Drama Movies 2021 List

With Tom Holland • Jack Reynor • Michael Gandolfini • Thomas Lennon • Anthony Russo • Joe Russo • Jessica Goldberg • Ciara Bravo • Forrest Goodluck • Kelli Burglund • Jeff Wahlberg • Kyle Harvey

Follows the wild journey of a disenfranchised young man from Ohio who meets the love of his life, only to risk losing her through a series of bad decisions and challenging life circumstances. Inspired by the best-selling novel of the same name, CHERRY features Tom Holland in the title role, as an unhinged character who drifts from dropping out of college to serving in Iraq as an army medic and is only anchored by his one true love Emily (Ciara Bravo). When Cherry returns home a war hero, he battles the demons of undiagnosed PTSD and spirals into drug addiction, surrounding himself with a menagerie of depraved misfits. Draining his finances, Cherry turns to bank robbing to fund his addiction, shattering his relationship with Emily along the way.

With Evangeline Lilly • Armie Hammer • Luke Evans • Michelle Rodriguez • Gary Oldman • Lily-Rose Depp • Greg Kinnear • Nicholas Jarecki

Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market.

With Gemma Arterton • Daniel Brühl • Richard Armitage • Julie Delpy • Gabrielle Tana • Hubert Caillard • Dominique Boutonnat • Lior Ashkenazy • Sophia Ally

Isabelle is a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage and raising her daughter Zoe in conjunction with her ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother, but when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle takes matters into her own hands.

With Anthony Hopkins • Imogen Poots • Olivia Colman • Rufus Sewell • Christopher Hampton • Mark Gatiss • Olivia Williams • Florian Zeller

Anthony is 80, mischievous, living defiantly alone and rejecting the carers that his daughter, Anne, encouragingly introduces. Yet help is also becoming a necessity for Anne; she can’t make daily visits anymore and Anthony's grip on reality is unravelling. As we experience the ebb and flow of his memory, how much of his own identity and past can Anthony cling to? How does Anne cope as she grieves the loss of her father, while he still lives and breathes before her? THE FATHER warmly embraces real life, through loving reflection upon the vibrant human condition; heart-breaking and uncompromisingly poignant – a movie that nestles in the truth of our own lives.

With Steve Tientcheu • Philippe Lacôte • Denis Lavant • Issaka Sawadogo • Koné Bakary

A young man is sent to “La Maca,” a prison in the middle of the Ivorian forest ruled by its inmates. As tradition goes with the rising of the red moon, he is designated by the Boss to be the new “Roman” and must tell a story to the other prisoners. Learning what fate awaits him, he begins to narrate the mystical life of the legendary outlaw named “Zama King” and has no choice but to make his story last until dawn.

With Nicola Peltz Beckham • Stanley Kalu • Ali LeRoi • Sammi Rotibi • Steven Silver • Spencer Neville • David James Elliot

A wealthy, Nigerian-American teenager is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself. Tackling the social issues of racism, police brutality, LGBTQ acceptance, mental health and addiction, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson confronts these seminal issues, all too prevalent in American society.