Best Drama movies of 2006

Actors : Jane Adams, David Strathairn, Daniel Gillies, Ian Somerhalder,
Directors : Aaron J. Wiederspahn,

This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as ...

Actors : Aleksandr Yatsenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Renata Litvinova, Dmitriy Dyuzhev,
Directors : Aleksey Balabanov,

Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She'll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up...

Actors : Lizzy Caplan, D.J. Cotrona, Jenny Wade, John Patrick Amedori,
Directors : Elliott Lester,

A love triangle among recent high school graduates proves deadly.

Actors : Will Oldham, Katy Haywood, Ken Byrnes, Sheila Scullin,
Directors : Todd Rohal,

A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends ...

Actors : Jowita Budnik, Arkadiusz Janiczek, Ewa Wencel, Dawid Gudejko,

A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.

Actors : Frederick Koehler, Johnathon Schaech, Tamara Braun, Jeremy Davidson,
Directors : Bethany Ashton Wolf,

Deep in the bayou sits a floating town called Little Chenier. It is here that Beaux and his mentally challenged brother, Pemon, run a bait-and-tackle shop. Pemon is accused of a crime, and Beaux chooses to protect his brother at all costs.

Actors : Nils Jørgen Kaalstad, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Edward Schultheiss, Henrik Mestad,
Directors : Erik Richter Strand,

Trouble starts when Lars, a 25-year-old with few prospects for the future, discovers that an older man is fooling around with the teenage boys in his suburb. A terrible rage is triggered in...

Actors : Chris Tashima, Allison Sie, Munda Razooki, Sab Shimono,
Directors : Eric Byler,

Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial ...

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Gabriel Byrne, Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones,
Directors : Sean Stanek,

An examination of the malevolent London underworld with its despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight-year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.

Actors : Gedeon Burkhard, Lale Yavas, Lena Beyerling, Sibel Kekilli,

A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.

Actors : Etsushi Toyokawa, Ko Shibasaki, Mao Daichi, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi,
Directors : Shinji Higuchi,

Japan will sink down to the deep sea. The governments only hope is evacuate all Japanese to some other countries.

Actors : Kwok Cheung Tsang, Chapman To, Isabella Leong, Josie Ho,
Directors : Ho-Cheung Pang,

A Macao police officer's bachelor life is interrupted by the daughter he never knew he fathered.

Actors : Sean Durrie, Jed Reynolds, Chris Giuffria, Rudy Nunez,
Directors : Darryl Abbinante,

Four childhood friends, living in northeast Los Angeles during the early 90's, discover the meaning of friendship while experiencing the comedic ups and turbulent downs of their impoverished lives.

Actors : Sara Møller Olsen, Julie R. Ølgaard, Stephanie Leon, Laura Christensen,
Directors : Christian E. Christiansen,

Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille, a tight-knit gang of girlfriends, she slacks her schoolwork, living mostly for the weekends ...

Actors : Yuanyuan Ning, Chen Manyuan, Zhao Rui, Bowen Dong,
Directors : Yuan Zhang,

A young boy starting school for the first time struggles to fit in to a strictly regimented society in in post-revolutionary China.

Actors : Moa Gammel, Catherine Hansson, Anastasios Soulis, Michael Nyqvist,
Directors : Johan Brisinger,

The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.

Actors : Antonio Ortiz, Rosie Perez, Mark Webber, Brendan Sexton III,
Directors : Morgan J. Freeman,

A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.

Actors : Vanda Duarte, Ventura, Beatriz Duarte, Gustavo Sumpta,
Directors : Pedro Costa,

After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and ...

Actors : David Strathairn, Leelee Sobieski, Anthony Mackie, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Terry Green,

Two young woman accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South.

Actors : Masako Motai, Asaka Seto, Ryo Kase, Kôji Yamamoto,
Directors : Masayuki Suo,

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.