Drama Movies 2022 List

With Amy Hargreaves • Joey Slotnick • Jon Sherman • Jack Steiner • Lexi Bean • Shanna Strong • Sarah Eddy • Abi Van Andel • Robert Pavlovich • Melissa Vogley Woods

They/Them/Us tells the story of Charlie (Joey Slotnick) and Lisa (Amy Hargreaves), two divorced parents in their 40’s who find themselves at a midlife crossroads. Both are single parents and they have four complicated teenagers between them: one non-binary gender kid, one who orders his weed through the mail, one very outspoken one, and last but not least, the “good” child. Lisa and Charlie meet on a dating site, fall madly in love and move in together way too soon. They/Them/Us is the story of how they manage the challenges of parenting some very demanding teenagers while trying to juggle an adult sexual relationship.

With Joachim Trier • Renate Reinsve • Anders Danielsen Lie • Maria Grazia Di Meo • Herbert Nordrum • Hans Olav Brenner

A modern dramedy about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo. It chronicles four years in the life of Julie (Reinsve), a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.

With Hadje Fatime N'Goua • Mahamat-Saleh Haroun • Achouackh Abakar • Rihane Khalil Alio • Youssouf Djaoro • Briya Gomdigue

On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two women begin to seek out an abortion, condemned by both religion and law.

With Jim Sturgess • Rhona Mitra • Antonia Campbell-Hughes • Michael Socha • Billy Barratt • Andreja Pejic • Orla Brady • Giga Agladze

Irakli (Jim Sturgess) is a young aspiring architect thrown into turmoil when diagnosed with a debilitating eye disease. As his condition worsens, a surreal visual world opens up to him causing him to question his life’s choices, his career, and his marriage to an increasingly frustrated Nutsa (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) who struggles with her loyalties to her husband and the realities of daily survival. As his condition worsens, Irakli meets Nino (Andreja Pejic), a beautiful artist who lives alone in the forest. She becomes his artistic muse and they form a deep connection that turns from fascination to infatuation to love. They speak in poetic language and understand each other completely. Meanwhile Nutsa works three jobs and is influenced by her new boss, a socialite from America who similarly is trapped in a tumultuous marriage.

With Itsuji Itao • Hirokazu Kore-eda • Bae Doona • Arata Iura

A present-day fable for the increasing disconnect we find in urban life, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll transports the Galatea myth to present day Tokyo. When an inflatable sex doll named Nozomi (Bae Doona) finds that she has grown consciousness and a heart, she begins to wander the city in quiet awe and fascination. As she takes on a new life of her own, Nozomi also discovers the innate complexities of being human, including the heartbreak of loneliness. Joining forces with cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-Bing (In The Mood for Love), Kore-eda’s intimate direction relays the struggles of finding human connection in the mess of modern society.

With Ben Sombogaart • Josephine Arendsen • Aiko Mila Beemsterboer • Roeland Fernhout

Based on the real-life friendship between Anne Frank and Hannah Goslar, from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to their harrowing reunion in a concentration camp.

With Zoe Kravitz • Robin Givens • Steven Soderbergh • David Koepp • Jaime Camil • Jacob Vargas • Michael Polaire • Erika Christensen • Byron Bowers • Leona Britt • India de Beaufort • Derek DelGaudio • Charles Halford • Devin Retray

A tech worker discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime.

With Gal Gadot • Simon Kinberg • Armie Hammer • Ridley Scott • Kenneth Branagh • Emma Mackey • Michael Green • Sophie Okonedo • Letitia Wright • Dawn French • Jennifer Saunders • Kevin Walsh • Annette Bening • Rose Leslie • Ali Fazal • Tom Bateman

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short. Set against an epic landscape of sweeping desert vistas and the majestic Giza pyramids, this tale of unbridled passion and incapacitating jealousy features a cosmopolitan group of impeccably dressed travelers, and enough wicked twists and turns to leave audiences guessing until the final, shocking denouement.

With Johnny Depp • Hiroyuki Sanada • Bill Johnson • David K. Kessler • Jun Kunimura • Bill Nighy • Tadanobu Asano • Andrew Levitas • Sam Sarkar • Minami Hinase

The story of war photographer W. Eugene Smith and how he goes up against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, a Japanese fishing village, in 1971.

With Havana Rose Liu • Denise Di Novi • Cherry Jones • Jacques Colimon • Ji-young Yoo • Jason Segel • Grace Kaufman • Alison Greenspan • Margaret French Isaac • Josephine Decker • Pico Alexander • Julia Schlaeper • Allison Rose Carter • Jandy Nelson

Tucked among the magical redwood trees of Northern California and surrounded by her grandmother’s gargantuan roses, 17-year-old Lennie Walker, a radiant musical prodigy, struggles with overwhelming grief following the sudden loss of her older sister, Bailey. When Joe Fontaine, the charismatic new guy at school, enters Lennie’s life, she’s drawn to him. But Lennie’s complicated relationship with her sister’s devastated boyfriend, Toby, starts to affect Lennie and Joe’s budding love. Through her vivid imagination and honest, conflicted heart, Lennie navigates first love and first loss to create a song of her own.

With Kevin Dunn • Daniel Henshall • Josef Wladyka • Michael Drayer • Tiffany Chu • Kimberly Guerrero • Kali Reis • Lisa Emery

A Native American boxer embarks on the fight of her life when she goes in search of her missing sister.

With Paula Jai Parker • Christian Vincent • Michelle A. Daniel • Bronson Pelletier • Kristinia DeBarge • Parker McKenna Posey • Cameron Bright • Gary Leroi Gray • Jo Marie Payton • Shaun Cairo • Justin Price • Blaine Moir • Joe Spencer • Tre Melvin • Mariann Gavelo

Longtime friends Taylor (Tyler Abron), Reese (Gavelo), Mateo (Vincent), Victoria (Paula Jai Parker), Darrin (Booker Anderson), and Marshawn (Derrick Gordon) have known one another for several years, as they all met in college. Taylor, who was a college cheerleader, met her boyfriend, Marshawn, when he played football for the University. Reese and Mateo dated throughout college, got married three years ago, and have two children. Darrin was the friend who always had jokes and was the life of the party. Victoria is a true Southern belle and has her friends’ and family’s best interests at heart.

All have been doing well since college with careers in the NFL and the TV/film industry, on Wall Street, and in the legal profession. When they embark on a weekend getaway to a beach house in the Hamptons, all hell will break loose as there are secrets even in friendship…

With Bille August • Anders Heinrichsen • Birthe Nuemann • Simon Bennebjerg • Nanna Skaarup Voss • Asta Kamma August

It's 1948 and 63-year-old "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) is a lonely literary sensation devastated by syphilis and mourning her lost love, until she meets talented 30-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She offers him a Faustian bargain and promises him stardom if he will obey her unconditionally. As her demands become more and more pernicious, Thorkild much choose between Blixen’s promise of fame or his family

With Emmanuelle Chriqui • Camille Rowe • Antonia Zegers • Jefferson Moneo • Joshua Burge

After witnessing the alien abduction of her mother as a child, Aurora joins the UFO cult "The Cosmic Dawn". At the cult's remote compound Aurora experiences miraculous revelations, and consciousness-expanding flowers but all isn't as it seems with the cult's leader, Elyse. Now moved on from the cult, Aurora is forced to confront her past and pursue the ultimate truth about The Cosmic Dawn.

With Laura Verlinden • Maya Vanderbeque • Gunter Duret • Karim Leklou • Laura Wandel

In this debut feature by writer-director Laura Wandel, the everyday reality of grade school is seen from a child's-eye-view as an obstacle course of degradation and abuse. Following 7-year-old Nora and her big brother Abel, we see Nora struggling to fit in before finding her place on the schoolyard. One day, she notices Abel being bullied by other kids, and though she rushes to protect him by warning their father, Abel forces her to remain silent, while he endures more humiliation and harassment by his peers. Transposing the gritty realism of such filmmakers as Jacques Audiard and the Dardennes Brothers to the inner world of kids, Wandel crafts an empathetic and visceral portrait of the cruelty of children, and the failure of adults to protect them.

With Timothy Spall • Phyllis Logan • Gillies Mackinnon • Joe Ainsworth

Life is a journey and The Last Bus takes our old soldier, 90-year-old Tom Harper (Timothy Spall) on an epic trip from his home of fifty years - a remote village in the most northerly point of Scotland - back to the place he was born – close to England’s most southerly point. Battling against time, age and fate, desperate to keep a promise to his beloved wife Mary (Phyllis Logan), our intrepid hero Tom embarks on an odyssey, revisiting his past, connecting with the modern world and a diverse, multi-cultural Britain he has never experienced. The Last Bus is a road movie; a film about love, loss and the human spirit. A film that reminds us we are not alone - and that we're all on this ride together...

With Jason Isaacs • Robert Morgan • Steve Bastoni • Sam Parsonson • Levi Miller • Jake Ryan • Tyson Wade Johnston • Laura Gordon • Tasia Zalar

Levi Miller stars as 15-year-old Benjamin Lane, a gifted young swimmer on the brink of the biggest swim meet of his life that could see him qualify for the Olympics. Pushed by his ruthless coach, Glenn (Robert Morgan) and his adoring but misguided mother, Kim (a terrific Laura Gordon), it’s unclear if Ben actually wants the life he’s seemingly being forced to chase. When his estranged father (Jason Isaacs) suddenly gets out of jail, Benjamin’s fight to escape his tumultuous past to Olympic glory becomes even more dangerous...

With Sharlto Copley • Tony Stone • Drew Powell • Samantha Jones • Travis W Bruyer • Wayne Pyle • Tahmus Rounds

A bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber.

With Naomi Watts • Theo James • Phillip Noyce • Colton Gobbo • Chris Sparling • Zack Schiller • Sierra Maltby

Recently widowed mother Amy Carr (Academy Award®-nominee Naomi Watts) is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as a shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her son.

With Stellan Skarsgard • Connie Nielsen • Stephen Dorff • Martha Coolidge • David S. Ward • Adelaide Clemens • Bozenna Intrator

Shakespeare's classic paradigm finds contemporaneity. Instead of Romeo and Juliet in Renaissance Verona, we find ROBERT and RACHEL in mid-20th Century Europe - ensnared by the tumult of World War II.

With Alia Bhatt • Indira Tiwari • Sanjay Leela Bhansali • Vijay Raaz • Jayantilal Gada • Shantanu Maheshwari • Seema Pahwa

Follows the young Ganga who in no time marks her own territory and becomes Gangubai – a madame in the red light area of Kamathipura.

With Megan Fox • Lucy Hale • Andy Garcia • Oscar Isaac • Emory Cohen • Brian Petsos

Big Gold Brick recounts the story of fledgling writer Samuel Liston and his experiences with Floyd Deveraux, the enigmatic middle-aged father of two who enlists Samuel to write his biography. But the circumstances that lead up to this arrangement in the first place are quite astonishing—and efforts to write the biography are quickly stymied by ensuing chaos in this darkly comedic, genre-bending film.

With Al Pacino • Francis Ford Coppola • Robert Duvall • Diane Keaton • James Caan • Richard S. Castellano • Marlon Brando • Sterling Hayden • Mario Puzo

Francis Ford Coppola's epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family.

With Mira Sorvino • Mykelti Williamson • Ravi Patel • Adain Bradley • Jack Griffo • McKaley Miller • Annabeth Gish • Brian Van Holt • Paul A. Kaufman • Jake Austin Walker • Monte Markham • Alex Kersting • Natalie Valerin • Matthew Gold • Jessie Rabideau

The film tells the story of Butter (Alex Kersting), a smart, funny high school junior who happens to be obese. Butter manages to befriend the prettiest girl at school, Anna (McKaley Miller), via social media by pretending to be a jock from another school. Butter fears he can never tell Anna, his secret crush, who he really is - sure she would never accept him and his obesity. Meanwhile, Butter struggles with self- esteem and family issues, as his mother (Sorvino) feels the only way she can show her love is by feeding him. Facing constant bullying at school, Butter finally devises a crazy plan: he announces he is going to eat himself to death, on New Year’s Eve, live on the Internet – with the whole school invited to watch. Butter expects pity, insults, and sheer indifference. Instead he gets cheerleaders rallying around his deadly plan, and his social media fame makes him a sudden member of the school’s in crowd. As Butter’s popularity grows, so does his new friendship with Anna. But as New Year’s approaches can he live with the fallout if he doesn't go through with his plans?

With Maud Ameline • Nathalie Baye • Nicolas Maury • Arnaud Valois • Théo Christine • Sophie Fillières

Follows Jérémie, a hypersensitive struggling actor with an uncontrollable green-eyed monster on his back. Grappling with personal loss, a love life in shambles, and a faltering career, Jérémie turns to his clear-headed mother for support.