Drama Movies 2021 List

To provide a better life for his family, a teenager accepts a job in a junkyard in São Paulo. But when he becomes trapped in the dangerous world of human trafficking, he's forced to consider the risks of his and his family’s future.

With Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez • Patricia Meneses • Paulina Gaitan • Kaarlo Isaacs • Angel Adrián Flores • William Mapother • Angelina Pelaez • Electra Avellan • Tenoch Huerta • Angélica Aragón • Tenoch Huerta Mejía • Alexia Rasmussen • Juan Ramón López • Alexis Gambis • Noé Hernández • Ignacio Guadalupe • Juan Ugarte • Fernanda Rivera

After the death of his grandmother, a Mexican biologist living in New York returns to his hometown nestled in the majestic monarch butterfly forests of Michoacán after many years. The journey forces him to confront past traumas and reflect on his new hybrid identity, launching him on a personal and spiritual metamorphosis.

With Idris Elba • Delroy Lindo • Zazie Beetz • Regina King • Lakeith Stanfield • Danielle Deadwyler • Edi Gathegi • Boaz Yakin • Deon Cole • Jonathan Majors • Damon Wayans Jr. • Jeymes Samuel • R.J. Cyler

When outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) is being released from prison he rounds up his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. Those riding with him in this assured, righteously new school Western include his former love Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz), his right and left hand men — hot-tempered Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi) and fast drawing Jim Beckwourth (R.J. Cyler)—and a surprising adversary-turned-ally. Rufus Buck has his own fearsome crew, including “Treacherous” Trudy Smith (Regina King) and Cherokee Bill (LaKeith Stanfield), and they are not a group that knows how to lose.

With Sean Harris • Kristen Stewart • Steven Knight • Timothy Spall • Sally Hawkins • Pablo Larrain • Jonas Dornbach • Jack Farthing • Juan de Dios Larraín • Janine Jackowski

The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different.

With Yllka Gashi • Blerta Basholli • Çun Lajçi • Kumrije Hoxha • Aurita Agushi • Adriana Matoshi

A drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands—but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility. The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her, starting a feud that threatens their newfound sovereignty—and the financial future of Fahrije’s family. Against the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misogyny, Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future.

With D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai • Rainbow Dickerson • Kiawentiio Tarbell • Violah Beauvais • Paulina Alexis • Joel Montgrand • Tracey Deer

Based on true events, Tracey Deer's debut feature chronicles the 78-day standoff between two Mohawk communities and government forces in 1990 in Quebec.

With Benedict Cumberbatch • Stacy Martin • Andrea Riseborough • Toby Jones • Claire Foy • Will Sharpe

Louis Wain was many things during his incredible life: artist, inventor, entrepreneur, trying his best to care for his five sisters and mother. Two events changed his life forever: meeting Emily, the love of his life, and adopting Peter, a stray kitten. They will become both his family and his inspiration to paint the extraordinary images of cats that made him world famous and changed the way we see life forever.

With Tom Hanks • Caleb Landry Jones • Miguel Sapochnik • Samira Wiley • Jack Rapke • Lora Martinez-Cunningham • Ivor Powell • Kennedi Butler • Kevin Misher • Alexis Raben • Jon Donahue • Skeet Ulrich • Jackie Levine • Craig Luck • Christopher Farrar

Tom Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few survivors of a cataclysmic solar event that has left the world a wasteland. But Finch, who has been living in an underground bunker for decade, has built a world of his own that he shares with his dog, Goodyear. Now, though, Finch is terminally ill. With time running out, he creates a robot to watch over Goodyear when he no longer can. As the trio embarks on a perilous journey into a desolate American West, Finch strives to show his creation, who names himself Jeff, the joy and wonder of what it means to be alive and to teach him to become human enough to take care of Goodyear. And Goodyear himself must learn to accept and trust his new master.

With Alexander Skarsgard • Tessa Thompson • Forest Whitaker • Rebecca Hall • Ruth Negga • Bill Camp • Oren Moverman • Andre Holland • Gbenga Akinnagbe • Angela Robinson • Margot Hand • Nina Yang Bongiovi • Antoinette Crowe-Legacy • Ashley Ware Jenkins

In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.

With Chris Messina • Rosanna Arquette • Cybill Shepherd • Kathy Baker • Rita Wilson • Maya Kazan • Marshall Bell • Joanne Whalley • Eleanor Coppola

LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE tells three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. In the film’s first story TWO FOR DINNER, a married couple (Joanne Whalley, Chris Messina) find an unconventional way to transcend long distance through technology, but discover they were farther apart than they knew. In SAILING LESSON, a long-married couple (Kathy Baker, Marshall Bell) tries to reignite their honeymoon-phase heat through a spontaneous sailing trip…and unexpected events arise. And in LATE LUNCH, a young woman (Maya Kazan) who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother's friends (including Cybill Shepherd, Rosanna Arquette, and Rita Wilson) to share memories. Surprising revelations ensue.

With Ciaran Hinds • Kenneth Branagh • Judi Dench • Jamie Dornan • Caitriona Balfe • Tamar Thomas • Jude Hill • Laura Berwick • Becca Kovacik

A personal story of one boy’s childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s.

With Taika Waititi • Violet Nelson • Amanda Plummer • Alex Tarrant • Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers • Danis Goulet • Brook-lyn Letexier-Hart • Gail Maurice

2043 - in a dystopian future a military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are considered property of the regime which trains them to fight. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get her daughter back.

With Eric Roberts • Andrew Shelton • Kat Fairway • Christina Evans • Kirstie Pooley • Maggie Lacy • Peggy Roger • Zelie Dember-Slack

Set in the 1800's of Scotland when servants didn't rise above their station comes a love story for the ages. As the master of Stratton castle lies dying he makes his son promise to take over the lands and find an appropriate match, however, unbeknownst to his father, Walter has already fallen in love with Jessie, a beautiful servant girl. Now he must fight against his forbidden passion for fear of scandal and ruin or risk it all for Jessie the Golden Hearted.

With Alexandre Koberidze • Giorgi Bochorishvili • Ani Karseladze • Oliko Barbakadze • Giorgi Ambroladze • Vakhtang Fanchulidze

In the Georgian riverside city of Kutaisi, summertime romance and World Cup fever are in the air. After a pair of chance encounters, pharmacist Lisa and soccer player Giorgi find their plans for a date undone when they both awaken magically transformed — with no way to recognize each other. As the would-be couple tries to reunite, their eyes are opened to a whole new world filled with surprises in every cafe, courtyard, and cinema. An enchantingly inventive portrait of young love, this standout second feature from director Alexandre Koberidze reveals a modern-day fairy tale unlike any other.

With Vanessa Hudgens • Andrew Garfield • Bradley Whitford • Brian Grazer • Ron Howard • Robin de Jesus • Lin-Manuel Miranda • Alexandra Shipp • Judith Light • MJ Rodriguez • Steven Levenson • Julie Oh • Joshua Henry • Tariq Trotter

The film follows Jon (Academy Award nominee and Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he’s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere: from his girlfriend Susan, who dreams of an artistic life beyond New York City; from his friend Michael, who has moved on from his dream to a life of financial security; amidst an artistic community being ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. With the clock ticking, Jon is at a crossroads and faces the question everyone must reckon with: What are we meant to do with the time we have? tick, tick…BOOM!

With Julie Yorn • David McIlvain • Beau Knapp • Matt Cirulnick • Ralph Rodriguez • Daniel Zovatto • Otmara Marrero • Juan Pablo Raba • Jose Daniel Freixas • Frankie J. Alvarez

VANDAL is the story of the young leader of an infamous graffiti crew in Miami who experiences love, loss, and the consequences of his actions, as he comes of age, struggling to justify his obsession with illegal street graffiti.

With Benedict Cumberbatch • Kirsten Dunst • Jesse Plemons • Tanya Seghatchian • Jane Campion • Emile Sherman • Iain Canning • Roger Frappier

A domineering, magnetic rancher responds with mocking cruelty when his brother brings home a new wife and her son, until the unexpected comes to pass.

With Halle Berry • Basil Iwanyk • Shamier Anderson • Sheila Atim • Nikolai Nikolaeff • Stephen McKinley Henderson • Michelle Rosenfarb • Denny Dillon • Guymon Casady • Linda Gottlieb • Adan Canto • Marcella Lentz-Pope

Jackie is a single mother working two jobs and a disgraced MMA fighter who has been up against the ropes her entire life. When the authorities threaten to take her young son away from her, she must get back in the cage for one last chance to fight for redemption and give her son the life she always wanted.

With Olivia Colman • Colin Firth • Josh O’Connor • Odessa Young • Alice Birch • Emma D’Arcy • Glenda Jackson • Patsy Ferran • Sope Dirisu • Eva Husson

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr and Mrs Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul (Josh O’Connor), the boy from the manor house nearby who is Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.

With Will Smith • Jon Bernthal • Dylan McDermott • Tony Goldwyn • James Lassiter • Allan Mandelbaum • Aunjanue Ellis • Saniyya Sidney • Hannah Barefoot • Noah Bean • Tim White • Susie Abromeit • Trevor White • Reinaldo Marcus Green • Andy Bean • Zach Baylin • Katrina Begin • Demi Singleton • Judith Chapman

Despite having no tennis background, Richard Williams overcomes tremendous hardship, skepticism and his own troubled past to raise two of tennis' greatest players, Serena and Venus Williams.

With Philip Barantini • Izuka Hoyle • Alice Feetham • Jason Flemyng • Malachi Kirby • Hester Ruoff • Lourdes Faberes • Ray Panthaki • Vinette Robinson • Steven Graham • Bart Ruspoli • Hannah Walters • Taz Skyler • Lauryn Ajufo • Daniel Larkai • James Cummings

On the busiest night of the year at one of the hottest restaurants in London, charismatic, commanding head chef Andy Jones (Stephen Graham) balances along a knife’s edge as multiple personal and professional crises threaten to destroy everything he’s worked for. A surprise visit from a health and safety inspector sets the staff on edge as the overbooked hotspot begins to fill with guests. Jones alternately berates and cajoles his diverse staff, trying his best to diffuse tensions between management and his crew, while catering to the ridiculous demands of customers.

With Joaquin Phoenix • Gaby Hoffmann • Scoot McNairy • Jaboukie Young-White • Mike Mills • Woody Norman • Elaine Kagan • Kate Adams • Brandon Rush

Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills.

With Adil Hussain • Geeta Malik

Alia Kapur (Sophia Ali) returns to her family’s posh suburban New Jersey home after a year away at college and upends their well-ordered life with her brash independence. After befriending Varun (Rish Shah), the handsome son of the new owners of the local Indian grocery, she invites his family to a dinner party where family secrets are revealed.

With Denisia Latchman • Onessa Nestor • Kimberly Crichton • Chelsey Rampersad • Maya Cozier • Melina Brown

17 year old Sparkle discovers a free spirited group of Soca dancers at a car show in the bustling streets of downtown Trinidad. Enamored by the glimpse of sisterhood, she uses her wit to convince them to take her under their wing. The women bring Sparkle into a dizzying nightlife of partying, glamour, and money, but as things spiral out of control, Sparkle is forced to make some tough decisions.

With Radu Jude • Katia Pascariu • Claudia Ieremia • Olimpia Malai • Nicodim Ungureanu

Emi, a school teacher, finds her career and reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is leaked on the Internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender to their pressure. Radu Jude (Aferim!) delivers an incendiary mix of unconventional form, irreverent humor and scathing commentary on hypocrisy and prejudice in our societies.

With Frankie Faison • David Midell • Steve O'Connell • Enrico Natale

Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr, an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

With Robert De Niro • Jared Leto • Al Pacino • Salma Hayek • Adam Driver • Jeremy Irons • Ridley Scott • Jack Huston • Reeve Carney • Aidan Elliott • Camille Cottin • Mãdãlina Ghenea • Giannina Facio • Aaron L. Gilbert • Megan Ellison • Jason Cloth • Lady Gaga • Roberto Bentivegna • Marco Valerio Pugini

House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of Gucci. Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it’s worth, and how far a family will go for control.

With Jon Bernthal • Sandra Bullock • Peter Craig • Viola Davis • Aisling Franciosi • Nora Fingscheidt • Vincent D'Onofrio • Courtenay Miles • Graham King • Hillary Seitz • Linda Emond • Veronica Ferres • Rob Morgan • Emma Nelson • Richard Thomas

Released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime, Ruth (Sandra Bullock) re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past and her only hope for redemption is finding the estranged younger sister she was forced to leave behind.

With Amin Joseph • Richard Lawson • Nafessa Williams • Sharon Leal • Vanessa Bell Calloway • Dorien Wilson • Tobias Truvillion • Jamal Hill • Curtis Bryant • Manny Halley

When Garvin Chance (Richard Lawson), the founder of a multi-million-dollar film production company, and his family experiences some tragic events during the Christmas holidays, two sisters Noel Chance (Nafessa Williams) and Naomi Chance (Sharon Leal) must set aside a life-long rivalry and come together to turn the company around and keep the family intact.

With Fiona Dourif • Rainey Qualley • Olivia Sui • Taylor Bagley • Lynn Mancinelli • Emrhys Cooper • Donal Brophy • Tommy Dorfman • Cornelia Guest • Jeff Burnett

When a NYC journalist, frustrated with a failing publishing world and a dismal romantic life, becomes infatuated with a charismatic guru, she begins a journey of self-improvement. But as the old saying goes, “beware of false prophets.

With Halle Berry • Basil Iwanyk • Shamier Anderson • Sheila Atim • Nikolai Nikolaeff • Stephen McKinley Henderson • Michelle Rosenfarb • Denny Dillon • Guymon Casady • Linda Gottlieb • Adan Canto • Marcella Lentz-Pope

Jackie is a single mother working two jobs and a disgraced MMA fighter who has been up against the ropes her entire life. When the authorities threaten to take her young son away from her, she must get back in the cage for one last chance to fight for redemption and give her son the life she always wanted.

With Bradley Cooper • Ben Stiller • Sean Penn • Paul Thomas Anderson • Christopher Walken • Tom Waits • Benny Safdie • Maya Rudolph • John C. Reilly • Cooper Hoffman • Alana Haim • Daniel Lupi • Mary Elizabeth Ellis • Skyler Gisondo • Joseph Cross • Sara Murphy • Destry Allyn Spielberg • Joanne Sellar

Set in the San Fernando Valley and centers on a high school student who is also a successful child actor.

With Ariana Ron Pedrique • Vilma Vega • Floyd Russ

Set in present day Los Angeles, Ayar, a first-generation American Latina, returns from an unsuccessful showbiz career in Las Vegas to reunite with her five-year old daughter, Jasmine. But when Ayar's mother, Renata, refuses to let her see her own daughter on her birthday due to Covid, Ayar begins to confront the bad decisions she's made over the years. Feeling as if she's been playing roles throughout her life, as an immigrant, a dreamer, an entertainer and a mother, she is forced to deal with the realization that she's an actress in this very film. Fact and fiction clash as the narrative of the characters is challenged by the documentary of the actors.

With Cary Elwes • Brooke Shields • Mary Lambert

An American author (Brooke Shields) finds herself wanting to buy a castle in Scotland, but its prickly owner (Cary Elwes) is reluctant to sell to a foreigner. Working to find a compromise, the pair butt heads and find more than they bargained for.