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6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain
6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017) is a Scott Waugh survival drama starring Josh Hartnett as Eric LeMarque, a hockey player stranded eight days on Mammoth Mountain in 2004, losing his legs to frostbite.
9/11 (2017 film)
9/11 (2017) is a Martin Guigui drama adapted from Patrick Carson's play Elevator, starring Charlie Sheen and Whoopi Goldberg as people trapped in a WTC elevator on September 11, 2001; released September 8, 2017, rated R, with poor reviews.
A Fish Out of Water
A Fish Out of Water (上岸的魚) is a 2017 Taiwanese drama, Lai Kuo-An's debut feature, about a kindergartner seeking his past-life parents; it premiered at TIFF Discovery and San Sebastian New Directors.
A Ghost Story
A Ghost Story is David Lowery's 2017 A24 supernatural drama starring Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, in which a sheet-covered ghost haunts his Texas home across time. Made for about $150,000, it premiered at Sundance 2017 and holds 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
A Kid Like Jake
A Kid Like Jake is a 2018 American drama directed by Silas Howard, adapted by Daniel Pearle from his play, starring Claire Danes, Jim Parsons, and Octavia Spencer as parents navigating private-school admissions for their gender-expansive four-year-old son.
Adrift (2018 film)
Adrift (2018) is a survival drama directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, adapted from Tami Oldham Ashcraft's memoir about her 41-day drift after a 1983 Pacific hurricane.
All Eyez on Me (film)
All Eyez on Me is a 2017 American biographical drama about rapper Tupac Shakur, directed by Benny Boom and starring Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Shakur.
American Woman (2018 film)
American Woman (2018) is a Jake Scott drama, written by Brad Ingelsby, starring Sienna Miller as a Pennsylvania mother raising her grandson after her teenage daughter disappears; premiered at TIFF 2018, released June 14, 2019, distinct from the 2019 Canadian film and the TV series of the same name.
An Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐)
An Elephant Sitting Still (大象席地而坐), also known by its working title Golden Fleece, is Hu Bo's 2018, 234-minute Chinese debut feature adapted from his story in Da Lie, following four people in a northern industrial town who seek a legendary sitting elephant in Manzhouli; it won Golden Horse Best Feature Film and the Berlin FIPRESCI Prize after Hu Bo's 2017 death.
Arctic (film)
Arctic (2018) is a survival drama and Joe Penna's feature debut, starring Mads Mikkelsen as crash survivor Overgård. Shot in Iceland, premiered at Cannes 2018, released by Bleecker Street in February 2019.
Asako I & II (寝ても覚めても)
Asako I & II (寝ても覚めても, Netemo Sametemo) is a 2018 Japanese-French romance drama by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, adapted from Tomoka Shibasaki's novel, starring Masahiro Higashide in dual roles as Baku and Ryohei and Erika Karata as Asako; it competed at Cannes 2018.
Before I Fall (film)
Before I Fall is a 2017 American teen drama film directed by Ry Russo-Young. It follows a high school senior who relives the day of her death repeatedly.
Bigger (film)
Bigger is a 2018 American biographical drama directed by George Gallo about brothers Joe and Ben Weider, who built a bodybuilding empire and mentored a young Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Breath (2017 film)
Breath (2017) is Simon Baker's feature directorial debut, an Australian drama adapted from Tim Winton's Miles Franklin-winning novel about two 1970s teenage surfers; premiered at TIFF 2017, released in Australia May 2018, earning A$4.36 million.
Carmen y Lola
Carmen y Lola, 2018 Spanish drama by Arantxa Echevarría, debut feature about two Roma teenage girls in love on Madrid's outskirts; Cannes Directors' Fortnight premiere, two Goya Awards, mostly non-professional Roma cast.
Columbus (2017 film)
Columbus (2017) is Kogonada's feature directorial debut drama, starring John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson as strangers bonding in Columbus, Indiana, the Midwestern mecca of modernist architecture; it earned a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score and four Independent Spirit Awards.
Default (국가부도의 날) (2018 film)
Default (국가부도의 날) is a 2018 South Korean drama directed by Choi Kook-hee, the first film to dramatize the 1997 financial crisis and IMF bailout.
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story
Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story is a 2019 Lifetime TV movie directed by Karen Moncrieff, starring Christina Ricci, Joshua Bowman, and Judith Light, a fictionalized amnesia-thriller retelling of Bly's 1887 Ten Days in a Mad-House asylum exposé.
First Reformed
First Reformed, Paul Schrader's 2017 A24 drama starring Ethan Hawke as pastor Ernst Toller, an austere Academy-ratio crisis-of-faith film inspired by Bresson, Bergman, and Ida, Oscar-nominated for screenplay.
Forever My Girl
Forever My Girl is a 2018 American romantic drama film directed by Bethany Ashton Wolf, starring Alex Roe and Jessica Rothe, adapted from Heidi McLaughlin's novel.
Gabriel and the Mountain
Gabriel and the Mountain (Gabriel e a Montanha), 2017 Brazilian-French drama by Fellipe Barbosa about economist Gabriel Buchmann, who died of hypothermia in 2009 on Mount Mulanje, Malawi; Cannes Critics' Week, two awards.
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018) is the third Pure Flix faith-based drama, directed by Michael Mason, following Pastor Dave Hill's legal fight after his church burns on Hadleigh University's campus; it grossed $7.4 million worldwide.
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Vaughan screenplay; also known as Untitled A.A. Milne) is Simon Curtis's 2017 British biographical drama starring Domhnall Gleeson as A.A. Milne, about how Winnie-the-Pooh's fame strained his son Christopher Robin.
Grass (풀잎들) (2018 film)
Grass (풀잎들, Pul-ip-deul) is a 2018 black-and-white South Korean drama by Hong Sang-soo, 66 minutes, starring Kim Min-hee as a café observer; premiered at Berlin Forum, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Hotel by the River (강변호텔)
Hotel by the River (강변호텔, Gangbyeon Hotel) is Hong Sang-soo's 2018 black-and-white Korean drama about an aging poet at a Han River hotel; it premiered at Locarno 2018, where Ki Joo-bong won Best Actor.
I Am Not a Witch
I Am Not a Witch is Rungano Nyoni's 2017 debut feature, a Zambian-set magical realist satire about a girl exiled to a witch camp, tethered by a ribbon; it won the 2018 BAFTA for Outstanding Debut.
I Dream in Another Language
I Dream in Another Language (Spanish: Sueño en otro idioma) is a 2017 Mexican drama-fantasy film in which a young linguist tries to record a dying language.
Kings (2017 film)
Kings (2017) is a drama by Deniz Gamze Ergüven starring Halle Berry and Daniel Craig as neighbors in South Central LA during the 1992 Rodney King verdict riots; TIFF premiere, 10% on Rotten Tomatoes.
La Flor
La Flor (2018) is Mariano Llinás's 14-hour Argentine episodic film: six genre stories, four Piel de Lava actresses, premiered at Locarno, BAFICI Best Film, Metascore 77.
Last Child (살아남은 아이)
Last Child (살아남은 아이, Sal-a-nam-eun A-i) is Shin Dong-seok's 2017 debut South Korean drama about a bereaved couple who take in the boy their son died saving. Premiered at Busan (FIPRESCI), screened at Berlinale Forum 2018, released August 30, 2018.