Best Drama movies of 1990s

Actors : Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?

Actors : Uma Thurman, Julian Glover, Gérard Depardieu, Tim Roth,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the ...

Actors : Damian Jewan Lee, Donald Holden, Curtis Cotton III, Candace Evanofski,
Directors : David Gordon Green,

A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.

Actors : Sophie Guillemin, Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner,
Directors : Dominik Moll,

Harry knew Michel in high school; they meet again by accident, Harry inserts himself in Michel's life... and things take a sinister turn.

Actors : Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui,
Directors : Agnès Jaoui,

Three men, three women, opposites, possibilities, and tastes. Castella owns a industrial steel barrel plant in Rouen; Bruno is his flute-playing driver, Franck is his temporary bodyguard ...

Actors : Ben Kingsley, Harvey Keitel, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

The story of how Bugsy Siegel started Las Vegas.

Actors : Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

Actors : Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

After her humiliated husband kills himself, an embittered pregnant widow loses her child, and embarks on a mission of vengeance against a woman and her family.

Actors : Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont,
Directors : Terence Davies,

The Long Day Closes is the story of eleven-year-old "Bud." A sad and lonely boy, Bud struggles through his days. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local movie-house. ...

Actors : Maggie Cheung, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.

Actors : Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Vincent Cassel, Abdel Ahmed Ghili,
Directors : Mathieu Kassovitz,

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

Actors : Carme Elias, Rossy de Palma, Juan Echanove, Marisa Paredes,
Directors : Pedro Almodóvar,

Leo Macias writes sentimental novels with great success but hidden under a pseudonym, Amanda Gris. She is unhappy with her professional life and with her husband, a soldier working in ...

Actors : Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin, Amanda Langlet, Melvil Poupaud,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in ...

Actors : Valarie Walker, Lisa Marie Bronson, Guinevere Turner, Cheryl Dunye,
Directors : Cheryl Dunye,

Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who...

Actors : Rolf Hoppe, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Woody Harrelson,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

Actors : Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric, Alexis Loret, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : André Téchiné,

At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They ...

Actors : Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot, Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva,
Directors : Leos Carax,

A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister and he begin an unusual relationship with her prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée

Actors : Hao Zheng, Ziyi Zhang, Yulian Zhao, Honglei Sun,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Actors : Antonio Dechent, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, María Galiana, Ana Fernández,
Directors : Benito Zambrano,

Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and moves to the city. She finds a job as a cleaner and tries to survive in a wretched apartment in ...

Actors : Romane Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Miles Anderson,
Directors : Kristian Levring,

When a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."