Best Drama movies of 1990s

Actors : Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T,
Directors : Mario Van Peebles,

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

Actors : Tom Everett Scott, Renée Zellweger, Meryl Streep, William Hurt,
Directors : Carl Franklin,

A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

Actors : Reeve Carney, Max von Sydow, Yûki Kudô, Ethan Hawke,
Directors : Scott Hicks,

A Japanese-American fisherman is accused of killing his neighbor at sea. In the 1950s, race figures into the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

Actors : Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Actors : George Dzundza, Courtney B. Vance, Robin Bartlett, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : John N. Smith,

An ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.

Actors : Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, George Clooney,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Actors : Jennifer Aniston, Kali Rocha, Paul Rudd, Lena Cardwell,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.

Actors : Amy Smart, Tommy Bone, Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Michael Corrente,

After one too many run ins with the law, a punk teenager from a working class background is sent to prep school by his frustrated dad, and learns a thing or two.

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood,
Directors : Victor Nunez,

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.

Actors : Kyra Sedgwick, John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Jon Turteltaub,

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

Actors : Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Moritz Bleibtreu, Franka Potente,
Directors : Tom Tykwer,

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

Actors : Ric Young, Yun-Fat Chow, Paul Ben-Victor, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : James Foley,

With the aid from a New York City policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things get complicated when the Triads try to bribe the policeman.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Alex McArthur, Cary Elwes, Ashley Judd,
Directors : Gary Fleder,

Police hunting for a serial kidnapper are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time.

Actors : Amy Brenneman, Nastassja Kinski, Ben Stiller, Aaron Eckhart,
Directors : Neil LaBute,

Unhappy couples fall apart and hop into other beds with other people.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Saffron Burrows, Paul Bettany,
Directors : Paul McGuigan,

Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, John Cusack,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

Actors : Chris Eigeman, Taylor Nichols, Carolyn Farina, Edward Clements,
Directors : Whit Stillman,

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.