Drama Movies 2022 List

With Jim Parsons • David Marshall Grant • Michael Showalter • Bill Irwin • Jordana Mollick • Sally Field • Todd Spiewak • Michael Ausiello • Ben Aldridge • Eric Norsoph • Jeffery Self • Jason Sokoloff • Alison Mo Massey • Dan Savage

Based on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies,” the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how Michael and Kit’s relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill.

With Kellan Lutz • Nathan Scoggins • Stelio Savante • Cress Williams • Marcus Gladney Jr

Marshall Shepherd has spent five years living with the grief and loss of his wife, and the estrangement that has come from his son Samuel because he chose to forgive the man who killed her. But when Troy, the convict, returns to town, and Troy and Marshall begin an unlikely friendship, Samuel's rage is put to the test, while the town Sheriff investigates a murder that may be related.

With Will Smith • Antoine Fuqua • James Lassiter • Ben Foster • Joey McFarland • Steven Ogg • Todd Black • Grant Harvey • Mustafa Shakir • Heather Washington • Jabbar Lewis • Michael Luwoye • Aaron Moten • Jon Mone • Chris Brigham • Glen Basner • Jayson Warner Smith • William N. Collage • Gilbert Owuor • Scott Greenberg • Charmaine Bingwa • Ronnie Gene Bivens • Imani Pullum • Cliff Roberts

Emancipation tells the triumphant story of Peter (Smith), a man who escapes from slavery, relying on his wits, unwavering faith, and deep love for his family to evade cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving swamps of Louisiana on his quest for freedom. The film is inspired by the 1863 photos of “Whipped Peter,” taken during a Union Army medical examination, that first appeared in Harper’s Weekly. One image, known as “The Scourged Back,” which shows Peter’s bare back mutilated by a whipping delivered by his enslavers, ultimately contributed to growing public opposition to slavery.

With Peter Stormare • Marie Richardson • Annika Appelin • Ida Engvoll • Anna Fredriksson

A sudden change forces Karin to re-evaluate her life. With the help of friends, food and passion, she refuses to accept that life has an expiration date and takes the second chance she is given.

With Brad Pitt • Jessie Buckley • Ben Whishaw • Sarah Polley • Rooney Mara • Michelle McLeod • Dede Gardner • Frances McDormand • Jeremy Kleiner • Claire Foy • Kate Hallett • Lyn Lucibello Brancatella • Sheila McCarthy • Judith Ivey • August Winter • Liv McNeil • Emily Jade Foley

A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.

With Bhavesh Shrimali • Rahul Koli • Richa Meena • Dipen Raval • Pan Nalin • Bhavin Rabari • Alpesh Tank • Paresh Mehta • Vikas Bata • Vijay Mer • Kishan Parmar • Shoban Makwa

Samay, a 9-year-old boy living with his family in a remote village in India discovers films for the first time and is absolutely mesmerized. Against his father’s wishes, he returns to the cinema day after day to watch more films, and even befriends the projectionist, who, in exchange for his lunch box, lets him watch movies for free. He quickly figures out that stories become light, light becomes films, and films become dreams. Samay and his wild gang of friends move heaven and earth to catch and project light to achieve a 35mm film projection. But little do they know that soon they’ll be forced to make heartbreaking choices as an era is approaching to annihilate everything they love about their 35mm dreams…

With Janet Suzman • Peter Greenaway • Anthony Higgins • Anne Louise Lambert • Neil Cunningham • Hugh Fraser

Set in a richly exaggerated 17th-century England, Peter Greenaway’s witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery catapulted him to the forefront of international art cinema. Adorned with intricate wordplay, extravagant costumes and opulent photography, Greenaway’s first narrative feature weaves a labyrinthine mystery around the maxim “draw what you see, not what you know.” An aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s property while he is away—in exchange for a fee, room and board, and one sexual favor for each of the twelve drawings. As the draughtsman becomes more entrenched in the devious schemings in this seemingly idyllic country home, curious details emerge in his drawings that may reveal a murder.

With Davy Chou • Park Ji-Min • Oh Kwang-Rok • Guka Han • Kim Sun-Young

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on (an unexpected) journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

With Jack O’Connell • Emma Corrin • Joely Richardson • Graham Broadbent • Faye Marsay • David Magee • Elizabeth Gabler • Ella Hunt • Laurence Mark • Pete Czernin • Nikki Cooper • Matthew Duckett

Based on the classic D.H. Lawrence novel, a story well ahead of its time, we follow the life of Lady Chatterley, a woman born to a life of wealth and privilege, who soon finds herself married to a man that she eventually falls out of love with. Lady Chatterley engages in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper on their English estate, discovering more desire and intimacy than she thought possible. When she realizes that she has fallen heart and soul, she breaks all traditions of the day and seeks happiness with the man she loves.

With Auli’i Cravalho • Wayne Knight • Asher Angel • Eddie Rubin • Derek Luke • Silas Howard • Tony Danza • Wenonah Wilms • Riele Downs • Becca Greene • Chosen Jacobs • Michele Weisler • Mac Hendrickson

After suffering a near-death experience as a young girl, Darby Harper (Downs) gains the ability to see dead people. As a result, she becomes introverted and shut off from her high school peers and prefers to spend time counseling lonely spirits who have unfinished business on earth. But all that changes when Capri (Cravalho), the Queen Bee of the school’s most exclusive clique, unexpectedly dies in a freak hair straightening accident, resulting in the obvious cancellation of her upcoming “Sweet 17.” Capri, however, pleads with Darby from the other side to intervene and convince Capri’s friends to proceed with the party as planned. In order to appease the wrath of the undead diva, Darby must emerge from her self-imposed exile and reinvent herself — which along the way allows her to find new joy back in the land of the living.