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Nada a Perder
Nada a Perder (Nothing to Lose) is a 2018 Brazilian biographical drama directed by Alexandre Avancini about Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God; based on his book trilogy, it set Brazilian box office records amid controversy.
New Trial (재심)
New Trial (재심, Jaesim) is a 2017 South Korean courtroom drama directed by Kim Tae-yun, starring Jung Woo and Kang Ha-neul, based on the 2000 Iksan Yakchon Junction taxi driver murder case and the real retrial that exonerated a wrongly convicted teenager.
Nina Wu (灼人秘密)
Nina Wu (灼人秘密) is a 2019 Taiwanese psychological thriller by director Midi Z (趙德胤), written by and starring Wu Ke-Xi (吳可熙); selected in Cannes Un Certain Regard, winner of a Golden Horse sound award.
Novitiate (film)
Novitiate (2017) is Maggie Betts' narrative feature debut drama, starring Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, and Julianne Nicholson, about a young postulant in 1964 Tennessee whose faith is shaken by Vatican II reforms; Sundance premiere, Sony Pictures Classics, 85% Tomatometer.
Official Secrets (film)
Official Secrets is a 2019 political thriller directed by Gavin Hood, starring Keira Knightley as GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun, who leaked an NSA memo about blackmailing UN Security Council members over the 2003 Iraq invasion; Sundance premiere, IFC Films release.
On Body and Soul
On Body and Soul (Testről és lélekről) is a 2017 Hungarian drama by Ildikó Enyedi in which two slaughterhouse workers share a dream of meeting as deer; it won the 2017 Golden Bear and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
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.
Our Souls at Night
Our Souls at Night: 2017 Netflix romantic drama directed by Ritesh Batra, adapted from Kent Haruf's final novel, starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford as widowed Colorado neighbors who share a bed platonically; fourth Fonda–Redford film, Venice 2017 premiere, Metascore 69.
Overcomer (film)
Overcomer is a 2019 American faith-based sports drama directed by Alex Kendrick, in which a coach who loses his basketball team reluctantly trains an asthmatic cross-country runner, Hannah Scott.
Pain and Glory
Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2019 Spanish drama starring Antonio Banderas as ailing director Salvador Mallo; it won Cannes Best Actor and the Goyas for Best Film and Best Actor.
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.
Phantom Thread
Phantom Thread (2017) is Paul Thomas Anderson's gothic romance set in 1950s London couture, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock, with Vicky Krieps and Lesley Manville; six Oscar nominations, one win for costume design.
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.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) is Céline Sciamma's 2019 French period romance about painter Marianne and her reluctant subject Héloïse in 1770 Brittany; it won Cannes Best Screenplay and the Queer Palm and ranked 30th in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is a 2017 biographical drama directed by Angela Robinson, starring Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, and Bella Heathcote as William Moulton Marston, his wife Elizabeth, and Olive Byrne, whose polyamorous relationship inspired Wonder Woman.
Queen of Hearts (2019 film)
Queen of Hearts (Dronningen) is a 2019 Danish drama by May el-Toukhy starring Trine Dyrholm as lawyer Anne, who seduces her 17-year-old stepson Gustav; it won the Sundance Audience Award and the 2019 Nordic Council Film Prize.
Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Roman J. Israel, Esq. is a 2017 American legal drama written and directed by Dan Gilroy, starring Denzel Washington as an idealistic Los Angeles defense attorney.
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.
Send Me to the Clouds
Send Me to the Clouds (送我上青云) is Teng Congcong's 2019 Chinese drama debut, starring and produced by Yao Chen as journalist Sheng Nan, who seeks desire and money before ovarian cancer surgery; a landmark but contested Chinese feminist film.
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.
So Long, My Son (地久天长)
So Long, My Son (地久天长) is Wang Xiaoshuai's 2019 Chinese drama about two families spanning the one-child policy era; it won Silver Bears for Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei at the 2019 Berlinale.
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.
Son of Saul
Son of Saul (Saul fia), 2015 Hungarian Holocaust drama, László Nemes's debut feature starring Géza Röhrig as a Sonderkommando prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau; won Cannes Grand Prix and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Sorry We Missed You
Sorry We Missed You is a 2019 Ken Loach drama, written by Paul Laverty, about a Newcastle family trapped by gig-economy delivery work; it premiered in Competition at Cannes 2019 and won San Sebastián's Audience Award for Best European Film.
Sound of Metal
Sound of Metal is Darius Marder's 2019 debut drama starring Riz Ahmed as drummer Ruben Stone, who loses his hearing. Premiered at TIFF 2019, released by Amazon in 2020, it won Oscars for Best Sound and Best Film Editing.