Drama Movies 2020 List

With Kelly Blatz • Anne Gee Byrd • Tom Bower • Travis Van Winkle • Matt Bush • Marlyn Mason • Loren Lester

An 84-year-old charming but delusional WWII veteran forms romantic relationships with two elderly women and goes on a crusade to save them from the isolation of their retirement homes in East Hollywood.

With Sahm McGlynn • Will David • Anna Irving • Ben Lynch

Joshua's life is unraveling. His girlfriend has a wandering eye, his boss makes him stay late every day, he's caught up in a holistic health scam and his old pal Bucky just showed up with bad news. But things aren't always as they seem.

With Stellan Skarsgard • Tobias Santelmann • Jon Ranes • Hans Petter Moland • Bjørn Floberg • Danica Curcic

November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone. As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbors, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realizes he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned 15. The summer Trond grew up.

With Robert Pattinson • Johnny Depp • Greta Scacchi • Ciro Guerra • Mark Rylance • J.M. Coetzee • Gana Bayarsaikhan

The MAGISTRATE, administrator of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire, looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of COLONEL JOLL, whose task it is to report on the activities of the ‘barbarians’ and on the security situation on the border. JOLL conducts a series of ruthless interrogations. The treatment of the ‘barbarians’ at the hands of the Colonel and the torture of a young ‘barbarian’ woman combine to lead the Magistrate to a crisis of conscience and a quixotic act of rebellion.

With Liam Neeson • James D'Arcy • Lindsay Duncan • Pippa Cross • Micheál Richardson • Valeria Bilello

A bohemian London artist returns to Italy with his estranged son (Micheál Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife.

With Ellen Wong • Sareth Has • Sreynan Chea • Small World Small Band • Daniel Chea • Asanai Hang • Thouna Kanika • Socheat Chea • Caylee So • Sok Visal • Dane Styler

In the Life of Music follows the journey of Hope, a young American girl visiting her relatives in Cambodia for the first time. Determined to learn the history of her parents, Hope discovers the story of how one song, “Champa Battambang” played an integral part of three generations. Starting with how her parents met and fell in love in 1968, to their fight for survival during the war-torn Khmer Rouge years of the 1970’s and finally finishing in the modern day with Hope getting the answers she has longed for.

With Bobby Roth • Ming-Na Wen • Bruce Davison • Sarah Carter • Anthony LaPaglia • Barbara Williams

After her mother is murdered by her stepfather, gifted 15 year old student Pearl goes to live with an ex-lover of her mother, a grumpy unemployed film director who, pending the results of a paternity test, may be her biological father.

With Basil Iwanyk • Scott Speer • Nicholas Hamilton • Gabriela Bacher • Famke Janssen • Alexandra Shipp • Kevin DeWalt • Sean Finegan • Erica Lee • DeRon Horton • O’Neil Sharma • Andre Case

Follows two love struck high school graduates Riley (Alexandra Shipp) and Chris (Nicholas Hamilton) who are separated by a tragic car accident leaving Riley to deal with a lost love and Chris stuck in limbo. In a love story that transcends life and death, both Riley and Chris are forced to learn the hardest lesson of all: letting go.

With Mei Hu • Jinghan Ma • Dalong Fu • Ziwen Wang • Yili Ma • Jiao Huang

Yue Jiu, the most famous opera singer in all of Imperial China, is expelled from the capital city for vulgarity. He heads south, where he encounters Wang Runsheng, a promising young opera singer for the Chuntai Troupe. When the Emperor invites all of China’s opera troupes back to the capital city for a celebration, Yue Jiu and Runsheng are forced to choose between their reputations, their safety, and their love of opera.

With Ethan Hawke • Eve Hewson • Uri Singer • Kyle MacLachlan • Jim Gaffigan • Donnie Keshawarz • Josh Hamilton • Isen Robbins • Michael Almereyda • Rebecca Dayan • Lucy Walters

Brilliant, visionary Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) fights an uphill battle to bring his revolutionary electrical system to fruition, then faces thornier challenges with his new system for worldwide wireless energy. The film tracks Tesla’s uneasy interactions with his fellow inventor Thomas Edison (Kyle MacLachlan) and his patron George Westinghouse (Jim Gaffigan). Another thread traces Tesla’s sidewinding courtship of financial titan J.P. Morgan (Donnie Keshawarz), whose daughter Anne (Eve Hewson) takes a more than casual interest in the inventor. Anne analyzes and presents the story as it unfolds, offering a distinctly modern voice to this scientific period drama which, like its subject, defies convention.

With Walton Goggins • AnnaSophia Robb • Andy Garcia • Taylor Russell • Devon Bostick • Charlie Plummer • Pete Shilaimon • Beth Grant • Lobo Sebastian • Thor Freudenthal • Mickey Liddell • Nick Naveda • with Molly Parker

Tells the story of Adam (Charlie Plummer), who appears to be your typical young adult – a little unkempt with raging hormones and excited about a future pursuing his dream of becoming a chef. Expelled halfway through his senior year, Adam is diagnosed with a mental illness that he keeps secret at his new school. Living in constant fear of being exposed, Adam finds a soulful, comforting connection in Maya (Taylor Russell), an outspoken and fiercely intelligent girl who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition. With the love and support of his newfound romance and family, Adam is hopeful for the very first time that he can see the light and triumph over the challenges that lie ahead.

With Donald Sutherland • Neil LaBute • Elizabeth Debicki • Mick Jagger • William Horberg • Claes Bang • Rosalind Halstead • Katie McGovern • Alessandro Fabrizi

An art critic asked to steal the work of a reclusive painter.

With Lucy Liu • Adrian Grenier • Mya Taylor • Thom Fitzgerald • Jackie Beat

When conservative, Texas church-choir director Maybelline (Jacki Weaver) inherits her recently deceased son’s drag club, she surprises her closed-minded husband and everyone else she knows by moving alone to San Francisco to save the club from bankruptcy. In this raucous, racy new environment, she begins to open up and find new meaning for her life, even becoming a mother-figure to the club’s flamboyant performers …until a surprise visit threatens to upend her new life.

With Moroni Benally • Zachariah George • Alray Nelson • Saila Huusko • Jasper Rischen

Moroni Benally is running for the presidency of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American nation in the US. Young, gay, Mormon, and highly educated, he sets out to confront the political establishment in a homecoming that challenges what he imagined home, and himself, to be. Simultaneously a behind-the-scenes look into a political campaign within a Native American community and an exploration of identities within the community, Moroni for President is an eye-opening and humorous portrait of a political race that runs surprisingly parallel to the current political landscape of the US at large.

With Mykelti Williamson • Bashir Salahuddin • Thomas Haden Church • Kevin Willmott • Alexandra Milchan • Aja Naomi King • Mo McRae • Trai Byers • Tosin Morohunfola

THE 24TH tells the incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917. The Houston Riot was a mutiny by 156 African American soldiers in response to the brutal violence and abuse at the hands of Houston police officers. The riot, which lasted two hours, led to the death of nine civilians, four policemen and two soldiers and resulted in the largest murder trial in history, which sentenced a total of nineteen men to execution, and forty-one men to life sentences.

With Angelina Jolie • Thea Sharrock • Bryan Cranston • Sam Rockwell • Danny DeVito • Mike White • Ariana Greenblatt • Helen Mirren • Brigham Taylor • Ramon Rodriguez • Allison Shearmur • Phillipa Soo • Brooklynn Prince • Chaka Khan • Ron Funches • Stephen Meinen • Bryan Oh • Eleanor Matsuura

Ivan is a 400-pound silverback gorilla who shares a communal habitat in a suburban shopping mall with Stella the elephant, Bob the dog, and various other animals. He has few memories of the jungle where he was captured, but when a baby elephant named Ruby arrives, it touches something deep within him. Ruby is recently separated from her family in the wild, which causes him to question his life, where he comes from and where he ultimately wants to be.

With Harvey Keitel • Sonia Braga • Joaquim de Almeida • Goran Visnjic • Barbara Nicolosi • Stephanie Gil • Lúcia Moniz • Marco Pontecorvo • Valerio D’Annunzio

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle.

With Dev Patel • Ben Whishaw • Tilda Swinton • Hugh Laurie • Gwendoline Christie • Paul Whitehouse • Peter Capaldi • Morfydd Clark • Armando Iannucci • Aneurin Barnard • Simon Blackwell • Anthony Welsh • Rosalind Eleazar

From birth to infancy, from adolescence to adulthood, the good-hearted David Copperfield is surrounded by kindness, wickedness, poverty and wealth, as he meets an array of remarkable characters in Victorian England. As David sets out to be a writer, in his quest for family, friendship, romance and status, the story of his life is the most seductive tale of all.

With Lou Taylor Pucci • Auli’i Cravalho • Fred Armisen • Ellen Goldsmith-Vein • Wyck Godfrey • Brett Haley • Anthony Jacques • Carol Burnett • Nora Kirkpatrick • Rhenzy Feliz • Justina Machado • James Duval • Judy Reyes • Daniel Dubiecki • Marty Bowen • Stella Maeve • Lee Stollman • Michael Younesi • Leah Fong • Ryan Kasmiskie • Matthew Quick • Gerald Isaac Waters • Taylor Richardson

Story of a teenage girl who, despite her difficult circumstances, is preternaturally optimistic about the world. She often helps those around her, resulting in strong bonds with a disparate group of outsiders in her community, until she faces a devastating loss and must confront her own challenges.