Best Drama movies of 1990s

Actors : Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis Bouffartigue, Eliane Annie Adalto,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.

Actors : Otto Grünmandl, Lukas Miko, Anne Bennent, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.

Actors : Lara Flynn Boyle, Dennis Hopper, Nicolas Cage, Craig Reay,
Directors : John Dahl,

Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter is mistaken for a hitman, but when the real hitman arrives, complications ensue.

Actors : Randee Allen, Julianne Moore, Roy Scheider, Noah Wyle,
Directors : Bart Freundlich,

An ambitious debut for writer/director Bart Freundlich charting the unrest with a family who gather together for thanks giving.

Actors : Luke Aikman, Bea Guard, Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell,
Directors : David Evans,

A sports fan's romantic courtship clashes with his obsession with his favorite football team.

Actors : Eamon Glancy, Ian McElhinney, Danny Dyer, Shawn Hatosy,
Directors : Peter Sheridan,

Irish writer and political activist Brendan Behan, is befriended as a teenager in a British labor camp by a liberal warden.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Ciaran Owens, Marion O'Dwyer, Niall O'Shea,
Directors : Anjelica Huston,

The unexpected death of her husband sends a woman and her seven children, ages 2-14, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis in 1967 Dublin. She is forced to borrow money from a ...

Actors : Amy Irving, Antônio Fagundes, Alexandre Borges, Débora Bloch,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

Rio lawyer Pedro Paulo is recently separated from his travel agent wife Tania. His office has taken on an energetic new intern, Sharon. Pedro Paulo is working on a divorce case - his own ...

Actors : Robin Wright, Lynn Redgrave, Suzi Hofrichter, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Michael Kalesniko,

Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility...

Actors : Livio Badurina, Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth,
Directors : Tom Stoppard,

Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Erich Anderson, Ewan McGregor, Anais Evans,
Directors : Ole Bornedal,

A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.

Actors : Keeley Hawes, David Tennant, Tom Hickey, Michael Gambon,
Directors : Deborah Warner,

In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew, and married house guests, who are trying...

Actors : Charles Durning, Peter Falk, Denis Leary, Robert Forster,
Directors : Joe Mantegna,

Film adaptation of David Mamet's comic play Lakeboat about a grad student who takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter and sees life through the eyes of his low-brow crew members.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Maximilian Schell, Calista Flockhart, Brad Renfro,
Directors : Guy Ferland,

Karchy (Brad Renfro) is a boy in school who has moved from Hungary to America in the 1960s. He is struggling in school and trying to adjust to America's culture. He then hears about a radio...

Actors : Griffin Dunne, Laura Kirk, Nat DeWolf, Daniel London,
Directors : Griffin Dunne,

A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an...

Actors : Nigel Hawthorne, Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Stephen Rea, Alan Boyle, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens,
Directors : Neil Jordan,

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie ...

Actors : James Frain, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Natalie Portman,
Directors : Matt Williams,

A pregnant 17-year-old rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.

Actors : Keith David, Freddy Rodríguez, Larenz Tate, Chris Tucker,

A Vietnam vet adjusts to life after the war while trying to support his family, but the chance of a better life may involve crime and bloodshed.

Actors : Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Stacy Hart, Charlotte Brittain,
Directors : Simon Shore,

A tenderly romantic coming-of-age story as two boys in a British school fall in love.