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Hard Truths
Hard Truths (2024) is a 97-minute British-Spanish comedy-drama by Mike Leigh, reuniting him with Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Pansy) and Michele Austin (Chantelle); premiered at TIFF 2024, released by Bleecker Street, with Jean-Baptiste sweeping the NY, LA, and National Society of Film Critics best-actress prizes.
Heaven Is Beneath Mother's Feet
Heaven Is Beneath Mother's Feet (Бейиш — эненин таманында, Beyish - Enenin tamanynda) is a 2024 Kyrgyz drama by Ruslan Akun; Adil, mentally 8, walks his mother to Mecca; Kyrgyzstan's 97th Oscars submission.
Here (2024 film)
Here is a 2024 American drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright as couples and families who inhabit the same home across a century.
Hey Joe (film)
Hey Joe is a 2024 Italian drama directed by Claudio Giovannesi, starring James Franco as WWII veteran Dean Barry, who returns to 1971 Naples to find the son Enzo (Francesco Di Napoli) raised by a smuggling boss; premiered at Rome 2024, released by Vision Distribution.
Holy Cow (2024 film)
Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux) is a 2024 French coming-of-age drama, Louise Courvoisier's debut, set in the Jura. Teen Totone enters a Comté cheese contest for €30,000; it won Cannes' Youth Award and two Césars.
Homestead (film)
Homestead (2024) is an Angel Studios post-apocalyptic survival drama directed by Ben Smallbone, based on the Black Autumn books by Jason Ross and Jeff Kirkham, starring Neal McDonough and Bailey Chase, released December 20, 2024, and continuing as a streaming series.
I Wish You All the Best
I Wish You All the Best is a 2025 American coming-of-age drama directed by Tommy Dorfman, adapted from Mason Deaver's 2019 novel. It premiered at SXSW in March 2024 and follows nonbinary teen Ben DeBacker, played by Corey Fogelmanis.
I'm Still Here (2024 film)
I'm Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), Walter Salles's 2024 Brazilian-French drama based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's memoir, stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva and won the 2025 Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
In Broad Daylight
In Broad Daylight (白日之下) is a 2023 Hong Kong drama by Lawrence Kan, produced by Derek Yee, about an undercover reporter exposing abuse at a care home for the disabled; it won three acting prizes at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards.
In the Summers
In the Summers (2024) is Alessandra Lacorazza's debut drama about sisters Violeta and Eva and their volatile father Vicente in Las Cruces, New Mexico, winner of the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.
In Water (물안에서)
In Water (물안에서) is Hong Sang-soo's 2023 South Korean drama, his 29th and shortest feature at 61 minutes, about an actor trying to direct a film on Jeju Island; it premiered in Berlinale Encounters and is shot almost entirely out of focus.
Inside (2024 film)
Inside (2024) is an Australian prison drama directed and written by Charles Williams, starring Guy Pearce, Cosmo Jarvis, Toby Wallace, and Vincent Miller; premiered at MIFF 2024 and released in the US in 2025.
It's Okay!
It's Okay! (괜찮아 괜찮아 괜찮아!) is Kim Hye-young's 2023 South Korean debut feature about an orphaned teen dancer, which won the 2024 Berlin Crystal Bear (Generation Kplus) and the 2025 Blue Dragon Best New Director award.
Jeanne du Barry (film)
Jeanne du Barry is a 2023 French historical drama directed by Maïwenn, who plays Louis XV's last official mistress opposite Johnny Depp as the king.
Joika
Joika (also released as The American) is a 2023 biographical drama directed by James Napier Robertson about American ballerina Joy Womack at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, starring Talia Ryder and Diane Kruger; the first New Zealand–Poland co-production.
Kill the Jockey
Kill the Jockey (El Jockey) is Luis Ortega's 2024 Argentine surreal crime comedy starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as jockey Remo, who becomes Dolores; Venice Special Mention, San Sebastián Horizontes winner, Argentina's 97th Oscars entry.
La chimera
La Chimera is a 2023 drama by Alice Rohrwacher, her fourth feature, competing at Cannes 2023. Josh O'Connor plays Arthur, a British archaeologist joining Italian tombaroli robbing Etruscan tombs in 1980s Tuscany while mourning Beniamina; praised by critics and awarded at Nastri d'Argento and the European Film Awards.
La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ)
La Grande Maison Paris (グランメゾン・パリ) is a 2024 Japanese film sequel to the drama Grand Maison Tokyo, directed by Ayuko Tsukahara, starring Takuya Kimura as chef Natsuki Obana chasing three Michelin stars in Paris, with culinary supervision by Kei Kobayashi of Restaurant KEI.
Land of Happiness (행복의 나라)
Land of Happiness (행복의 나라) is a 2024 South Korean courtroom drama by Choo Chang-min starring Cho Jung-seok and Lee Sun-kyun, dramatizing the 1979 trial of Colonel Park Heung-joo after President Park Chung-hee's assassination; released Aug 14, 2024, 710,620 admissions.
Lilies Not for Me
Lilies Not for Me (2024) is Will Seefried's debut period drama, premiering at Edinburgh, about a 1920s gay novelist (Fionn O'Shea) institutionalized for conversion treatment, recounting a relationship with Philip (Robert Aramayo) that turned to testicular transplant surgery.
Lilly (2024 film)
Lilly (2024) is Rachel Feldman's biographical drama starring Patricia Clarkson as equal-pay activist Lilly Ledbetter, premiered at Hamptons 2024, released theatrically May 9, 2025, and streaming on Netflix from November 24, 2025.
Limonov: The Ballad
Limonov: The Ballad (Лимонов. Баллада) is Kirill Serebrennikov's 2024 English-language biographical drama, adapted from Emmanuel Carrère's novel, starring Ben Whishaw as Eduard Limonov; it competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2024.
Little Wing (2024 film)
Little Wing (2024) is a Paramount+ coming-of-age drama directed by Dean Israelite, written by John Gatins, based on Susan Orlean's 2006 New Yorker article; Brooklynn Prince and Brian Cox star in a Portland pigeon-racing story released March 13, 2024.
Lola (2024 film)
Lola (2024) is an American drama, the directorial debut of Nicola Peltz Beckham, who writes, directs, and stars as Lola James saving money to free her brother Arlo from a toxic home; released February 9, 2024 by Vertical, distinct from Grace Hanna's 2024 short of the same name.
Look Back (ルックバック) (2024 film)
Look Back (ルックバック) is a 2024 Japanese animated film by Kiyotaka Oshiyama adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto's 2021 one-shot manga about two girls who draw manga. Studio Durian produced it; it earned over ¥2 billion in Japan and the 2025 Japan Academy Best Animation Prize.
Los Frikis (film)
Los Frikis is a 2024 American Spanish-language drama by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, produced by Lord Miller, about 1990s Cuban punks who injected HIV to live in sanatoriums; stars Adria Arjona and Héctor Medina.
Love (2024 film)
Love (Kjærlighet) is a 2024 Norwegian drama by Dag Johan Haugerud, part of his Sex Dreams Love trilogy, about a doctor and a nurse exploring intimacy outside conventional relationships; it competed at Venice 2024.
Loveable (film)
Loveable (Elskling) is a 2024 Norwegian drama, Lilja Ingolfsdottir's debut feature, starring Helga Guren and Oddgeir Thune; it won five awards at Karlovy Vary 2024 and four Amanda Awards including Best Film.
Maestro (2023 film)
Maestro (2023) is Bradley Cooper's biographical drama about conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and his marriage to Felicia Montealegre, starring Cooper and Carey Mulligan, produced with Spielberg and Scorsese, premiered at Venice, released by Netflix, and nominated for seven Academy Awards.
Magazine Dreams
Magazine Dreams is Elijah Bynum's 2023 Sundance drama starring Jonathan Majors as bodybuilder Killian Maddox; delayed by Majors' 2023 assault conviction, released by Briarcliff in March 2025.