Drama Movies 2020 List

With Thomas Kretschmann • Noah Schnapp • Anjelica Huston • Jean Reno • Joséphine dela Baume • Tomas Lemarquis • Sadie Frost • Ben Cookson • Michael Morpurgo • Toby Torlesse • Elsa Zylbertsein

A teenage shepherd boy (Noah Schnapp) and a reclusive widow Horcada (Anjelica Huston) help smuggle Jewish children into Spain in the World War II drama.

With Levan Akin • Levan Gelbakhiani • Bachi Valishvili • Ana Javakishvili • Giorgi Tsereteli • Tamar Bukhnikashvili • Marika Gogichaishvili

A passionate tale of love and liberation set amidst the conservative confines of modern Georgian society, AND THEN WE DANCED follows Merab, a devoted dancer who has been training for years with his partner Mary for a spot in the National Georgian Ensemble. The arrival of another male dancer, Irakli—gifted with perfect form and equipped with a rebellious streak—throws Merab off balance, sparking both an intense rivalry and romantic desire that may cause him to risk his future in dance as well as his relationships with Mary and his family.

With Molly Shannon • John Ortiz • Jay Duplass • Alison Brie • Debby Ryan • Jeff Baena • John Reynolds

Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions from reality.

With Lil Rel Howery • Lakeith Stanfield • Chanté Adams • Will Packer • Courtney B. Vance • Y’lan Noel • Teyonah Parris • Stella Meghie • Issa Rae • Chelsea Peretti • Rob Morgan • Kingsley Ben-Adir

When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton (Rae) hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother’s early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block (Stanfield).

With Noémie Merlant • Valeria Golino • Céline Sciamma • Adèle Haenel • Luàna Bajrami

Brittany, France, 1760. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young lady who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day and secretly paints her at night. Intimacy and attraction grow between the two women as they share Héloïse’s first and last moments of freedom, all whilst Marianne paints the portrait that will end it all.

With Will Ferrell • Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Kristofer Hivju • Jim Rash • Julian Grey • Miranda Otto • Nat Faxon • Zach Woods • Anthony Bregman • Jesse Armstrong • Zoë Chao • Stefanie Azpiazu • Ammon Jacob Ford

In Downhill, barely escaping an avalanche during a ski vacation in the Alps throws a seemingly picture-perfect family into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate life, and how they truly feel about each other.

With Liam Neeson • Lesley Manville • David Wilmot • Glenn Leyburn • Lisa Barros D'Sa • Owen McCafferty • Amit Shah • Esh Alladi

Joan and Tom (Academy Award nominee Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson) have been married for many years. An everyday couple with a remarkable love, there is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a lifetime together. When Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their enduring devotion, as they must find the humor and grace to survive a year of adversity.

With Justin Benson • Brea Grant • Henry Zebrowski • Jeremy Gardner • Christian Stella • Nicola Masciotra • Ashley Song

Ten years into his small-town, storybook romance with Abby, Hank suddenly wakes up to an empty home. With nothing but a cryptic note to explain why she left, Hank’s charmed life begins to fall apart. To make matters worse, Abby’s disappearance seems to trigger the arrival of a ferocious creature that crawls out of the old grove on the edge of his property.

With Ravi Patel • Richard Wong • Janeane Garofalo • C.S. Lee • Erik Linthorst • Gabourey Sidibe • Hayden Szeto • Grant Rosenmeyer

Three young men with disabilities (Grant Rosenmeyer, Hayden Szeto, and Ravi Patel) flee their overbearing parents on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Sam (Gabourey Sidibe), a traveling nurse, drives the three guys across the border as they go on this trip to lose their virginity and embrace their independence.

With Heather Graham • Aisling Chin-Yee • Sophie Nelisse • Alanna Francis • Abigail Pniowsky • Jodi Balfour • Katie Nolan • Lindsay Tapscott • Emma Fleury • William Woods

Follows a quartet of women struggling with their own truths, flaws and secrets as their pasts color their future.

With Steven Spielberg • Richard Dreyfuss • Lorraine Gary • Murray Hamilton • Roy Scheider • Robert Shaw • Carl Gottlieb

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police (Roy Scheider), a young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a grizzled shark hunter (Robert Shaw) embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again. Featuring an unforgettable score that evokes pure terror, Jaws remains one of the most influential and gripping adventures in motion picture history.

With Ana de Armas • John Leguizamo • Helen Hunt • Tye Sheridan • Michael Cristofer • David M. Wulf

While on duty, a young, socially challenged hotel clerk (Tye Sheridan) witnesses a murder in one of the rooms but his suspicious actions land him as the lead detective’s (John Leguizamo) number one suspect.

With Khris Davis • Sam de Jong • Gbenga Akinnagbe • Danny Hoch • George Sample III • Marsha Stephanie Blake • Slick Woods • Edwina Findley Dickerson

Goldie is a star – well, not quite yet, but at least in the eyes of her little sisters Sherrie and Supreme she is. The rest of the world is bound to take note soon too. Her big break surely awaits, she’s just got to pick up that golden fur coat she’s had her eye on first. And land a role as a dancer in a hip-hop video. And keep child welfare services from separating her from Sherrie and Supreme, after their mother is locked up. Holding onto those dreams isn’t easy when fate has placed such daunting obstacles in her path. With Goldie, Dutch director Sam de Jong has delivered a real New York film: raw and glamorous, unflinchingly realistic and relentlessly optimistic, with a ton of heart and at least as much attitude.

With Jinpa • Sonam Wangmo • Genden Puntsok • Pema Tseden

On an isolated road driving across Kekexili Plateau, the world’s highest plains, a trucker picks up a young hitchhiker who shares his name: Jinpa. The truck driver soon discovers that the young man is on a dangerous mission. Could their brief time together change both of their lives?

With Ben Affleck • Anne Hathaway • Willem Dafoe • Toby Jones • Cassian Elwes • Edi Gathegi • Dee Rees • Onata Aprile • Marco Villalobos • Laura Niemi • Rosie Perez • Mel Rodriguez • Carlos Leal • Wayne Marc Godfrey • Robert Jones

Adapted from the Joan Didion novel of the same title, The Last Thing He Wanted is set against the nebulous milieu of the Iran-Contra scandal. Veteran D.C. journalist Elena McMahon (Academy Award winner Anne Hathaway) abandons the 1984 campaign trail out of a misguided sense of duty to her father, Dick McMahon (Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe). Guilted into running a dangerous fool’s errand on his behalf, Elena leverages the moment to pursue her own investigation but instead gets tipped into the confounding center of the very intrigue she’s trying to expose. Answers turn into questions and wrong turns lead to dead ends in this stylish political thriller as Elena becomes increasingly lost on a map of someone else’s making and the possibility of return — to home and to herself — slowly narrows.

With Leigh Whannell • Storm Reid • Aldis Hodge • Jason Blum • Kylie du Fresne • Elisabeth Moss • Oliver Jackson-Cohen • Couper Samuelson • Charles Layton • Rosemary Blight • Jeanette Volturno • Harriet Dyer • Beatriz Sequeira • Ben Grant

Trapped in a violent, controlling relationship with a wealthy and brilliant scientist, Cecilia Kass (Moss) escapes in the dead of night and disappears into hiding, aided by her sister, their childhood friend, and his teenage daughter. But when Cecilia’s abusive ex (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), commits suicide and leaves her a generous portion of his vast fortune, Cecilia suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of eerie coincidences turns lethal, threatening the lives of those she loves, Cecilia’s sanity begins to unravel as she desperately tries to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

With Krzysztof Meyn • Benh Zeitlin • Ahmad Cage • Eliza Zeitlin • Devin France • Yashura Mack • Gage Naquin • Gavin Naquin • Romyri Ross

The classic story of Peter Pan is wildly reimagined in this ragtag epic from Benh Zeitlin, director of BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. Lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued, Wendy must fight to save her family, her freedom, and the joyous spirit of youth from the deadly peril of growing up.

With James Sweeney • Katie Findlay • Randall Park • James Scully • Tracie Thoms • Betsy Brandt

Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex. Writer-Director-Star James Sweeney delivers a razor sharp rom-com that’s equal parts Classical Hollywood and distinctly 21st century, exploring just how elastic our definitions of love and sexuality can get.

With Ingvar Sigurdsson • Hlynur Palmason • Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir • Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir • Hilmir Snær Guðnason • Björn Ingi Hilmarsson • Elma Stefania Agustsdottir • Haraldur Stefansson

In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief (a chilling Ingvar Sigurdsson, who received Cannes’ Critics’ Week award for Best Actor for his performance) begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth takes over his life and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.

With Forest Whitaker • Andrea Riseborough • Tom Wilkinson • Garrett Hedlund • Robbie Brenner • Crystal Fox • Tess Harper • Usher Raymond • Bill Kenwright • Andrew Heckler

Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (The Butler, Black Panther) and Garrett Hedlund (Mudbound) star in a powerful and timely true-story of faith and love overcoming hate. Set in a small South Carolina town scarred from deep-rooted racism in the mid-nineties, an unlikely friendship forms when an African American Reverend (Whitaker) shelters Mike Burden (Hedlund) a KKK member, along with his girlfriend Judy, a single mother played by Andrea Riseborough. Through his faith and love, Reverend Kennedy helps Mike leave his violent past in the Klan ultimately helping to heal the community.

With Alex Thompson • Kelly O'Sullivan • Charin Alvarez • Braden Crothers • Laura T. Fisher • Mary Beth Fisher

After an abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.

With Eric Johnson • Marie-Josee Croze • David Cronenberg • Tuppence Middleton • Hannah Gross • Albert Shin

Following the death of her mother, Abby (Tuppence Middleton), a troubled young woman with a checkered past, returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls and the dilapidated motel her family used to run. While there, she finds herself drawn once again into a mystery that has haunted her since childhood: what happened to the young boy she saw being violently abducted in the woods twenty-five years ago? As Abby sets out to find out the truth, she must confront both a shocking, long-buried conspiracy that runs as deep as the falls themselves as well as her own inner demons.

With Isla Fisher • Steve Coogan • Stephen Fry • Shirley Henderson • Asa Butterfield • Sophie Cookson • Michael Winterbottom • David Mitchell • Sarah Solemani • Shanina Shaik • Dinita Gohil • Asim Chaudhry • Pearl Mackie • Jonny Sweet • Ollie Locke

Steve Coogan stars in the satire as a self-made British billionaire who throws an extravagant 60th birthday party for himself to save his fashion empire.

With Elle Fanning • Luke Wilson • Virginia Gardner • Sofia Hasmik • Justice Smith • Andrew Spaulding • Brett Haley • Liz Hannah • with Keegan-Michael Key • Alexandra Shipp • Paula Mazar • Doug Mankoff • Mitchell Kaplan • Lamar Johnson • Kelli O’Hara • Felix Mallard • Jennifer Niven • Brittany Kahan Ward

Based on the internationally bestselling novel by Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places tells the story of Violet Markey (Elle Fanning) and Theodore Finch (Justice Smith), who meet and change each other’s lives forever. As they struggle with the emotional and physical scars of their past, they come together, discovering that even the smallest places and moments can mean something. This compelling drama provides a refreshing and human take on the experience of mental illness, its impact on relationships, as well as the beauty and lasting impact of young love.