Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Itsuji Itao, Joe Odagiri, Doona Bae, Arata Iura,
Directors : Hirokazu Koreeda,

A life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Adam Herschman, Bernie Mac, Sharon Leal,
Directors : Malcolm D. Lee,

Though it's been some twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.

Actors : Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Le Khanh, Quang Hai Ngo, Nhu Quynh Nguyen,
Directors : Tran Anh Hung,

With the brilliant Vietnamese summer as a setting Vertical Ray of the Sun is beautiful from beginning to end. The plot centres around three sisters, two of whom are happily married (or so ...

Actors : Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano,
Directors : Carlos Reygadas,

A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.

Actors : Wilford Brimley, Carrie Morgan, Richard Dutcher, Matthew A. Brown,
Directors : Richard Dutcher,

The sheriff of a small Utah community searches for a serial killer.

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

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

Actors : Biana Tamimi, Richard Romanus, Patrick Elyas, Gérard Rudolf,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A young girl befriends a wild black stallion.

Actors : Emmanuelle Béart, Wladimir Yordanoff, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Anne Fontaine,

Nathalie is the name a Parisian prostitute assumes for a special mission or "private investigation." She is engaged in this unusual and secretive task by a professional, upper-middle-class ...

Actors : Denis Leary, Jim Gaffigan, Hope Davis, J.C. MacKenzie,
Directors : Campbell Scott,

Bill wakes up from a coma in a hospital ward, raving about tissue regeneration experiments, final injections, organ transplants and having been cryogenically frozen. Battling flashbacks of ...

Actors : Malcolm Stumpf, Patrick White, Max Paradise, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Cam Archer,

A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his newfound sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.

Actors : Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small ...

Actors : Adam Scott, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Landau,
Directors : Nicholas Fackler,

A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

Actors : Antoine Chappey, John Malkovich, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. ...

Actors : Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan Tucker, Val Kilmer, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Reverge Anselmo,

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...

Actors : Aidan Gould, Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo,
Directors : Erick Zonca,

A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Janeane Garofalo, Kevin Pollak, Vincent D'Onofrio,
Directors : Robert Greenwald,

Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment ...

Actors : Atsuko Okatsuka, Rintaro Sawamoto, Cory Zacharia, Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez,
Directors : Mike Ott,

A powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese woman lost in the U.S., 'Littlerock' is an affectingly authentic portrait of the bitter-sweet pain of ...

Actors : Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi,

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

Actors : Fernando Ramallo, Jordi Vilches, Marieta Orozco, Esther Nubiola,
Directors : Cesc Gay,

A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.

Actors : Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, George Ibrahim, Amer Daher,
Directors : Elia Suleiman,

Separated by a checkpoint, Palestinian lovers from Jerusalem and Ramallah arrange clandestine meetings.