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Mai (2024 film)
Mai (2024) is a Vietnamese romantic drama directed by Trấn Thành, starring Phương Anh Đào and Tuấn Trần. Released 10 February 2024 for Tết, it grossed 552 billion VND, becoming the highest-grossing Vietnamese film at the time, and streamed on Netflix from May 2024.
Manas (film)
Manas (2024) is Marianna Brennand's Brazilian-Portuguese fiction debut about 13-year-old Tielle on Marajó Island, Amazon, facing sexual exploitation; Venice Giornate degli Autori winner, Goya-nominated, starring Jamilli Correa.
Mary (2024 film)
Mary (2024) is a Netflix biblical epic directed by D.J. Caruso, starring Noa Cohen, Ido Tako, and Anthony Hopkins as Herod, retelling the Nativity from Mary's perspective, drawing on the Protoevangelium of James, released December 6, 2024.
Matt and Mara
Matt and Mara is a 2024 Canadian drama by Kazik Radwanski, 80 minutes, starring Deragh Campbell and Matt Johnson as old friends whose reunion strains Mara's marriage; premiered at Berlinale Encounters, released by Cinema Guild.
May December
May December is Todd Haynes's 2023 Netflix drama starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton, loosely inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau scandal, about an actress researching a tabloid-scarred couple; Cannes Palme d'Or nominee and Oscar-nominated screenplay.
McVeigh (film)
McVeigh (2024) is a psychological thriller directed by Mike Ott, starring Alfie Allen as Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, with Brett Gelman as Terry Nichols; premiered at Tribeca, released March 21, 2025.
Millers in Marriage
Millers in Marriage is a 2025 Edward Burns drama about three middle-aged New York siblings, Eve, Maggie, and Andy, facing marital strain. Premiered at TIFF 2024, released February 21, 2025 by Republic Pictures; 53% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 49.
My Melbourne
My Melbourne (2024) is an Indo-Australian anthology feature by Onir, Rima Das, Imtiaz Ali, and Kabir Khan: four true-story segments, Nandini, Jules, Emma, Setara, on sexuality, gender, disability, and race, premiering at IFFM and released March 2025.
My Name Is Loh Kiwan
My Name Is Loh Kiwan (로기완), a 2024 South Korean Netflix drama directed by Kim Hee-jin, starring Song Joong-ki and Choi Sung-eun, adapted from Cho Hae-jin's novel I Met Loh Kiwan, about a North Korean defector seeking refugee status in Belgium.
Never Say Never (八角笼中) (2023 film)
Never Say Never (八角笼中) is Wang Baoqiang's 2023 Chinese sports drama about the Enbo Fight club's Liangshan boys; it earned RMB 2.207 billion, a Chinese preview-gross record, and Changchun Festival awards.
Nyad
Nyad (2023) is a Netflix biographical drama, the narrative debut of directors Vasarhelyi and Chin, starring Annette Bening as swimmer Diana Nyad and Jodie Foster as Bonnie Stoll, dramatizing her 2013 Cuba-to-Florida swim and its ratification controversy.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a 2024 black comedy drama directed by Rungano Nyoni, starring Susan Chardy as a Zambian woman uncovering family secrets at a funeral.
On Falling
On Falling (2024) is Laura Carreira's debut drama about Aurora, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Edinburgh, a UK/Portugal Sixteen Films and BRO Cinema co-production that won San Sebastián's Silver Shell and the BFI Sutherland Award.
Papa (爸爸)
Papa (爸爸) is a 2024 Hong Kong crime drama directed and written by Philip Yung, starring Lau Ching-wan, Jo Koo, Dylan So, and Lainey Hung. Adapted from the 2010 Tsuen Wan murder case, it premiered at Tokyo International Film Festival and won three Hong Kong Film Awards.
Paradise (2023 film)
Paradise is a 2023 Indian-Sri Lankan drama directed by Prasanna Vithanage, following a couple whose anniversary trip in Sri Lanka turns into a hunt for stolen belongings.
Parthenope (film)
Parthenope is a 2024 Italian-French drama written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, starring Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, and Luisa Ranieri. It premiered in competition at Cannes 2024, won the CST technical award, and follows a Neapolitan woman's life from 1950 to today.
Paying for It (film)
Paying for It is a 2024 Canadian comedy-drama directed by Sook-Yin Lee, adapted from ex-partner Chester Brown's 2011 graphic novel about paying for sex after their breakup; premiered at TIFF 2024, 85 minutes, starring Dan Beirne and Emily Lê.
Pedro Páramo (2024 film)
Pedro Páramo (2024) is a Mexican Netflix drama directed by Rodrigo Prieto, adapting Juan Rulfo's 1955 novel; screenplay by Mateo Gil, starring Manuel García-Rulfo and Tenoch Huerta, released November 6, 2024, winner of 7 Ariel awards.
Pepe (2024 film)
Pepe (2024) is an experimental film by Dominican director Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias, narrated by the ghost of a hippo from Pablo Escobar's Colombian zoo; it won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2024 Berlinale.
Perfect Days (パーフェクト・デイズ)
Perfect Days (パーフェクト・デイズ) is a 2023 Wim Wenders drama starring Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama, a Tokyo toilet cleaner; it won Cannes Best Actor and was Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature.
Priscilla (film)
Priscilla (2023) is Sofia Coppola's A24 biographical drama adapted from Priscilla Presley's memoir Elvis and Me, starring Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi; Spaeny won the Venice Volpi Cup, and the film contains no Elvis songs.
Purna Bahadur Ko Sarangi (पूर्णबहादुर को सारङ्गी)
Purna Bahadur Ko Sarangi (पूर्णबहादुरको सारङ्गी) is a 2024 Nepali drama directed by Saroj Poudel, starring Bijay Baral as a Gandharva sarangi-playing father. It became the highest-grossing Nepali film with NPR 56.3 crore in Nepal.
Queen of the Ring (film)
Queen of the Ring is a 2025 biographical sports drama about wrestler Mildred Burke, written and directed by Ash Avildsen, based on Jeff Leen's book, starring Emily Bett Rickards; released March 7, 2025, grossing $657,661.
Rare Objects (film)
Rare Objects (2023) is a drama directed, co-written, produced by, and co-starring Katie Holmes, adapting Kathleen Tessaro's novel; IFC Films released it April 14, 2023; it grossed $10,454 and scored 40% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Riley (film)
Riley (2023) is Benjamin Howard's debut feature, an American coming-of-age drama starring Jake Holley as closeted high school football star Dakota Riley, based on Howard's own coming-out experience; premiered at Calgary 2023, released digitally by Dark Star Pictures in 2025.
Road to Boston (보스턴 1947)
Road to Boston (1947 보스톤) is Kang Je-gyu's 2023 Korean biographical drama about Son Kee-jung, Nam Seung-ryong, and Suh Yun-bok, whose 1947 Boston Marathon win (2:25:39) was the first by an Asian runner; 1.03 million admissions.
Saturday Night (2024 film)
Saturday Night (2024) is Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan's real-time comedy-drama about the 90 minutes before SNL's first broadcast on October 11, 1975, starring Gabriel LaBelle as Lorne Michaels, released by Columbia Pictures.
Sebastian (2024 film)
Sebastian (2024) is Mikko Mäkelä's second feature, a UK-Finland-Belgium queer drama starring Ruaridh Mollica as Max, a 25-year-old London writer who escorts under the name Sebastian to research his debut novel; Sundance 2024 premiere, Kino Lorber US release.
Self (film)
Self (2024) is a six-minute Pixar SparkShorts stop-motion/CGI short directed by Searit Huluf, released on Disney+ February 2, 2024, about a wooden doll's ill-fated wish to fit in, exploring self-sabotage and Ethiopian immigrant identity.
Sheepdog (film)
Sheepdog is a 2024 American drama written, directed by, and starring Steven Grayhm as veteran Calvin Cole, court-ordered into trauma therapy; with Virginia Madsen and Vondie Curtis-Hall, released theatrically January 16, 2026, focusing on post-traumatic growth.