Best Drama movies of 2001

Actors : Siriyakorn Pukkavesh, Black Phomtong, Somlek Sakdikul, Supakorn Kitsuwon,
Directors : Pen-Ek Ratanaruang,

Phaen is a suburban young man with a great love for music. He never misses a chance to show off his voice at temple fairs in his village. It is at one of the fairs that he meets and falls ...

Actors : Myung-min Kim, Lee Gang-Yeop, Jin-young Jang, Ju-bong Gi,
Directors : Jong-chan Yun,

A 30 year old mystery resurfaces and takes over the lives of the people living in an eerie apartment complex.

Actors : Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar, Kerry Condon,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

This drama is set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney ('Colm Meany') sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty - the most powerful man in town, who ...

Actors : Martín Adjemián, Adrián Witzke, Rita Cortese, Julieta Díaz,
Directors : Paula Hernández,

Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable ...

Actors : Eleni Kastani, Akilas Karazisis, Amalia Moutoussi, Emilios Chilakis,
Directors : Constantine Giannaris,

Three couples flee Athens for the summer, and their journeys change their lives forever.

Actors : Sylvie Drapeau, Luc Picard, Frédéric Gilles, Pierre Rivard,
Directors : Pierre Falardeau,

French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.

Actors : Jennifer Esposito, Alyson Hannigan, Steve Harris, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Gigi Gaston,

Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Marcus Thomas, Pete Postlethwaite, Daryl Hannah,
Directors : Xavier Koller,

Two brothers, One is a bull rider, the other a rodeo bullfighter/stock contractor, clash over the love of barrel racer Celia Jones, while each comes into their own in their respective field in the rodeo world.

Actors : Sanna Hietala, Antti Ikkala, Jyri Ojansivu, Antti Mikkola,
Directors : Jarmo Lampela,

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck ...

Actors : Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Patricio Contreras,
Directors : Eduardo Mignogna,

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - ...

Actors : Lauri Nurkse, Tommi Mujunen, Elena Leeve, Tarja Heinula,
Directors : Simo Halinen,

C (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle ...

Actors : Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Brandon Quintin Adams, Bad Azz, Tami Roman,
Directors : Billy Wirth,

The story follows one of many homeless crack addicts living and trying to survive in MacArthur Park. Unbeknownst to perhaps even himself, a man rediscovers why and how he ended up so broken...

Actors : Stepan Nercessian, Reginaldo Faria, Marcos Caruso, Petronio Gontijo,
Directors : André Klotzel,

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.

Actors : Yûki Amami, Eugene Harada, Shiho Fujimura, Atsuro Watabe,
Directors : Masato Harada,

Akira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.

Actors : Meher Afroz Shaon, Mahfuz Ahmed, Riaz, Masud Ali Khan,
Directors : Humayun Ahmed,

The story is centered around a middle class family and their middle class daily life issues, with one exception of inclusion of a mysterious man (Raiz) who does not know where he has come ...

Actors : Tetsu Sawaki, Seiichi Tanabe, Aoi Miyazaki, Ryo Amamiya,
Directors : Akihiko Shiota,

Following the divorce, the attempted suicide of her mother and the rumors underage sex with the teacher, a girl drops out the school in an attempt to find herself.

Actors : Silvio Orlando, Sandra Ceccarelli, Luigi Lo Cascio, Barbara Valente,
Directors : Giuseppe Piccioni,

Antonio is a lonely man who works as a driver of luxury cars. Outside of his work, he spends his time reading science fiction novels, and, especially by night, driving through the streets ...

Actors : Lisa Ray, Apoorva Agnihotri, Divya Dutta, Sucheta Paushe,
Directors : Vikram Bhatt,

Shekar Saxena is arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Priti Saxena. Shekar strongly contends that he is innocent, and that the murder was committed by someone else. His lawyer,...

Actors : Etienne Chicot, Benoît Poelvoorde, Yvon Back, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Christian Merret-Palmair,

A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.

Actors : Rachel Hayward, Tygh Runyan, Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff, Tom Berenger,
Directors : George Mihalka,

A brother and sister move to a sleepy Oregon town and are befriended by a stranger with a magnetic personality on a summer sabbatical.