Best Drama movies of 2001

Actors : Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Actors : Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Anna Paquin, Joaquin Phoenix,
Directors : Gregor Jordan,

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Actors : Matthew McConaughey, Alan Arkin, David Connolly, John Turturro,
Directors : Jill Sprecher,

In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

Actors : Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk,
Directors : Zacharias Kunuk,

The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.

Actors : Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sean Penn,
Directors : Jessie Nelson,

A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Actors : Hayden Christensen, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jena Malone, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Irwin Winkler,

When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

An update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with a young cast, set in an upper class prep school, & centered around basketball player Odin.

Actors : Vince Vaughn, Famke Janssen, Joe Goossen, Jon Favreau,
Directors : Jon Favreau,

Two aspiring boxers, lifelong friends, get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Actors : Brittany Murphy, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Sean Bean, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Gary Fleder,

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret...

Actors : Catherine Keener, Brenda Blethyn, Troy Ruptash, Emily Mortimer,
Directors : Nicole Holofcener,

Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.

Actors : Kelsey Grammer, Edward Burns, Robert De Niro, Avery Brooks,
Directors : John Herzfeld,

A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.

Actors : Bijou Phillips, Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Rachel Miner,
Directors : Larry Clark,

A pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanor has proved too much.

Actors : Steve Zahn, Brittany Murphy, Adam Garcia, Drew Barrymore,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of 15 in 1965, and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.

Actors : Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Martin Landau, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Frank Darabont,

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

Actors : John Hurt, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : John Madden,

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancé falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Actors : Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Ike Ogut, Sadou Teymouri,
Directors : Mohsen Makhmalbaf,

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Angelina Jolie, Thomas Jane, Jack Thompson,
Directors : Michael Cristofer,

A woman along with her lover, plan to con a rich man by marrying him and on earning his trust running away with all his money. Everything goes as planned until she actually begins to fall in love with him.

Actors : Jeremy Sisto, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Caviezel, Terrence Howard,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

A mysterious man is drawn to a feisty female police officer and a unusual relationship ensues, as not everything is as it seems.

Actors : Kirsten Dunst, Eddie Izzard, Edward Herrmann, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.