Drama Movies 2019 List

With Robert De Niro • Joaquin Phoenix • Zazie Beetz • Douglas Hodge • Brett Cullen • Todd Phillips • Bruce Berman • Frances Conroy • Shea Whigham • Scott Silver • Emma Koskoff • Josh Pais • Joseph Garner • Bill Camp • Dante Pereira-Olson • Michael Uslan • Richard Baratta • Glenn Fleshler • Marc Maron

Joker centers around the iconic arch-nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.

With Jackie Chan • Zhang Ziyi • Tsui Hark • Wu Jing • Daniel Lee • Jing Boran • Zhang Yi

Based on a true story from award winning director Daniel Lee (Three Kingdoms, 14 Blades), featuring China’s biggest stars Wu Jing (Wandering Earth, Wolf Warrior 2) and Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Grandmaster), and with a special guest appearance from superstar Jackie Chan. THE CLIMBERS is a cinematic retelling of the first Chinese climbers to summit Mount Everest - the first ever to do so from the North Ridge. Well-known as the most challenging side of the mountain, the perilous journey takes its toll on the mountaineers, physically and mentally, forcing them to make life or death decisions at every turn.

With Antonio Banderas • Penelope Cruz • Pedro Almodovar • Leonardo Sbaraglia • Asier Etxeandia • Raúl Arévalo • Nora Navas • Julieta Serrano

A series of re-encounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered.

With Reese Witherspoon • Jon Hamm • Natalie Portman • Zazie Beetz • Ellen Burstyn • Colman Domingo • Dan Stevens • Bruna Papandrea • Tig Notaro • Noah Hawley • Elliott DiGuiseppi • Brian C. Brown

The film centers on a married astronaut (Portman) who returns to Earth after a mission and begins an affair with a fellow astronaut (Hamm). She heads into a downward spiral as she loses her connection to her family — a condition that can afflict those who spend a long time in space — and when her lover begins another affair with an astronaut trainee (Beetz).

With James Franco • Dennis Quaid • Juno Temple • Jay Davis • Brian Cox • Josh Boone • Jack Kilmer • Vince Jolivette • Shameik Moore • Jane Levy

Life imitates deadly arts as a French New Wave obsessed film student, Terry, finds his muse in mysterious and beguiling actress, Catherine. Both Terry and his best friend, Phil, fall under the spell of this beautiful woman. But they soon realize that the more time they spend with her, the more enigmatic she becomes. After years of sex, betrayal, and collateral damage, the three end up in a dangerous situation that leaves one of them fighting for his life.

With Eddie Murphy • Craig Brewer • Mike Epps • Da'Vine Joy Randolph • Keegan-Michael Key • Chris Rock • Craig Robinson • Kodi Smit-McPhee • Wesley Snipes • T.I. • Tituss Burgess • Larry Karaszewski • Scott Alexander • Ron Cephas Jones

A biopic of envelope-pushing comedian and film producer Rudy Ray Moore.

With Monique Parent • Jessica Jade Andres • Sally Kirkland • Hugo Armstrong • Zachary Ray Sherman • Patrick Malone • Timothy V. Murphy • David Diaan • Rob Lambert • Joe Varkle • Albert Abraham • Travis Hammer

When a frustrated loner gains popularity as an Alt-Right vlogger, the online echo chamber turns his fears into a deadly rage.

With Jaeden Martell • Alex Neustaedter • Shea Whigham • Kristine Froseth • Daniel Zolghadri • Keean Johnson • Kevin McMullin • Mike Hodge

Alan, Red, and Smitty spend high summer on the Jersey Shore roving the boardwalk and getting into trouble. But the discovery of good old fashioned treasure sets the friends on an escalating course of suspicion and violence in this atmospheric thriller.

With Aaron Paul • Mary Elizabeth Winstead • Scoot McNairy • Mark Johnson • Paula VanDer Oest • Danny Murphy

When a young deaf boy comes across a wounded man in a snowdrift, he moves him to a nearby barn and helps nurse him back to health. Before long, it becomes clear how dangerous this man is, and the unlikely friendship that develops between the two may have grave consequences.

With Michael B. Jordan • Michael Green • Charles D. King • Kenny Goodman • Kim Roth • Carol Barbee • Seith Mann • Alisha Wainwright • Ja’Siah Young • Dennis Liu

Raising Dion follows the story of a woman named Nicole (Alisha Wainwright), who raises her son Dion (newcomer Ja’Siah Young) after the death of her husband, Mark (Michael B. Jordan). The normal dramas of raising a son as a single mom are amplified when Dion starts to manifest several mysterious, superhero-like abilities. Nicole must now keep her son’s gifts secret with the help of Mark’s best friend Pat (Jason Ritter), and protect Dion from antagonists out to exploit him while figuring out the origin of his abilities.

With Brad Pitt • Robert Pattinson • Sean Harris • Timothee Chalamet • Joel Edgerton • Ben Mendelsohn • Lily Rose Depp • Dede Gardner • Jeremy Kleiner • Tom Glynn-Carney • David Michod • Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie

Hal (Timothée Chalamet), wayward prince and reluctant heir to the English throne, has turned his back on royal life and is living among the people. But when his tyrannical father dies, Hal is crowned King Henry V and is forced to embrace the life he had previously tried to escape. Now the young king must navigate the palace politics, chaos and war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life — including his relationship with his closest friend and mentor, the ageing alcoholic knight, John Falstaff (Joel Edgerton).

With Song Kang-ho • Joon-Ho Bong • Chang Hyae-jin • Park So-dam • Jung Ziso • Sun-Kyun Lee • Cho Yeo-jeong

Ki-woo, the eldest son in a family of four unemployed adults, is introduced to the wealthy Park family for a well-paid tutoring job.

With Priyanka Chopra Jonas • Shonali Bose • Farhan Akhtar • Nilesh Maniyar • Zaira Wasim • Rohit Saraf

Tells the love story of a couple spanning 25 years, told through the lens of their spunky teenage daughter Aisha Chaudhary, who was diagnosed with a Pulmonary fibrosis.

With Tom Holland • Benedict Cumberbatch • Nicholas Hoult • Timur Bekmambetov • Basil Iwanyk • Katherine Waterston • Michael Shannon • Martin Scorsese • Michael Mitnick • Ann Ruark • Matthew Macfadyen • Steven Zaillian • Garrett Basch • Steve Zaillian • Alfonso Gomez-Rejon • Michele Wolkoff • Tuppence Middleton • Adam Sidman • Adam Ackland

Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules.

With Whit Hamilton • Benjamin Keepers • Virgina Newcomb • Whitney Hamilton • Carron Clark • Vinston Rickman • Tucker Meek • Boogie Dabney

When her brother, Henry, is killed during the battle of Antietam, his sister Grace returns home to take care of the family farm and Henry’s children. Life is hard, but fulfilling until Union soldiers invade their land burning the farm to the ground, wounding Grace, killing the adults and taking the children. With the help of a local woman, Virginia, Grace disguises herself as her dead brother, joins the Confederate ranks, becoming a fierce warrior hell bent on exacting revenge and rescuing the lone, surviving boy.

With Sam Worthington • Brad Anderson • Lily Rabe • Alan McElroy • Stephen Tobolowsky • Paul Schiff • Mike Macari • Neal Edelstein • Adjoa Andoh

Driving home after a tense holiday weekend with his in-laws, Ray Monroe (Sam Worthington), a well-meaning but overwhelmed family man, pulls into a rest area with his wife Joanne (Lily Rabe) and daughter Peri (Lucy Capri). The trip takes a turn for the worse when Peri is hurt in an accident and the family rushes to a nearby emergency room run by a staff with dubious intentions. After being sent away for further testing Peri and Joanne vanish and all records of their visit disappear. Ray’s concern turns into a desperate race to find his family and discover the truth of what happened to them.

With Scarlett Johansson • Taika Waititi • Rebel Wilson • Sam Rockwell • Roman Griffin Davis • Thomasin McKenzie • Carthew Neal

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy (Roman Griffin Davis as JoJo) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.

With Robert Pattinson • Willem Dafoe • Robert Eggers • Youree Henley • Rodrigo Teixeira • Lourenço Sant’ Anna • Jan Van Hoy

Set at the start of the 20th century, the film is about lighthouse keepers in Maine.

With Hanyu Zhang • Shu Chen • Jiang Du • Qin Li • Andrew Lau Wai-Keung

On the morning of May 14th, 2018, Airbus flight A319 is thrown into a state of panic when the cockpit windshield shatters after takeoff. Cabin temperatures plummet, passengers are losing consciousness, and all communication to control is lost. Heading into an enormous storm with the co-pilot sucked halfway out of the cockpit window, the plane’s strong-willed Captain, Liu Chuan Jian, is determined to bring everyone home safely.

With Uzo Aduba • Matthew Modine • Vanessa Williams • Aunjanue Ellis • R. J. Daniel Hanna • Erin O'Connor • Niles Fitch • Nadji Jeter • Adina Porter

Based on a true story MISS VIRGINIA stars Uzo Aduba as an impoverished single mother who is losing her fifteen year-old son to the rough streets of Washington D.C. Unwilling to see him drop out and deal drugs, she places him in a private school. But when she can’t afford tuition, she launches a movement to change the system that is destroying him and thousands like him. Attacked and threatened by those who don’t want change –from corrupt politicians to the local drug lord, Virginia must discover depths of strength she never knew she had.

With Eric Roberts • James Helsing • René Mena • Mike C. Manning • Vannessa Vasquez • Linda Gray

A criminal attorney struggles with his sexuality, a cryptic new boyfriend, unemployment and the disturbing childhood secrets his parents hold.

With Mathilde Seigner • Olivier Gourmet • Alain Goldman • Alexis Michalik • Thomas Solivérès • Tom Leeb • Lucie Boujenah • Alice de Lencquesaing • Clémentine Célarié • Igor Gotesman

December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already has two children and too much anxiety. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the holidays. There’s one problem: it is not written yet. Ignoring the whims of actresses, the demands of his producers, the jealousy of his wife, the stories of his best friend's heart and the lack of enthusiasm of all those around him, Edmond must focus and put to pen to paper. For now, he has only the title: "Cyrano de Bergerac".

With Antonio Banderas • Meryl Streep • Gary Oldman • Lawrence Grey • David Schwimmer • Steven Soderbergh • Riley Keough • Will Forte • Michael Sugar • Greg Jacobs • Scott Z. Burns

When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Academy Award winner Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass even larger fortunes. The charming — and very well-dressed — founding partners Jürgen Mossack (Academy Award winner Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Golden Globe nominee Antonio Banderas) are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen's predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world's corrupt financial system.

With Rita Edward • Dean Cameron • Russel G. Jones • Antonio J. Bell • Chinaza Uche • Tina Mba • Bimbo Manuel • Ebbe Bassey • Craig Stott • Omar Maskati • Faraday Okoro • Andrew Long

Nigerian Prince follows Eze, a stubborn first generation Nigerian-American teenager, and his cousin, Pius, a desperate Nigerian Prince scammer. After Eze’s mother sends him to Nigeria against his will, Eze retaliates by teaming up with Pius to scam unsuspecting foreigners in order to earn money for a return ticket back to America.

With Tom Holland • Benedict Cumberbatch • Nicholas Hoult • Timur Bekmambetov • Basil Iwanyk • Katherine Waterston • Michael Shannon • Martin Scorsese • Michael Mitnick • Ann Ruark • Matthew Macfadyen • Steven Zaillian • Garrett Basch • Steve Zaillian • Alfonso Gomez-Rejon • Michele Wolkoff • Tuppence Middleton • Adam Sidman • Adam Ackland

Benedict Cumberbatch is Thomas Edison, the celebrity inventor on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power the nation, they spark one of the first and greatest corporate feuds in American history, establishing for future Titans of Industry the need to break all the rules.

With Brian Presley • Henry Thomas • Bruce Davison • Brea Bee • James Russo • Treat Williams • Brad Leland

Based on true events of 1925, the story follows the diphtheria outbreak in Nome, Alaska. Against all odds, musher Leonhard Seppala must rely on his strong will and team of sled dogs to overcome personal tragedy and nature’s wrath to save his beloved town.

With Eddie Murphy • Craig Brewer • Mike Epps • Da'Vine Joy Randolph • Keegan-Michael Key • Chris Rock • Craig Robinson • Kodi Smit-McPhee • Wesley Snipes • T.I. • Tituss Burgess • Larry Karaszewski • Scott Alexander • Ron Cephas Jones

A biopic of envelope-pushing comedian and film producer Rudy Ray Moore.