Drama Movies 2020 List

With Ryan Eggold • Talia Ryder • Sara Murphy • Adele Romanski • Eliza Hittman • Théodore Pellerin • Sidney Flanigan • Sharon Van Etten • Rose Garnett

The story focuses on two teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania. Faced with an unintended pregnancy and a lack of local support, Autumn and her cousin Skylar embark on a brave, fraught journey across state lines to New York City.

With Jesse Eisenberg • Edgar Ramirez • Ed Harris • Malgorzata Szumowska • Bella Ramsey • Vica Kerekes • Clemence Poesy • Jonathan Jakubowicz • Matthias Schweighöfer • Karl Markovics • Géza Röhrig • Félix Moati

Before he was the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau, he was Marcel Mangel, an aspiring Jewish actor who joined the French Resistance to save the lives of thousands of children orphaned at the hands of the Nazis. Jesse Eisenberg stars in this compelling drama about a group of unsung heroes who put themselves in harm’s way to rise above hatred and oppression during World War II. As a young man growing up in Nazi-occupied Europe, Marcel has no intention of getting involved in the war – his pursuits include impersonating Charlie Chaplin in burlesque clubs, painting backdrops for his plays, and antagonizing his obstinate father. His life is thrown into upheaval when he is recruited into the French Resistance, putting his acting skills to the ultimate test in teaching orphaned Jewish children how to survive in the horrifying reality of the Holocaust.

With Malgorzata Szumowska • Michiel Huisman • Raffey Cassidy • Denise Gough • C.S. McMullen • Kelly Campbell • Eve Connolly • Isabelle Connolly

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah (Raffey Cassidy) has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd (Michiel Huisman), a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

With Karim Ainouz • Fernanda Montenegro • Carol Duarte • Julia Stockler

Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other. A tropical melodrama from the director of Madame Satã.

With Javier Bardem • Salma Hayek • Elle Fanning • Laura Linney • Branka Katic • Sally Potter • Milena Tscharntke

Sally Potter’s THE ROADS NOT TAKEN follows a day in the life of Leo (Javier Bardem) and his daughter, Molly (Elle Fanning) as she grapples with the challenges of her father’s chaotic mind. As they weave their way through New York City, Leo’s journey takes on a hallucinatory quality as he floats through alternate lives he could have lived, leading Molly to wrestle with her own path as she considers her future.

With Steve Tientcheu • Damien Bonnard • Ladj Ly • Giordano Gederlini • Alexis Manenti • Djibril Zonga • Issa Perica • Al-Hassan Ly • Almamy Kanouté • Nizar Ben Fatma • Raymond Lopez

follows Stéphane (Damien Bonnard), a recent transplant to the impoverished suburb of Montfermeil, as he joins the local anti-crime squad. Working alongside his unscrupulous colleagues Chris (Alexis Manenti) and Gwada (Djebril Zonga), Stéphane struggles to maintain order amidst the mounting tensions between local gangs. When an arrest turns unexpectedly violent, the three officers must reckon with the aftermath and keep the neighborhood from spiraling out of control.

With Noah Schnapp • Mark Margolis • Arian Moayed • Seu Jorge • Dagmara Dominczyk • Carlos Eduardo Ciampolini • Fabiano Gullane • Gero Camilo • Noberto Pinheiro Jr. • Caio Gullane • Fernando Grostein Andrade • Salem Murphy • Tom Mardirosian • Daniel Oreskes

12-year-old Abe is an aspiring chef, but his family—half-Israeli, half-Palestinian—have never had a meal together without a fight. But when Abe ditches his traditional summer camp to spend time with radical street chef Chico, his mentor’s fusion cuisine inspires him to unite his family through food. Abe decides to cook a meal that will bring everyone to the table, but he’s about to learn that the kitchen can’t heal some age-old divides.

With Vincenzo Nemolato • Pietro Marcello • Jessica Cressy • Carlo Cecchi • Luca Marinelli

Set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history yet adapted from a 1909 novel by American author Jack London, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The twinned dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political reawakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman.

With Sam Riley • Bill Nighy • Tim McInnerny • John Westley • Frank Cottrell Boyce • Roy Boulter • Alan Latham • Alice Lowe • Carl Hunter • Solon Papadopoulos • Jenny Agutter

A man searches for his missing son, who he has not seen in years. The family's life is turned upside down when a body is found. They must then learn to reconnect with each other.

With Miguel Rodarte • Omar Chaparro • Kim Jun-Han • Paul Fruchbom • Mauricio Ochmann • Mauricio Barrientos • Ariel Winograd • Zuria Vega • Kim Tae-Sik

A mild mannered man, Tomás, goes to Puerto Vallarta to confront the cabdriver having an affair with his wife, only to end up driving back to Mexico City with him. Over the course of an eventful long distance drive, a strange bond develops between the pair.

With Sebastian Stan • Jamie Dornan • Shailene Woodley • Matthew Gray Gubler • Kyra Sedgwick • Lindsay Sloane • Drake Doremus • Jardine Libaire

Set in current day Los Angeles follows Daphne (Woodley), a thirtysomething woman navigating love and heartbreak over the course of one year. During that time, she will unlock the secrets to her life in a sudden turn of events and in the most surprising of places.

With Ana de Armas • Bradley Whitford • Greg Barker • Wagner Moura • Brian F. O'Byrne • Clemens Schick

Charismatic and complex, Sergio Vieira de Mello (Wagner Moura) has spent the majority of his storied career as a top UN diplomat working in the world’s most unstable regions, deftly navigating deals with presidents, revolutionaries, and war criminals for the sake of protecting the lives of ordinary people. But just as he readies himself for a simpler life with the woman he loves (Ana de Armas), Sergio takes one last assignment — in Baghdad, newly plunged into chaos following the US invasion. The assignment is meant to be brief, until a bomb blast causes the walls of the UN headquarters to come literally crashing down upon him, setting into motion a gripping life-or-death struggle.

With David Kross • Frederick Lau • Janina Uhse • Anne Schäfer • Sophia Thomalla

Ready to do anything to get rich, a young man upends the Berlin property market with his shady pal, till the good times threaten to destroy it all.

With Jesse Williams • Jharrel Jerome • Lovie Simone • Gina Torres • Celeste O’Connor • Tayarisha Poe

In the closed world of an elite Pennsylvania boarding school, Haldwell, the student body is run by five factions. Seventeen-year-old Selah Summers (Lovie Simone) runs the most dominant group, the Spades, with unshakable poise, as they cater to the most classic of vices and supply students with coveted, illegal alcohol and pills. Tensions between the factions escalate, and when Selah’s best friend/right hand Maxxie (MOONLIGHT’s Jharrel Jerome) becomes distracted by a new love, Selah takes on a protégée, enamored sophomore Paloma (Celeste O'Connor), to whom she imparts her wisdom on ruling the school. But with graduation looming and Paloma proving an impressively quick study, Selah’s fears turn sinister as she grapples with losing the control by which she defines herself.

With Charlie Hunnam • Russell Crowe • Dacre Montgomery • Travis Fimmel • Nicholas Hoult • George MacKay • Sean Keenan • Harry Greenwood • Thomasin McKenzie • Earl Cave • Marlon Williams • Louis Hewison • Essie Davis • Justin Kurzel • Shaun Grant • Earl Cave. • Orlando Schwerdt

Legendary outlaw Ned Kelly (George MacKay) leads a band of rebel warriors to wreak havoc on their oppressors in this gritty and veracious western thriller.

With Jared Harris • Patrick Fugit • Angus MacFadyen • Richard Gray • Zach McGowan • Anna Hutchinson • Emma Kenney • Daniel Portman • Talitha Eliana Bateman • Mhairi Calvey • Eric Belgau

King Robert the Bruce is injured and on the run from the English army. On the brink of defeat, a widow and her family nurse him back to health and join The Bruce as he sets out to claim the long-awaited freedom of Scotland.

With Ed Westwick • John Hannah • Ekaterina Valdimirova • Corey Johnson • Michael Wright • Tom Wisdom • Tom George • Anders Banke

November 1943. A British commando squad is teamed with an American officer on a covert mission into Poland, deep behind enemy lines. Working with the resistance they cross the harsh wilderness intent on kidnapping and extracting a sought-after Polish scientist, Dr Fabian, from the Germans.

With Malin Akerman • Tony Hale • Lucas Jade Zumann • Martha Stephens • Shea Whigham • Jordana Spiro • Adelaide Clemens • Liana Liberato • Kara Hayward • Shannon Bradley-Colleary

Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer's daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.

With Hugh Jackman • Geraldine Viswanathan • Eddie Vaisman • Allison Janney • Cory Finley • Ray Romano • Oren Moverman • Brian Kavanaugh-Jones • Fred Berger • Julia Lebedev • Mike Makowsky

Inspired by a school district scandal on Long Island, Bad Education deals with the public and private lives of the superintendent Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman), assistant/office coordinator Pam Gluckin (Allison Janney), and school board president Bob Spicer (Ray Romano). Slowly we see things start to unravel revealing Frank's double life, including a fling with a former pupil. In addition, Pam has been using the Official office credit card for more than school business.