Drama Movies 2023 List

With Nan Arnold Gurley • Conrad John Schuck • Carrie Tillis • Nat McIntyre • Garris Wimmer • Ross Bolen • Laura Matula • Matt Logan • Erik Lokkesmoe • A. S. Peterson • Kay Cook

World War II. Darkness has fallen over Europe, and the boots of the Third Reich echo through the streets. But on a quiet city corner in the Netherlands, some choose to resist. Corrie Ten Boom and her family risk everything to hide Jewish refugees by the hundreds, and they ultimately face the consequences when they are discovered.

With Jon Hamm • Sarah Gadon • David Milchard • Christopher Heyerdahl • Robert Mitchell • Ted Melfi • Danny Pudi • Niclas Salomonsson • Ted Kupper • Kimberly Quinn • Robert Ogden Barnum • Lucas Jarach • Joachim Back • Raymond Fortier • Jonas Karlsson • Terry Williston • Dylan Collingwood • Matthew Clarke

In this workplace comedy reminiscent of Office Space and “Severance,” misfit Orson (Jon Hamm) finds himself trapped in the absurdities of corporate life. As The Authority’s newest employee, Orson finds it difficult to connect with his enigmatic desk mate, Rakesh (Danny Pudi), as well as with the rest of his colleagues. His alienation deepens when he discovers a room he’s told doesn’t exist – a place that unleashes his true potential, leading to an ascent up the corporate ladder. Buoyed by his newfound confidence, Orson invites a receptionist (Sarah Gadon) into his sanctuary, sparking a climactic clash between the corporate world’s harsh realities and his own wild fantasies.

With Ben Whishaw • Adele Exarchopoulos • Arcadi Radeff • Ira Sachs • Franz Rogowski • Erwan Kepoa Falé • Léa Boublil

After completing his latest project, filmmaker Tomas (Franz Rogowski) impulsively begins a heated love affair with a young schoolteacher, Agathe (Adèle Exarchopoulos). For Tomas, the novelty of being with a woman is an exciting experience he is eager to explore despite his marriage to Martin (Ben Whishaw). But when Martin begins his own affair, the mercurial Tomas refocuses his attentions on his husband. Set in contemporary Paris, Passages charts an escalating battle of desire between three people, where want is a constant and happiness is just out of reach.

With Aaron Pierre • Lamar Johnson • Kiana Madeira • Clement Virgo

Adapted from David Chariandy’s award-winning novel of the same name, Brother follows Francis and Michael, brothers facing questions of masculinity, family, race and identity during the pulsing beats of Toronto's early hip hop scene.

With Walton Goggins • Casey Affleck • Bill Pohlad • Jack Dylan Grazer • Beau Bridges • Zooey Deschanel • Chris Messina • Noah Jupe • Jim Burke

Dreamin’ Wild, the true story of love and redemption, is about what happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece. While the album’s rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried emotions as Donnie, his wife Nancy, brother Joe, and father Don Sr. come to terms with the past and their newly found fame.

With Sergey Shadrin • Maryna Er Gorbach • Oksana Cherkashyna • Oleg Shcherbina • Oleg Shevchuk

The story of a Ukrainian family living on the border of Russia and Ukraine during the start of the war.

With Vivica A. Fox • Mindy Sterling • Sally Kirkland • Taryn Manning • Coolio • Rob Margolies • Tim Realbuto • Matt Peters

Bobby Moretti is an obese multiple sclerosis patient who is struggling to cope with personal tragedy and find inner peace. Looking for a fresh start, Bobby takes up boxing, the same sport his late father once practiced. With the help of dedicated trainers at the gym, Bobby embarks on a transformative journey to regain his health and self-confidence shedding 154 pounds. Along the way, he discovers the strength to overcome his past and move forward with a new sense of purpose.

With Kyle Gallner • Johnny Berchtold • Carter Smith • Liza Weil • Merah Benoit • Morgana Shaw

Randy (Johnny Berchtold) is perfectly content fading into the background. But when his coworker Benson (Kyle Gallner) goes on a sudden and violent rampage leaving a trail of destruction in his wake, Randy is forced to face his fears and confront his troubled past to survive.

With David Doukhan • Yves Lecat • Fabrice Blin • Séverine Ferrer • Quentin Surtel • Fabien Jegoudez

THE THING BEHIND THE DOOR tells the story of a young woman haunted by the death of her husband who was killed in a trench during World War I. Unable to accept the tragic loss, the young woman turns to black magic in the hopes of bringing her lover back. He comes back to haunt her in her dreams and asks to find an antic spell-book that holds the formula to bring him back to life. Summoning magic from the druids, combining the forces of nature with her own blood, Adèle is obsessed by the potential return of her beloved husband. She ignores, as she performs the supernatural ceremony, that she becomes The Chosen One of a very ancient lineage of vegetal incubi, craving to perpetuate their race. What she resuscitates is a terrifying, unstoppable, and indestructible creature. A thing lurking behind the door, willing only to give Adèle the child that she was promised before the war.

With Taylor Kitsch • Matthew Broderick • Uzo Aduba • West Duchovny • Dina Shihabi • Pete Berg

A fictionalized retelling of events, Painkiller is a scripted limited series that explores some of the origins and aftermath of the opioid crisis in America, highlighting the stories of the perpetrators, victims, and truth-seekers whose lives are forever altered by the invention of the medical drug known as OxyContin. An examination of crime, accountability, and the systems that have repeatedly failed hundreds of thousands of Americans.

With Djimon Hounsou • Orlando Bloom • David Harbour • Neill Blomkamp • Michael De Luca • Max Mundt • Lindsay Pattison • Archie Madekwe • Dana Brunetti • Jason Hall • Nikhil Parmar • Doug Belgrad • Matthew Hirsch • Théo Christine • Mariano González • Harki Bhambra • Kazunori Yamauchi • Herman Hulst

Gran Turismo is based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs – a struggling working-class gamer (Archie Madekwe), a failed former racecar driver (David Harbour), and an idealistic motorsport executive (Orlando Bloom). Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. Gran Turismo is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you’re fueled from within.

With Elaine McMillion Sheldon • Lanie Marsh • Gabrielle Wilson • Doy Leon Russell • Heather Hannah

A lyrical tapestry of a place and people, King Coal meditates on the complex history & future of the coal industry, the communities it has shaped, and myths it has created. Elaine McMillion Sheldon reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in a spectacularly beautiful & deeply moving immersion into Central Appalachia where coal is not just a resource, but a way of life, imagining the ways a community can re-envision itself. While deeply situated in the regions under the reign of "King Coal", where she has lived & worked her entire life, the film transcends time and place, emphasizing the ways in which all are connected through an immersive mosaic of belonging, ritual, imagination. Emerging from the shadows of the coal mines, King Coal untangles the pain from the beauty, and it illuminates our capacity for change.

With Kae Alexander • Darrell D’Silva • Kayla Meikle • Harriet Webb • Nicholas Karimi • Michael Elliott • Luke Pasqualino • Tom Hardiman • Louise Palmkvist Hansen • Anita-Joy Uwajeh • Clare Perksins • Debris Stevenson • Heider Ali • Lilit Lesser

Talented, ambitious, and backstabbing hairstylists gather for a competition in England, only to find one of their own murdered before judging can begin. Winding through neon-lit halls and backstage dressing rooms, competitors unspool long-simmering resentments and secrets as they search for the killer among them.

With Win Morisaki • Fumino Kimura • Tomorô Taguchi • Kôji Fukada

Taeko and her husband Jiro are living a peaceful existence with her young son Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy’s long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with her pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping Park, who is deaf and currently homeless.

With Judy Greer • Edi Gathegi • Payman Maadi • Jared Moshe

Since losing her husband Mal (Edi Gathegi) in a drunk-driving incident, Sophie (Judy Greer) has struggled to manage crippling grief, a full-time job, and the demands of parenting her devastated teenage daughter (Faithe Herman). When her husband’s best friend Jabir (Payman Maadi), a former physicist, reveals that he has been building a time-bending machine that could restore her former life, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice—and unforeseeable consequences.

With Juliette Binoche • Hélène Lampert • Louise Pociecka • Emmanuel Carrère • Steve Papagiannis • Aude Ruyter • Jérémy Lechevallier

Tells the story of Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, who goes to live in northern France to research a new book on the subject of precarious working conditions. Without revealing her true identity, she is hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences first-hand the financial instability and social invisibility of the ‘gig economy'. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity amongst this fraternity of working-class women. As she becomes more entwined in the community and strikes up a close friendship with a woman called Christèle, she begins to question the ethics of the deception in the name of her writing.

With Nicholas Galitzine • Uma Thurman • Stephen Fry • Ellie Bamber • Greg Berlanti • Sarah Shahi • Rachel Hilson • Clifton Collins Jr. • Taylor Zakhar Perez • Matthew López • Ted Malawer • Thomas Flynn • Akshay Khanna • Malcolm Atobrah • Sharon D Clarke • Aneesh Sheth • Juan Castano

Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the President of the United States (Uma Thurman), and Britain’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine) have a lot in common: Stunning good looks, undeniable charisma, international popularity … and a total disdain for each other. Separated by an ocean, their long-running feud hasn’t really been an issue, until a disastrous—and very public—altercation at a royal event becomes tabloid fodder, driving a potential wedge in U.S./British relations at the worst possible time. Going into damage-control mode, their families and handlers force the two rivals into a staged “truce.” But as Alex and Henry’s icy relationship unexpectedly begins to thaw into a tentative friendship, the friction that existed between them sparks something deeper than they ever expected.

With Chris Brown • Jonathan Leveck • Colette Keen • Nick Frangione • Jill Pixley • Carlye Pollack • George Killingsworth

Follows three troubled adult siblings brought together by their horrific mother for the Christmas holiday. We first meet Fanny, an obsessive-compulsive who lives in a group home and works at a candy factory about to go bankrupt. Fanny brings this secret to the Christmas dinner, where she reconnects with her self-absorbed sister Annie and their too-perfect-to-trust brother Danny. Mother Edie hosts the party with an iron fist, insisting at an ever-increasing pitch that everyone have fun. Their Vietnam vet father may act like his emotions died with his friends on the battlefield, but director Brown continually lets his audience glimpse the last few pulses of compassion the broken man has for those around him. As with a storm building strength silently offshore, we sense the impending climax without knowing exactly when or where it will hit – or how hard.

With Hannah Swayze • Giorgia Tomasi • Daniel Contaldo • Lorenzo Passaniti • Catarina Fornaciai • Fabio Benvenuti

A cyclops strangles a man and chases a princess through a forest. In a progressive theater workshop outside of Florence, students Giorgia and Lorenzo act out their dreams and childhood traumas, as teacher Alba pushes them to confront their inner myth.

With Felicity Jones • Mark Strong • Colin Morgan • Tom Guard • Aml Ameen • Charles Guard

When a border ambush goes wrong, a retired Irish paramilitary Michael (Morgan) witnesses the fatal shooting of his pregnant wife by British Sergeant, Tempest (Ameen). Now wounded, and presumed dead, he escapes, taking his revenge to the dark and paranoid streets of 1970’s London. Raw and suspenseful, Dead Shot is an adrenaline-fueled thriller that will leave audiences weighing up the true cost of revenge.

With Brad Pitt • Michael Gandolfini • Tiffany Haddish • Dede Gardner • Jeremy Kleiner • Kylie Rogers • Cory Finley • Clifton Collins Jr. • Josh Hamilton • Asante Blackk • Brooklynn MacKinzie

Set in the near-future, an alien species known as the "Vuvv" has taken over Earth. After the Vuvv’s labor-saving technology causes the Earth's job market and global economy to collapse, a teen and his girlfriend cook up a way to make much-needed money by broadcasting their dating life to the fascinated aliens.

With Juliette Binoche • Hélène Lampert • Louise Pociecka • Emmanuel Carrère • Steve Papagiannis • Aude Ruyter • Jérémy Lechevallier

Tells the story of Marianne Winckler, a well-known author, who goes to live in northern France to research a new book on the subject of precarious working conditions. Without revealing her true identity, she is hired as a cleaner, working with a group of other women. In this new role, she experiences first-hand the financial instability and social invisibility of the ‘gig economy'. But she also discovers mutual assistance and solidarity amongst this fraternity of working-class women. As she becomes more entwined in the community and strikes up a close friendship with a woman called Christèle, she begins to question the ethics of the deception in the name of her writing.

With Emile Hirsch • Danny A. Abeckaser • Kosta Kondilopoulos • Angel Bonanni • Omer Hazan

The story of Yahya Ayyash—the bombmaker who led an army of suicidal soldiers in Israel during the mid ’90s. The story follows the biggest manhunt in the history of Israel to find him.

With Michael Cera • Sophia Lillis • Kyra Tantao • Simon Kim • Hannah Gross • Dustin Guy Defa • Wavyy Jonez • Kiah McKirnan • Anoop Desai

Follows Eric (Michael Cera) as he returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficult to avoid confrontations and revelations as his carefully constructed façade of his adulthood gives way to old childhood conflicts. While Maggie (Sophia Lillis) attempts to recreate the intimate world the three of them once shared, Eric and Rachel (Hannah Gross) are faced with the divide between their childhood selves and the adults they are now.

With Alice Eve • Joel Fry • Lenny Rush • Gary Shore • Nell Hudson

A haunting story is unraveled between the ship’s heyday on Halloween night 1938 and the present…telling the story of two families whose lives become violently entangled.

With Elsa Zylberstein • Olivier Dahan • Elodie Bouchez • Rebecca Marder • Mathieu Spinosi • Olivier Gourmet • Judith Chemla

This tells Simone Veil's life story from her childhood to her major political battles seen through the pivotal events of the twentieth century. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era: her humanist message is still keenly relevant today.

With Lio Mehiel • Alejandro Goic • Cole Doman • MiMi Ryder • Vuk Lungulov-Klotz

Feña (Lio Mehiel), a young trans guy bustling through life in New York, is afflicted with an incessantly challenging day that resurrects ghosts from his past. Laundromats, subway turnstiles, airport transfers are the hectic background to this emotional drama from Sundance that overlaps past, present, and future. Settling the disharmony of transitional upheaval in relationships familial, romantic, platonic is Feña's task at hand, and his resulting juggling act is equal parts skillful, fumbling, and honest. In negotiating his obliqueness, the poignant moments he finds between himself and others - as the distance between them closes - are warm, true, and touching.

With Quim Gutiérrez • Jacqueline Bisset • Virginie Efira • Antoine Barraud • Bruno Salomone • François Rostain • Loïse Benguerel

In this tense psychological drama, Judith (Virginie Efira) leads a secret double life split between two households in two countries. In Switzerland, she lives with Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl. In France, she lives with Melvil, with whom she has two older boys. Gradually this fragile balance, based on lies and back-and-forth trips, begins to veer dangerously off the rails.

With Ilayda Akdogan • Uluç Bayraktar • Hazal Filiz Küçükköse • Nejat Isler

If you're going to play this game fair, you have to be bad.

With Dennis Quaid • Scott Glenn • Darren Moorman • Rickey Hill • Colin Ford • Joelle Carter • Angelo Pizzo • Bonnie Bedelia • Jeff Celentano • Randy Houser • Ron Cundy • Michael A. Blubaugh • Michael E. Hollingsworth • Matthew Dwyer

Growing up impoverished in small-town Texas, young Rickey Hill shows an extraordinary ability for hitting a baseball, despite being burdened by leg braces from a degenerative spinal disease. His stern, pastor father (DENNIS QUAID) discourages Rickey from playing baseball to protect him from injury, and to have him follow in his footsteps and become a preacher. As a young man, Rickey (COLIN FORD) becomes a baseball phenomenon. His desire to participate in a try-out for a legendary major league scout divides the family and threatens Rickey’s dream of playing professional baseball.

With Djimon Hounsou • Orlando Bloom • David Harbour • Neill Blomkamp • Michael De Luca • Max Mundt • Lindsay Pattison • Archie Madekwe • Dana Brunetti • Jason Hall • Nikhil Parmar • Doug Belgrad • Matthew Hirsch • Théo Christine • Mariano González • Harki Bhambra • Kazunori Yamauchi • Herman Hulst

Gran Turismo is based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs – a struggling working-class gamer (Archie Madekwe), a failed former racecar driver (David Harbour), and an idealistic motorsport executive (Orlando Bloom). Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. Gran Turismo is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you’re fueled from within.

With Helen Mirren • Ed Stoppard • Camille Cottin • Guy Nattiv • Nicholas Martin • Dominic Mafham • Ben Caplan

Golda is a ticking-clock thriller set during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir (Helen Mirren), faced with the potential of Israel’s complete destruction, must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet, and a complex relationship with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Liev Schreiber), with millions of lives in the balance. Her tough leadership and compassion would ultimately decide the fate of her nation and leave her with a controversial legacy around the world.

With Hugh Bonneville • Phoebe Dynevor • Joel Fry • Rory Kinnear • Paul Kaye • Naomi Battrick • Chris Foggin

After big financial institutions fail the people in his small town, a car dealer decides to set up his own bank.

With Simone Bucio • Sebastian Rudolph • Simon Jaikiriuma Paetau • Björn Melhus • Lea Draeger • Ann Oren

Introverted and unqualified, Eva is unexpectedly tasked with foleying the sound for a commercial featuring a horse. As she slowly acclimates to the new job, her obsession with creating the perfect equine sounds grows into something more tangible. Eva harnesses this new physicality, becoming more confident and empowered, and lures an unassuming botanist into an intriguing game of submission.

With Jeremy Allen White • Gregg Turkington • Babak Jalali • Anaita Wali Zada • Hilda Schmelling • Avis See-tho • Siddique Ahmed • Taban Ibraz

Each morning Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings while processing complicated feelings about her past as a translator for the U.S. government in Afghanistan. Unable to sleep, she finagles her way into a regular slot with a therapist (Gregg Turkington) who grasps for prospective role models. When an unexpected promotion at work thrusts Donya into the position to write her own story, she communicates her loneliness and longing through a concise medium: the fortunes inside each cookie. Donya’s koans travel, making a humble social impact and expanding her world far beyond Fremont and her turbulent past, including an encounter with a quiet auto mechanic (Jeremy Allen White) who could stand to see his own world expanded.

With Will Peltz • Madison Pettis • Charlie Gillespie • Luna Blaise • Sheila Shah • Michael Easterling • Jaala Ruffman

Every spring break, tens of thousands of college kids descend upon Isla Vista, California, for Deltopia — the ultimate street party with no rules and no boundaries. Inspired by true events, Deltopia follows a group of recent high school grads who join the party, looking to celebrate their newfound freedom. But nothing can prepare these friends for Deltopia’s volatile mix of sex, drugs, and rebellion, as they unite for a life-changing adventure that brings exhilaration, heartbreak, and, ultimately, hope.