Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Jena Malone, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, 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 : Missy Peregrym, Vanessa Lengies, Nikki SooHoo, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Jessica Bendinger,

After a run-in with the law, Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is forced to return to the world from which she fled some years ago. Enrolled in an elite gymnastics program run by the legendary Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges), Haley's rebellious attitude gives way to something that just might be called team spirit.

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Emilio Echevarría, Jason Patric,
Directors : John Lee Hancock,

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Kathryn Morris, Dakota Goyo, Josh Hartnett,
Directors : Rod Lurie,

Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.

Actors : Julian McMahon, Shyann McClure, Amber Valletta, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Mennan Yapo,

Depressed housewife learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the next day after to a world in which he is still dead.

Actors : Stephanie Bishop, Eric Cantona, Gerard Kearns, Steve Evets,
Directors : Ken Loach,

Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.

Actors : Santiago Douglas, Jaime Tirelli, Paul Calderon, Michelle Rodriguez,
Directors : Karyn Kusama,

Diana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.

Actors : Peter Mygind, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Thure Lindhardt,
Directors : Ole Christian Madsen,

A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

Actors : Colin Farrell, Shirley Henderson, Cillian Murphy, Kelly Macdonald,
Directors : John Crowley,

A variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence.

Actors : John Hurt, Maury Chaykin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver,
Directors : Richard Kwietniowski,

A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

Actors : Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Timothy Olyphant,
Directors : Xavier Gens,

A gun-for-hire known only as Agent 47 hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' is ensnared in a political conspiracy, which finds him pursued by both Interpol and the Russian military as he treks across Russia and Eastern Europe.

Actors : Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Thomas Morrison, Hayley Atwell,
Directors : Julian Jarrold,

A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.

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 : Red West, Souleymane Sy Savane, Diana Franco Galindo, Lane 'Roc' Williams,
Directors : Ramin Bahrani,

Two men form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives forever.

Actors : Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote, Shane West, Daryl Hannah,
Directors : Adam Shankman,

The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service.

Actors : Phyllis Somerville, Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Curtis Hanson,

A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

Actors : Armand Schultz, Emily Watson, Dina Korzun, Paul Giamatti,
Directors : Sophie Barthes,

Paul is an actor who feels bogged down by his participation in a production of Chekov's play, Vanya.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Tim Robbins, Togo Igawa,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.

Actors : Michelle Trachtenberg, Trevor Blumas, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Tim Fywell,

With the help of her coach, her mom, and the boy who drives the Zamboni machine, nothing can stop Casey (Trachtenberg) from realizing her dream to be a champion figure skater.

Actors : Alessandro Nivola, Helen Mirren, Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe,
Directors : Pieter Jan Brugge,

As an executive is held captive by an employee, it's up to his wife to deliver the ransom.