The most anticipated dramas of 2021

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Another wonderful year of cinema awaits us. Our list of dramas in 2021 includes only the most anticipated foreign and Russian projects. We will see these novelties of the best drama films on screens in 2021.

White snow

• Director: Nikolay Khomeriki
• Russia

This is a biographical drama about skier Elena Vyalba, multiple world and Olympic champion. The film will guide the audience through all the important events of the heroine and will begin with her first steps into big sports. The final will be the enchanting end of Vyalbe's sports career.

Petrov's Flu (Petrov's Flu)

• Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
• Russia
• Expectations rating - 96%

A day in the life of a comic book artist and his family in post-Soviet Russia. Suffering from the flu, Petrov and his friend Igor take a long walk, plunging into the borderline world between fantasy and reality.

Archipelago

• Director: Alexey Telnov
• Russia

The picture will tell about the feat of scientists from Russia, who, together with an international Russian-Swedish expedition, must measure the real dimensions and outline the shape of the planet Earth. As you know, until the middle of the 20th century, the model of the figure of the globe was the only standard that was used around the world.

The Power of the Dog

• Director: Jane Campion
• United Kingdom
• Expectations rating - 98%

A man is waging a war against his brother's new wife, with whom he together own a large ranch in Montana. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst. Filming took place in New Zealand.

Prisoner 760

• Director: Francis Lee
• United Kingdom
• Expectations rating - 98%

This is a new drama film directed by Kevin MacDonald, based on the memoir "The Diary of Guantanamo" by Mohamed Ould Slahi. In the story, a man detained in a US military detention center in Guantanamo Bay has been held there without charge for more than ten years. Then he asks for help from a lawyer to release him.

Mank

• Director: David Fincher
• USA
• Expectations rating - 98%

The biographical drama, due on Netflix, follows screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz and his conflict with director George Orson Welles over copyright for the legendary 1941 film Citizen Kane.

Blonde

• Director: Andrew Dominic
• USA
• Expectations rating - 95%

This is a fictional chronicle of Marilyn Monroe's personal life. The film is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carroll Oates. According to director Andrew Dominic, the script contains little dialogue. He described the film as "an avalanche of images and events."

Off-season

• Director: Alexander Hunt
• Russia
• Expectations rating - 99%

The plot is based on the events that took place in the Pskov region with two ups in 2016. Then the 15-year-old boy and girl locked themselves in their parents' dacha with weapons and alcohol, filming it all on camera and broadcasting it online to one of the social networks. The result was, alas, tragic.

Holy Virgin (Bendetta)

• Director: Paul Verhoeven
• France
• Expectations rating - 97%

17th century. The young nun Benedetta Carlini suffers from anxious religious and erotic fantasies. Then she comes to the service in an Italian monastery and begins an affair with another woman there.

The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection

• Director: Mel Gibson
• USA
• Expectations rating - 97%

Continuation of the film "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004, dedicated to the events that took place in the 3 days between the crucifixion and resurrection. Then Jesus Christ ascended into the bosom of Abraham to preach and raise the saints of the Old Testament.

Wild Mountain Thyme

• Director: John Patrick Shanley
• USA
• Expectations rating - 94%

A strong family conflict is brewing, when the patriarch threatens to transfer his farm to an American nephew, and not to his own son. And a couple of stars in love in Ireland find themselves embroiled in their family's land dispute.

The Boys in the Band

• Director: Joe Mantello
• USA
• Expectations rating - 90%

The adaptation of the play by Joe Mantello follows a group of gay friends who get together in New York to celebrate one of their friends' birthday. When an uninvited guest, a roommate, suddenly appears at the event, the party begins to deteriorate.

Ammonite

• Director: Francis Lee
• United Kingdom
• Expectations rating - 98%

Among the most anticipated dramas of 2021 is an overseas romance starring Kate Winslet Saoirse Ronan. In the 1840s, famed self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning worked alone on the Lyme Regis Coast. The days of her famous discoveries are behind her, now she is looking for common fossils to sell to wealthy tourists. This will help her to support herself and her sick widowed mother. When one of these tourists, Roderick Murchison, arrives in Lyme on a European tour, he assigns Mary to take care of his young wife, Charlotte. Mary, whose life is a daily struggle for poverty, cannot afford to refuse such an offer. They are two women from completely different worlds. Yet despite the chasm between their social status and personalities, Mary and Charlotte discover that they have something in common: the realization that they are not alone. This is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming romance that will challenge all social boundaries and irrevocably change the course of both lives.