Best Drama movies of 2009

Actors : Meera Nandan, Bala, Prithviraj Sukumaran, Priyamani,
Directors : Deepan,

A simple college student suffering from a mild psychological disorder finds himself against a family of criminals.

Actors : Kate Heppell, Richard Riddell, Luke Treadaway, Sammy T. Dobson,
Directors : Simon Ellis,

An aspiring journalist drops his inhibitions to research the UK's outdoor sex scene. He meets a certain girl in a car park, and the totally unexpected happens.

Actors : Ailton Graça, Tony Ramos, Dan Stulbach, Daniel Filho,
Directors : Daniel Filho,

Segismundo (Tony Ramos) is a former political police officer of Getúlio Vargas' government, who used to torture prisoners. In April 1945, he is the chief of the Immigration Office in Rio de...

Actors : Piotr Jagielski, Bogdan Koca, Filip Garbacz, Dorota Wierzbicka-Matarelli,
Directors : Robert Glinski,

Tomek is 14 and a good student. He's interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, ...

Actors : Daniel Frederiksen, Danielle Catanzariti, Natalie Imbruglia, Deborah Kennedy,
Directors : James Bogle,

Tells the story of a woman's journey to overcome the events of the past and to find a way to move on. It is a story of dark secrets and the power of and celebration of letting go.

Actors : Richard Portnow, Kelly Overton, Chris Diamantopoulos, Christian Stolte,
Directors : Joe Otting,

Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against them.

Actors : Denise Weinberg, Lee Taylor, Eucir de Souza, Andrea Beltrão,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

The widow piano teacher Lúcia and her unemployed teenage son Rafa move to a poor neighborhood in the periphery of São Paulo after the bankrupting of her pension plan. Rafa a.k.a. Pilot ...

Actors : Victor Augusto da Silva, Marco Antonio, Teuda Bara, Ju Colombo,
Directors : Luiz Villaça,

O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, ...

Actors : Simon Yam, Ariel Hiu-Man Chan, Audrey Hiu-Yau Chan, Jingchu Zhang,
Directors : Ann Hui,

Starts at the end of the story, with the brutal murder by a man of his wife and daughters. Hui gradually unmasks the idyll of the peaceful family and that of Hong Kong as the promised land for gold seekers.

Actors : Forth Richards, Benji Crisnis, Theo Montgomery, Womack Daryl,

An edgy drama about a gay teen's tumultuous decent into drugs and anonymous sex, Wrecked smashes cinematic taboos while it spins its cautionary tale. Ryan is an earnest 18-year-old trying ...

Actors : Pam Ferris, Ben Miller, Ian Hart, Emily Watson,
Directors : Marleen Gorris,

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

Actors : Tibor Gáspár, Gyözö Szabó, Lehel Kovács, Zsolt Huszár,
Directors : Péter Szajki,

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Iva Krajnc, Nebojsa Dugalic, Radivoje Bukvic,
Directors : Srdjan Karanovic,

At the very beginning of the World War I, Filip, a Serb and the principal of a gymnasium in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently to Belgrade to serve in the war effort. He has no one ...

Actors : Kelly Adams, Gregor Bador, Frank Braun, Marco Böhme,
Directors : Thomas Jahn,

An old boxing coach helps a young ex-con and teaches him how to box and try to become a professional.

Actors : Jae-Joong Kim, Hyo-ju Han,
Directors : Hyung-min Lee,

Jaejoon, isn't your ordinary postman, he delivers letters to Heaven from those missing their loved ones.

Actors : Daniel, Vanessa Giácomo, José de Abreu, João Pedro Carvalho,
Directors : Jeremias Moreira Filho,

1950s. At the village of Rio Bonito, cowboy Diogo leads a horde of oxen to the Ouro Fino Ranch. When passing by the Remanso Farm, he meets Rodrigo, a boy who dreams of becoming a cowboy. ...

Actors : Jimmy McKinney, Matt Krentz, Adrieanne Perez, Eric Fletcher,
Directors : Matt Krentz,

Streetballers is for basketball, what Field of Dreams was for baseball. Defining street basketball as America's new favorite pastime, it is a story driven by passion, faith, and achieving ...

Actors : Shigeru Muroi, Masatô Ibu, Tadanobu Asano, Takako Matsu,
Directors : Kichitaro Negishi,

This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 ...

Actors : Dylan Duffus, Orhan Whyte, Yohance Watson, Duncan Tobias,
Directors : Penny Woolcock,

1 Day follows 24 hours in the life of Flash, an inner-city hustler who's day steadily gets worse when he finds out local gang leader Angel is being released from prison and wants his £500k he left with him for safekeeping.

Actors : Aashish Chaudhary, Javed Jaffrey, Shreyas Talpade, Vatsal Seth,
Directors : Paritosh Painter,

Four friends' attempts to find employment and accommodation pits them against landlords and gangsters in Bangkok.