Drama Movies 2019 List

With Patrick J. Adams • Troian Bellisario • Kristen Hager • Ennis Esmer • Akash Sherman

The story of Issac Bruno (Adams), as astronomer obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth, despite the collapse of his own personal life around him. Isaac takes on an unqualified but spirited young research assistant named Clara (Bellisario) who restores balance and perspective in the midst of his downward spiral.

With Juliette Binoche • Guillaume Canet • Vincent Macaigne • Pascal Greggory • Olivier Assayas • Christa Theret • Nora Hamzawi

The romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer (Vincent Macaigne) begins blurring the line between fact and fiction using his real-life love affairs.

With Ian McShane • Michael Rooker • Gary Carr • Daniel Pritzker

The life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.

With Brian Gross • Marcia Kimpton • Stephen McClintic

Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing. Weaving spiritual awakenings and soulful struggles, Bardo Blues will leave you questioning everything you think you know about who you are, where you came from and where you are going.

With Nicholas Hoult • Lily Collins • Patrick Gibson • Derek Jacobi • Peter Chernin • David Gleeson • Colm Meaney • Tom Glynn-Carney • olm Meaney • Pam Ferris • Laura Donnelly • Craig Roberts • Stephen Beresford • Dome Karukoski • Anthony Boyle • Genevieve O’Reilly

Explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. This takes him into the outbreak of World War I, which threatens to tear the “fellowship” apart. All of these experiences would inspire Tolkien to write his famous Middle-Earth novels.

With Mel Gibson • Sean Penn • Natalie Dormer • Jeremy Irvine • Steve Coogan • Laurence Fox • Ioan Gruffudd • Jennifer Ehle • Bruce Davey • Farhad Safinia

In 1857, Professor James Murray sets about compiling the Oxford English Dictionary, one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. Dr. W.C. Minor submits more than 10,000 entries, but when the committee insists on honoring him, a shocking truth comes to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, is also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane.

With Guinevere Turner • Matt Smith • Suki Waterhouse • Chace Crawford • Mary Harron • Hannah Murray • Marianne Rendon

Years after the shocking murders that made the name Charles Manson synonymous with pure evil, the three women who killed for him—Leslie Van Houten (Hannah Murray), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón)—remain under the spell of the infamous cult leader (Matt Smith). Confined to an isolated cellblock in a California penitentiary, the trio seem destined to live out the rest of their lives under the delusion that their crimes were part of a cosmic plan—until empathetic graduate student Karlene Faith (Merritt Wever) is enlisted to rehabilitate them.

With Ian McKellen • Kenneth Branagh • Judi Dench • Vlad Ivanov • Juli Jakab • Ben Elton

The year is 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, and devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as husband and father. His very personal search for the truth uncovers secrets and lies within a family at war.

With Ash Mayfair • Tran Nu Yen-Khe • Nguyen Phuong Tra My • Mai Thu Huong Maya • Le Vu Long • Nguyen Nhu Quynh

In 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May’s hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.

With John Leguizamo • Charles Melton • Jake Choi • Tracy Oliver • Yara Shahidi • Gbenga Akinnagbe • Hill Harper • Les Morgenstein • Ry Russo-Young • Elysa Dutton • Pamela Hirsch • Camrus Johnson • Miriam A. Hyman • Cathy Shim

College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley meet—and fall for each other—over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together.

With Dennis Quaid • Josh Gad • Betty Gilpin • Gavin Polone • Cathryn Michon • Maya Forbes • Marg Helgenberger • Lasse Hallstrom • Wally Wolodarsky • Kathryn Prescott • Gail Mancuso • Seth William Meier • Cameron Michon • Henry Lau • Luyuan Fan • Wei Zhang

Bailey (voiced by Josh Gad) is living the good life on the Michigan farm of his “boy,” Ethan (Dennis Quaid) and Ethan’s wife Hannah (Marg Helgenberger). He even has a new playmate: Ethan and Hannah’s baby granddaughter, CJ. The problem is that CJ’s mom, Gloria (Betty Gilpin), decides to take CJ away. As Bailey’s soul prepares to leave this life for a new one, he makes a promise to Ethan to find CJ and protect her at any cost.

Thus begins Bailey’s adventure through multiple lives filled with love, friendship and devotion as he, CJ (Kathryn Prescott), and CJ’s best friend Trent (Henry Lau) experience joy and heartbreak, music and laughter, and few really good belly rubs.

With Johnny Depp • Zoey Deutch • Rosemarie DeWitt • Ron Livingston • Odessa Young • Danny Huston • Wayne Roberts

Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer (Johnny Depp) who, after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife (Rosemarie DeWitt) and school chancellor (Ron Livingston)—and the delight of his students—Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy.

With Laura Dern • Kipp Nelson • Jack O'Connell • Alex Soros • Ed Zwick • Allyn Stewart • Geoffrey Fletcher

Trial by Fire is the true-life Texas story of the unlikely bond between an imprisoned death row inmate (Jack O'Connell) and a mother of two from Houston (Laura Dern) who, though facing staggering odds, fights mightily for his freedom. Cameron Todd Willingham, a poor, uneducated heavy metal devotee with a violent streak and a criminal record, is convicted of arson-related triple homicide in 1992. During his 12 years on death row, Elizabeth Gilbert, an improbable ally, uncovers questionable methods and illogical conclusions in his case, and battles with the state to expose suppressed evidence that could save him. Her efforts ultimately fail, and since Willingham’s execution, the disturbing question remains: Did Texas execute an innocent man?

With Richard Riehle • Mateus Ward • Alexandra Bard • Jamie McShane • Casey Bond • Don Umphrey • Justin Ward

Based on the book, The Meanest Man in Texas is the true story of Clyde Thompson. When he is convicted of multiple murder, he is sent to the hardest labor camp in the south and the through his new found faith, he is mircaulously paroled and spends his life telling the world about the lord.

With Tilda Swinton • Tom Burke • Joanna Hogg • Honor Swinton Byrne

A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams.

With Karen Gillan • David Koechner • David Dastmalchian • Collin Schiffli • Jennifer Morrison • John Doe • Richard Cabral

Gensan and Ruby struggle to thrive in the face of abject poverty. When Gensan loses his job, and is forced to break the law, he sets out on the run with Ruby across the country, to seek refuge in Kansas City, a place Ruby's deeply afraid of. Ruby's indelible choices, and desire to make a family, complicate their journey to freedom.

With Sanya Malhotra. • Anish Savjani • Neil Kopp • Nawazuddin Siddiqui • Ritesh Batra • Vincent Savino

Two lives intersect in Mumbai and go along together. A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée. The pair develops a connection that transforms them in ways that they could not expect.

With John Lithgow • Blythe Danner • Noble Jones • Katie Aselton • Sophie Thatcher • Eve Harlow • Derek Cecil

A romance between a man who spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come and a woman who spends her life shopping for things she may never use.

With Guy Ritchie • Will Smith • Alan Tudyk • Dan Lin • Marwan Kenzari • John August • Billy Magnussen • Jonathan Eirich • Mena Massoud • Navid Negahban • Naomi Scott (III) • Nasim Pedrad • Numan Acar

The tale of the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie who may be the key to their future.

With Emily Bett Rickards • Jacob Wysocki • Nikki Limo • Reginald VelJohnson • Matthew Glave • Jana Winternitz • Lily Holleman • Pete Gardner • Jessica Diggins • Aschleigh Jensen

Walter Campbell (Matthew Glave) is an aging heartthrob struggling to keep up appearances— especially with his estranged daughter, Nic (Jana Winternitz). In an attempt to reconnect with his family, he invites himself to crash her vacation in Big Sur. Offering a ride to her friend Kim (Emily Bett Rickards), they bond in unexpected ways that are sure to ruin the lives of everyone in their path.

With Courtney Eaton • Abbie Cornish • Garrett Wareing • Tao Okamoto • Maurice Compte • Ted Kupper • Eddie Alcazar

Perfect introduces Garrett Wareing as an emotionally-troubled young man. His mother (Abbie Cornish) sends him to a clinic, where modernist serenity whispers soothing promises of perfection. By planting plug-and-play characteristics directly into his own body, he is relieved of his dark, twisted visions, but his body pays the price for purity of mind.

With Matthew Vaughn • Taron Egerton • Bryce Dallas Howard • Gemma Jones • Richard Madden • Jamie Bell • David Furnish • Michael Gracey • Dexter Fletcher • Elton John • Steve Hamilton-Shaw • Lee Hall • Steve Hamilton Shaw • Claudia Schiffer

An epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years. The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation from shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight into international superstar Elton John. This inspirational story – set to Elton John’s most beloved songs and performed by star Taron Egerton – tells the universally relatable story of how a small-town boy became one of the most iconic figures in pop culture.

With Alexandre Landry • Maripier Morin • Remy Girard • Denys Arcand

Pierre-Paul Daoust, 36, an intellectual with a PhD in philosophy is forced to work as a deliveryman to afford a decent living. One day, while delivering a parcel, he gets caught in a hold up gone terribly wrong: two dead and millions in money bags laying on the ground. Pierre-Paul is confronted with a dilemma: leave empty handed, or take the money and run?

With Dominga Sotomayor

During the summer of 1990 in Chile, a small group of families lives in an isolated community right below the Andes, building a new world away from the urban excesses, with the emerging the freedom that followed the recent end of the dictatorship.

In this time of change and reckoning,16-year-old Sofía and Lucas, and 10-year-old Clara, neighbors in this dry land, struggle with parents, first loves, and fears, as they prepare a big party for New Year’s Eve. They may live far from the dangers of the city, but not from those of nature.

With Selvaraghavan • Ponnvannan • Surya • Sai Pallavi • Rakul Preet • Bala Singh • Dhevaraj

A young man embarks on a political journey that results in a socio-political revolution.