Best Drama movies of 2008

Actors : Bat 'Batman' Baxter, Alex Billig, Wayne Chin, Jerry Damons,
Directors : Josh Safdie,

A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.

Actors : Mikkel Gaup, Aslat Mahtte Gaup, Nils Peder Gaup, Anni-Kristiina Juuso,
Directors : Nils Gaup,

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

Actors : Hugo Arana, Leandro Stivelman, Antonella Costa, Mónica Galán,
Directors : Eliseo Subiela,

Coming of age. In Buenos Aires, Eloy is on the verge of manhood. He studies physics, helps with the family headstone business, and does advertising - handing out flyers while walking on ...

Actors : Danielle Catanzariti, Cassandra Jinman, Talia Monaghan, Yen Yen Stender,
Directors : Cathy Randall,

A coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl trying to fit into both a posh private school and an ordinary public school.

Actors : María del Carmen Jiménez, Emilse Roldán, Roberto Rovira, Antonio Larreta,
Directors : Carlos Sorin,

While bed-ridden Antonio awaits a visit from his long-lost son, the alluring view of Patagonia from his window leads him to escape for one last stroll. Argentina. Spanish w/English ...

Actors : Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Ryûji Akiyama, Yoshihiko Hosoda, Rosa Katô,
Directors : Toshio Lee,

Soichi Negishi moved to Tokyo to chase his dream of becoming a musician playing stylish, Swedish-style pop. Instead, he finds himself leading the death metal band Detroit Metal City, or DMC...

Actors : Simon Miller, Justin Tensen, Rob Harmon, Jane Elliott,
Directors : Casper Andreas,

A modern gay drama about falling in and out of love, and the rocky road in between.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Abhishek Bachchan, Jayshree Arora, Veer Arya,
Directors : Goldie Behl,

A young man learns he is the latest in line of a dynasty of ancestral warriors dedicated to guarding a mystic source of cosmic energy, and the time has come for him to take the role.

Actors : Andrey Panin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Leonid Bichevin, Svetlana Pismichenko,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

A drama that chronicles the civil war that raged after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.

Actors : Yann Collette, Nathalie Besançon, Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydès,
Directors : Jean-Paul Lilienfeld,

Skirt Day is a fascinating psychological study, a socio-critical investigation - and Isabelle Adhani's first film in five years

Actors : Melih Selcuk, Saadet Aksoy, Riza Akin, Basak Köklükaya,
Directors : Semih Kaplanoglu,

Yusuff has a hard time defining his adulthood. In one hand, there are his mother's expectations while on the other hand his passions.

Actors : Ko Shibasaki, Masaharu Fukuyama, Kazuki Kitamura, Yasuko Matsuyuki,
Directors : Hiroshi Nishitani,

It's another battle of the wits for the brilliant but eccentric physicist, Yukawa, and detective, Kaoru.

Actors : Paul Sloan, Michael Biehn, Tom Berenger, Stana Katic,
Directors : Nick Vallelonga,

The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count.

Actors : Jayne Eastwood, Lucy Filippone, Randy Quaid, Jay Baruchel,
Directors : Randall Cole,

A gripping thriller about a hit man who gives a down-and-out compulsive gambler just one last hour to live.

Actors : Erdal Besikçioglu, Banu Fotocan, Levent Yilmaz, Elit Iscan,
Directors : Reha Erdem,

Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that ...

Actors : Dan Payne, Thea Gill, Derek Baynham, Charlie David,
Directors : Chip Hale,

Two college friends take a journey home. One of them makes a mistake that may tear a family apart. Sometimes there are no second chances, sometimes there are no mulligans.

Actors : Katarina Radivojevic, Stefan Kapicic, Sonja Kolacaric, Nenad Jezdic,
Directors : Uros Stojanovic,

Story of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. ...

Actors : Danny Trejo, George Katt, Caroline Macey, Heather Trzyna,
Directors : Jon Rosten,

West Los Angeles - home of the young, rich and hip. It is also home to twenty-five year old Zachary "Zeus" Andrews. Transplanted from Chicago as a kid, Zeus never fit into the hip LA ...

Actors : Tommi Korpela, Niilo Syväoja, Kristiina Halttu, Kati Outinen,
Directors : Dome Karukoski,

Juhani, 14 years old and tormented by a childhood trauma, has changed several foster parents from the age of eight. He is taken to an island, where there is a boys' home, run by a strict ...

Actors : Jared Padalecki, Aaron Ashmore, Peter O'Toole, Marcia Gay Harden,
Directors : Michael Campus,

A look at the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.