Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Lulu Pecorari, Mauro Pirovano, Ingrid de Souza, Cesare Bocci,
Directors : Henrique Goldman,

Fernando, a.k.a. Fernanda, a 19-year-old Brazilian transgender woman, travels to Milan and becomes a prostitute to finance sex-change surgery. Fernanda dreams of becoming a "real" woman, ...

Actors : Janet McTeer, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin, Gregory Russell Cook,
Directors : Maggie Greenwald,

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in ...

Actors : Lee Grant, Mae Whitman, Victoria Foyt, Rob Morrow,
Directors : Henry Jaglom,

A clothing designer tries to save her struggling boutique store by having a tumultuous weekend sale of her shop's inventory by playing on the addictions of shopping for the women of Beverly Hills.

Actors : Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice, Colin Salmon, Lee Evans,
Directors : John Simpson,

After being accused of a triple-murder, a man films his every moment of his to provide an alibi. Things takes a worst turn when a detective suspects him and the tapes goes missing which can prove his innocence.

Actors : Clovis Cornillac, Marie Bunel, Gérard Depardieu, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.

Actors : Frances Fisher, Dermot Mulroney, Jessica Chastain, Rupert Friend,
Directors : Dan Ireland,

A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak. Based on E.L. Doctorow's story, "Jolene: A Life."

Actors : Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Amparo Noguera, Alfredo Castro,
Directors : Pablo Larraín,

In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.

Actors : Daniela Farinacci, Justine Clarke, Mary Kostakidis, Robbie Hoad,
Directors : Sarah Watt,

During one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news, this in turn brings them together.

Actors : Bruce MacVittie, Chris Bachand, Scott Allegrucci, John Hawkes,
Directors : Chris Ordal,

In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan's Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork ...

Actors : Catherine Keener, Perla Haney-Jardine, Willa Holland, Colin Firth,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genova changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.

Actors : Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Andrei Kudriashov,
Directors : Ilya Khrzhanovskiy,

Meat merchant Oleg, prostitute Marina, and piano tuner "simply Volodya" drop into an all-night bar in Moscow, where they are served by a narcoleptic bartender (three plus one is four) while...

Actors : Julia Blake, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Kristine Van Pellicom, Kenny Aernouts,
Directors : Paul Cox,

After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers. Widowed musician Andreas decides to get back in touch with ...

Actors : William Sanderson, Gary Farmer, Charlie McDermott, Kris Kristofferson,
Directors : Jay Craven,

Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a ...

Actors : Faudel, Eric Savin, Nathalie Besançon, Audrey Tautou,
Directors : Laurent Firode,

How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet ?

Actors : Brenda Blethyn, Peter Mullan, Billy Boyd, Sean McGinley,
Directors : Gaby Dellal,

Frank determines to salvage his self-esteem and tackle his demons by attempting the ultimate test of endurance - swimming the English Channel.

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Billy Roche, Aidan Quinn, Ciarán Hinds,
Directors : Conor McPherson,

In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.

Actors : Dragos Bucur, Ioana Flora, Luminita Gheorghiu, Alexandru Papadopol,
Directors : Cristi Puiu,

A newbie agrees to deliver the wrong merchandise for money. He will learn soon that this trip will change his views about life, forever.

Actors : Geoff Pierson, Bryce Johnson, Melinda Page Hamilton, Brian Posehn,
Directors : Bobcat Goldthwait,

A recently engaged woman's life is thrown into turmoil after confessing to her fiancé that she once experimented with bestiality.

Actors : Anne Consigny, André Marcon, Françoise Fabian, Yvan Attal,
Directors : Lucas Belvaux,

A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.

Actors : Jennifer Ulrich, Frederick Lau, Jürgen Vogel, Max Riemelt,
Directors : Dennis Gansel,

A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.