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Aquarius (2016 film)
Aquarius is a 2016 Brazilian drama by Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Sônia Braga as a widow resisting developers in Recife; it competed at Cannes 2016 and sparked a Rousseff impeachment protest.
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.
Atlantics
Atlantics (Atlantique) is Mati Diop's 2019 Wolof-language debut feature, a Dakar-set supernatural drama about Ada, Souleiman, and migration; it won the Cannes Grand Prix and streamed on Netflix.
Babyteeth (film)
Babyteeth (2019) is an Australian comedy-drama, Shannon Murphy's feature debut, adapted by Rita Kalnejais from her 2012 Belvoir St play; terminally ill teen Milla (Eliza Scanlen) loves drug dealer Moses (Toby Wallace); Venice premiere, five AACTA wins.
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.
Being Charlie
Being Charlie is a 2016 American drama directed by Rob Reiner, co-written by his son Nick Reiner and Matt Elisofon, loosely based on Nick's teen addiction; starring Nick Robinson, Cary Elwes, and Common, released by Paladin May 6, 2016.
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.
Black '47 (film)
Black '47 is Lance Daly's 2018 Irish famine revenge western set in Connemara in 1847, starring James Frecheville as deserter Martin Feeney and Hugo Weaving as his pursuer Hannah; bilingual Irish-English, IFTA Best Film winner.
Blackbird (2019 film)
Blackbird (2019) is Roger Michell's English-language remake of the Danish film Silent Heart, written by Christian Torpe. Susan Sarandon stars as Lily, a woman with ALS gathering her family for a final weekend before an assisted death; premiered at TIFF 2019.
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.
Brotherly Love (2015 film)
Brotherly Love (2015) is an American drama written and directed by Jamal Hill, starring Keke Palmer, Cory Hardrict, and Eric D. Hill Jr. Set at Overbrook High School in West Philadelphia, it earned $478,595 domestically and an NAACP Image Award nomination.
Burnt (film)
Burnt is a 2015 American comedy-drama directed by John Wells, starring Bradley Cooper as Adam Jones, a disgraced chef returning to London to win a third Michelin star.
By the Grace of God
By the Grace of God (Grâce à Dieu) is François Ozon's 2019 French drama about the Bernard Preynat clerical abuse case in Lyon and the La Parole Libérée survivors' group; it won the 2019 Berlin Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize.
Capernaum (كفرناحوم) (film)
Capernaum (كفرناحوم, Capharnaüm) is Nadine Labaki's 2018 Lebanese drama in which 12-year-old Zain sues his parents for giving him life. It won the Cannes Jury Prize and was Oscar, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
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.
Certain Women (film)
Certain Women is Kelly Reichardt's 2016 drama, a triptych adapted from Maile Meloy short stories, starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, and Lily Gladstone as women in Livingston, Montana; shot on 16mm, it won Best Film at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival.
Christine (2016 film)
Christine (2016) is Antonio Campos's biographical drama starring Rebecca Hall as Christine Chubbuck, the Sarasota TV reporter who killed herself on live television in 1974; premiered at Sundance, released by The Orchard, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Ciao UFO (再见UFO)
Ciao UFO (再見UFO, also written 再见UFO) is a 2019 Hong Kong Cantonese drama directed by Patrick Leung Pak-kin about the 1985 Wah Fu Estate UFO legend; unseen after its 2019 festival premiere, released 19 March 2026, winning five of ten Hong Kong Film Awards.
Collateral Beauty
Collateral Beauty is a 2016 American drama film directed by David Frankel, starring Will Smith as a grieving executive who writes letters to Love, Time, and Death.
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.
Confirmation (film)
Confirmation (2016) is an HBO Films drama directed by Rick Famuyiwa, written by Susannah Grant, starring Kerry Washington as Anita Hill and Wendell Pierce as Clarence Thomas, dramatizing the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings; distinct from the indie film The Confirmation.
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi (Boże Ciało), 2019 Polish drama by Jan Komasa, written by Mateusz Pacewicz: ex-delinquent Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia) poses as a priest in a grieving village; Oscar-nominated, Venice Edipo Re winner, inspired by 2011 events.
Creed II
Creed II (2018) is the eighth Rocky-franchise film, directed by Steven Caple Jr., in which champion Adonis Creed, played by Michael B. Jordan, fights Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago, with Sylvester Stallone returning as Rocky Balboa.
Dau (film)
Dau (DAU) is Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 2026 experimental drama, the culminating film of the DAU project about Soviet physicist Lev Landau. 195 minutes, 35mm, Venice 2026 Silver Lion for Best Director, starring Teodor Currentzis.
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.
Demolition (2015 film)
Demolition is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a banker who unravels after his wife dies in a car crash.
Denial (2016 film)
Denial (2016 film), directed by Mick Jackson, written by David Hare; drama of the Irving v. Lipstadt libel trial, starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall, Tom Wilkinson; courtroom dialogue verbatim from transcripts; Bleecker Street release.
Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors
Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors is a 2015 NBC television movie based on Parton's 1971 autobiographical song, starring Alyvia Alyn Lind as young Dolly in 1955 Tennessee; it drew about 13 to 15.9 million viewers and spawned a 2016 Christmas sequel.
Elisa & Marcela
Elisa & Marcela (Elisa y Marcela) is Isabel Coixet's 2019 Spanish black-and-white Netflix drama about Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, teachers who married in A Coruña in 1901 in Spain's first recorded same-sex marriage; it competed at the 2019 Berlinale.