New Drama Movies and TV Shows 2022

Updated: August 26, 2022

Get all of the important details about new drama movies and TV shows on the way for 2022. Watch preview videos, learn rare facts, find out who stars in them and more.

Kleo

Cate Blanchett returns to the big screen in Tár. The psychological drama movie is set to premiere in theaters on Friday, October 7, 2022. Click Here to read more, watch the preview video and more.

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• Cate Blanchett
• Sylvia Flote as Krista
• Vincent Riotta as Cory
• Sam Douglas as Marty
• Lucie Pohl as Shannon
• Vivian Full as Kristine
• Noémie Merlant
• Nina Hoss
• Sophie Kauer
• Julian Glover
• Allan Corduner
• Mark Strong

Kleo

Release Date: On Netflix Friday, August 19, 2022. Movie Overview: Kleo (Jella Haase), a former spy killer is set free after the fall of the Berlin Wall and seeks revenge against the ones who betrayed her.

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Chevalier

Release Date: Thursday, September 8, 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Movie Overview: Sometimes referred to as Black Mozart, this film documents French-Caribbean violinist and composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges' rise to the top of French society then downfall.

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Till

Release Date: In theaters Friday, October 14, 2022. Movie Overview: The true story of 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till who was lynched and the legacy of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley's pursuit of justice for her son.

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Broad Peak

Release Date: On Netflix in September 2022. Movie Overview: Based on a true story, Maciej Berbeka returns to one of the most dangerous mountains in the world, Broad Peak, to reclaim his pride and his good reputation.

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Life by Ella

Release Date: Friday, September 2, 2022 on Apple TV+. Series Overview: A middle-school girl named Ella has a new outlook on life and takes it into a world determined to break it down.

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• Lily Brooks O’Briant
• Artyon Celestine
• Kevin Rahm
• Mary Faber
• Aidan Wallace
• Vanessa Carrasco

End of the Road

Release Date: On Netflix in September 2022. Series Overview: A recently widowed mom named Brenda (Queen Latifah), drives her family cross-country to get a fresh start in life but they find themselves alone in the New Mexico desert where they are targeted by a mysterious killer.

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Reasonable Doubt

Release Date: Tuesday, September 27 on Hulu. Series Overview: Emayatzy Corinealdi plays an attractive and fearless defense attorney named Jax Stewart who has a unique litigation style and approach to the justice system. Produced and directed by Kerry Washington.

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The Patient

Release Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 on FX on Hulu. Movie Overview: Serial killer named Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) seeks the help of a psychotherapist (Steve Carell) with homicidal urges while holding him prisoner.

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American Gigolo

Release Date: Friday, September 9, 2022 on SHOWTIME. Movie Overview: This crime drama series stars Jon Bernthal as Julian Kaye, a male escort whose clients are typically older women. Kaye is accused of a murder which he did not commit. A detective played by Rosie O'Donnell, tries to prove his innocence.

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Five Days at Memorial

Release Date: Friday, August 12, 2022 on AppleTV+. Series Overview: At Memorial Medical Center's intensive care unit in New Orleans, exhausted doctors and nurses struggle with treating patients for five days following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Based on a non-fiction book by journalist Sheri Fink.

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SkyMed

Release Date: Sunday, July 10, 2022 on Paramount+. Series Overview: This drama series follows the nurses and pilots working for an air ambulance service in remote northern Manitoba, Canada.

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High School Musical: The Musical as Season 3

Release Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 in theaters. Series Overview: The musical drama about teenage theater enthusiasts at a fictionalized version of East High School in Salt Lake City, Utah returns for Season 3.

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Beast

Release Date: Friday, August 19, 2022 in theaters. Movie Overview: A father (Idris Elba) returns to South Africa where he and his two teenage daughters, Meredith (Iyana Halley) and Norah (Leah Sava Jeffries), find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has only one apex predator after surviving an attack by ruthless poachers.

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Athena

Release Date: Coming September. Movie Overview: Three siblings have their lives thrown into chaos only hours after the tragic unexplained death of their youngest brother.

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Thirteen Lives

Release Date: Coming Soon in limited theaters July 29 on Prime Video August 5. Movie Overview: Based on a real event known as the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue, a rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a junior football team and their coach are trapped for 18 days in a system of underground caves that are flooding.

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On The Come Up

Release Date: Coming Soon on Paramount Plus. Movie Overview: Bri is a sixteen-year old rapper. Her father was a rapper who died as a result of gang violence but now Bri carries forth his legacy with her own career in rap. When her her true image is altered to increase appeal, Bri begins to struggle with her current situation.

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City on a Hill Season 3

Release Date: Friday, July 29, 2022 on Showtime. Series Overview: Recently retired FBI Agent John "Jackie" Rohr (Kevin Bacon) is now running security for a wealthy family. After an investigation is opened, ADA Decourcy Ward (Aldis Hodge) and Jackie Rohr take on a case that changes Boston's entire criminal justice system.

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The Girl in the Mirror

Release Date: Friday, August 19, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: In this drama horror series, Alma (Mireia Oriol) wakes up in a hospital after surviving a bus accident in which most of her classmates die, but with no memory of the accident or her entire life. Alma struggles to move forward amidst amnesia and night terrors but is assisted by her parents and friends.

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See How They Run

Release Date: Limited Release Friday, September 9, 2022 (possibly Friday, September 30). Movie Overview: In 1950s London, a desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, a puzzling whodunit unfolds with an inspector and rookie constable on the case.

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Amsterdam

Release Date: Friday, November 4, 2022 in Theaters. Movie Overview: In this period drama film, things go from bad to worse for three friends in the 1930s after they witness a murder then become the prime suspects.

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Blonde

Release Date: Friday, September 23, 2022 on Netflix. Movie Overview: The life of Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas) is delivered in a fictional setting based on a best-selling novel by Joyce Carol Oates.

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Pistol

Release Date: On Hulu. Series Overview: A biography about the groundbreaking English punk rock band The Sex Pistols that formed in London in the mid-1970s.

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BEAUTY

Release Date: Wednesday, June 29 on Netflix. Movie Overview: A gifted young Black woman "Beauty" (Gracie Marie Bradley) is offered a lucrative recording contract then struggles with her identity as the people around her become at odds with one another during her ascent to stardom.

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1899

Release Date: Coming soon to Netflix. Series Overview: A group of European immigrants on a steamship depart London for New York City but it becomes a nightmare voyage when they happen upon another ship of immigrants along the way.

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Mike

Release Date: Thursday, August 25, 2022 on Hulu. Series Overview: A limited drama series that explores the life of heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson.

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Don't Make Me Go

Release Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 to Prime Video. Movie Overview: A single father named Max (John Cho) learns he has an inoperable brain tumor then decides to cram all of his love and support for his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) into the brief time he has left with her including a journey to find the mother who abandoned her.

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Flowers in the Attic: The Origin

Release Date: Saturday, July 9, 2022 to Lifetime. Series Overview: In this four-part prequel drama series a determined woman named Olivia Winfield becomes romantically involved with a man but the fairytale life she expected quickly becomes a nightmare.

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Alaska Daily

Release Date: Coming soon to ABC. Series Overview: A disgraced reporter in New York named Eileen Fitzgerald, played by Hilary Swank, starts fresh in far away Anchorage, Alaska when she joins the daily metro newspaper there.

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Laal Singh Chaddha

Release Date: Thursday, August 11, 2022 in theaters. Movie Overview: Laal Singh Chaddha is a Hindi-language remake of the 1994 American film Forrest Gump. It was produced by Viacom18 Studios, Paramount Pictures, and Aamir Khan Productions.

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Intimacy

Release Date: Friday, June 10, 2022 on Netflix. Series Overview: A new drama television series about a rising politician whose future is uncertain when a sexual video is leaked.

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The Good Fight as Season 6

Release Date: September 8, 2022. Series Overview: This sixth and final season of the Paramount+ series The Good Fight. Series premise: When Diane Lockhart's (Christine Baranski) life savings are scammed out of her, she loses her job and must start from scratch with her goddaughter Maia (Rose Leslie). The two find work at Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad, a prestigious law firm in Chicago.

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