Drama Movies 2019 List

With Taraji P. Henson • Sam Rockwell • Wes Bentley • Anne Heche • Fred Bernstein • Bruce McGill • Danny Strong • Babou Ceesay • Nick Searcy • John Gallagher Jr. • Matt Berenson • Robin Bissell • Dominique Telson

Based on a true story, The Best of Enemies centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater (Henson), an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis (Rockwell), a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever.

With Hilary Duff • Jonathan Bennett • Daniel Farrands • Lydia Hearst

Based on one of Hollywood’s most chilling murder cases, this spellbinding thriller follows26-year-old actress Sharon Tate (Hilary Duff), a rising star about to have her first baby with her husband, director Roman Polanski. Plagued by terrifying premonitions, Sharon sees her worst nightmares come to life with the appearance of Charles Manson and his deadly cult.

With Gabrielle Union • Alec Baldwin • Michael K. Williams • Emilio Estevez • Taylor Schilling • Jeffrey Wright • Jena Malone

In The Public, an unusually bitter Arctic blast has made its way to downtown Cincinnati and the front doors of the public library where the action of the film takes place. At odds with library officials over how to handle the extreme weather event, some homeless patrons turn the building into a shelter for the night by staging an "Occupy" sit in. What begins as an act of civil disobedience becomes a stand-off with police and a rush-to-judgment media constantly speculating about what's really happening. This David versus Goliath story tackles some of our nation's most challenging issues, homelessness and mental illness and sets the drama inside one of the last bastions of democracy-in-action: your public library.

With Elle Fanning • Rebecca Hall • Max Minghella • Agnieszka Grochowska • Zlatko Buric

Violet (Elle Fanning) is a shy teenager who dreams of escaping her small town and pursuing her passion to sing. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a local singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition. Driven by a pop-fueled soundtrack, Teen Spirit is a visceral and stylish spin on the Cinderella story.

With Eric Roberts • Leo Fitzpatrick • Heather Matarazzo • John Robinson • Zeke Zelker • Alice Wills

Casey Lindeweiler (John Robinson) inherits the last remaining independent radio station in town, WTYT 960, only to find the station is in financial shambles and in the ratings basement. To right the sinking ship, Casey pulls out one of the oldest tricks in radio, the wacky contest. His idea is to host a billboard sitting contest where four people will live on a catwalk in front of a billboard in hopes of winning “nine-sixty” thousand dollars and a mobile home. All they have to do is be the last one living on the billboard. Unprepared for the spotlight, Casey attempts to rise to the challenge of running a business, as he has to worry about his contestants, the competition, the local authorities, the media’s interpretation of his contest, and mother nature.

With Geoffrey Rush • Jai Courtney • Erik Thompson • Justin Monjo • Morgana Davies • Finn Little • Trevor Jamison • Shawn Seet

Storm Boy' has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather. When Kingley starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he is forced to remember his long-forgotten childhood, growing up on an isolated coastline with his father. He recounts to his grand-daughter the story of how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr Percival. Their remarkable adventures and very special bond has a profound effect on all their lives.

With Tim McInnerny • Leo Bill • Rory Kinnear • Mike Leigh • Mark Ryan • Philip Jackson • Georgina Lowe • Maxine Peake • Nico Mirallegro • David Bamber • Alastair Mackenzie

Chronicles the 1819 massacre by British government forces at a peaceful pro-democracy rally. Some 700 working people were injured and 18 killed during the incident in Manchester.

With Haley Lu Richardson • Blythe Danner • Campbell Scott • Elizabeth McGovern • Victoria Hill • Michael Engler • Géza Röhrig

Louise Brooks the 1920s silver screen sensation who never met a rule she didn’t break, epitomized the restless, reckless spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years earlier, she was a 15 year-old student in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and fortune were only dreams. When the opportunity arises for her to go to New York to study with a leading dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) insists there be a chaperone. Norma Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern), a local society matron who never broke a rule in her life, impulsively volunteers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu Richardson) to New York for the summer. Why does this utterly conventional woman do this? What happens to her when she lands in Manhattan with an unusually rebellious teenager as her ward? And, which of the two women is stronger, the uptight wife-and-mother or the irrepressible free spirit? It’s a story full of surprises—about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.

With Camille Vidal-Naquet

Leo is 22 and sells his body on the street for a bit of cash. The men come and go, and he stays right here — longing for love. He doesn’t know what the future will bring. He hits the road. His heart is pounding.

With Stanley Tucci • Kiernan Shipka • Robert Kulzer • Miranda Otto • Scott Lambert • John Corbett • Alexandra Milchan • Carey Van Dyke • Shane Van Dyke • John Leonetti

The story follows the terrifying tale of Ally, a deaf teenager, and her family whose world is turned upside down by a deadly and primeval force. In the fields near her New Jersey home, a colony of bats are attacked by a parasitic insect and soon morph into a new lethal species called Vesps. As the blind, winged creatures quickly grow, spread and attack the human population, Ally’s heightened senses become her strength. She can feel when the Vesps are close and realises that even the slightest noise summons them in huge numbers. She and her family seek refuge in the woods where they must live in total silence. Amidst the creature chaos, they learn that humans can be just as dangerous when they are fighting to survive.

With Hero Fiennes Tiffin • Nicolas Chartier • Swen Temmel • Susan McMartin • Josephine Langford • Adam Shankman • Jennifer Gibgot • Scott Karol • Pia Mia • Anna Todd • Courtney Solomon • Mark Canton • Meadow Williams • Inanna Sarkis • Jonathan Deckter • Jenny Gage • Khadijha Red Thunder • Samuel Larsen • Shane Paul McGie • Dennis Pelino

After follows Tessa (Langford), a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart, as she enters her first semester in college. Armed with grand ambitions for her future, her guarded world opens up when she meets the dark and mysterious Hardin Scott (Tiffin), a magnetic, brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself and what she wants out of life.

With Joaquin Phoenix • Rooney Mara • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Philippa Goslett • Tahar Rahim • Hadas Yaron • Garth Davis • Emile Sherman • Iain Canning • Helen Edmundson

Rooney Mara & Joaquin Phoenix star in the moving story of a miraculous woman driven by her faith to follow Jesus.

With Molly Shannon • Brett Gelman • Amy Seimetz • Susan Ziegler • Jackie Monahan • Kevin Seal • Dana Melanie • Sasha Frolova • Lisa Haas • Al Sutton • Madeleine Olnek

In quiet mid-19th century Amherst, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically, baking gingerbread, and enjoying a passionate, if clandestine affair with her sister-in-law Susan, who conveniently lives next door. While seeking publication of some of her nearly 2,000 poems, Dickinson faces condescending male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her writing seriously. Eventually, her work attracts the attention of a scheming would-be writer, who also happens to be Emily’s brother’s lover, and sees Emily’s poetry as a vehicle for her own creative ambitions. Beneath the quips, period fripperies and not so secret trysts is a moving drama of thwarted passion both romantic and artistic that is also a timely critique of how Emily Dickinson's life was posthumously recast for the genteel sensibilities of her late Victorian readership - a view of her that still dominates today.

With Wei Tang • Sylvia Chang • Hong-Chi Lee • Bi Gan • Jue Huang • Yongzhong Chen

A lost soul (Jue Huang) is on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang).

With Amber Heard • Dan Stevens • Virginia Madsen • Cara Delevingne • Alex Ross Perry • Eric Stoltz • Matthew Perniciaro • Elisabeth Moss • Agyness Deyn • Adam Piotrowicz • Dylan Gelula • Michael Sherman • Gayle Rankin • Eka Darville

Becky Something, a maniacally destructive punk rock star pushes her relationships with bandmates, family, and followers to the limit as she wages a years-long war against sobriety while attempting to re-engage the creativity that had once led her band to massive crossover success.

With Waleed Zuaiter • Will Brittain • Beth Grant • Susan Park • Tim Disney • Maria Dizzia • Paul Guilfoyle • Callum Airlie

Doctors Julian Reed and Barbara Sullivan, fall in love with each other and with the idea of cloning a Neanderthal from ancient DNA. Against the express directive of University administrators they follow through on this audacious idea. The result is William: the first Neanderthal to walk the earth for some 35,000 years. William tries his best to fit into the world around him. But his distinctive physical features and his unique way of thinking--his “otherness”--set him apart and provoke fear.

With Francesco Acquaroli • Matteo Garrone • Marcello Fonte • Edoardo Pesce • Nunzia Schiano • Adamo Dionisi • Alida Baldari Calabria • Gianluca Gobbi • Ugo Chiti • Massimo Gaudioso

In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city, where the only law seems to be survival of the fittest, Marcello is a slight, mild-mannered man who divides his days between working at his modest dog grooming salon, caring for his daughter Alida, and being coerced into the petty criminal schemes of the local bully Simoncino, an ex-boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When Simoncino’s abuse finally brings Marcello to a breaking point, he decides to stand up for his own dignity through an act of vengeance, with unintended consequences.

With Josh Lucas • Stephen Curry • Topher Grace • DeVon Franklin • Dennis Haysbert • Mike Colter • Marcel Ruiz • Grant Nieporte • Roxann Dawson • Chrissy Metz • Isaac Kragten • Ali Skovbye • Taylor Mosby

When Joyce Smith's fourteen-year-old son John fell through an icy Missouri lake one winter morning, she and her family had seemingly lost everything. At the hospital, John lay lifeless for more than sixty minutes. But Joyce was not ready to give up on her son. She mustered all her faith and strength into one force and cried out to God in a loud voice to save him. Miraculously, her son's heart immediately started beating again. In the coming days, John would defy every expert, every case history, and every scientific prediction. Sixteen days after falling through the ice and being clinically dead for an hour, he walked out of the hospital under his own power, completely healed.

With Gugu Mbatha-Raw • David Strathairn • Jordan Horowitz • Julia Hart • Christopher Denham • Saniyya Sidney • Lorraine Toussaint

Fast Color stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a woman who comes into her own after discovering she has superhuman abilities. When her powers are discovered, the woman is forced to abandon her family in order to protect them. Years later, her mission to remain unseen brings her back home.

With Tessa Thompson • Lily James • James Badge Dale • Luke Kirby • Lance Reddick • Nia DaCosta

A modern Western that tells the story of two sisters, Ollie (Thompson) and Deb (James), who are driven to work outside the law to better their lives. For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a desperate plea for help from her sister.

With Giancarlo Esposito • Omar Chaparro • Michael Berry • Ashanti Douglas • Amy Hardigan • Riley Thomas • Gerard Canonico

An original pop musical film about six commuters who get stuck together on a New York City subway. Through the power of music, they learn about each other’s lives and, in turn, have a profound effect on one another. Connecting across lines of race, culture and class in a way that only situations of circumstance or happenstance can create, this will be a day that none of them will ever forget.

With Tom Hughes • Stephen Campbell Moore • Judi Dench • Sophie Cookson • Trevor Nunn

Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information—including details on the building of the atomic bomb—to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism; her tumultuous love affair with a dashing political radical (Tom Hughes); and the devastation of World War II, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace.

With Montana Manning • Andrew Pifko • Madison Lawlor • Monte Markham • Amara Cash

Follows Maya, a 19-year-old queer artist, who escapes into her candy colored world of drawing emo cartoons and cyber-stalking her insta-crush Jasmine, a sexually fluid fashion designer. One night Maya meets Jasmine IRL. Sparks fly and the two begin a romance that gives Maya her first taste of true love and Jasmine the inspiration to jumpstart her career. It’s all gumdrops and fairytales until Maya discovers Jasmine’s in an unconventional relationship with Simon, a doctor moonlighting as a sugar daddy.

With Brendan Conroy • Mary McEvoy • Liam O Mochain • Norma Sheahan • Aoibhin Garrihy • Liam Carney • Sean Flanagan

Seven interconnecting stories set in and around a lost and found office of an Irish train station. All segments are inspired by true stories, share a theme of something lost or found and characters that come in and out of each other’s lives.

With James Franco • Kristen Stewart • Laura Dern • Diane Kruger • Jim Sturgess • Courtney Love • Justin Kelly • Kelvin Harrison Jr. • Vince Jolivette • James Jagger

A young woman named Savannah Knoop (Kristen Stewart) spends six years pretending to be the celebrated author and cult status character JT LeRoy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law (Laura Dern).

With Ralph Fiennes • Adele Exarchopoulos • David Hare • Gabrielle Tana • Oleg Ivenko • Sergei Polunin • Chulpan Khamatova

The drama charts the iconic dancer's famed defection from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him.