Best Drama movies of 1990s

Actors : Saundra McClain, Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Margaret Welsh,
Directors : James Ivory,

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

Actors : Robin Gammell, Sandra Oh, Don McKellar, Roberta Maxwell,
Directors : Don McKellar,

A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Courtney Chase, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Walken,
Directors : John Badham,

An unimpressive, every-day man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Ed Bernard, Don Alder,
Directors : Duwayne Dunham,

Three pets escape from a California ranch to find their owners in San Francisco.

Actors : Sheryl Lee Ralph, Timothy Hutton, Clotilde Courau, Kevin Pollak,
Directors : Rod Lurie,

The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Hugh Grant, Peter Coyote,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Daryl Hannah, Matthew Modine, Maxwell Caulfield,
Directors : Tom DiCillo,

Joe and Mary have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an actor, who has no agent and no thesping credits, but whose ambitions are very high. He works as a waiter at a ...

Actors : Anne Heche, Vince Vaughn, David Conrad, Joaquin Phoenix,
Directors : Joseph Ruben,

Two friends must choose whether to help a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia for drug possession.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Pauline Collins, Frances McDormand, Glenn Close,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.

Actors : Peter McDonald, Anne Pitoniak, Kate Burton, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Myles Connell,

A struggling auto mechanic with a criminal past agrees to one last heist to pay off his debts.

Actors : Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový, Veronika Zilková,
Directors : Jan Svankmajer,

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than a ...

Actors : Cameron Diaz, Delroy Lindo, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Steven Baigelman,

An ex-convict and his bumbling crook brother fight for the same woman.

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Marianne Denicourt, Jeanne Balibar, Daniel Auteuil,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

Actors : Tom Hulce, Rosie Perez, Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

Actors : António Assunção, Meryl Streep, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jeremy Irons,
Directors : Bille August,

A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.

Actors : Terrence Gillespie, Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova, Philippe Clay,
Directors : Veit Helmer,

In a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and ...

Actors : Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Ossie Davis, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

Actors : Reese Witherspoon, Alessandro Nivola, Josh Brolin, Gene Wolande,
Directors : Mike Barker,

A seemingly simple plan to steal money goes increasingly awry.

Actors : Alex Scott, Jacqueline McKenzie, Daniel Pollock, Russell Crowe,
Directors : Geoffrey Wright,

A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.

Actors : Maria Schrader, Heike Makatsch, Juliane Köhler, Johanna Wokalek,
Directors : Max Färberböck,

In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.