Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Adam Rodriguez, Tyler Perry,
Directors : Tyler Perry,

When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only ...

Actors : Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Christopher Simpson, Naeema Begum,
Directors : Sarah Gavron,

A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneen, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat ...

Actors : Greg Kirsch, Renee Patrick, Molly Graham, William Willmott,
Directors : Kevin Willmott,

Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.

Actors : Billy Crawford, Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter, Billy Bob Thornton,
Directors : Ed Solomon,

The film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to ...

Actors : Heath Ledger, Jason Isaacs, Mel Gibson, Joely Richardson,
Directors : Roland Emmerich,

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.

Actors : Leonardo Alonso, Karla Cecilia Alvarado, Marco Antonio Aguirre, Paulina Gaitan,
Directors : Cary Fukunaga,

A Honduran young girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the American border.

Actors : Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Sarah Adler,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Divided into three "kingdoms" -- Enfer (Hell), Purgatoire (Purgatory) and Paradis (Paradise) -- Notre Musique is an indictment of modern times.

Actors : Fernanda Montenegro, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge, Fernanda Torres,
Directors : Andrucha Waddington,

A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

Actors : Justine Waddell, Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Kim Uylenbroek,
Directors : Tarsem Singh,

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances.

Actors : Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon, Jean-Marc Thibault, Aure Atika,
Directors : Stéphane Brizé,

Jean, his loving wife and son live a simple, happy life. At his son's homeroom teacher Madamoiselle Chambon's request, he volunteers as substitute teacher and starts to fall for her ...

Actors : Ice Cube, Loretta Devine, Tracy Morgan, Katt Williams,
Directors : David E. Talbert,

Durell Washington and LeeJohn Jackson are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When Durell learns that his ex-girlfriend plans to move to another state with their son Durell Jr.--...

Actors : Piera Degli Esposti, Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Kseniya Rappoport,
Directors : Giuseppe Tornatore,

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

Actors : Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jeong-ho Choi,
Directors : Ki-duk Kim,

A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days.

Actors : Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément,
Directors : Xavier Dolan,

A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.

Actors : Will Adamsdale, Adeel Akhtar, Arsher Ali, Riz Ahmed,
Directors : Christopher Morris,

Four incompetent British jihadists set out to train for and commit an act of terror.

Actors : Aisling Loftus, Emily Watson, Lorraine Ashbourne, Stuart Wolfenden,
Directors : Jim Loach,

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

Actors : Bill Haugland, Nelson Landrieu, Ivonne Coll, Billy Crudup,
Directors : Keith Gordon,

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

Actors : Rosa Maria Sardà, Laia Marull, Candela Peña, Luis Tosar,
Directors : Icíar Bollaín,

One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...

Actors : Shawn Parr, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, Tyrese Gibson,
Directors : Vondie Curtis-Hall,

An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.