Drama Movies 2023 List

With Saleh Bakri • Brad Bischoff • Iva Gocheva • Frank V. Ross • Bob Turton • Maura Kidwell • Justin Nijm • Lisa Rudin

On the dawn on their anniversary, Nijm spontaneously ditches work to spend the afternoon day drinking with Irina. But, what was supposed to be a fun-filled day of love, lust, and celebration of life slowly devolves into a harrowing evening of consequences… all while under the heavy scrutiny of a biased neighborhood watch.

With Jessica Chastain • Jessica Harper • Merritt Wever • Peter Sarsgaard • Josh Charles • Brooke Timber • Elsie Fisher

Sylvia (Jessica Chastain) is a social worker who leads a simple and structured life. This is blown open when Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion. Their surprise encounter will profoundly impact both of them as they open the door to the past.

With Kim Myers • Anna Camp • Rob Mayes • Amin Matalqa • Carson Minniear • Matthew Antonelli • Larry Postel

Inspired by a remarkable true story, when her husband has a mental breakdown and goes missing, a determined woman and her young son set out to find him on the streets, sparking a movement of compassion towards those in need and inspiring a city.

With Tom Hanks • Marc Forster • Louise Rosner • Mariana Treviño • Rita Wilson • David Magee • Steven Shareshian • Celia Costas • Manuel Garcia-Rulfo • Gary Goetzman • Renée Wolfe • Fredrik Wikstrom Nicastro • Rachel Keller • Michael Porseryd • Tim King • Sudie Smyth • Neda Backman • Tor Jonasson

An ill-tempered, isolated retiree, who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.

With Nicolas Cage • Carl W. Lucas • Ryan Kiera Armstrong • Abraham Benrubi • Clint Howard • Brett Donowho • Noah Le Gros • Nick Searcy.

Academy Award® winner* Nicolas Cage stars in his first-ever Western as Colton Briggs, a cold-blooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw and his gang put Colton and his family in peril, Colton is forced to take up arms with an unlikely partner — his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) — in this action-filled film that builds toward its fateful showdown with pulse-pounding suspense.

With Carla Simón

As far as they can remember, the Solé family have spent every summer picking the peaches from their orchard in Alcarràs, a small village in Spain. But this year’s crop could be their last, as they face eviction.

With Christian Bale • Gillian Anderson • Robert Duvall • Scott Cooper • Timothy Spall • Fred Hechinger • Toby Jones • Charlie Tahan • Harry Melling • Peter Chernin • Tyler Thompson • Simon McBurney • John Lesher • Charlotte Gainsbourg • Lucy Boynton • Hadley Robinson • Joey Brooks • Harry Lawtey • Brennan Keel Cook • Gideon Glick • Matt Helm • Steven Maier

West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry — a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).

With Teresa Ruiz • Julieta Egurrola • Nataia Beristain

Julia is a mother– or rather, one of many mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, who have had their lives torn by the widespread violence in a country gaging a war against its women. Julia is searching for Ger, her daughter. And in her search, she will weave through the stories and struggles of the different women she will meet.

With Tom Hanks • Marc Forster • Louise Rosner • Mariana Treviño • Rita Wilson • David Magee • Steven Shareshian • Celia Costas • Manuel Garcia-Rulfo • Gary Goetzman • Renée Wolfe • Fredrik Wikstrom Nicastro • Rachel Keller • Michael Porseryd • Tim King • Sudie Smyth • Neda Backman • Tor Jonasson

An ill-tempered, isolated retiree, who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife's grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors.

With Gillian Jacobs • Roman Coppola • Gia Coppola • Joel McHale • Breeda Wool • Soledad St. Hilaire • Chido Nwokocha • Anthony Skordi • Sybil Azur • Emanuela Postacchini • Daniela Hernandez • Caroline Ducrocq • Joni Reiss • Jason Baum • Allison Amon

Jane (Gillian Jacobs) drops her daughter off at sleepaway camp and drives away from her mundane life into an exciting odyssey on the road. Jane’s obstacles, connections and moments were created playing a game of exquisite corpse—a method of creating art by collectively assembling random parts to create a whole.

With Frances Fisher • David Arquette • Irene Bedard • Amy Smart • William Mapother • Mariel Hemingway • Che Jim • Rebecca Tickell • Josh Tickell • Kerry Knuppe • David Midthunder

Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Reservation. The film follows Daniel (Mapother), a journalist and military veteran, and Elliot (Arquette), an oil company executive, who find themselves on opposite sides of the fight during the construction of the contentious pipeline. As the story unfolds, the two characters go down separate paths during one of the most heated protests and confrontations with Native American tribes in modern US history.

With François Cluzet • Fatoumata Kaba • Chantal Neuwirth • Audrey Lamy • Amadou Bah • Boubacar Balde • Mamadou Koita • Yannick Kalombo • Louis-Julien Petit • Liza Benguigui • Sophie Bensadoun

Cathy is an inflexible 40 years old sous-chef. This year, she is finally about to fulfill her lifelong dream by opening her own gastronomic restaurant. But nothing goes as planned. Facing serious financial difficulties, she reluctantly accepts a job in the cafeteria of a shelter for young migrants. While she hates her new position, Cathy’s skills and passion for cuisine start to change the kids’ lives. And they also have a lot to teach her…

With Alice Diop

The film follows the novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) as she attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanga), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. As the trial continues, the words of the accused and witness testimonies will shake Rama’s convictions and call into question our own judgment.

With Ólafur Darri Ólafsson • Anita Briem • Birgir Dagur Bjarkason • Áskell Einar Pálmason • Viktor Benóný Benediktsson • Snorri Rafn Frímannsson • Ísgerður Gunnarsdóttir • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson

Addi, a boy raised by a clairvoyant mother, decides to adopt a bullied misfit into his gang of outsiders. Left to their own devices, the boys explore aggression and violence but also learn about loyalty and love. As the group’s behavior escalates towards life-threatening situations, Addi begins to experience a series of dreamlike visions. Can his newfound intuition guide him and his friends back to a safer path, or will they dive irrevocably into further violence?

With Oliver Masucci • Philipp Stölzl • Birgit Minichmayr • Albrecht Schuch • Rolf Lassgård

Vienna, 1938: Austria is occupied by the Nazis. Dr. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci) is preparing to flee to America with his wife Anna when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is told to help the local Gestapo leader gain access to their private bank accounts in order to fund the Nazi regime. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement. Just as his mind is beginning to crack, Bartok happens upon a book of famous chess games. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his sanity only by memorizing every move. As the action flashes forward to a transatlantic crossing on which he is a passenger, it seems as though Bartok has finally found freedom. But recounting his story to his fellow travelers, it's clear that his encounters with both the Gestapo and with the royal game itself have not stopped haunting him.

With Nicolas Cage • Carl W. Lucas • Ryan Kiera Armstrong • Abraham Benrubi • Clint Howard • Brett Donowho • Noah Le Gros • Nick Searcy.

Academy Award® winner* Nicolas Cage stars in his first-ever Western as Colton Briggs, a cold-blooded gunslinger turned respectable family man. When an outlaw and his gang put Colton and his family in peril, Colton is forced to take up arms with an unlikely partner — his 12-year-old daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) — in this action-filled film that builds toward its fateful showdown with pulse-pounding suspense.

With Rob Lowe • Johnny Berchtold • Kimberly Williams-Paisley • Stephen Herek • Nick Santora

A young man and his father begin a desperate search to find their beloved dog Gonker on the Appalachian Trail before it’s too late.

With Amy Landecker • Storm Reid • Nia Long • Joaquim de Almeida • Ken Leung • Nick Johnson • Daniel Henney • Will Merrick

A thrilling roller-coaster mystery that makes you wonder how well you know those closest to you. When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers…and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

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 Hugh Jackman • Anthony Hopkins • Laura Dern • Vanessa Kirby • Christophe Spadone • Zen McGrath • Emile Sherman • Iain Canning • Florian Zeller • Joanna Laurie

Follows a family as it falls apart and tries to come back together again. A couple of years after his parents’ divorce, 17-year-old Nicholas no longer feels he can stay with his mother, Kate. He moves in with his father Peter and Peter’s new partner Beth. Juggling work, his and Beth’s new baby, and the offer of his dream job in Washington, Peter tries to care for Nicholas as he wishes his own father had cared for him. But by reaching for the past to correct its mistakes, he loses sight of how to hold onto the Nicholas in the present.

With Joanna Scanlan • Talid Ariss • Aleem Khan • Nathalie Richard

Mary (Joanna Scanlan) is a white English woman who converted to islam when she married her Pakistani husband, Ahmed, and they settled in Dover, England. Following Ahmed’s unexpected death, Mary discovers that her late husband had a secret life just twenty-one miles away across the Channel in Calais, France. The shocking discovery compels her to go there to find out more, and as she grapples with her shattered sense of identity, her search for understanding has surprising consequences.

With Simon Baker • Del Kathryn Barton • Josh Lawson • Julia Savage • Yoel Stone • Huna Amweero

After accidentally witnessing a violent crime, a young girl is left catatonic with shock, and struggles to make sense of what she saw, ultimately finding renewal in the inestimable world of her own imagination.

With Leib Lev Levin • Elisheva Weil • Yoav Hait • Hadar Katz • Hadas Ben Aroya

Tel Aviv, today. At a party, an anxious girl named Danny is looking for Max, a recent casual fling, to share that she’s pregnant with his child. Through the haze of drugs and promiscuity of the partygoers, Danny doesn't get far in her search. Meanwhile, Max is busy with his new girlfriend, Avishag. He attempts to realize her rough sexual fantasies but Avishag instead turns her attention to another burgeoning relationship with Dror, an older man she dog-sits for.

With Will Hearle • Pearce Egan • Christopher Sherwood • Adam Silver • Alexander Lincoln • Alexander King • Peter McPherson • Alex Hammond • Ivan Comisso • Carl Loughlin • Franck Assi • Matt Carter

As a “B Squad” of gay athletes tries to overcome inexperience and push past rivalries to score an elusive win, a secret affair simmers among them. Mark (puppy-eyed Alexander Lincoln) finds himself unable to avoid the blazing appeal of teammate Warren (Alexander King), with his cocky attitude and emotional unavailability.

With Emma Stone • Finn Wolfhard • Julianne Moore • Jesse Eisenberg • Alisha Boe • Dave McCary • Billy Bryk • Jay O. Sanders • Eleonore Hendricks

Set over three decades, Nathan is a father learning to connect with his newborn son. Rachel, a young college student, seeks to find her place in a relationship and in life. And Ziggy is a teenager hoping to figure out where he came from, and where he's headed.

With Ryu Kyung-soo • Yeon Sang-ho • Kang Soo-youn • Kim Hyun-joo

"With the brain data from Captain Yun Jung-yi, we will create the ultimate A.I. combat warrior."

Earth has been devastated by drastic climate change, and humankind migrates to new shelters in outer space. The civil war that occurs there continues on for decades, and Yun Jung-yi (Kim Hyun-joo) becomes a legendary mercenary and military strategist with countless victories to her name. But one failed mission puts her in a vegetative state. Kronoid, a military A.I. development company, attempts to create the ultimate combat warrior by cloning her brain.

35 years later, Jung-yi's daughter Yun Seo-hyun (Kang Soo-youn) participates in this effort as the head researcher of the JUNG_E project.

When little progress is made despite numerous cloning and simulation attempts, Kronoid abandons the research to launch another project. Seo-hyun learns of their plans and resolves to save JUNG_E.

Thus begins the A.I. combat warrior JUNG_E's escape from the research lab...

With Allison Burnett • Armando Gutierrez • Kevin Sorbo • Buzz Fleischman • Richard Booth • Khoa Le • Ann Herberger • Sasha Andreev • Alex Mitchell • Alberto de la Cruz • Nehir Onay • Gail Byer • Eliana Ghen • Emilio Estefan Jr. • Marcus Lemonis • Nick Friedman • Jevon White • RV Romero • Tashena Ebanks • Josh Willis • Emilio Estefan • Kristian Juanas • Trace De La Torre • Kory Apton • Omar Soliman • Peter A. Lees

Bezos chronicles the true-life story of Jeff Bezos-a humble yet awkward entrepreneur on his mission to create Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company, and turn himself into the richest man in the world.

With Shah Rukh Khan • Deepika Padukone • Aditya Chopra • Siddharth Anand • John Abraham

A high-octane spy thriller starring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham.

With Lukas Dhont • Émilie Dequenne • Léa Drucker • Eden Dambrine • Igor Van Dessel • Angelo Tijssens

Léo and Rémi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart.

With David Strathairn • Jeff Hutchens • Derek Goldman • Eva Anisko

David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski in this genre-defying true story of a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the devastation of the Blitzkrieg, Karski swears allegiance to the Polish Underground and risks his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Escaping a Gestapo prison, bearing witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endures unspeakable mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and speak the truth.

With Léa Seydoux • Melvil Poupaud • Pascal Greggory • Philippe Martin • David Thion • Mia Hansen-Løve’

Sandra (Léa Seydoux) is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father (Pascal Greggory). She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same time, Sandra reconnects with Clément (Melvil Poupaud), a friend she hasn’t seen in a while and, although he’s married, their friendship soon blossoms into a passionate affair.

With Fares Fares • Tawfeek Barhom • Tarik Saleh

Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the university's highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam soon becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.

With Julito McCullom • Tobias Truvillion • Wakeema Hollis • Marc John Jeffries • Ambre Anderson • Ashley Monique Harper • Marili Kateri • Sally Stewart • Brian Anthony Wilson • Jason Hurt • Noel Calloway

Kenny and Giselle are set to marry on a beach in Puerto Rico. When Giselle disappears on the day of the ceremony it sets off a crazy chain of events unearthing secrets, lies and betrayal that threatens to destroy the fairytale love story.

With François Cluzet • Berenice Bejo • Jeremie Renier • Philippe Le Guay

After a Jewish couple (Jérémie Renier and The Artist’s Bérénice Bejo) sells their basement to a former history teacher (The Intouchables’ François Cluzet), they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist. As the couple struggles to rescind the sale, the buyer befriends their naive teenage daughter.

With Ruth Caudeli • Silvia Varón • Ana María Otálora

Anto, Marti, and Lai are a throuple blissfully living together in a remote house, with nothing but their beloved bundle of dogs keeping them company. When Lai leaves for a work trip, the balance is thrown off and Marti and Anto must adapt to being just the two of them. Suddenly, the dreaminess of their secluded home becomes isolating, and all they have to rely on is each other. In the spirit of honest and vulnerable openness, this semi-autobiographical blend of documentary and fiction from writer-director Ruth Caudeli is an invitation to experience the intimate details, both unique and universal, of the ups and downs and shifting dynamics in a polyamorous relationship.