Best Drama movies of 1990s

Actors : Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jack Nicholson,
Directors : James L. Brooks,

A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.

Actors : Julian Sands, Elisabeth Shue, Richard Lewis, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Actors : Anthony Michael Hall, Johnny Depp, Dianne Wiest, Winona Ryder,
Directors : Tim Burton,

A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Costner, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

Actors : Anne Heche, Dustin Hoffman, Denis Leary, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.

Actors : Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby,
Directors : Mike Newell,

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger, Chris Rock,
Directors : Neil LaBute,

Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan couldn't save Kennedy, but he's determined not to let a clever assassin take out this president.

Actors : Tom McCamus, Sarah Polley, Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks,
Directors : Atom Egoyan,

A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.

Actors : Al Pacino, Alan Arkin, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : James Foley,

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Pam Grier,
Directors : Quentin Tarantino,

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life.

Actors : Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Robert Knott, Molly Regan,
Directors : Ed Harris,

A film about the life and career of the American painter, Jackson Pollock.

Actors : Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Jennifer Lien,
Directors : Tony Kaye,

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

Actors : Kelly Lee, Elaine Jin, Issei Ogata, Nien-Jen Wu,
Directors : Edward Yang,

Each member of a middle class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.

Actors : Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Selma Blair,
Directors : Roger Kumble,

Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term.

Actors : Courtney Love, Edward Norton, Woody Harrelson, Brett Harrelson,
Directors : Milos Forman,

A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, Johnny Depp, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Landau,
Directors : Tim Burton,

Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite his lack of support.

Actors : Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Ben Stiller,
Directors : Edward Norton,

Two friends, a priest and a rabbi, fall in love with the same woman they knew in their youth, but the religious position of both men denies them romance.

Actors : Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst, Denzel Washington, Will Patton,
Directors : Boaz Yakin,

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michael Higgins, Rebecca Pidgeon, William H. Macy,
Directors : David Mamet,

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.