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Blue Valentine (film)
Blue Valentine is a 2010 American drama film directed by Derek Cianfrance, starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a married couple whose relationship is falling apart.
Bol (بول) (film)
Bol (بول) is a 2011 Urdu Pakistani social drama written, directed and produced by Shoaib Mansoor, starring Humaima Malick, Manzar Sehbai, Atif Aslam and Mahira Khan; a death-row daughter's story about gender, family planning and transgender rights, and the highest-grossing Pakistani film at the time.
Boychoir (film)
Boychoir is a 2014 drama film directed by François Girard, starring Dustin Hoffman as a demanding choirmaster training a troubled boy at an elite choir school.
Breathe (2014 film)
Breathe (Respire), 2014 French drama by Mélanie Laurent, adapted from Anne-Sophie Brasme's novel; toxic friendship between teenagers Charlie (Joséphine Japy) and Sarah (Lou de Laâge); Cannes Semaine de la Critique premiere, two César nominations. Distinct from Breathe In (2014) and Breathe (2017).
Broken (2012 film)
Broken (2012 film), Rufus Norris's feature debut, a British coming-of-age drama adapted from Daniel Clay's novel, starring Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence, Cillian Murphy, and Rory Kinnear; opened Cannes Critics' Week 2012 and won Best British Independent Film at the BIFAs.
Buddha Mountain (观音山)
Buddha Mountain (观音山, Guan Yin Shan) is a 2010 Chinese drama by director Li Yu, starring Fan Bingbing, Sylvia Chang, Chen Bolin, and Fei Long. It premiered at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival, winning Best Artistic Contribution and Best Actress, and was released in mainland China in March 2011.
Cake (2014 film)
Cake (2014) is an American drama directed by Daniel Barnz from a Patrick Tobin Black List script, starring Jennifer Aniston as chronic pain sufferer Claire, with Anna Kendrick, Sam Worthington, and Adriana Barraza; released December 31, 2014, Metascore 49, Golden Globe Best Actress nomination.
Calvary (2014 film)
Calvary (2014) is John Michael McDonagh's black comedy-drama starring Brendan Gleeson as Father James Lavelle, an Irish priest given a week to live by an abused parishioner; IFTA Best Film winner with 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Camp X-Ray (film)
Camp X-Ray is Peter Sattler's 2014 debut drama, also known as Camp X-Ray (film), starring Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi as a Guantanamo Bay guard and detainee who form an unlikely friendship; it premiered at Sundance and earned a 74% Tomatometer.
Captain Phillips (film)
Captain Phillips (2013) is Paul Greengrass's biographical thriller starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi about the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking; it earned six Oscar nominations and grossed $218.8 million worldwide.
Certified Copy (2010 film)
Certified Copy (Copie conforme) is Abbas Kiarostami's 2010 France-Italy-Belgium drama, his first film made outside Iran, starring Juliette Binoche and William Shimell in Tuscany; Binoche won Cannes Best Actress 2010.
Charlie St. Cloud
Charlie St. Cloud is a 2010 American drama film directed by Burr Steers, starring Zac Efron as a cemetery caretaker who meets his dead brother's spirit.
Charlie's Country
Charlie's Country is a 2013 Australian drama by Rolf de Heer, co-written with and starring David Gulpilil as an Arnhem Land elder under the intervention. Gulpilil won Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Actor 2014; it was Australia's Foreign Language Film Oscar entry.
Clouds of Sils Maria
Clouds of Sils Maria (Sils Maria) is Olivier Assayas's 2014 French-German-Swiss drama starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloë Grace Moretz; Cannes competition film, Prix Louis-Delluc winner, and Stewart's historic César.
Colette (2018 film)
Colette (2018) is a biographical drama directed by Wash Westmoreland, starring Keira Knightley as French writer Colette and Dominic West as Willy. Premiered at Sundance 2018, released by Bleecker Street, grossing about $14-16 million worldwide.
Come Sunday (film)
Come Sunday is a 2018 Netflix biographical drama directed by Joshua Marston, adapted from This American Life's 'Heretics,' starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Tulsa pastor Carlton Pearson, who preached there is no hell and was branded a heretic.
Coming Home (归来) (2014 film)
Coming Home (归来) is Zhang Yimou's 2014 Chinese drama adapted from Yan Geling's novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi, starring Gong Li and Chen Daoming as a couple reunited after the Cultural Revolution despite the wife's amnesia; it premiered Out of Competition at Cannes 2014 and earned over 200 million yuan in China.
Cosmopolis (film)
Cosmopolis (2012) is David Cronenberg's adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel, starring Robert Pattinson as billionaire Eric Packer crossing Manhattan by limo; premiered in Competition at Cannes 2012.
Country Strong
Country Strong is a 2010 American drama film written and directed by Shana Feste, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Garrett Hedlund, and Leighton Meester, about a country star's comeback tour; Metascore 45, $20.2M US gross, Oscar-nominated song.
Courageous (film)
Courageous is a 2011 American Christian drama film directed by Alex Kendrick about four law enforcement officers in Albany, Georgia, who pledge to be better fathers.
Cyberbully (2011 film)
Cyberbully (Cyberbu//y), 2011 ABC Family TV movie directed by Charles Binamé, written by Teena Booth, starring Emily Osment as cyberbullied teen Taylor Hillridge; premiered July 17, 2011, distinct from the 2015 Maisie Williams British film.
Dear John (2010 film)
Dear John is a 2010 American romantic drama directed by Lasse Hallström, written by Jamie Linden and based on Nicholas Sparks's 2006 novel, starring Channing Tatum and Amanda Seyfried.
Dearest (亲爱的)
Dearest (亲爱的) is a 2014 Chinese drama directed by Peter Chan, written by Zhang Ji, starring Huang Bo, Zhao Wei, Tong Dawei and Hao Lei, adapted from real child-abduction cases including the Sun Haiyang search; premiered at Venice 2014 and grossed about 345 million RMB in China.
Detachment (film)
Detachment (2011) is a Tony Kaye drama starring Adrien Brody as substitute teacher Henry Barthes at a failing US public school; premiered at Tribeca, released 2012, Metascore 52, RT 59%.
Diana (2013 film)
Diana (2013) is Oliver Hirschbiegel's biographical drama starring Naomi Watts as Diana, Princess of Wales, and Naveen Andrews as Hasnat Khan, covering her final two years, land-mine campaign, and secret affair; critically panned at 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Die Wand
Die Wand (The Wall) is a 2012 Austrian-German drama directed by Julian Roman Pölsler, adapted from Marlen Haushofer's 1963 novel, starring Martina Gedeck as a woman trapped behind an invisible wall in the Alps, screened at Berlinale Panorama 2012.
Disconnect (2012 film)
Disconnect is a 2012 American drama film directed by Henry Alex Rubin, following three stories about cyberbullying, identity theft, and a webcam performer, starring Jason Bateman.
Dolphin Tale
Dolphin Tale (2011), also known by its tagline inspired by Winter's story, is a Charles Martin Smith family drama about a dolphin fitted with a prosthetic tail at Clearwater Marine Aquarium; it grossed about $95 million and spawned a 2014 sequel.
Dot 2 Dot (点对点)
Dot 2 Dot (點對點) is a 2014 Hong Kong romantic drama and the debut feature of director Amos Why (黃浩然), starring Moses Chan and Meng Ting-yi, in which unnumbered connect-the-dots puzzles left at MTR stations revive the city's vanished landmarks.
Draft Day
Draft Day is a 2014 American sports drama directed by Ivan Reitman, in which Kevin Costner plays a Cleveland Browns general manager making trades on NFL Draft day.