Best Drama movies of 2005

Actors : Doona Bae, Yû Kashii, Shiori Sekine, Aki Maeda,
Directors : Nobuhiro Yamashita,

A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.

Actors : Ken Nakamoto, Kiichi Nakai, Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a famous folk-opera star.

Actors : Cicely Tyson, Jeff Daniels, AnnaSophia Robb, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

Actors : Nona Gaye, Clifton Powell, Idris Elba, Boris Kodjoe,
Directors : Rob Hardy,

This is a story about a successful young R&B singer that has an unlikely homecoming when his father, the bishop, becomes ill.

Actors : Emmanuelle Devos, Vincent Lindon, Mathieu Amalric, Hippolyte Girardot,
Directors : Emmanuel Carrère,

Marc is sitting in his bath one morning and asks his wife, "how would you feel if I shaved off my mustache?" She doesn't think it's a great idea, for the 15 years they've been married, ...

Actors : Kaori Momoi, Issei Ogata, Shirô Sano, Robert Dawson,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Molokh (1999) and Telets (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.

Actors : Simon Armstrong, Timothy Spall, Eddie Marsan, Juliet Stevenson,
Directors : Adrian Shergold,

The life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.

Actors : Nicholas Tse, Hiroyuki Sanada, Cecilia Cheung, Dong-gun Jang,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

Actors : LL Cool J, Mekhi Phifer, Ray Liotta, Jolene Blalock,
Directors : Wayne Beach,

A district attorney is involved in a 24-hour showdown with a gang leader and is, at the same time, being manipulated by an attractive assistant district attorney and a cryptic stranger.

Actors : Christian von Aster, Waltraud Witte, André Hennicke, Norman Reedus,
Directors : Christian Alvart,

Long wanted serial killer Gabriel Engel gets arrested in a spectacular police strike. Small town cop Michael Martens travels to the big city to interrogate him. He associates a brutal ...

Actors : Daisy Ang, Bill Buell, Dick Cavett, Rachel Covey,
Directors : Matt Mulhern,

A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Mabel Adams, Shawn Ashmore, Lucy Liu,
Directors : Thom Fitzgerald,

A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor (Ashmore) schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun (Sevigny) makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative (Liu) posing as a goverment-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety.

Actors : Nikolay Spiridonov, Nikolay Reutov, Yuriy Itskov, Mariya Kuznetsova,
Directors : Andrey Kravchuk,

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.

Actors : Colm Feore, Robert Loggia, Selma Blair, Christian Slater,
Directors : Harvey Kahn,

A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.

Actors : Diane Venora, Michael Bowen, Monty Lapica, Greg Germann,
Directors : Monty Lapica,

A pill-popping mom has her drug-abusing teen son abducted into a private intervention facility that means well.

Actors : Inés Sastre, Andy Garcia, Bill Murray, Alfredo Armenteros,
Directors : Andy Garcia,

In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent night-club owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the ...

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Tom Allen, John Malkovich, Jim Davidson,
Directors : Brian W. Cook,

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.

Actors : Clotilde Hesme, Julien Lucas, Eric Rulliat, Louis Garrel,
Directors : Philippe Garrel,

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail...

Actors : Ashley Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Gregory Smith, David Moscow,
Directors : Rick Rosenthal,

In the shadow of a family loss, the youngest son develops interest in an attractive high school classmate, paying little mind of her athletic boyfriend or of his own female best friend.

Actors : Abdellatif Kechiche, Robin Wright, Aasif Mandvi, Élodie Bouchez,
Directors : Jeff Stanzler,

Against the anxieties and fears of post-9/11 America, an Arab cab driver picks up a troubled professional woman with unexpected results.