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Crossing (2024 film)
Crossing (2024) is a drama by Swedish-Georgian director Levan Akin, also known from And Then We Danced. Retired teacher Lia searches Istanbul for her trans niece Tekla with neighbor Achi, meeting lawyer Evrim. It won the Teddy Jury Award at the 2024 Berlinale and holds 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Daddio (film)
Daddio is a 2024 American drama film directed by Christy Hall. It stars Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn in a taxi ride from JFK to Manhattan.
Darkest Miriam
Darkest Miriam is a 2024 Canadian drama directed by Naomi Jaye, adapted from Martha Baillie's novel The Incident Report, starring Britt Lower as a grieving Toronto librarian who receives threatening letters signed Rigoletto while starting a romance with Slovenian cab driver Janko; it premiered at Tribeca 2024.
Daughter's Daughter
Daughter's Daughter (女兒的女兒) is a 2024 Taiwanese drama by Huang Xi starring Sylvia Chang as a mother deciding the fate of her dead daughter's IVF embryo; Golden Horse Best Original Screenplay winner.
Decoded (解密) (film)
Decoded (解密) is a 2024 Chinese drama film directed by Chen Sicheng, adapted from Mai Jia's novel, starring Liu Haoran and John Cusack as codebreaker Rong Jinzhen and his teacher, released 3 August 2024.
Divorce in the Black
Divorce in the Black is Tyler Perry's 2024 Prime Video drama starring Meagan Good and Cory Hardrict about a woman whose abusive husband abandons their marriage; it earned a 0% Tomatometer but a 73% audience score.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (film)
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a 2024 South African drama, Embeth Davidtz's directorial debut, adapting Alexandra Fuller's 2001 memoir about eight-year-old Bobo on a Rhodesian farm in 1980, starring Lexi Venter and released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2025.
Drawing Closer
Drawing Closer (余命一年の僕が、余命半年の君と出会った話。) is a 2024 Japanese Netflix romance film directed by Takahiro Miki, starring Ren Nagase and Natsuki Deguchi, adapted from Ao Morita's bestseller about two terminally ill teens in love.
Dreams (Sex Love)
Dreams (Sex Love), Norwegian Drømmer, is Dag Johan Haugerud's 2024 film about 17-year-old Johanne's writings on her love for her French teacher; it won the 2025 Berlin Golden Bear. Distinct from Michel Franco's 2025 film Dreams.
Dreams in Nightmares
Dreams in Nightmares (狂花夢路) is a 2024 comedy-drama road film by Shatara Michelle Ford, following three Black queer femmes searching the Midwest for a missing friend; premiered at BlackStar 2024 and Berlinale 2025.
Drive Back Home
Drive Back Home is a 2024 Canadian comedy-drama directed by Michael Clowater, starring Alan Cumming and Charlie Creed-Miles as estranged brothers driving from Toronto to New Brunswick in 1970 after one is jailed for homosexuality, inspired by the director's family history.
Dwelling by the West Lake
Dwelling by the West Lake (草木人间) is Gu Xiaogang's 2024 Chinese drama, second in his landscape-painting series, retelling "Mulian Rescues His Mother" as an anti-pyramid-scheme story starring Leo Wu and Jiang Qinqin; it earned 121 million yuan and festival honors.
Eden (2024 film)
Eden (2024) is Ron Howard's survival thriller about the 1930s Floreana settlers in the Galápagos, starring Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, and Sydney Sweeney; premiered at TIFF 2024, released by Vertical in August 2025.
Emmanuelle (2024 film)
Emmanuelle (2024) is a French erotic drama by Audrey Diwan, freely adapted from Emmanuelle Arsan's novel, starring Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, and Naomi Watts. It opened San Sebastián 2024, released in France 25 September 2024, and was critically panned (18% Tomatometer, Metascore 35).
Evil Does Not Exist (悪は存在しない)
Evil Does Not Exist (悪は存在しない, Aku wa Sonzai Shinai) is Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 2023 Japanese drama about a mountain hamlet resisting a glamping development; it won the Venice Grand Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Award.
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Exhibiting Forgiveness is a 2024 American drama, the feature directorial debut of painter Titus Kaphar, starring André Holland, Andra Day, John Earl Jelks, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Semi-autobiographical story of a painter confronting his estranged abusive father; premiered at Sundance 2024, released October 18, 2024 by Roadside Attractions, with paintings exhibited at Gagosian and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Familiar Touch
Familiar Touch is Sarah Friedland's 2024 American debut drama about octogenarian Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) entering assisted living with dementia; it won three Venice Orizzonti awards and the 2025 Spirit Award's Someone to Watch.
Ferrari (2023 film)
Ferrari is a 2023 biographical drama directed by Michael Mann, starring Adam Driver as Enzo Ferrari and Penélope Cruz as his wife Laura, set in 1957 as his company nears bankruptcy.
Fireworks (2023 film)
Fireworks (Stranizza d'amuri) is Giuseppe Fiorello's 2023 Italian directorial debut, a drama about two teenage boys in love in 1982 Sicily, inspired by the unpunished 1980 Giarre homophobic killing.
Flamin' Hot
Flamin' Hot (2023) is Eva Longoria's biographical comedy-drama for Searchlight Pictures about Richard Montañez, the Frito-Lay janitor claiming to have invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos, a story Frito-Lay disputes; starring Jesse Garcia, streaming on Hulu and Disney+.
Four Letters of Love
Four Letters of Love (2025) is a Polly Steele romantic drama adapted by Niall Williams from his 1997 novel, starring Fionn O'Shea, Ann Skelly, Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne; released 18 July 2025 in the UK and Ireland.
Fresh Kills (film)
Fresh Kills (2023) is Jennifer Esposito's directorial debut, a Staten Island mafia drama about the Larusso women, starring Emily Bader and Odessa A'zion; premiered at Tribeca, released theatrically June 14, 2024. Distinct from Fresh Kill (1972, 1994).
Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story
Gaslit by My Husband: The Morgan Metzer Story is a 2024 Lifetime thriller, also on Netflix, starring Jana Kramer and Austin Nichols, dramatizing Morgan Metzer's real 2021 Georgia home invasion assault by ex-husband Rodney Metzer, who staged a rescue and received a 70-year sentence.
Ghostlight (2024 film)
Ghostlight (2024) is an American indie drama by Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson, premiering at Sundance and released by IFC Films on June 14, 2024. Keith Kupferer plays a grieving construction worker who joins a community theater's Romeo and Juliet; distinct from John Stimpson's 2024 supernatural comedy Ghost Light.
Girl in the Closet
Girl in the Closet is a 2023 Lifetime TV movie directed by Jaira Thomas, starring Tami Roman, Remy Ma, and Daijah Peters, loosely based on the Lauren Kavanaugh case and part of Lifetime's Girl In series.
Good One (film)
Good One is a 2024 American drama, India Donaldson's feature debut, starring Lily Collias as 17-year-old Sam on a Catskills backpacking trip with her father (James Le Gros) and his friend (Danny McCarthy). Premiered at Sundance 2024 and Cannes Directors' Fortnight; released by Metrograph Pictures.
Green Bones
Green Bones is a 2024 Filipino prison drama directed by Zig Dulay, starring Dennis Trillo and Ruru Madrid, based on the belief that green bones in remains prove goodness. It won Best Picture at the 50th MMFF and streams on Netflix.
Green Border
Green Border (Zielona granica) is Agnieszka Holland's 2023 black-and-white Polish drama, 152 min, about refugees pushed back at the Belarus-Poland border. Special Jury Prize at Venice 2023; denounced by Poland's Law and Justice government before the 2023 election.
Happyend (ハッピーエンド)
Happyend (ハッピーエンド) is Neo Sora's 2024 Japanese-American debut fiction feature, a near-future Tokyo coming-of-age drama in which a prank on a principal triggers AI school surveillance; premiered at Venice Orizzonti 2024 and won multiple festival awards.
Harbin (하얼빈) (film)
Harbin (하얼빈) is a 2024 South Korean historical drama by Woo Min-ho starring Hyun Bin as Ahn Jung-geun, portraying the 1909 plot to assassinate Ito Hirobumi; it drew about 4.9 million admissions and sold to 117 countries.