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Our Brand Is Crisis (2015 film)
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) is a David Gordon Green political comedy-drama starring Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton, produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, inspired by Rachel Boynton's 2005 documentary about James Carville's 2002 Bolivian campaign; it grossed $9 million worldwide.
Our Little Sister (海街diary)
Our Little Sister (海街diary, Umimachi Diary) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2015 Japanese family drama adapted from Akimi Yoshida's manga, about three Kamakura sisters who take in their teenage half-sister; it competed at Cannes 2015 and won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Film.
Palm Trees in the Snow
Palm Trees in the Snow (Palmeras en la nieve), 2015 Spanish epic romance drama by Fernando González Molina, adapted from Luz Gabás's novel; Kilian's forbidden love on colonial Fernando Poo, 2 Goya Awards, €17 million Spanish box office.
Paulina
Paulina (La patota) is Santiago Mitre's 2015 Argentine drama, a remake of Daniel Tinayre's 1960 film, starring Dolores Fonzi as a lawyer turned rural teacher who stays after being raped; Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize winner.
Room (2015 film)
Room (2015) is Lenny Abrahamson's drama adapted by Emma Donoghue from her novel, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay as a captive mother and son; it won Larson the Best Actress Oscar and was nominated for four Academy Awards.
Septembers of Shiraz
Septembers of Shiraz is a 2015 American drama directed by Wayne Blair, adapted from Dalia Sofer's novel, starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek as a Jewish family persecuted after Iran's 1979 revolution; critically panned (Metascore 16).
Soaked in Bleach
Soaked in Bleach (2015) is Benjamin Statler's docudrama about private investigator Tom Grant, hired by Courtney Love before Kurt Cobain's 1994 death, arguing homicide; criticized, disputed by experts and police.
Southpaw (film)
Southpaw (2015) is an American boxing drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as champion Billy Hope, with Rachel McAdams and Forest Whitaker; originally developed for Eminem, released by The Weinstein Company, grossing $52.4M in the US.
Spare Parts (2015 film)
Spare Parts (2015), directed by Sean McNamara, dramatizes the 2004 Carl Hayden High School robotics team that beat MIT with an $800 underwater robot named Stinky, based on Joshua Davis's WIRED article La Vida Robot.
Spotlight (film)
Spotlight (2015), directed by Tom McCarthy and written with Josh Singer, dramatizes the Boston Globe Spotlight team's 2002 exposure of Catholic Church abuse cover-up; it won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay Oscars.
Stonewall (2015 film)
Stonewall is a 2015 American historical drama film directed by Roland Emmerich, dramatizing the 1969 Stonewall riots. Criticized as whitewashing history, it was a box office failure.
Strangerland
Strangerland (2015) is Kim Farrant's feature debut, an Australian-Irish psychological drama starring Nicole Kidman, Joseph Fiennes, and Hugo Weaving about two teenagers who vanish before a dust storm in outback town Nathgari; premiered at Sundance 2015, Metascore 42.
The 33
The 33 (2015) is Patricia Riggen's English-language drama about the 2010 San José mine collapse in Chile, starring Antonio Banderas as Mario Sepúlveda; filmed in Colombian salt mines and the Atacama Desert, released August 6, 2015 in Chile and November 13, 2015 in the US.
The Anthem of the Heart (心が叫びたがってるんだ。)
The Anthem of the Heart (心が叫びたがってるんだ。, Kokosake) is a 2015 A-1 Pictures original anime film by the Anohana trio Nagai, Okada, and Tanaka, about a girl cursed to silence who finds her voice through a class musical; it earned over 1 billion yen and got a 2017 live-action remake.
The Childhood of a Leader (film)
The Childhood of a Leader is Brady Corbet's 2015 directorial debut, co-written with Mona Fastvold, a fictional fable of a future fascist's childhood at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, starring Tom Sweet, Bérénice Bejo, Liam Cunningham, and Robert Pattinson, with a Scott Walker score; it won two awards at Venice.
The Club
The Club (El Club) is Pablo Larraín's 2015 Chilean drama about disgraced priests exiled to a seaside house; it won the Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize, was Chile's 88th Academy Awards entry, and earned a Golden Globe nomination.
The Dresser (2015 film)
The Dresser (2015) is a BBC Two television film directed by Richard Eyre, adapting Ronald Harwood's 1980 play, starring Anthony Hopkins as Sir and Ian McKellen as Norman during a WWII King Lear performance; aired on Starz in 2016.
The Final Master
The Final Master (師父, Shifu, also The Master) is Xu Haofeng's 2015 Chinese martial arts film about a Wing Chun master (Liao Fan) using an apprentice to defeat eight Tianjin schools; Golden Horse Best Action Design winner.
The Himalayas (히말라야)
The Himalayas is a 2015 South Korean drama film directed by Lee Seok-hoon, based on mountaineer Um Hong-gil's 2005 Everest expedition to recover his dead climbing partner.
The Runner (2015 film)
The Runner (2015) is an American political drama, the writing and directing debut of Austin Stark, starring Nicolas Cage as Louisiana congressman Colin Price, whose career collapses in a sex scandal after the 2010 BP oil spill; also starring Sarah Paulson, Connie Nielsen, Peter Fonda, and Wendell Pierce.
The Sea of Trees
The Sea of Trees is a 2015 Gus Van Sant drama starring Matthew McConaughey, Naomi Watts, and Ken Watanabe, set in Japan's Aokigahara forest; booed at Cannes 2015 and widely panned.
The Second Mother
The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?) is Anna Muylaert's 2015 Brazilian comedy-drama about live-in maid Val (Regina Casé), whose daughter Jéssica's arrival in São Paulo upends class hierarchies; Sundance and Berlin prize winner and Brazil's 2016 Oscar submission.
The Stanford Prison Experiment (film)
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) is a Kyle Patrick Alvarez drama, written by Tim Talbott, starring Billy Crudup as Philip Zimbardo; Sundance award winner released by IFC Films, grossing $663,114.
The Walk (2015 film)
The Walk is a 2015 American biographical drama directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as French wire walker Philippe Petit, who crossed between the World Trade Center towers in 1974.
Those People
Those People is a 2015 American drama, Joey Kuhn's feature debut, about Upper East Side painter Charlie (Jonathan Gordon) torn between his best friend Sebastian (Jason Ralph) and pianist Tim (Haaz Sleiman); it won Outfest and NewFest audience awards.
Viva (2015 film)
Viva is a 2015 Irish-Cuban drama directed by Paddy Breathnach, written by Mark O'Halloran, starring Héctor Medina and Jorge Perugorría; set in Havana's drag scene, it was Ireland's Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entry.
Walt Before Mickey
Walt Before Mickey (2015) is an independent biographical drama directed by Khoa Le, based on Timothy S. Susanin's 2011 book, starring Thomas Ian Nicholas as Walt Disney; released August 14, 2015, not affiliated with the Disney Company.
War Room (film)
War Room (2015) is an American faith-based drama directed by Alex Kendrick, starring Priscilla Shirer, T.C. Stallings, and Karen Abercrombie; a prayer-driven marriage drama that became the first evangelical Christian film to top the US box office, grossing over $70 million.
We Are Your Friends (film)
We Are Your Friends is a 2015 American drama directed by Max Joseph, starring Zac Efron as aspiring Hollywood DJ Cole Carter, with Wes Bentley and Emily Ratajkowski; a Working Title film that became a famous box-office bomb.
Woman in Gold (film)
Woman in Gold (2015), Simon Curtis drama starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds, dramatizes Maria Altmann and Randol Schoenberg's real legal battle to recover Klimt's Nazi-looted Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I from Austria.