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Film Socialisme
Film Socialisme is a 2010 Jean-Luc Godard feature, also released as Socialism, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard. A three-movement essay film shot partly on the Costa Concordia with Navajo English subtitles, it divided critics (Metascore 64).
For Colored Girls
For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film directed by Tyler Perry, adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 choreopoem, following nine Black women confronting abuse and betrayal in Harlem.
Glassland
Glassland is a 2014 Irish drama directed by Gerard Barrett, starring Jack Reynor and Toni Collette as a Dublin taxi driver and his alcoholic mother; Sundance Special Jury Prize winner, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language (Adieu au langage) is Jean-Luc Godard's 2014 French-Swiss experimental 3D film, his 42nd feature and first in 3D, which shared the Cannes Jury Prize and featured his dog Roxy.
Heaven Knows What
Heaven Knows What, aka Mad Love in New York, is a 2014 Safdie brothers drama starring Arielle Holmes as herself, a homeless heroin addict in New York, released 2015.
Hereafter (film)
Hereafter (2010) is a Clint Eastwood drama, written by Peter Morgan, starring Matt Damon, Cécile de France, and Bryce Dallas Howard; three strangers touched by death, 129 minutes, Warner Bros., 48% on Rotten Tomatoes.
In a Better World
In a Better World (Danish: Hævnen, "Revenge") is Susanne Bier's 2010 Danish drama about a doctor split between Denmark and an African refugee camp; it won the 2011 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (トレジャーハンター・クミコ), 2014 American drama by David and Nathan Zellner starring Rinko Kikuchi as a Tokyo office worker who believes the buried money in Fargo is real; inspired by the Takako Konishi urban legend, Sundance 2014.
La Otra Familia
La Otra Familia (The Other Family), 2011 Mexican drama by Gustavo Loza: a gay couple, Jean Paul and Chema, care for seven-year-old Hendrix, abandoned by his crack-addicted mother; released 25 March 2011 by 20th Century Fox, first national LGBT-themed commercial production.
Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる)
Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる, Soshite Chichi ni Naru) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2013 Japanese drama about two couples whose sons were switched at birth, starring Masaharu Fukuyama; it won the 2013 Cannes Jury Prize and topped Japan's box office that year.
Madrid, 1987
Madrid, 1987 is a 2011 Spanish drama film directed by David Trueba. It stars José Sacristán and María Valverde, a veteran columnist and young student, in July 1987 Madrid.
Margaret (2011 film)
Margaret (2011) is Kenneth Lonergan's second feature, a New York drama starring Anna Paquin as Lisa Cohen, released in a 150-minute cut after years of disputes, then rescued by critics and issued in a 186-minute extended cut.
Margin Call
Margin Call is a 2011 American drama film, J.C. Chandor's debut, following an investment bank's nightlong discovery that its mortgage holdings could bankrupt it during the 2008 crisis.
Middle of Nowhere (2012 film)
Middle of Nowhere (2012) is Ava DuVernay's second feature drama, starring Emayatzy Corinealdi as a nurse whose husband (Omari Hardwick) serves an eight-year prison sentence; it won DuVernay the 2012 Sundance directing award and the 2013 Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award.
Mommy (2014 film)
Mommy (2014 film), Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, a Canadian French-language drama about widow Diane Després raising her violent ADHD teen son Steve with neighbor Kyla. Shot in 1:1 aspect ratio; shared Cannes 2014 Jury Prize with Godard; Canada's 87th Academy Awards entry.
Neighboring Sounds
Neighboring Sounds (O som ao redor) is Kleber Mendonça Filho's 2012 debut feature, a 131-minute drama on a middle-class Recife street unsettled by a private security firm; Brazil's 2014 Oscar submission.
Nos Vemos, Papá
Nos Vemos, Papá (See You, Dad) is Lucía Carreras's 2011 Mexican drama debut, starring Cecilia Suárez as Pilar, who lives with her dead father's ghost; premiered at Morelia and Karlovy Vary, released in Mexico in 2013.
Ocean Heaven (海洋天堂)
Ocean Heaven (海洋天堂, Haiyang Tiantang) is a 2010 Chinese drama, Xue Xiaolu's directorial debut, starring Jet Li as a terminally ill father teaching his autistic son to live alone; China's first autism-centered film.
One on One (일대일)
One on One (일대일, Ildaeil) is Kim Ki-duk's 2014 South Korean revenge drama, his 20th film, in which seven vigilantes called the Shadows torture seven suspects in a schoolgirl's murder; it won the FEDEORA Best Film award at Venice Days 2014.
Poetry (시) (2010 film)
Poetry (시, Shi) is Lee Chang-dong's 2010 South Korean drama about Mija, a grandmother with early Alzheimer's who joins a poetry class while her grandson is implicated in a schoolgirl's death. It won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2010 and starred Yoon Jeong-hee in her comeback.
Promised Land (2012 film)
Promised Land (2012) is a Gus Van Sant drama written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, from a Dave Eggers story, about gas-company landmen seeking fracking drilling rights in the fictional town of McKinley, Pennsylvania; Focus Features released it December 28, 2012.
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (単騎、千里を走る。)
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (千里走单骑; 単騎、千里を走る。) is Zhang Yimou's 2005 China-Japan drama starring Ken Takakura as a father filming nuoxi opera in Yunnan for his dying son; it opened the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival and later drew an Anshun dixi attribution lawsuit.
Road to Paloma
Road to Paloma (2014) is Jason Momoa's directorial debut, a 91-minute American road drama in which he stars as Robert Wolf, a Mojave man fleeing the FBI after avenging his mother's murder, co-written with Mollohan and Hirschbein and distributed by WWE Studios and Anchor Bay.
Saraband
Saraband (2003) is Ingmar Bergman's final film, a Swedish television drama sequel to Scenes from a Marriage, reuniting Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson as Marianne and Johan, structured as ten duets around Bach's Cello Suite No. 5.
Shelter (2014 film)
Shelter (2014 film): Paul Bettany's directorial debut drama starring Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie as homeless lovers in New York; premiered at TIFF 2014, released by Screen Media in November 2015, distinct from Melgar's documentary and the Statham film.
Short Term 12
Short Term 12 (2013) is Destin Daniel Cretton's independent drama, expanded from his Sundance-winning short, about foster-care supervisor Grace (Brie Larson); it won SXSW's Grand Jury and Audience Awards on a $400,000 budget.
Skoonheid
Skoonheid (Beauty), 2011 drama by Oliver Hermanus, first Afrikaans film at Cannes (Un Certain Regard), Queer Palm winner, about a closeted Afrikaner man's obsession ending in violence.
Smashed (film)
Smashed (2012) is an American drama directed by James Ponsoldt, co-written with Susan Burke, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul as a couple divided by her sobriety; Sundance premiere, Sony Pictures Classics, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Somewhere (film)
Somewhere (2010) is a drama written and directed by Sofia Coppola, starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning at the Chateau Marmont; it won the 2010 Venice Golden Lion.
Starlet (film)
Starlet is a 2012 American independent drama, Sean Baker's fourth feature, co-written with Chris Bergoch. Dree Hemingway plays Jane, an adult film performer who finds money in a yard-sale thermos and befriends 85-year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson, debut role) in the San Fernando Valley; released by Music Box Films, grossing $146,222.