Best Drama movies of 2008

Actors : Dana Delany, Bai Ling, Angela Sarafyan, Debi Mazar,
Directors : Alejandro Chomski,

A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.

Actors : Courtney Ford, Steve Sandvoss, Shoshana Bush, Brandon Routh,
Directors : John Stewart Muller,

An attractive young couple's open relationship is stretched to the breaking point when each partner finds themselves falling in love with other people.

Actors : Gick Grewal, Vansh Bhardwaj, Geetika Sharma, Preity Zinta,
Directors : Deepa Mehta,

Chand, a young Punjabi woman, travels to Canada to marry a man she has never met. They live in a crowded suburban house and Chand has to also put up with her husband's abusive behavior.

Actors : Harry Treadaway, Greg Wise, Tom Felton, Alex Jennings,
Directors : Johnny Kevorkian,

Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.

Actors : Namal Jayasinghe, Dharmapriya Dias, Gihan De Chickera, Dharshan Dharmaraj,
Directors : Uberto Pasolini,

The real story of the not-so real Sri Lanka National Handball Team.

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Chloe Bailey, Casey Belville, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Giancarlo Esposito,

A former Sheriff of the southern town dealing with past sins, and a former civil rights worker, withdrawn since the martyrdom of his brother thirty years before, confront a threat to their town.

Actors : Raymond J. Barry, Gino Cabanas, Aaron Brumfield, Ski Carr,
Directors : Craig Sheffer,

The paths of several eccentric and troubled strangers cross one night.

Actors : Odai Qedese, Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Hussein Al-Sous,
Directors : Amin Matalqa,

When an old airport janitor finds a captain's hat in the trash, he gets pulled into the lives of children in his poor neighborhood. He weaves imaginary stories of his world adventures to offer hope in the face of their harsh reality.

Actors : Adel Imam, Mohamed Emam, Omar Sharif, Lebleba,
Directors : Rami Imam,

When the lives of Mahmoud, a Muslim Sheikh (Omar Sharif) and Boulos, a Christian Priest (Adel Imam) are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian government inducts ...

Actors : Slamet Rahardjo, Ikranagara, Cut Mini Theo, Tora Sudiro,
Directors : Riri Riza,

In the 1970s, a group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra.

Actors : Krysten Ritter, Lucy Gordon, Jason Behr, Monet Mazur,
Directors : Steve Clark,

Jack Frost's playboy lifestyle in New York City is rocked by the news that his childhood love is engaged. Amidst his friendships with Scotch Evans, a ribald nightlife correspondent; Ozzy, a...

Actors : Thomas Bo Larsen, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Kristoffer Joner, Emilie K. Beck,
Directors : Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen,

1979 is ending, the 80s are approaching rapidly. Carl and Robert, two slacker best friends who smoke hashish as a way of cheerful living - have been peddling hashish for a decade, hitting ...

Actors : Artur Steranko, Kinga Preis, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Redbad Klynstra,
Directors : Jerzy Skolimowski,

A crematorium worker repeatedly breaks into a woman's house at night to help with housework.

Actors : Akshaye Khanna, Genelia D'Souza, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

Janaradhan Wishvanbhar Rane a widower has spent his life bringing up his two kids Chirag and Gaurav. Janaradhan has done everything for his kids to bring them up in the best possible manner...

Actors : Amrita Arora, Bharti Achrekar, Katrina Kaif, Sharman Joshi,
Directors : Atul Agnihotri,

Hello... is a tale about the events that happen one night at a call center. Told through the views of the protagonist, Shyam, it is a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence ...

Actors : Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Leanne Pammen, Kate Alderman,
Directors : Marc Price,

Our hero Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.

Actors : Steven Yaffee, Jon Cor, Wallace Langham, Rosanna Arquette,
Directors : Michael Melski,

In an average American neighborhood, a family of four breaks all conformity making it difficult for their 18 year old son to fit in to society.

Actors : Prasanna, Ajmal Ameer, Vijayalakshmi, Narain,
Directors : Myshkin,

Two friends become enemies when one, who wants to be a policeman, can't make it but the other gets that job by political influence.

Actors : Don Byron, H. Jon Benjamin, Xander Berkeley, Lily Rabe,
Directors : Emily Hubley,

Mona is nearly overwhelmed by grief and depression. After her father's death, she's cut herself off: leaving teaching - she now temps as an office assistant, ignoring her mother's calls, ...

Actors : Jacqueline Blom, Marco Borsato, Adrian Galley, Andrew Kintu,
Directors : Jean van de Velde,

Child soldiers in Africa are at the fore in this tale of a white restaurant owner in an African town bordering a conflict zone. When his son's African friend Abu is abducted, he sets out to...