Drama Movies 2022 List

With Stephen Curry • Claudia Karvan • Nash Edgerton • Noni Hazlehurst • Sam Lyndon • Jamie Hilton • Michael Pontin • Darren Gilshenan • JJ Winlove • Otis Dhanji • Pip Miller • Matilda Ridgeway • Drew Bailey

A twist of fate gives family matriarch June (Noni Hazlehurst) a reprieve from a debilitating illness. Much to their amazement, June re-enters the lives of her adult children,Ginny (Claudia Karvan) and Devon (Stephen Curry), and learns that 'things haven’t gone according to plan'. With limited time but plenty of pluck, she sets about trying to put everything, and everyone, back on track. When her meddling backfires, June sets out on a romantic journey of her own and discovers she needs help from the very people she was trying to rescue.

With Asghar Farhadi • Mohsen Tanabandeh • Amir Jadidi • Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy • Sarina Farhadi

Rahim is in jail for a debt he hasn't been able to pay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint in exchange for paying back part of the debt. Rahim is then confronted with a crisis he would never have imagined.

With Vanessa Kirby • Adam Leon • Simon Brickner • Annika Wahlsten • Annabel Hoffman • and Maya Hawke

A writer, Alina Reynolds (Vanessa Kirby), loses her memory and finds herself adrift in New York City — with almost no sense of time, place, the season — or her own identity. Alina’s consciousness swings between imagined conversations, fragments of her own short stories — and the bustling city around her. She finds an anchor in a charismatic teenager (Simon Brickner), connecting with him and his free-spirited group of friends — as she makes her way through a disorienting but strangely beautiful cityscape.

With Isabelle Carre • Eric Besnard • Nicolas Bourkhrief • Gregory Gadebois • Benjamin Lavernhe

France, 1789, just before the Revolution. A chef who has been sacked by his master finds the strength to free himself from being a servant to open the first restaurant

With Sara Alles • Thea Sofie Loch Næss • Thomas Gallagher • Rune Temte • Darren Mann • Michael Weaver • Tim Griffin • Justin Huen • Ingrid Liavaag • Laura Sophia Becker • Jim Johansen

When almost everyone vanishes from a tourist ship in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore and alone in the elements, the men deteriorate in body and mind with the clock now ticking on their survival. In the end, a dark truth emerges that forces them to ally or perish.

With Iuli Gerbase • Renata de Lélis • Eduardo Mendonça • Kaya Rodrigues • Girley Brasil Paes • Helena Becker • Lívia Perrone Pires

A deadly pink cloud appears in the sky, forcing everyone to stay home. Strangers at first, Giovana and Yago try to take on the role of being a couple as years of lockdown pass. While Yago is living in a utopia, Giovana feels trapped inside.

With Denzel Washington • Joel Coen • Brendan Gleeson • Corey Hawkins • Scott Rudin • Frances McDormand • Sean Patrick Thomas • Harry Melling • Brian Thompson • Robert Graf • Ralph Ineson • Moses Ingram • Lucas Barker

A Scottish lord gets convinced by a trio of witches that he is destined to become king of Scotland.

With Ben Affleck • George Clooney • Christopher Lloyd • Max Martini • Matthew Delamater • William Monahan • Peter Chernin • Lily Rabe • Michael Braun • Briana Middleton • Daniel Ranieri • Max Casella • Rhenzy Feliz • Ivan Leung • Grant Heslov • Sondra James

The Tender Bar tells the story of J.R. (Sheridan), a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie (Affleck), is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrative father figures. As the boy’s determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities denied to her — and leave the dilapidated home of her outrageous if begrudgingly supportive father (Christopher Lloyd) — J.R. begins to gamely, if not always gracefully, pursue his romantic and professional dreams — with one foot persistently placed in Uncle Charlie’s bar.

With Nina Dobrev • Eric Dane • Logan Marshall-Green • Famke Janssen • Abigail Cowen • D.J. Caruso • Greg Campbell • Wendy Hughes • B. Wayne Hughes • Tom Lewis

Based on the bestselling novel by Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love is a powerful story of relentless love and perseverance as a young couple’s relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. It is a life-changing story of the power of unconditional and all-consuming love.

With Ciara Renée • Clifton Davis • Lynn Chen • Kenny Leu • Derek Goh • and Dan Lauria • Tzi Ma • Aimee Long

After an accidental shooting of an innocent Black man in Brooklyn, Chinese-American police officer Mike Tan must wade through his profound guilt as he attempts to navigate the complicated worlds of media, justice, and racial politics.

With Maria Fedorchenko • Arsenii Markov • Yana Isaienko • Oleksandr Ivanov • Kateryna Gornostai

Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes – life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she’s hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone. Like a gentler, deeply emotional, and multi-layered version of 'Euphoria' out of Ukraine.

With Jeremy Irons • August Diehl • Sandra Hüller • Jannis Niewöhner • Jessica Brown Findlay • Alex Jennings • George MacKay • Christian Schwochow • Robert Bathurst • Ben Power

Based on the international bestseller by Robert Harris. It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war. Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlain's government desperately seeks a peaceful solution. With the pressure building, Hugh Legat, British civil servant, and Paul von Hartmann, German diplomat, travel to Munich for the emergency Conference. As negotiations begin, the two old friends find themselves at the centre of a web of political subterfuge and very real danger. With the whole world watching, can war be averted and, if so, at what cost?

With Asghar Farhadi • Mohsen Tanabandeh • Amir Jadidi • Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy • Sarina Farhadi

Rahim is in jail for a debt he hasn't been able to pay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint in exchange for paying back part of the debt. Rahim is then confronted with a crisis he would never have imagined.

With Alyssa Milano • Emilie Ullerup • Sam Page • Monika Mitchell • Barry W. Levy • Colleen Wheeler

Prominent mystery writer and crime expert, Grace (Alyssa Milano), hurries back to her family home in Washington, D.C. because her estranged sister summons her. When her sister is killed and her double life as a webcam performer is revealed, Grace ignores the warnings of cool-headed detective Ed and gets involved in the case.

With Jussi Rantamyaki • Seydi Haarla • Juho Kuosmanen • Riina Sildos • Natalia Drozd • Sergey Selyanov • Yamila Venske • Yuri Borisov • Dinara Drukarova • Yulia Aug

A Finnish student (Seidi Haarla) gets on the Moscow-Murmansk train, trying to escape her mysterious Moscow love. By chance, she has to share a long trip and a cramped compartment with a larger-than-life Russian miner (Yuriy Borisov),

With Sook-Yin Lee • Tim Perell • Howard Gertler • Wouter Barendrecht • Paul Dawson • Lindsay Beamish • PJ DeBoy • Raphael Barker • Jay Brannan • Peter Stickles • Justin Bond • John Cameron Mitchell • Jeff Sackman • Michael J. Werner

Written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, "Shortbus" explores the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex. Male and female, straight and gay, the characters find one and other -- and eventually find themselves -- when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a mad nexus of art, music, politics, and polysexual carnality.

With Jenna Ortega • Shailene Woodley • Joannie Burstein • Rebecca Miller • John Ortiz • Julie Bowen • Maddie Ziegler • Austin Zajur • Megan Park • Christina Lundbohm • Greg Young • David Brown • Mark Andrews • Niles Fitch • Giulia Prenna • Cara Shine • Todd Lundbohm • Stephanie Denton

Bolstered by new friendships forged under sudden and tragic circumstances, high schooler Vada (Jenna Ortega) begins to reinvent herself, while re-evaluating her relationships with her family, friends and her view of the world. Moving away from her comfortable family routine, she starts taking chances with a series of quicksilver decisions that test her own boundaries and push her in new directions. As she spends more time with Mia (Maddie Ziegler), they grow closer, and Vada slowly redefines herself through their shared experiences, leading her further away from that day and closer to living her life in the now.

With Tim Roth • Iazua Larios • Michel Franco • James Tarpey • Henry Goodman • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Albertine Kotting McMillan

Neil and Alice Bennett (Tim Roth, Charlotte Gainsbourg) are the core of a wealthy family on vacation in Mexico with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley, Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, simmering tensions rise to the fore in this suspenseful jolt from writer/director Michel Franco.

With Nikolaj Coster-Waldau • Nicolas Bro • Christoffer Boe • Tobias Lindholm • Katrine Greis-Rosenthal • Flora Augusta • Charlie Gustafsson • August Vinkel

A power couple within the Danish gourmet scene run the popular restaurant Malus in Copenhagen. The couple is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve their dream — getting the coveted Michelin star.

With Peter Dinklage • Joe Wright • Ben Mendelsohn • Haley Bennett • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Kelvin Harrison Jr. • Brian Tyree Henry • Erica Schmidt • Sarah-Jane Robinson • Sheeraz Shah • Lucas Webb • Matt Berninger • Carin Besser • Aaron Dessner

Re-imagining the timeless tale of a heartbreaking love triangle. A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac (played by Peter Dinklage) dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne (Haley Bennett), Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her — and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian

With Levan Tedaishvili • Nadezhda Mikhalkova • Kakhi Kavsadze • Giorgi Tabidze • Levan Koguashvili

In this portrait of parental sacrifice and the love of a father for his son, former wrestler Kakhi (played by real-life Olympic champion Levan Tediashvili) embarks on a journey from his home in the Republic of Georgia to visit his son Soso (Giorgi Tabidze) in the Russian-speaking neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. There he finds him living in a shabby boarding house populated by a colorful group of fellow Georgian immigrants. Soso is not studying medicine, as Kakhi believed, but is working for a moving company and has accrued a $14,000 gambling debt to a local Russian mob boss. Kakhi sets his mind to helping his hapless son out of his debt, leading to situations as often comic as they are dire.

With Adrien Brody • Mykelti Williamson • Michelle Wilson • RZA • Paul Solet • Richie Merritt • Glenn Fleshler • Chandler Ari DuPont • John Bianco

Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean (Adrien Brody) attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of local crime boss (Glenn Fleshler), Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.

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 Kayla Bohan • Carly Sullivan • Kate Bohan • Conor Kowalski • Gina Vitori

The story about an 11-year-old girl who suddenly loses her single father and is then forced to live with an alcoholic aunt on a dilapidated family farm. Once Harper helps her aunt get into recovery, she lives in harmony with the farm and its lifestyle, discovering a sense of calm and security. This new life is upended, however, when her rich Southern Belle mother, who abandoned her at birth, reappears to claim her daughter for purely selfish reasons. Once Harper's aunt finds out about the miserable conditions Harper has been subjected to, she springs into action as her love leads the way. Harper is reunited with her aunt as they return to the farm where she finds her own happy place once more.