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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.
Paterson (film)
Paterson is a 2016 drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Adam Driver as a bus driver and unpublished poet in Paterson, New Jersey.
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.
Pelé: Birth of a Legend
Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016) is an American biographical drama by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist about Pelé's rise from childhood to Brazil's 1958 World Cup win at age 17, starring Kevin de Paula, with a 33% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Planetarium (film)
Planetarium (Planétarium) is Rebecca Zlotowski's 2016 French-Belgian supernatural drama starring Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as medium sisters in 1930s Paris, premiered out of competition at Venice 2016.
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).
Silence (2016 film)
Silence (2016) is Martin Scorsese's historical drama adapted from Shūsaku Endō's 1966 novel, starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, and Liam Neeson as Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan; 161 minutes, Paramount, $7.1M US gross.
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 Birth of a Nation (2016 film)
The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 American historical drama about Nat Turner's 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, written, directed by, and starring Nate Parker, his directorial debut.
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 Commune
The Commune (Kollektivet) is a 2016 Danish drama by Thomas Vinterberg, adapted from his stage play about his commune childhood, starring Ulrich Thomsen and Trine Dyrholm, who won the 2016 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress.
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 Founder
The Founder (2016) is a John Lee Hancock biographical drama starring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, who built McDonald's into a franchise empire after taking it from Mac and Dick McDonald; $15M budget, $24M worldwide gross.
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 Intervention (film)
The Intervention is a 2016 American comedy-drama and Clea DuVall's directorial debut, in which four couples' Savannah weekend getaway is secretly a marriage intervention; premiered at Sundance 2016, released August 26, 2016.
The Journey (2016 film)
The Journey (2016 film), Nick Hamm political comedy-drama written by Colin Bateman, starring Timothy Spall as Ian Paisley and Colm Meaney as Martin McGuinness; fictionalizes a 2006 St Andrews car journey, premiered Venice 2016, grossed $482,209.
The Last Face
The Last Face is a 2016 drama directed by Sean Penn, written by Erin Dignam, starring Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem as aid workers in Liberia and South Sudan. Premiered in Competition at Cannes 2016, it earned a Metacritic 16 and grossed $1,161,751.
The Lighthouse of the Orcas
The Lighthouse of the Orcas (El faro de las orcas) is a 2016 Spanish-Argentine drama by Gerardo Olivares, based on ranger Roberto Bubas's book Agustín corazón abierto, starring Maribel Verdú and Joaquín Furriel, about an autistic boy and Patagonian orcas.