Best Drama movies of 2009

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Henrik Prip, Lars Mikkelsen, Faegh Zamani,
Directors : Kathrine Windfeld,

A Danish journalist is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group that threatens to kill her if Denmark does not withdraw their troops from the country.

Actors : Arjun Mathur, Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz, Violante Placido,
Directors : Raja Menon,

Three impoverished room-mates kidnap middle-classed men and demand small ransoms to improve their respective lifestyles.

Actors : Thilakan, Lalu Alex, Raai Laxmi, Mohanlal,
Directors : Roshan Andrews,

a farmer's family fight against the land maffias

Actors : Dong-wook Kim, Ji-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Dong-il Sung,
Directors : Yong-hwa Kim,

Five men go for the gold as members of Korea's national ski jumping team.

Actors : Amrita Rao, Anil Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Neeraj Vora,

After his script is plagiarized, and he is forced to marry, an unemployed movie writer self-destructs.

Actors : Yi-Ching Lu, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Fanny Ardant, Kang-sheng Lee,
Directors : Ming-liang Tsai,

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.

Actors : Áurea Baptista, Ismael Caneppele, Tuane Eggers, Henrique Larré,
Directors : Esmir Filho,

A Bob Dylan fan who goes by the name Mr. Tambourine passes his time in the Brazilian countryside by looking at photographs and movies on the Internet that seem to feature the same mysterious woman.

Actors : Vladimir Ilin, Aleksey Vertkov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Stychkin,

Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the ...

Actors : Jhong Hilario, Anita Linda, Rustica Carpio, Tanya Gomez,
Directors : Brillante Mendoza,

Two elderly women bear the consequences of a crime involving their respective grandsons. One is the victim, the other is the suspect. Both weak and poor, they laboriously solicit money in ...

Actors : Keith Carradine, Leo Fitzpatrick, Thora Birch, Brendan Sexton III,
Directors : Eric Mandelbaum,

Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.

Actors : Maria Bonnevie, Gunilla Röör, Antti Reini, Benjamin Helstad,
Directors : Margreth Olin,

As the film opens, a doped-up Lea (Maria Bonnevie) makes an extremely bad impression on her baby daughter's foster parents; later, flashbacks reveal her disturbing youth and young adulthood...

Actors : Yasar Akin, Seda Bakan, Zafer Algöz, Mesut Akusta,
Directors : Murat Aslan,

Actors : Rattanaballang Tohssawat, Mai Charoenpura, Atitaya Shindejanichakul, Wiradit Srimalai,
Directors : Tiwa Moeithaisong,

A poverty stricken woman starts a restaurant where she slaughters people and serves up human flesh, cut from her victims.

Actors : Marina Inoue, Tetsuya Kakihara, Katsuyuki Konishi,
Directors : Hiroyuki Imaishi,

Seven years after the defeat of the Spiral King, Simon and the Dai-Gurren brigade must set out to the vastness of space to defeat a new threat and save the universe. The last high-stakes battle for Simon and his team is about to begin.

Actors : Sreenivasan, Jagathi Sreekumar, Dileep, Mamta Mohandas,
Directors : Ranjith Sankar,

When a reporter is framed for murder and her husband is kidnapped as part of a political conspiracy, the only person she can rely on is a common man.

Actors : Vojin Cetkovic, Rie Rasmussen, Nikola Djuricko, Nick Corey,
Directors : Rie Rasmussen,

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in Kosovo, when she was saved from rape by a ...

Actors : Ugur Polat, Ufuk Bayraktar, Serdar Orçin, Begüm Birgören,
Directors : Cemal San,

Ali is a young man whose life passes as a routine between his house and the little shop he owns. But everything changes when she meets Zeynep, a girl who's recently moved to the ...

Actors : Kengo Kôra, Kankurô Nakamura, Ryushin Tei, Yuki Uchida,
Directors : Banmei Takahashi,

'Zen' Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji is a very important religious person during the Kamakura period, 750 years ago. After his mother died, he decides to move to China and settle as a ...

Actors : Ray Wise, Peter Holden, Alesha Rucci, Graham McTavish,
Directors : Jason Connery,

An action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle. With a quick response time to the infected county after a call is...

Actors : Massimiliano Gallo, Michele Riondino, Valentina Lodovini, Libero De Rienzo,
Directors : Marco Risi,

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.