Drama Movies 2020 List

With Millie Bobby Brown • Henry Cavill • Helena Bonham Carter • Jack Thorne • Harry Bradbeer

England, 1884 – a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she’s gone or why. After a free-spirited childhood, Enola suddenly finds herself under the care of her brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), both set on sending her away to a finishing school for “proper” young ladies. Refusing to follow their wishes, Enola escapes to search for her mother in London. But when her journey finds her entangled in a mystery surrounding a young runaway Lord (Louis Partridge), Enola becomes a super-sleuth in her own right, outwitting her famous brother as she unravels a conspiracy that threatens to set back the course of history.

With Christopher Nolan • Robert Pattinson • Michael Caine • Elizabeth Debicki • John David Washington • Kenneth Branagh • Clemence Poesy • Aaron Johnson • Emma Thomas • Himesh Patel • Dimple Kapadia

John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan’s original sci-fi action spectacle “Tenet.” Armed with only one word—Tenet—and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Not time travel. Inversion.

With Jake Curran • Sylvester McCoy • Julius Berg • Matthieu Gompel • Maisie Wiliams • Ian Kenny • Rita Tushingham • Andrew Ellis • Stacha Hicks

A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues the would-be thieves are left to fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

With John Leguizamo • Dito Montiel • Jorge Lendeborg Jr. • Rachel Bay Jones • Angel Bismark Curiel • Will Hochman • Corwin C. Tuggles • Jeffry Batista • Ramses Jimenez • Zora Casebere

Based on a true story from 1998, five LatinX and Black teenagers from the toughest underserved ghetto in Miami fight their way into the National Chess Championship under the guidance of their unconventional but inspirational teacher.

With Brie Larson • Jessie Buckley • Jesse Plemons • Anthony Bregman • Toni Collette • David Thewlis • Charlie Kaufman • Stefanie Azpiazu

Despite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of everything she knew or understood about her boyfriend, herself, and the world.

With Vincent Kartheiser • Jeff Orlowski • Kara Hayward • Skyler Gisondo

The Social Dilemma is a powerful exploration of the disproportionate impact that a relatively small number of engineers in Silicon Valley have over the way we think, act, and live our lives. The film deftly tackles an underlying cause of our viral conspiracy theories, teenage mental health issues, rampant misinformation and political polarization, and makes these issues visceral, understandable, and urgent.

With Fathia Youssouf • Médina El Aidi-Azouni • Esther Gohourou • Ilanah Cami-Goursolas • Myriam Hamma • Maïmouna Gueye • Mbissine Thérèse Diop • Demba Diaw • Mamadou Samaké • Maïmouna Doucouré

Eleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative family’s traditions when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew.

With Giancarlo Esposito • Haley Lu Richardson • Mary McCormack • Breckin Meyer • Lucy Kitada • Jessica Switch • Greg Berlanti • Erik Feig • Sarah Schechter • Sugar Lyn Beard • Barbie Ferreira • Jenni Hendriks • Ted Caplan • Rachel Lee Goldenberg • Ramona Young

A coming-of-age story that focuses on a Missouri teen who hits the highway with a friend to obtain a legal abortion.

With Keisha Castle-Hughes • Jeff Kober • Adam Saunders • Sarah Bishop • Tama Lundon • Michael Long • Danielle Hayes • Chris Herd

E wants to write a hit song, but he is a rapper with nothing original to say. Roaming the streets of Sydney, he searches for the meaning of life, running into some seedy characters while trying to find himself. He ends up going on an adventure to learn about his cultural roots but meets a mysterious girl who upends his life so that E must hit rock bottom before he can find his voice.

With Sarm Heng • Thanawut Ketsaro • Mony Ros • Rodd Rathjen

This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test. Spirited 14-year-old Chakra works the rice fields with his family. He yearns for independence and seeks out a local broker who can get him paid work in a Thai factory. Without telling his family, Chakra travels to Bangkok to make his fortune. But when he gets there, he and his new friend Kea realise the broker has lied to them. Along with other Cambodians and Burmese, they are sold to a fishing captain as slaves. Chakra and Kea are trapped at sea, trawling fish 22 hours a day, surviving on just a handful of cold rice a day. The captain quickly weeds out those weakened by the conditions or trying to escape, and throws them overboard. The trawler sells its catch and restocks its supplies without going to land, making escape impossible. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around them, Kea begins to lose his mind. When his only ally is killed, Chakra looks to Rom Ran to understand what it will take to be free. With hope and humanity dwindling, Chakra decides to take control of the trawler.

With Brenton Thwaites • Lily Sullivan • Luke Eve • Glen Dolman • Joel Jackson • Zahra Newman • Peter Rowsthorn • Adam Dolman

An impulsive musician struggling with schizophrenia falls for a mysterious woman who may be all in his head. When she suddenly vanishes, he takes off on a cross-country journey across Australia to find her, forcing his long-suffering brother to try to rescue him.

With Cara Santana • Tom Cavanagh • Malcolm Goodwin • Michael DeLorenzo • Victor Hawks • Malcolm J. Goodwin • Dawnn Lewis • Ade Chike Torbert

The story of a down and out girl, Celina, who tries to make amends with her dying father, Ramon, from whom she’s been estranged for the past 9 years. Ramon has a limited time to live without proper cancer treatments. Celina decides to go home, repair their relationship and get her father the necessary medical treatment. With the help of her community, she raises money by entering a music competition. Celina reconnects with her old friend, Marvin, a former gang member who is working hard at getting a second chance at life by doing some good for his community. Since Ramon had once helped Marvin when he needed it most, Marvin wants to return the favor. Together, Celina and Marvin decide to raise money for Ramon’s cancer treatment. When a music competition with a grand prize of 500 thousand dollars called ‘The Gold Standard’ is announced, Celina pushes herself to write music and sing again. Armed with Celina’s songs they form a singing and dancing group with Marvin and friends called The Mysfit Toys -- in hopes of winning the prize to save Ramon.

With William Norrett • T. Arthur Cottam • Natalia Ochoa • Kristin Carey • Shannon Leigh Godwin • Octavio Rodriguez • Will Holbrook

Story of a relationship between a high-class escort and a client who meet every Thursday night.

With Nina Ijäs • Pailin Wedel

A Thai scientist and his family decide to cryonically freeze their cherished, dying toddler. This heartfelt documentary follows their journey.

With Jude Law • Sean Durkin • Ed Guiney • Andrew Lowe • Charlie Shotwell • Carrie Coon • Oona Roche

A businessman brings his American wife and kids home to Britain to pursue new business opportunities, only to be plunged into despair as their unaffordable new life in an English manor threatens to destroy the family.

With Kate Winslet • Mia Wasikowska • Rainn Wilson • Diane Keaton • Sam Neill • Roger Michell • David Bernardi • Susan Sarandon • Lindsay Duncan • Sherryl Clark • Bex Taylor-Klaus • Christian Torpe • Anson Boon

Lily (Susan Sarandon) and Paul (Sam Neill) summon their loved ones to their beach house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her long battle with ALS on her own terms. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface between Lily and her daughters Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Anna (Mia Wasikowska). Joining the collective farewell are Lily’s son in law (Rainn Wilson), her lifelong friend (Lindsay Duncan), daughter’s partner (Bex Taylor-Klaus) and grandson (Anson Boon). Her story is ultimately one of hope, love and a celebration of life.

With Alexandra Daddario • Carice van Houten • William Olsson • Takehiro Hira • Catherine Hanrahan

An intoxicating exploration of contemporary Tokyo’s duality, Lost Girls & Love Hotels stars Alexandra Daddario (TV’s “True Detective”, San Andreas), Takehiro Hira (The Fighter Pilot, The Floating Castle) and Carice Van Houten (Valkyrie, Black Book). Based on screenwriter Catherine Hanrahan’s book of the same name, and directed by William Olsson, the film is a provocative journey inviting you to get lost within the darkest corridors of Japan in hopes of experiencing fleeting moments of beauty. We follow the passionate tale of love and lust between a haunted American English teacher Margaret (Daddario) and a dashing Yakuza named Kazu (Takehiro Hira) as their affair tears them apart and reshapes them across Tokyo’s landscape of dive bars, alleyways and three-hour love hotels.

With Wesley Patten • Emma Booth • Richard Roxburgh • Alessandra Tognini • Miriam Margolyes • Deborah Mailman • Joel Jackson • Daisy Axon • Talissa Mansfield • Chenae Wreford • Mand Markey • John Sheedy • Lisa Hoppe

A twelve year old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world, is inspired by the strange new boy at school and sets out to mend her broken family - whatever it takes.

With Millie Bobby Brown • Henry Cavill • Sam Claflin • Helena Bonham Carter • Jack Thorne • Harry Bradbeer

When Enola Holmes—Sherlock’s teen sister—discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord.

With Brad Pitt • Dede Gardner • Gina Rodriguez • Evan Rachel Wood • Jeremy Kleiner • Miranda July • Richard Jenkins • Debra Winger • Megan Ellison • Youree Henley

The film follows the story of Old Dolio and how her world is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join their biggest heist yet.

With Jessica Chastain • Colin Farrell • John Malkovich • Ioan Gruffudd • Tate Taylor • Jess Weixler • Joan Chen • Common • Geena Davis • Matthew Newton

Ava is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.

With Keira Knightley • Gugu Mbatha-Raw • Jessie Buckley • Suki Waterhouse • Greg Kinnear • Rhys Ifans • Keeley Hawes • Lesley Manville • Philippa Lowthorpe • Gaby Chiappe • Phyllis Logan. • Rebecca Frayn

Set in London in 1970 about the Miss World competition.

With Minka Kelly • Francois Arnaud • Tommy Dewey • Marc Carlini

When a family man recognizes his best friend from college is in a slump, he convinces him to travel up the California coast in search of “the one that got away”. But when the road starts to wind, they’re forced to confront their own life choices before it’s too late to change course.

With Abdi Nazemian • Avan Jogia • Lena Olin • Nicole Brending • Bruce Dern • Juliet Rylance • Tom Dolby

Claire (Lena Olin) lives a domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband’s illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard’s moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory and behavior deteriorate, she shields his condition from the art community while trying to reconnect him with his estranged daughter and grandson from a previous marriage. Challenged by the loss of her world as she knew it, Claire must now decide whether to stand with Richard on the sidelines or step into the spotlight herself.

With Joanne Baron • Katie Kelly • Paola Andino • Michael Lombardi • Evangeline Young • Mike Walsh • Bridget Smith

A gripping and emotive tale, Sno Babies depicts the grim realities of addiction and its effects on a middle-class suburban town. Kristen and Hannah are best friends–smart, likable and college-bound– and also addicted to heroin. The pair of seemingly unlikely addicts spiral down a path of destruction, hiding their secret from well-meaning but busy parents behind pink bedrooms and school uniforms. Directed by Bridget Smith and starring Katie Kelly (Game of Silence), Paola Andino (Queen of the South), Michael Lombardi (Rescue Me), Evangeline Young (The Good Wife) and Joanne Baron (This Is Us), Sno Babies shows how easy it can be to both miss and hide the signs of addiction behind the façade of “good” neighborhoods and pleasantly busy communities.

With Ryan Murphy • Zachary Quinto • Jim Parsons • Robin de Jesus • Matt Bomer • Brian Hutchison • Tuc Watkins • Andrew Rannells • Charlie Carver • Michael Benjamin Washington

Based on the Tony Award-winning play that changed a generation, The Boys in the Band follows a group of nine gay men who gather for a birthday party in 1968 New York City - only to find the drinks and laughs interrupted when a visitor from the host’s past turns the evening upside down.

With Alicia Vikander • Lulu Wilson • Bette Midler • Julianne Moore • Timothy Hutton • Janelle Monae • Julie Taymor • Sarah Ruhl • Monica Sanchez • Kimberly Guerrero

The Glorias (Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Lulu Wilson, Ryan Keira Armstrong) traces Steinem’s influential journey to prominence—from her time in India as a young woman, to the founding of Ms. magazine in New York, to her role in the rise of the women’s rights movement in the 1960s, to the historic 1977 National Women’s Conference and beyond.