Drama Movies 2021 List

With Adam Driver • Marion Cotillard • Ruth Waldburger • Simon Helberg • Leos Carax • Bruno Pesery • Benoit Roland • Paul-Dominique Vacharasinthu

Los Angeles, today. Henry (Adam Driver) is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor who falls in love with Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-renowned opera singer. Under the spotlight, they form a passionate and glamorous couple. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny, will turn their lives upside down.

With Alan Tudyk • Michael McKean • Hannah Kasulka • Luke Benward • Jude Demorest • Scott Brignac

A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.

With Bill Skarsgard • Tim Blake Nelson • John Boyega • Todd Freeman • Ed Skrein • Tony Ganz • Olivia Cooke • Linda Lavin • Kyle Mooney • Chase Palmer • David Matthews • Robert Christopher Riley • Robert Bogue

Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi (John Boyega), a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he’s trying to make right. Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictable former client (Olivia Cooke) in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.

With Ian McKellen • Conleth Hill • Tori Butler-Hart • Matthew Butler-Hart

Jane wakes up in a strange, empty world. Unbeknownst to her she is part of a mysterious experiment. With few clues and little help she must discover a way out in order to avoid repeating the same day over and over again, Ad Infinitum.

With Jennifer Coolidge • Udo Kier • Ira Hawkins • Stephanie McVay • Todd Stephens • Michael Urie • Linda Evans

Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Soon, Pat embarks on an odyssey to confront the ghosts of his past – and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job.

With Nick Cannon • Chris Brown • Bryan "Birdman" Williams • Melody Rae

On a mission to save his Inglewood community center, Avery Watts (Nick Cannon) enlists a talented basketball player, Shelby (Melody Rae), to help him win the grand prize in a street ball tournament. Together, Avery and Shelby challenge local politicians, gangs and their own stereotypes to save their community.

With Tony Toscano • James Gaisford • Monica Moore Smith • Alison Arngrim • Nathan Osmond • Adrian R'Mante • Tanner Gillman • Kaden Caldwell • Savannah Ostler • Sarah Kent

A talented young singer named Sam is grieving the loss of her older sister Amber, who was a singer in a band of her own when she passed. When Sam steps in to fill her place in the band, they decide to pursue Amber's dream of making it big in the only way they know how: They are going to Nashville! Their dreams begin to come true faster than expected after they sign with a music manager who shows them the way to success - but at a deep personal cost. As the taste of fame draws near, tensions begin to rise within the band. Will the vicious music industry tear them apart or will they find Amber's song and truly live their dreams?

With Alissa Maria Orlando • Donatella Finocchiaro • Serena Barone • Simona Malato • Giorgio Vasta • Viola Pusateri • Susanna Piraino • Anita Pomario • Eleonora de Luca • Laura Giordani • Elena Stancanelli • Emma Dante

Our story begins in 1985. The Macaluso sisters (Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella) are five very young, orphaned siblings who live in and work from a rooftop apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves out for ceremonies of all manner. During a rare beach outing by the sisters a shocking catastrophe transpires. That single event will change the course of the relations between the sisters for the rest of their lives.

With Forest Whitaker • Marlon Wayans • Jennifer Hudson • Mary J. Blige • Scott Bernstein • Tituss Burgess • Hailey Kilgore • Audra McDonald • Kimberly Scott • Tate Donovan • Aaron L. Gilbert • Sue Baden-Powell • Jason Cloth • Harvey Mason • Marc Maron • Liesl Tommy • Saycon Sengbloh • Skye Dakota Turner • Tracey Scott Wilson • Stacy Sher • Heather Headley

Following the rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom, Respect is the remarkable true story of the music icon’s journey to find her voice.

With Emilia Jones • Eugenio Derbez • Troy Kotsur • Kevin Chapman • Marlee Matlin • Ferdia Walsh-Peelo • Sian Heder • Amy Forsyth • Daniel Durant

Seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family—a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family's struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.

With Mariana Di Girolamo • Pablo Larrain • Guillermo Calderon • Paola Giannini • Alejandro Moreno

After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation, in this incendiary drama about art, desire, and the modern family from director Pablo Larraín.

With Aleksandr Lungin • Pavel Lungin • Kirill Pirogov • Fyodor Lavrov • Oleg Vasilkov • Anton Momot • Yan Tsapnik

1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasilyev’s son – a pilot named Alexander - is kidnapped by the Mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result, the 108th Motor Rifle Division’s long awaited return home is put on hold for one last mission: bring the General’s son back. Based on true events, the previously untold story of this tragic withdrawal reveals the complexity of human nature during wartime.

With Bill Skarsgard • Tim Blake Nelson • John Boyega • Todd Freeman • Ed Skrein • Tony Ganz • Olivia Cooke • Linda Lavin • Kyle Mooney • Chase Palmer • David Matthews • Robert Christopher Riley • Robert Bogue

Naked Singularity tells the story of Casi (John Boyega), a promising young NYC public defender whose idealism is beginning to crack under the daily injustices of the very justice system he’s trying to make right. Doubting all he has worked for and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him, he is pulled into a dangerous high-stakes drug heist by an unpredictable former client (Olivia Cooke) in an effort to beat the broken system at its own game.

With Jennifer Coolidge • Udo Kier • Ira Hawkins • Stephanie McVay • Todd Stephens • Michael Urie • Linda Evans

Legendary actor Udo Kier stars as retired hairdresser Pat Pitsenbarger, who escapes the confines of his small-town Sandusky, Ohio nursing home after learning of his former client's dying wish for him to style her final hairdo. Soon, Pat embarks on an odyssey to confront the ghosts of his past – and collect the beauty supplies necessary for the job.

With Sean Astin • Kelsey Grammer • Courtney Gains • Anna Friel • S.E. DeRose

A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional ally, she inspires historic legislation which allows opportunities and protections never before afforded to women.

With Sean Penn • Josh Brolin • Katheryn Winnick • Thorsten Schumacher • Eddie Marsan • Vaishali Mistry • Christelle Conan • Jez Butterworth • John Wildermuth • Norbert Leo Butz • Sidney Kimmel • William Horberg • Dale Dickey • Vincent Maraval • Dylan Penn • Bailey Noble • John-Henry Butterworth • Hopper Jack Penn • Maximilien Arvelaiz • Lawrence Kopeikin • Allen Liu • Peter Touche

Jennifer Vogel’s father John was larger than life. As a child, Jennifer marveled at his magnetizing energy and ability to make life feel like a grand adventure. He taught her so much about love and joy, but he also happened to be the most notorious counterfeiter in US history.

With Lily James • David Thewlis • Leo Bill • Kerry Fox • Billie Piper • Toby Woolf

Mandy (Billie Piper) a nihilistic young writer and mother who, while navigating her dysfunctional family and misogynistic workplace, falls for Pete (Leo Bill), a traditionalist searching for ‘restored’ male identity.

With Lucien Guignard, • Hannah Pepper • Marion Hill • Idella Johnson • Lucien Guignard • Sivan Noam Shimon

Lane, Bertie and Fred once shared a polyamorous relationship in New Orleans. Lane loved Bertie, Fred loved Bertie, they had a balance that worked... until it didn’t, and Lane vanished from their lives. Two years later, Bertie and Fred have gotten married and are living at Fred’s family home in the countryside of southern France. When Lane unexpectedly shows up in Bertie’s seemingly idyllic new life, she finds her former lover much different than she remembers. Bertie is disillusioned in her jazz career, still grieving the loss of her mother, and clearly alienated in this small, white, European town. Lane attempts to recreate their old, carefree dynamic, hoping that her return might lighten Bertie’s mood -- but Bertie isn’t having it. It seems time hasn't healed all wounds... so Lane shifts her strategy when she meets Noa, a young artist and former soldier, quickly reigniting dormant jealousies

With Amy Irving • Zhu Zhu • Helen Slater • Harmonie He • Ann Hu

Inflicted with a learning disability, Meimei is considered a strange and dumb girl, an outcast in her school and community. What no one recognizes, however, is that she possesses a gift waiting to be unlocked. The world seen through her eyes is unique and filled with magic. When her mother learns that Meimei suffers from dyslexia, as do 1 in 10 people worldwide, she will stop at nothing to help her, including leaving her life in China behind and venturing alone with Meimei to New York City, braving a place she knows nothing about and speaking not a word of English.

With Jason Momoa • Justin Bartha • Adria Arjona • Brad Peyton • Philip Eisner • Gregg Hurwitz • Michael Raymond-James • Amy Brenneman • Manuel Garcia-Rulfo • Raza Jaffrey • Lex Scott Davis • Brian Andrew Mendoza

Devoted family man Ray Cooper, vows justice against the pharmaceutical company responsible for pulling a potentially life-saving drug from the market just before his wife (Adria Arjona) dies from cancer. But when his search for the truth leads to a deadly encounter that puts Ray and his daughter Rachel (Isabela Merced) in harm’s way, Ray’s mission turns into a quest for vengeance in order to protect the only family he has left.

With Adam Driver • Marion Cotillard • Ruth Waldburger • Simon Helberg • Leos Carax • Bruno Pesery • Benoit Roland • Paul-Dominique Vacharasinthu

Los Angeles, today. Henry (Adam Driver) is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor who falls in love with Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-renowned opera singer. Under the spotlight, they form a passionate and glamorous couple. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny, will turn their lives upside down.

With Colin Tilley

If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, an hour-long film set to the music of Halsey’s upcoming album, introduces a young pregnant Queen, Lila, as she wrestles with the manipulative chokehold of love to ultimately discover that the ability to create life (and end it) unlocks the paranormal power within her.

With Iain Glen • Tim Fehlbaum • Nora Arnezeder • Sebastian Roché • Joel Basman • Sarah-Sofie Boussnina

Cataclysmic conditions on Earth forced a mass exodus to a distant planet. Generations later, a manned mission hurtles back to assess living conditions on the desolate, mostly submerged world. The sole survivor of the expedition is attacked by a violent band of scavengers, themselves locked in battle with a far more sinister foe. Now, mankind’s very survival depends on the bravery and ingenuity of the lone astronaut.

With Elijah Wood • Robert Patrick • Kit Lesser • Luke Kirby • Hugo Armstrong • Aleksa Palladino • Christian Clemenson • Amber Sealey

In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. NO MAN OF GOD is based on the true story of the strange and complicated relationship that developed between FBI agent Bill Hagmaier and an incarcerated Ted Bundy in the years leading to Bundy's execution.

With Robert Patrick • Siobhan Fallon Hogan • Jake Weary • Peri Gilpin • Phil Villapiano

Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.

With Ewen Bremner • Ulrich Thomsen • W. Earl Brown • Antony Starr • Joshua Harto

Mike, hustler and American dreamer, meets Edward, a bipolar sausage enthusiast. Mike is fresh out of prison with no clear path, whereas Edward is stalled on the tracks. When Mike learns of Edward’s humble notion of opening a German sausage restaurant in order to bring peace and understanding to the world, he inspires Edward to revive his long lost dream. Then there’s Jimmy, a sentimental racist and local kingpin. Jimmy is not up for the idea. He’s been scaring off the Chinese to leave town. Gutterbee is for whites only. America first - and definitely no fancy foreign frankfurters. And there’s the issue of Hank, Jimmy’s reformed gay son, who’s desperate to prove himself worthy of his father’s love. And there’s Edward’s crush on the one-legged bartender, Sue. And Edward’s frequent mood swings. And the judgement of the local church. And the sheriff. Not to forget Mike’s ingrown dishonesty and hustling. If not for these obstacles, the American Dream, humanity and forgiveness would prevail, but have they bitten off more than they could chew? We shall see.

With James McAvoy • Stephen Daldry • Sharon Horgan • Dennis Kelly

Two partners are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship during lockdown.