Drama Movies 2025 List

With Margot Robbie • Colin Farrell • Dan Friedkin • Jodie Turner-Smith • Lucy Thomas • Lily Rabe • Phoebe Waller-Bridge • Kogonada • Bradley Thomas • Youree Henley • Ryan Friedkin • Seth Reiss

What if you could open a doorway and walk through it to re-live a defining moment from your past? Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

With Matthew McConaughey • America Ferrera • Paul Greengrass • Yul Vazquez • Ashlie Atkinson • Spencer Watson

A white-knuckle ride through one of America's deadliest wildfires (California's Camp Fire) as a wayward school bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) & a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera) battle to save 22 children from the terrifying inferno.

With Cillian Murphy • Tracey Ullman • Roger Allam • Jay Lycurgo • Little Simz • Emily Watson • Tim Mielants

Follows a pivotal day in the life of head teacher Steve (Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy) and his students at a last-chance reform school amid a world that has forsaken them. As Steve fights to protect the school’s integrity and prevent its impending closure, he grapples with his own mental health. In parallel to Steve’s struggles, we meet Shy (Jay Lycurgo), a troubled teen caught between his past and what lies ahead as he tries to reconcile his inner fragility with his impulse for self-destruction and violence.

With Mary Stuart Masterson • James Badge Dale • Rob Corddry • Michael Chiklis • Rod Lurie • Mark Ciardi • Robert Eisele • Justin Baldoni • Campbell McInnes • Andrew Calof • Manu Gargi

At 59, Mike Flynt might be too old to play college football—but not too old to settle unfinished business. Nearly forty years after leaving his team, he returns to his alma mater to face the moment that changed everything. Bruised, doubted, and nearly broken, he fights for one last game—not for glory, but for the teammates he lost, the family he fractured, and the ending he still believes is possible.

With Gabe Fazio • Tom Blyth • Russell Tovey • Christian Cooke • Maria Dizzia • Amy Forsyth • Carmen Emmi

Syracuse, 1997. Promising undercover police officer Lucas (Tom Blyth) is dealing with a breakup and the recent loss of his father. When he receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men in a mall bathroom, he is surprised to discover a scintillating connection with Andrew (Russell Tovey), one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, Lucas finds himself torn between duty and desire. At his mother’s New Year’s Eve party, Lucas loses a letter no one was ever meant to read. With time running out and his secret life closing in around him, the evening builds towards an explosive reckoning where everything he’s buried threatens to erupt.

With Daniela Melchior • Lili Reinhart • Joel Fry • Tim Plester • Uta Briesewitz • Jeremy Ang Jones • Josh Whitehouse • Christiane Paul

A look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty, who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet. A social media moderator Daisy (Lili Reinhart) is tasked with purging the most offensive content from the internet. When she finds a video she believes to contain a crime, she’s lured away from the safety of her keyboard and into a dangerous world as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

With Josh Gad • Kaya Scodelario • Anthony Carrigan • Alex Winter • Billie Lourd • Chris Candy

Follows a sister and brother Megan and Noah who are barely hanging on in present-day America, like all of us. When they discover a dead body, long buried in their parent’s basement, the siblings are pulled back to the hometown they ran away from and into a rabbit hole of crime and murder.

With Glenn Close • Charlie McDowell • Ingvar Sigurdsson • Anders Danielsen Lie • Emily Matthews

Nine-year-old Sophia (Emily Matthews) spends the summers at her family’s seasonal home on a tranquil isle in the Gulf of Finland, but this will be the first summer without her mother. Her father (Anders Danielsen Lie) remains numbed by grief, while her grandmother (Glenn Close) guides her on a giddy, winding path towards young adulthood. With a sense of infinite possibility and a tender regard for the wonders of the natural world, Sophia and her grandmother explore the terrain, celebrate midsommar, and test the limits of faith in the face of life’s many storms.

With Sosuke Ikematsu • Hiroshi Okuyama • Keitatsu Koshiyama • Ryûya Wakaba • Kiara Takanashi

On a Japanese island, life revolves around the changing seasons. Winter is time for ice hockey at school, but Takuya isn’t too thrilled about it. His real interest lies in Sakura, a figure skating rising star from Tokyo, for whom he starts to develop a genuine fascination. Coach and former champion Arakawa, spots potential in Takuya, and decides to mentor him to form a duo with Sakura for an upcoming competition. As winter persists, feelings grow, and the two children form an harmonious bond. But even the first snow eventually melts away.

With Tom Hanks • Kevin Bacon • Brian Grazer • Ron Howard • Ed Harris • Gary Sinise • Bill Paxton • Kathleen Quinlan

True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.

With Jon Heder • Richard Dreyfuss • Rob Corddry • Billy Zane • Tia Carrere • James Jagger • Alaina Huffman • Bill Fishman • Camille Razat • Dean Bloxom

Waltzing with Brando follows Brando (Zane) — then the most famous actor in the world — as he filmed Mutiny on the Bounty and bought a tiny and uninhabitable island in Tahiti. His intent was to escape his hectic Hollywood lifestyle and show the world the path to sustainability. To achieve this goal, he plucks Judge (Heder), an obscure but idealistic Los Angeles architect, from his stable existence and convinces him that together they could build the world's first truly sustainable ecological retreat.  

With Javier Munoz • Summer Rose Castillo • Elaine Del Valle • Nathalia Lares • Karina Ortiz

In 1980s Brownsville, Brooklyn, Elaine is on the cusp of becoming a teenager. She wrestles with her mother’s resilience, the father she resents, and the chaos outside her window—while discovering her Puerto Rican roots and the courage to forge her own path.

With Josh O'Connor • Paul Mescal • Chris Cooper • Oliver Hermanus

In 1917, Lionel—a young, talented music student—meets David at the Boston Conservatory, where they bond over a deep love of folk music. Years later, Lionel receives a letter from David, leading to an impromptu journey through the backwoods of Maine to collect traditional songs. This unexpected reunion, ensuing love affair, and the music they collect and preserve, will shape the course of Lionel’s life far beyond his own awareness.

With Lily James • Dermot Mulroney • Dan Stevens • Clea DuVall • Pierson Fode • Joely Fisher • Myha'la • Rachel Lee Goldenberg

Inspired by the provocative real-life story of the visionary founder of online dating platform Bumble, Swiped introduces recent college grad Whitney Wolfe, played by Lily James, as she uses extraordinary grit & ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry and launch an innovative, globally lauded dating app (two, actually), paving the way to becoming the youngest female self-made billionaire.