Best Drama movies of 2008

Actors : Léora Barbara, Karole Rocher, Mélissa Rodriguès, Laëtitia Guerard,
Directors : Sylvie Verheyde,

Paris, 1977. Eleven year old Stella knows poker better than grammar when she starts the year at a prestigious new school. There, she discovers the possibilities of a whole new world outside her parents' bar.

Actors : Alvaro Caleca, Angelica Leo, Filippo Timi, Elio Germano,
Directors : Gabriele Salvatores,

A dark drama centered on a 14-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad, who are both outcasts in their suburban town.

Actors : Scott Beaudin, Lucian Maisel, David Gibson McLean, Jesse Camacho,

A summer camp comedy...about the horrors of being ten.

Actors : Marloes van der Wel, Robin Martens, Roos Smit, Marius Gottlieb,
Directors : Dave Schram,

Distraught is a Dutch film from 2008 by Dave Schram at the scenario of Mary Peters among others Marius Gottlieb, Marloes van der Wel, Renée Soutendijk, Monic Hendrickx and Victor Löw. The ...

Actors : Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Hong, Honglei Sun,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.

Actors : Nehir Erdogan, Jay Karnes, Aysenil Samlioglu, Patrick Muldoon,
Directors : Aclan Bates,

A young foreign girl comes to LA to learn English but learns instead that life in the States is not what she saw on TV and film. She finds herself being dragged into a world not only ...

Actors : Frank Zieger, Omid Abtahi, Ron Canada, Heather McComb,
Directors : Sarab Neelam,

As a Sikh man with a full beard and turban, AMRIT SINGH is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant ...

Actors : Josef Bierbichler, Corinna Harfouch, Karoline Herfurth, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Caroline Link,

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.

Actors : Maria Bonnevie, Anders W. Berthelsen, Ghita Nørby, Henning Jensen,
Directors : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen,

In this political thriller, a young woman is found drowned on a winter night by the sea. The dead woman's brother, Thomas, discovers that her death is connected to their father, now ...

Actors : August Diehl, Jessica Schwarz, Iris Berben, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Heinrich Breloer,

In the 1840s, Lübeck is a dominating commercial town on the Baltic coast, and the Buddenbrooks are among the town's first families. Consul Jean Buddenbrook has two sons, Thomas and ...

Actors : Fumiko Orikasa, Masakazu Morita, Hiroshi Kamiya, Aya Hirano,
Directors : Noriyuki Abe,

An explosion happens in the middle of Seireitei, and Rukia has a memory loss. Then Urahara tries to seek the background of the events.

Actors : Pihla Viitala, Eemeli Louhimies, Eero Aho, Samuel Vauramo,
Directors : Aku Louhimies,

There is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.

Actors : Ismail Hacioglu, Mehmet Ali Nuroglu, Volga Sorgu, Ertan Saban,
Directors : Aydin Bulut,

A guy returns home from military service in the terror-stricken Southeast only to find his younger brother murdered and disposed of in a dumpster. He discovers more than he's bargained for as he tries to find the killer.

Actors : Mammootty, Jayaram, Suresh Gopi, Mohanlal,
Directors : Joshi,

Devaraja Prathapa Varma, underworld don and rich businessman, wants payback for his brother's murderers.

Actors : Sophie Hilbrand, Waldemar Torenstra, Johan Leysen, Jeroen Willems,
Directors : Monique van de Ven,

14 months after loosing his partner while making a UNICEF documentary in Afghanistan, Dutch photographer Bob Griffioen's benefactor Federico Federici has landed him a National Geographic ...

Actors : Sarah Shahi, Bonnie Somerville, Zachary Levi, Fran Kranz,
Directors : Jaffar Mahmood,

Ray's half Pakistani and half white. When his parents' marriage dissolves, Ray's perspective of Ms. Right falls deeply into question.

Actors : Il-hwa Choi, Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-woo Ha, Ju-bong Gi,
Directors : Yoon-ki Lee,

Jobless, single and in her early thirties, Hee-soo is miserable. Desperate, she sets out to find her ex-boyfriend, Byoung-woon, who owes her $3,500. Rather inconveniently, it turns out that...

Actors : Jonas Inde, Benny Haag, Amanda Davin, Peter Gardiner,
Directors : Måns Herngren,

A bunch of aging athletes decide to form the first Swedish all male synchronized swimming team.

Actors : Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Syed Fazal Hussain, Hassan Niazi,
Directors : Mehreen Jabbar,

A 7 year old Pakistani boy and his father belonging to the untouchable Hindu caste accidentally cross the border and spend years in an Indian jail while the mother on the other side doesn't know what has happened to them.

Actors : Javier Cámara, Roger Príncep, Maribel Verdú, Raúl Arévalo,
Directors : José Luis Cuerda,

Ourense, Spain, 1940. Every time that Elena locks the door, she locks her secrets. Her husband Ricardo spend years hidden in his house with his children (Elenita and Lorenzo), trying to ...