Drama Movies 2022 List

With Sarah Gadon • Amybeth McNulty • Mare Winningham • Alison Pill • Donal Logue • Michael McGowan

Follows the plight of two sisters – one a concert pianist, the other a children’s author – who contemplate their strict Mennonite upbringing following their father’s suicide.

With Alysia Reiner • Janet McTeer • Michael Emerson • David Alan Basche • Krysta Rodríguez • Carrie Preston • Theresa Rebeck • Ashley Nicole Black • Van Hughes

Three people are up for the same job. Their lives are turning inside out under the pressure. And someone is watching the whole thing. More than one person, in fact. And someone else is watching them watch. A sorrowful and comedic examination of our fall into the surveillance culture.

With Anamaria Vartolomei • Audrey Diwan • Annie Ernaux • Kacey Mottet Klein • Luàna Bajrami • Louise Orry-Diquéro • Louise Chevillotte • Marcia Romano

Happening follows Annie, a bright young student who faces an unwanted pregnancy while abortion was still illegal in 1960s France.

With Ciera Payton • Ganaga Goba • Tony Sirico • Luis Da Silva Jr. • Tobias Truvillion • Ari Stachel • Lisa Ferreira • Jaime Lincoln Smith

Cat was left in Jamaica by his mother at the tender age of eleven in pursuit of a better life. It would be six years later she was able to send for him and his sister. Within those six years of her absence, Cat becomes a member of The Order, a local gang. Living with his mother in a small apartment in the ghettos of Brooklyn, NY he would become obsessed with obtaining his vision of the American dream,” says the official synopsis. “He finds himself working in a supermarket for minimum wage living with his mother after years of hardship. Cat formed The Order based on the gang he once belonged to in Jamaica to obtain his quest of becoming rich. During a botched robbery, one of them accidentally shoots the daughter of the Mayor of New York City. Cat fleas to Miami and then calls on the members of The Order. A huge score leads to a shootout between members of The Order and the cops and only one man escapes.

With Valeria Bruni Tedeschi • Anais Demoustier • Denis Podalydès • Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet • Jean-Charles Clichet • Xavier Guelf • Christophe Montenez

The film follows a spirited young woman who falls in love with the novelist wife of the man with whom she’s having an affair.

With T.C. Stallings • Dean Cain • Sean Young • Kathy Searle • Patty Lambert • Christine Allocca • Sarafina King • Kyle Saylors

A jaded reporter is demoted to a rural news station, but her cynicism is slowly transformed when she befriends a recovering addict as she works a news story about a church struggling to purchase a motel for homeless families.

With Colin Firth • Penelope Wilton • Kris Thykier • Kelly MacDonald • Matthew Macfadyen • John Madden • Michelle Ashford • Christian McLaughlin • Emile Sherman • Iain Canning • Johnny Flynn • Charles S. Cohen • Simon Gillis

It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe, and plan an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge - how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war - centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to alter the course of the war - defying logic, risking countless thousands of lives, and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.

With Chris Cock • Sofia Kappel • Zelda Morrison • Evelyn Claire • Dana DeArmond • Ninja Thyberg

Pleasure is a journey into the adult film industry, a story about a young Swedish woman who thinks she can make it big in the industry and heads to Los Angeles.

With Tiffany Haddish • Tom Werner • J.B. Smoove • Jerrod Carmichael • Pete Dakich • Megan Ellison • Ari Katcher • Henry Winkler • Christopher Storer • Christopher Abbott • Mike Roberts • David Carrico • Adam Paulsen • Lavell Crawford • Ryan Welch • Tyson Bidner • James Price • Jake Densen

Two best friends make a pact to end their lives at the end of a day, and the film covers the events of that day.

With Shalini Pandey • Jia Vaidya • Maneesh Sharma • Ranveer Singh • Ratna Pathak Shah • Mohammed Monis Mansoori • Abhinay Raj Singh • Boman Irani • Divyang Thakkar

An unlikely hero champions women empowerment.

With David Siegel • Haley Lu Richardson • Owen Teague • Asivak Koostachin • Eugene Brave Rock • Scott McGehee • Kimberly Guerrero • Gilbert Owuor

Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.

With Motell Gyn Foster • Andi Matichak • James Le Gros • Jack Fessenden • Asa Spurlock • Cody Kostro • Alex Hurt • Angus O'Brien • Alex Breux

Unfolding over the span of 36 hoursin three separate wars–The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq–Foxhole follows a small group of soldiers trapped in a confinedspace as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combatsituation

With Mahria Zook • Tabitha Bastien • Michael Winters • Lathrop Walker • Helena Grace Donald • Ben Medina

Michael is a ghost. Living in the shadows with his new family, years away from his former life as a nomadic, covert assassin. His peace and anonymity are shattered when his old employers return to bury their last surviving operative. With his truth exposed, Michael must protect his family and pursue his only chance at redemption: hunt those behind the organization where all his sins were born.

With Hugh Bonneville • Julian Fellowes • Hugh Dancy • Dominic West • Michelle Dockery • Laura Carmichael • Jim Carter • Maggie Smith • Nathalie Baye • Simon Curtis • Gareth Neame • Liz Trubridge • Laura Haddock

Follows the lives of the Crawley family and their servants in the family's Edwardian country house

With Alex Garland • Jessie Buckley • Scott Rudin • Rory Kinnear • Paapa Essiedu

The film follows a young woman who goes on a solo vacation to the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.

With Ajitpal Singh • Vinamrata Rai • Chandan Bisht • Harshita Tiwari • Mayank Singh Jaira • Sonal Jha

In northern India, a breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan community attracts tourists by commingling South Asian and Swiss Alps aesthetics. Debut filmmaker Ajitpal Singh tells an unconventional story of feminist strength while “accentuating the [region’s] spectacular exteriors and wide-canvas nature shots” (Variety).

With Giuliano Soprano • Alessandro Celli • Alessandro Borghi • Dennis Protopapa

IIn the not-too-distant future on Italy’s southern coast, the city of Taranto has become a toxic wasteland ruled by warring gangs and surrounded by barbed wire, where best friends Pietro (nicknamed Mondocane) and Cristian (nicknamed Pisspants) dream of escaping their hardscrabble existence for a better life in nearby New Taranto. Opportunity knocks when Hothead, the charismatic and dangerous leader of a local gang called the Ants, recruits the two boys and gives them everything they fantasized about: money in their pockets, a family, and a father figure. The friendship begins to splinter, though, as Cristian displays a surprising talent for mayhem and quickly rises through the ranks. With a new female friend pushing them further apart, an obsessed cop hounding the gang, and Hothead becoming increasingly unhinged, the boys barrel toward a confrontation that will determine if their bond is strong enough to survive.

With Muzaffer Özdemir • Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Mehmet Emin Toprak

Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms with the growing gap between his artistic ideals and his professional obligations. His tedious workload, coupled with the lingering loss he still feels for his ex-wife (newly married and on the verge of leaving Istanbul for Canada), leaves Mahmut clinging to the melancholic and obsessive routines of his solitary life. Without warning, Mahmut’s distant relative Yusuf arrives in Istanbul determined to find a job aboard a ship so that he may fulfill his dream of traveling around the world.

With Tyrell Oberle • Janice Spencer-Wise • Lauren Holdt • Kim Stone • Ethan Bracken • James H. Martin • James Morris • Alicia Oberle Farmer

Kai is a mute high school student who is taking care of his fatally ill mother. He finds solace in botany and nature, as well as memories of his late grandfather, who was a shaman and owl trainer. While trying to grieve and cope with loss, Kai struggles to navigate the pressures of high school, as well as the pressures of caring for his mother. He spirals into depression and pushes away everyone that he loves, especially after discovering how bad his mother's cancer really is. Ultimately Kai is faced with a decision. Will he continue to descend down the dark path he is heading toward, and will he continue to spread negativity and hate? Or will he become the healer and beacon of light that he was truly meant to be? Rite of the Shaman is about overcoming life's everyday challenges, confronting the shadow self to find healing, and understanding how our actions, as minuscule as they may seem, ultimately impact other's lives.

With Jonas Carpignano • Swamy Rotolo • Claudio Rotolo • Grecia Rotolo

The day after the Guerrasio family gathers to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s birthday, Claudio disappears. Their other daughter, 15-year-old Chiara, starts to investigate. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.

With Muzaffer Özdemir • Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Mehmet Emin Toprak

Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms with the growing gap between his artistic ideals and his professional obligations. His tedious workload, coupled with the lingering loss he still feels for his ex-wife (newly married and on the verge of leaving Istanbul for Canada), leaves Mahmut clinging to the melancholic and obsessive routines of his solitary life. Without warning, Mahmut’s distant relative Yusuf arrives in Istanbul determined to find a job aboard a ship so that he may fulfill his dream of traveling around the world.