote farm, numbing the daily frustration of his lonely existence. A handsome Romanian migrant worker (Secareanu) arrives to take up temporary work, Johnny suddenly finds himself having to deal with emotions he has never felt before. An intense relationship forms between the two which could change Johnny’s life forever.

With Margaret Qualley • Melissa Leo • Dianna Agron • Julianne Nicholson • Chris Zylka • Stacy Martin • Morgan Saylor • Rebecca Dayan • Margaret Betts

The film, set in the early 1960s, tells the story of a young woman, Sister Cathleen (Margaret Qualley), who starts to question her Catholic faith as she trains to become a nun.

With Dominic West • Elisabeth Moss • Claes Bang • Ruben Ostlund

The Square follows a museum manager in charge of an exhibition space where an artist places a new installation meant to promote altruism. The manager hires a ruthless PR firm to promote the new exhibition, and the publicity gets out of hand, sparking a public uproar.

With Kevin Sorbo • Daniel Roebuck • Dan Gordon • Sean Hannity • Sam Sorbo • Donielle Artese

Follow a world-renowned atheist whose beliefs are dramatically challenged.

With Rosanna Arquette • Lena Olin • Nathan Keyes • Jordan Gavaris • Zachary Cotler • Magdalena Zyzak • Alexander Koch • Chris Voss

The film depicts the final weeks leading to the ambiguous disappearance of Maya Dardel, an internationally respected poet and novelist, who lived until 2016 in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Maya announces on National Public Radio that she intends to end her life and that young male writers may compete to become the executor of her estate. They are challenged intellectually, emotionally, erotically, until one of them begins to fathom Maya's end game.