Best Drama movies of 2001

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Mark Strong, Robert Carlyle, Ciarán McMenamin,
Directors : David L. Cunningham,

A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately ...

Actors : Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

Benoit Jacquot reinvents the way we view opera in this magnificent production of Puccini's story of Tosca's love for the painter Cavaradossi and the intervention of Scarpia.

Actors : James Curry, Linda Noveroske, Dan Plumlee, Aubrey Ankrum,

Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a ...

Actors : Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir, Heino Ferch, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Ugla Egilsdóttir,
Directors : Ágúst Guðmundsson,

Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or ...

Actors : Erika Alexander, Melissa De Sousa, Tracy Morgan, Paula Jai Parker,
Directors : Vanessa Middleton,

A group of friends each face an emotional crisis as they approach thirty years of age.

Actors : John Shrapnel, Antonio Banderas, Derek Jacobi, Olivia Williams,
Directors : Jonas McCord,

A crucified body dated back to the 1st century A.D is uncovered at an ancient cave in Jerusalem. Trouble ensues as word spreads.

Actors : David Wenham, Hugo Weaving, Natalia Novikova, Rebecca Frith,
Directors : Stavros Kazantzidis,

Harvey, a self-doubting private investigator, plans to marry his girlfriend until he is hired to solve an adultery case and discovers the adulterer is cheating with his fiancée. Lost and ...

Actors : Seiichi Tanabe, Reiko Kataoka, Kazuya Takahashi, Yôko Akino,
Directors : Ryosuke Hashiguchi,

Basics: 2 guys who are gay, one female who is lonely for someone to love. The woman approaches 1 of the guys and wants him to seed her would be child... See full synopsis »

Actors : Sotigui Kouyaté, Fatoumata Diawara, Habib Dembélé, Hamadoun Kassogué,
Directors : Dani Kouyaté,

Every year the most beautiful girl will be sacrificed to the Python God. But what really happens is that all the priests rape her, and then murder her, so that she cannot tell that the ...

Actors : Djeïnaba Diop Gaï, Magaye Niang, Stephanie Biddle, Thierno Ndiaye Doss,
Directors : Joseph Gaï Ramaka,

Like every Carmen, Karmen Geï is about the conflict between infinite desire for freedom and the laws, conventions, languages, the human limitations which constrain that desire.

Actors : Malgorzata Foremniak, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski,
Directors : Mamoru Oshii,

In a future world, young people are increasingly becoming addicted to an illegal (and potentially deadly) battle simulation game called Avalon. When Ash, a star player, hears of rumors that...

Actors : Hongshen Jia, Xiuling Chai, Fengsen Jia, Tong Wang,
Directors : Yang Zhang,

An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.

Actors : Ryo Ishibashi, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô, Masatoshi Nagase,
Directors : Sion Sono,

A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.

Actors : Maury Chaykin, Glenne Headly, David Paymer, Crispin Glover,
Directors : Jonathan Parker,

A clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only gets worse each passing minute.

Actors : John Seitz, Kim Martin, Zachary Mott, Scott Baio,
Directors : Melissa Martin,

A man proposes to a woman he's met once, all in the same day.

Actors : Romany Malco, Paul Rudd, Benjamin Tessier, Sylvie Testud,
Directors : Jesse Peretz,

Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.

Actors : Susan Haskell, Jesus Nebot, Chelsea Rendon, Vernee Watson,

Mexican English teacher Pablo Fernandez seeks a better life for himself and his spoiled daughter Christina (5) after losing his wife in a hurricane. Pablo becomes a tomato picker as illegal...

Actors : Anne Brochet, Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham, Adrian Lester,
Directors : Milcho Manchevski,

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. A burglar is held at gunpoint and forced to listen to a story. At the turn of the 20th Century, two brothers feud over a woman. She ...

Actors : Sacha Bulthuis, Fedja van Huêt, Carice van Houten, Theo Maassen,
Directors : Martin Koolhoven,

A photographer returns to his parental home because his mother is seriously ill. The confrontation with his past leads to panic in a surreal, stylised psychological drama.

Actors : Oren Rehany, Tchelet Semel, Saul Stein, Albert Iluz,
Directors : Eitan Gorlin,

A coming-of-age saga set against the tense backdrop of Arab-Israeli politics. Mendy is a young Rabbinical student whose mind is too full of curiosity about the world that exists outside the...