Awesome Drama

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander play an infertile couple in the 1920s living on their own in an island off the coast of Australia. One day a boat carrying a baby and a dead man washes up on their shore. A drama based on ML Stedman’s eponymous novel.

Will and his girlfriend Kira attend a lavish dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Eden. It’s supposed to be a reunion among old friends, but between the new faces, the creepy house and the hosts themselves, it’s apparent that something else is afoot in The Invitation.

A rich banker is devastated by his wife’s sudden passing. Utterly broken, he ends up airing his heartache in a complaint letter to a vending machine company. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Naomi Watts. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club).

Bryan Cranston plays writer and activist Dalton Trumbo. A hugely successful screenwriter in the late 1930s, Trumbo’s life and career were nearly ruined when movie studios banished him because of his Communist ties.

(PG-13 language) A talented composer is hounded by a phantom marching band after his beloved wife’s death. Matthew Goldenberg and Michael Slavens’ short is a vivid expression of inner turmoil and the loss of a loved one.

In Sicario (“hitman”), an FBI agent who’s assigned to an anti-drug task force realizes that things are not what they seem when she finds out that one of her teammates is a mercenary. Starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro.

“America doesn’t bail out the losers.” Andrew Garfield plays a struggling breadwinner who gets evicted from his house. To survive, he ends up working for the corrupt broker that evicted him, played by Michael Shannon. Drops 9/25/15.

Jason Segel is the late David Foster Wallace in this adaptation of David Lipsky’s book about his road trip with Wallace. The book is mainly a transcript of their conversations, and Wallace spoke like he wrote: funny, earnest and humane.

“Sometimes your worst self is your best self.” Everyone sounds like Rust Cohle in the new teaser for the second season of HBO’s True Detective. Don’t let us down Vince Vaughn. Vaguely Logical Proverbs premieres 6/15.

Woody Allen writes and directs a movie about a neurotic old __ who meets a young and beautiful __ who helps him overcome his __. Set in the lovely city of __ with a jazz score by __. Stuttering, misery, everyone else is wrong, bittersweet ending.

A high school senior is forced by his mom to befriend a girl in his class, because he only has one other friend and she’s dying of leukemia. This teen drama won both a Grand Jury Prize and an Audience Award at the 2015 Sundance Festival.

Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Taylor Kitsch play policemen while Vince Vaughn plays a shady businessman in the new season of True Detective. They’re brought together by a bizarre murder that leads to a web of conspiracy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in a drama. A zombie drama. Arnie plays a devoted father who stays by her daughter’s side as she turns into a mindless cannibal. Also starring Abigail Breslin (Zombieland, Little Miss Sunshine).

An upcoming Netflix exclusive series. Bloodline is about the Rayburns, a respected family in the Florida Keys. When the black sheep of their family comes home for their reunion, he threatens to expose their dark past. Drops 3/20.

A nominee for Best Foreign Film at the 2015 Academy Awards, Damián Szifron’s Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) is composed of six dark comedy short films, all of which have characters who wish to exact violent revenge.

“I have always taken the path that is most right.” A self-made businessman struggles to stay righteous as his competitors start acting like the mob. A Most Violent Year seems like Scarface if Tony Montana was an upright citizen.

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to verify a traumatizing event from his early life, when an unidentified flying object crashed on their farm. Josh Tanner’s The Landing is as good as short films get.

Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play a couple who are having a midlife crisis. Their lives turn around when they befriend a young couple – Amanda Seyfried and Adam Driver – but their peers disapprove of their attempts to cling to youth.

(NSFW: Language) Written and directed by Chris Rock, Top Five is a movie about being black and famous in America today. Also stars Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, JB Smoove, Kevin Hart, Cedric the Entertainer and Tracy Morgan.

From director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) comes a drama about a robot child created specifically to learn, adapt and feel like a human being. Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman.

(NSFW) Marco Polo is about the legendary Italian explorer’s adventures in the court of the 13th century Mongol conqueror and Chinese emperor Kublai Khan. Premieres on the History Channel Netflix on 12/14.

The oil boom in Williston, ND attracted so many people that even some of those who got hired couldn’t find a place to stay. When a priest turned his church into temporary housing, tensions rose between locals and the overnighters.

Brad Pitt plays a battle-hardened sergeant in World War II, leading a five-man crew and their Sherman tank Fury on a suicide mission in Germany. Written & directed by David Ayer (Training Day, End of Watch).