Best Drama movies of 1996

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner, Matt Dillon,
Directors : Kevin Spacey,

While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar--only they're not the people the police are searching for.

Actors : Jenifer Lewis, Theresa Randle, Spike Lee, Isaiah Washington,
Directors : Spike Lee,

This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her screen tests with 'QT'. Out of work ...

Actors : Kôji Yakusho, Eri Watanabe, Tamiyo Kusakari, Naoto Takenaka,
Directors : Masayuki Suo,

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

Actors : Amy Braverman, Miranda Rhyne, Anne Heche, Catherine Keener,
Directors : Nicole Holofcener,

Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura, is getting married. She copes with things, from the...

Actors : Bruce Dern, William Sanderson, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.

Actors : Lyle Lovett, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Glenne Headly, Ron Eldard,
Directors : Anjelica Huston,

A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?

Actors : Dana Delany, Anna Paquin, Terry Kinney, Jeff Daniels,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.

Actors : Michael McGlone, Jennifer Aniston, John Mahoney, Edward Burns,
Directors : Edward Burns,

The love lives of two brothers, Mickey and Francis, interconnect as Francis cheats on his wife with Mickey's ex-girlfriend, while Mickey impulsively marries a stranger.

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Martin Donovan,
Directors : Jane Campion,

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Ricki Lake, Shirley MacLaine, Miguel Sandoval,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

Connie Doyle is eighteen and pregnant when her boyfriend kicks her out. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife Patricia who is pregnant. The ...

Actors : Brian Kerwin, Robin Williams, Jennifer Lopez, Diane Lane,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Because of an unusual aging disorder that has aged him four times faster than a normal human being, a boy enters the fifth grade for the first time with the appearance of a 40 year old man.

Actors : Ellen Barkin, John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Tony Scott,

An all star baseball player becomes the unhealthy focus of a down on his luck salesman.

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 : Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Karishma Jhalani, Ramanjeet Kaur,
Directors : Deepa Mehta,

Ashok runs a family business that sells takeout food that also has a video rental store at the side. Ashok's extended family includes his wife Radha, his brother Jatin, their ailing mother ...

Actors : David Morse, Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Directors : Michael Apted,

Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room ...

Actors : Alvin Henry, Melissa Robertson, Spalding Gray, Mike McLaughlin,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

After doctors inform him that an eye affliction will require risky surgery, monologist Spalding Gray recounts his various pursuits for alternative medicine to avoid the doctor's scalpel.

Actors : Ed Harris, Kiefer Sutherland, Sally Field, Olivia Burnette,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.

Actors : Meera Syal, Martin Walsh, Glen Berry, Linda Henry,
Directors : Hettie Macdonald,

In a suburb of London, young Jamie is escaping sport hours, to avoid being the victim of his comrades. Young Ste, his neighbor, is beaten by his father, and comes to sleep overnight. They discover new feelings, sleeping in the same bed.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Lee Tamahori,

In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

Actors : Stockard Channing, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Jon Avnet,

An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in TV journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.