Drama Movies 2023 List

With Charlotte Vandermeersch • Felix Van Groeningen • Luca Marinelli • Alessandro Borghi • Mario Gianani • Lorenzo Gangarossa

After meeting as children over a series of summers in the Italian Alps, Pietro (Luca Marinelli) and Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) reunite as adults to build a mountainside cottage which becomes a site of both reflection and reconciliation.

With Clara Gostynski • Li Tavor • Alexei Evstratov • Monika Stalder • Hélio Thiémard • Cyril Schäublin

Another time is possible! At least that is the case in the early days of industrial watchmaking in Switzerland in around 1877, when the disparity between the authorities, manufacturers and models gives rise to parallel temporal dimensions, each with their own timetable, values and ideology. In this proto-Taylorist society, where dignitaries and their gendarmes control the exact time and dictate the rhythms of production and community, a group of workers form an anarchist union in association with the First International federation of workers' groups. This is where Josephine, who is in charge of assembling the unrest wheel, the heart of the mechanical watch, meets the Russian cartographer Pyotr Kropotkin, who is currently in the Jura valleys. Inspired by anarchist ideas, they demand the liberation of time and counter the values of the marketplace and nationalism with solidarity and pacifism.

With Nardeep Khurmi • Pallavi Sastry • Iqbal Theba • Caroline Valencia • Riti Sachdev

Kiran Singh, a 1st generation Punjabi-American, has just accepted a last-minute trucking job before returning to his 37-week pregnant wife, who admits to feeling abandoned. En route to complete this "one final job," Kiran discovers Elena, a 10-year-old Mexican-American stowed away in his trailer. After debating the merits of turning her to the police, Kiran deduces she might be undocumented, and instead resolves to shepherd Elena to her uncle in Boston despite putting his own livelihood in jeopardy. As the pair ride across the changing American landscape, Kiran faces what it means to be a father and Elena learns how to trust again.

With Andy Garcia • Diane Keaton • Don Johnson • Mary Steenburgen • Craig T. Nelson • Trish Hofmann • Brad Weston • Giancarlo Giannini • Vincent Riotta • Jane Fonda • Bill Holderman • Candice Bergen • Andrew Duncan • Erin Simms • Hugh Quarshie • Enzo Sisti

The four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.

With Cary Elwes • Jay Baruchel • Matt Johnson • Matthew Miller • Michael Ironside • Glenn Howerton • Martin Donovan • Saul Rubinek • Rich Somme

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The device that one invented and the other sold was the BlackBerry, an addictive mobile phone that changed the way the world worked, played and communicated. But just as BlackBerry was rising to new peaks, it also started losing its way through the fog of Smartphone wars, management indecision and outside distractions, eventually leading to the breakdown of one of the most successful ventures in the history of the tech and business worlds.

With Lewis Pullman • Austin Abrams • Eliza Scanlen • Wrenn Schmidt • Jimmi Simpson • Laurel Parmet

The Starling Girl follows seventeen-year-old Jem Starling (Scanlen), who struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy — the church dance group — is tempered by worry that her love of dance is actually sinful, and she’s caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and an instinctive resistance to her mom’s urging that the time has come to begin courting. She finds respite from her confusion in the encouragement of her youth pastor Owen (Pullman), who is likewise drawn to the blossoming Jem’s attention.

With Emily Browning • Patricia Clarkson • Adriana Barraza • Trace Lysette • Andrea Pallaoro • Orlando Tirado

A portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past. Reconnecting with her mother (Patricia Clarkson) and the rest of her family for the first time since leaving as a teenager, Monica (Trace Lysette) embarks on a path of healing and acceptance. The film delves into Monica’s internal world and state of mind, her pain and fears, her needs and desires, to explore the universal themes of abandonment and forgiveness.

With Penelope Cruz • Vincenzo Amato • Luana Giuliani • Patrizio Francioni • Maria Chiara Goretti • Emanuele Crialese

Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her emotionally distant husband Felice (Vincenzo Amato) relocate to Rome to raise a family. Even though the paint is fresh, and the appliances are new, the crushing expectations around marriage, desire, and gender in the early 1970s remain as traditional as ever. Their children Andrew (played by newcomer Luana Giuliani), Gino, and Diana are likewise poised at a precipice, on the verge of adolescence, with nothing but their imaginations to defuse family tensions. The eldest child, Andrew (nicknamed Adri by his parents), yearns for another life – an outsized, vibrantly-realized vision of a world where he gets to live as the boy he knows himself to be. Without an accepted vocabulary for talking about his transgender identity, Andrew tells adults that he’s an alien from another galaxy and makes a habit of running away to pursue a local Roma girl who accepts his boyhood at face value. As an outsider ostracized for her own eccentricities, Clara instinctively strives to protect her son despite not fully understanding him. An effortlessly moving film about growing up, fitting in, and breaking the mold, L’immensita is as freewheeling and creative as its central characters, mixing genres and staging musical numbers out of thin air.

With Ben Affleck • Matt Damon • Jason Bateman • Chris Tucker • Viola Davis • David Ellison • Marlon Wayans • Chris Messina • Gustaf Skarsgård • Madison Ainley • Alex Convery • Peter Guber • Matthew Maher • Tom Papa • Joel Gretsch • Jeff Robinov • Jon Weinbach • Julius Tennon • Jesse Sisgold • Damon

From award-winning director Ben Affleck, Air reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then rookie Michael Jordan and Nike’s fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son’s immense talent, and the basketball phenom who would become the greatest of all time.

With Peter Callahan • Maggie Lacey • Tom Nelis • Bridget White • Matthew Boston • Daniel Stewart Sherman

Out and About is an unconventional tale about a middle-aged man trying to come to terms with his life over the course of an afternoon walk through his hometown. Distinctive in both style and substance and told virtually in real time, the story weaves together the protagonist’s inner monologue with conversations he has with the people he encounters along the way. Raw, brutally honest, poignant and funny, Out and About explores the contrast between our inner and outer selves, the conflict between old dreams and new realities, and one man’s search for meaning as he wrestles with aging, success and failure in America, and his ultimate place in the world.

With Margaret Qualley • Christopher Abbott • Zachary Wigon • Micah Bloomberg

A dominatrix (Qualley) and her wealthy client (Abbott) engage in a battle of wills inside a luxury hotel suite after he tries to end their relationship. Over the course of one emotionally fraught night, the balance of power swings back and forth as each seeks to gain the upper hand. Is he hopelessly overmatched? Or is her wildly unpredictable behavior all part of an elaborate game?

With Sarah Minnich • Glenn Howerton • Brandon Ruiz • Hailee Cruzen • Allison Otto

A captivating crime documentary about the heist one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works but a very unconventional method of collecting them.

With Wyatt Oleff • Chrissy Metz • Fin Argus • Jamie Sisley

An American indie debut drama of uncommon empathy that is very much of the moment: a fictionalized account of the filmmaker’s coming of age, as he struggles to get out from under the yoke of a prescription-drug-addicted mother in small-town Virginia. Life in the last, lame-duck months of high school, with a job at the Jolly Cow ice cream drive-in, would be cringe-inducing enough without a deeply depressed, self-destructive mother (Chrissy Metz). Wyatt Oleff and Fin Argus play teenage brothers stuck in a cycle of discovering their mom passed out, dragging her to the hospital, and encouraging rehab. Despair quickly turns to hope and then boomerangs back again.

With Mouna Soualem • Théo Cholbi • Anouk Grinberg • Pauline Serieys • Bouli Lanners • Dominik Moll • Bastien Bouillon • Lula Cotton-Frapier

In nearly every police precinct, detectives are inevitably confronted with a case that goes unsolved. The more heinous the crime, the more it haunts those trying to solve it. Such is the dilemma for Yohan Vivès (Bastien Bouillon)—a young, recently promoted police Captain—when he begins investigating the murder of a young women named Clara in the town of Grenoble. It's clear that the attack was pre-meditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. Vivés' team methodically digs through the details of Clara's life, uncovering her secrets in hopes of weeding out the killer. Certain their suspect is a scorned ex-lover, Vivés is confronted with another, more complicated question: which one?

With Jordana Brewster • Vanessa Redgrave • James Badge Dale • Ruby Modine • Tara Subkoff • Keith Powers • Franco Nero • Paul Ben-Victor • Micheál Richardson • Jari Jones • Shomari Love • Sophie Lane Curtis • Christopher Paul Richards • Declan McCormick • Ahmed Mawas • Monte Bezell • Aris Schwabe • Atticus Jones • Dean Milkey • Adam G. Simon

Henry contemplates suicide while writing the end to his newest script - a retelling of his past with his lost love, Rosemary. As a dark voice pushes him to the brink, Rosemary fights to make him believe in himself before it is too late.

With Laura del Río • Leonor Varela • Mia Maestro • Enzo Ferrada • Benjamin Soto • Frederique Gudelj • Francisca Alegria

A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegría’s poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena (Mia Maestro) bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. This shocking return sends her widowed husband into turmoil and prompts their daughter Cecilia (Leonor Varela) to return home to the family’s dairy farm with her own children. Magdalena’s presence reverberates among her family, instigating fits of laughter and despair in equal measure with all but Cecilia’s eldest child, who finds much-needed comfort in their grandmother’s love and unconditional understanding during a time of transition.

With Julia Lebedev • Eddie Vaisman • Teyana Taylor • Brad Weston • Will Catlett • Oren Moverman • Josiah Cross • Lena Waithe • William Catlett • A.V. Rockwell • Rishi Rajani • Don DiPetta • Aven Courtney • Aaron Kingsley Adetola • Jamin OBrien

Convinced that it is one last, necessary crime on the path to redemption, unapologetic and free-spirited Ines kidnaps six-year-old Terry from the foster care system. Holding onto their secret and each other, mother and son set out to reclaim their home, their identity, and stability in a rapidly changing New York City.

With Julia Louis-Dreyfus • Arian Moayed • Owen Teague • Bill Camp • Anthony Bregman • Nicole Holofcener • Stefanie Azpiazu • Michaela Watkins • Tobias Menzies • Elizabeth Marvel • Jeanne Berlin

New York novelist Beth has been working for years on the follow-up to her somewhat successful memoir, sharing countless drafts with her supportive husband Don. Beth's world unravels when she overhears Don admit to her brother-in-law, Mark, that actually, he doesn’t like the new book. She vents to her sister Sara that decades of a loving, committed marriage pale in comparison to this immense betrayal. Meanwhile, therapist Don faces his own professional problems as he finds himself unable to care about or even recall his unhappy patients' issues anymore… and they’ve begun to notice.

With Hanna Schygulla • Sandor Bese • Lars Rudolph • Peter Fitz • Béla Tarr • Ágnes Hranitzky

One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens, which builds inexorably toward violence and destruction. In thirty-nine of his signature long takes, engraved in ghostly black and white, Tarr conjures an apocalyptic vision of dreamlike dread and fathomless beauty.

With Eric David Walker • Joaquín del Paso • Valeria Lamm • Lucciano Kurti • Yubah Ortega • Santiago Barajas Hamue

At a secluded exclusive summer camp in the Mexican countryside, under the watchful eyes of their adult guardians, boys from a prestigious private school receive physical, moral and religious training to turn them into tomorrow’s elite. The discovery of a hole in the fence sets in motion a chain of disturbing events as the boys devolve into a Lord of the Flies-like mob mentality that creates and spreads hysteria in this profoundly disturbing coming-of-age drama that unravels like a horror movie while drawing on actual events.

With Robert LaSardo • Artie Pasquale • James Russo • Ciro Dapagio • Anthony Caliendo • Bruce Soscia • Elisabetta Fantone • Celine Alva • Michael Villar • Oksana Lada • Jorge Yanes

After returning home from a lengthy prison sentence, a loyal crime family confidant quickly realizes that he and his family are the targets of the organization that he remained devoted to all of his life. In order to save his family, he must choose whether to run or fight back.

With Robert Maaser • Petra Zieser • Roy McCrerey • Peter Thorwarth • Alexander Scheer • Florian Schmidtke • Marie Hacke

On his way to find his daughter, deserter Henrich is stopped by SS troops and hanged from a tree. Courageous farmer Elsa saves him just in time. United by their common enemy, the two fight for justice and for their families.

With Sydney Sweeney • Riva Marker • John Way • Josh Hamilton • Marchånt Davis • Brad Becker-Parton • Noah Stahl • Greg Nobile • Tina Satter • Benny Elledge

On June 3, 2017, 25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home to question her suspected role in the mishandling of classified information. Based on true events, the film’s dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense and transfixing conversation.