Drama Movies 2023 List

With Jim Caviezel • Mira Sorvino • Bill Camp • Eduardo Verastegui • Kurt Fuller • Alejandro Gomez Monteverde • Jose Zuniga • Scott Haze • Rod Barr

The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

With William Kaufman • Johnny Strong • Siya Rostami • Athena Durner • Raj Kala • James Sherrill

After a SEAL team helicopter is downed during a rescue mission in Afghanistan, the lone surviving operator must evade hostile insurgents and navigate rough terrain to guide the one living civilian—a traumatized child—to safety.

With Daryl McCormack • Richard E. Grant • Julie Delpy • Alice Troughton • Alex MacKeith • Stephen McMillan

An aspiring young author (McCormack) takes a tutoring position at a legendary writer’s estate. But the young tutor is soon engulfed in the older writer’s complicated family legacy, and a deadly past that could threaten his own future.

With Rudy Pankow • Ashley Nicole Williams • Nicholas Turturro • Mike Starr • Khalil Everage • Blaine Maye • Anna Maiche • Ryan Ashton • Indiana Massara • Greg Davis Jr. • Leo Milano

For many, high school is supposed to be defined by wild parties, backseat hook-ups and a devil-may-care attitude. But, when three friends at Our Lady of the Crusades, an all-boys high school, receive earth-shattering news about an upcoming merger with their rivals, they make a pact to have one last, epic weekend before their lives turn upside down. Along the way, however, they unknowingly make a dangerous enemy, "The Wrecking Crew", hell-bent on settling their vendetta at all costs. While dodging the authorities, love affairs and their sadistic archrivals, the choices they make over the weekend might end up changing their lives more than they ever could have imagined.

With Giovanna Mezzogiorno • Carolina Cavalli • Benedetta Porcaroli • Margherita Missoni • Michele Bravi • Monica Nappo

Born into an upper-class family with a doting mother who foots the bill for her indolent lifestyle, 24-year-old combative Amanda (emerging talent Benedetta Porcaroli) searches for boyfriends but only finds misfits who are repelled by her intensity. She longs for connection but has never had a friend of her own... until she discovers a long lost childhood bond, spurring a mission to convince another recluse that they are still best friends.

With Bokeem Woodbine • Erika Alexander • Sharon Duncan-Brewster • Tia Nomore • Sharon Duncan Brewster • Savanah Leaf • Doechii • Dominic Fike • Keta Price

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.

With Kathy Bates • Laura Linney • Stephen Rea • Agnes O'Casey • Maggie Smith • Thaddeus O’Sullivan • Jimmy Smallhorne • Timothy Prager • Josh Maurer

Ballygar, Ireland, in the year 1968: a boisterous hard-knocks community in outer Dublin that marches to its own beat – frenzied, fast and loose – and yet also deeply soulful; rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith & togetherness. And the opportunity to rise above one's daily struggles is frankly a pipe dream, especially for women. There's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.

With Christian Petzold • Paula Beer • Thomas Schubert • Langston Uibel • Enno Trebs • Matthias Brandt

Afire is set at a small holiday house by the Baltic Sea. The days are hot and it hasn’t rained in weeks. Four young people come together, friends old and new. As the parched forests around them begin to ignite, so do their emotions. Happiness, lust and love; but also jealousies, resentments and tensions. Meanwhile the forests burn. And before long, the flames are there.

With Matt Damon • Robert Downey Jr. • Emily Blunt • Christopher Nolan • Cillian Murphy • Florence Pugh • Rami Malek • Josh Hartnett • Benny Safdie • Kenneth Branagh • Emma Thomas • Dane DeHaan • Charles Roven • Alden Ehrenreich • Tony Goldwyn • David Krumholtz • Matthew Modine • David Dastmalchian • Jack Quaid

Story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb.

With Virginia Gardner • Rob Estes • Alex Aiono • Joaquín Llamas

Two misfit American teens travel to Spain in search of the girl’s birth mother. As they tour through the picturesque cities and fall in love, they discover the most important question isn't who gave you life but what you decide to do with it.

With Elizabeth Banks • Zach Galifianakis • Brian Grazer • Ron Howard • Geraldine Viswanathan • Sarah Snook • Damian Kulash • Kristin Gore • Carl Clemons-Hopkins • Tracey Bonner

Why did the world suddenly treat stuffed animals like gold? Ty Warner was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women grew his masterstroke of an idea into the biggest toy craze in history. “The Beanie Bubble” is an inventive story about what and who we value, and the unsung heroes whose names didn't appear on the heart-shaped tag.

With Ruijun Li • Wu Renlin • Hai Qing

Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with Earth’s cycles, create a haven for themselves in which they can thrive. A story about eternal love, against the odds.

With Virginia Gardner • Rob Estes • Alex Aiono • Joaquín Llamas

Two misfit American teens travel to Spain in search of the girl’s birth mother. As they tour through the picturesque cities and fall in love, they discover the most important question isn't who gave you life but what you decide to do with it.

With Luke Grimes • Blythe Danner • Ellie Kemper • Vicky Wight • Jeff Sackman • Geoff Linville • Nico Santos • Ben Cook • Esteban Benito • Shayvawn Webster • Gus Birney • Julia Shiplett • Katherine Center • Larry Greenberg • Berry Meyerowitz

Helen (Ellie Kemper) has always lived her life as far from the edge as possible. Finding herself newly divorced and a little lost, Helen decides she needs a reset and signs up for the “Adventure of a Lifetime!” The adventure is a backcountry survival course hiking the Appalachian Trail with a group of oddball strangers. From the beginning, Helen’s plan to be the best hiker is tested and she finds more than just herself in the wilderness. Based on the wildly popular novel by Katherine Center, Happiness For Beginners reminds us that sometimes you have to get lost before you're found.

With Denis Menochet • Marina Fois • Rodrigo Sorogoyen

Vincent and Olga (Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs) are a French couple who settled long ago in a village from the interior of Galicia. There they lead a quiet life, grow their vegetables and rehabilitate abandoned houses, although their coexistence with the locals is not as idyllic as they wish. Their refusal to implement a wind farm will accentuate the disagreements with the neighbors, especially with the brothers Xan and Lorenzo, taking coexistence to a situation of no return.

With Raymond Lee • Richard Ray Whitman • Lily Gladstone • Morrisa Maltz • Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux • Devin Shangreaux • Jazmine Bearkiller Shangreaux • Pam Richter • Scott Stample • Dale Leander Toller • Florence R. Perrin • Teresa Boyd

Reeling from a devastating loss, Tana (Lily Gladstone) is pulled back into the world by an unexpected invitation to her cousin’s wedding. She packs up her late grandmother’s Cadillac and hits the open road, driving from her home in Minnesota to South Dakota. After reconnecting with her Oglala Lakota family, Tana sets off to retrace a surreal journey that her grandmother took decades ago, searching for the spot captured in an old family photograph. As she travels, Tana finds connection in the stories of everyday people who’ve settled down far off the main roads including Isaac (Raymond Lee), who provides a pivotal clue to understanding the lost location that could cultivate closure. A personal reverie summoned from a beguiling mix of fact and fiction, The Unknown Country is an arresting debut feature from Morrisa Maltz.

With Elizabeth Banks • Zach Galifianakis • Brian Grazer • Ron Howard • Geraldine Viswanathan • Sarah Snook • Damian Kulash • Kristin Gore • Carl Clemons-Hopkins • Tracey Bonner

Why did the world suddenly treat stuffed animals like gold? Ty Warner was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women grew his masterstroke of an idea into the biggest toy craze in history. “The Beanie Bubble” is an inventive story about what and who we value, and the unsung heroes whose names didn't appear on the heart-shaped tag.