Best Drama movies of 2002

Actors : Frances Fisher, David Strathairn, Agnes Bruckner, Margaret Colin,
Directors : Karen Moncrieff,

A troubled young woman is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest.

Actors : Robin Tunney, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

An introspective dentist's suspicions about his wife's infidelity stresses his mental well being and family life to the breaking point.

Actors : Ice Cube, John Witherspoon, Mike Epps, Don 'D.C.' Curry,
Directors : Marcus Raboy,

Craig and Day Day have finally moved out of their parents houses and into their own crib. The cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas...

Actors : Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Yasiin Bey, Nicole Ari Parker,
Directors : Rick Famuyiwa,

Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.

Actors : Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.

Actors : Annie Morgan, J.D. Walsh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kathy Bates,
Directors : Todd Louiso,

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, a web designer turns to gasoline fumes and remote-control airplanes while avoiding an inevitable conflict with his mother-in-law.

Actors : Parker Posey, John Ventimiglia, Kyra Sedgwick, Fairuza Balk,
Directors : Rebecca Miller,

Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

Actors : Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Eric Tsang, Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung,

A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.

Actors : Kate Burton, Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen, Shiri Appleby,
Directors : John Polson,

A high school senior with a promising swimming career has a one-night stand with consequences.

Actors : Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino, Valeria Golino,
Directors : Emanuele Crialese,

On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.

Actors : Imran Paracha, Hiddayatullah, Jamal Udin Torabi, Enayatullah,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

In February 2002 in the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, there are 53,000 refugees living in sub-human conditions since 1979 with the Soviet Union ...

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

Actors : Al Pacino, Téa Leoni, Ryan O'Neal, Kim Basinger,
Directors : Daniel Algrant,

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

Actors : Chloë Sevigny, Charles Berling, Connie Nielsen, Gina Gershon,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.

Actors : Hank Harris, Christina Ricci, Brenda Blethyn, Dominique Swain,

A sorority girl finds her life falling apart after she develops romantic feelings for a mentally-challenged man.

Actors : Katie Holmes, Zooey Deschanel, Charlie Hunnam, Benjamin Bratt,
Directors : Stephen Gaghan,

A senior at an elite college, already under severe pressure to complete her thesis and land a prestigious job, must confront the sudden reappearance of her old boyfriend, after his two-year...

Actors : Brendan Fraser, Michael Caine, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

An older British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Actors : Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Assi Cohen, Aya Steinovitz,
Directors : Eytan Fox,

Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border.

Actors : Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Laura Monaghan, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a journey across the Outback.

Actors : Jeremy Renner, Artel Great, Matt Newton, Bruce Davison,
Directors : David Jacobson,

Biopic about notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present.