Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Peter Gerety, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini, Christopher Plummer,

The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.

Actors : Laura Smet, Benoît Magimel, Aurore Clément, Bernard Le Coq,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Actors : Wood Harris, Mekhi Phifer, Kevin Carroll, Chi McBride,
Directors : Charles Stone III,

A young man from Harlem, forced to cope with the 1980s drug scene, builds an illegal empire, only to have a crisis of conscience.

Actors : János Derzsi, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Lars Rudolph,

An innocent young man witnesses violence breaks out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions, a giant whale and a mysterious man named "The Prince".

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Claudia Coli, Thierry Hancisse, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Patrice Chéreau,

The marriage between Gabrielle and Jean begins to fray after the discovery of a letter that belongs to Gabrielle.

Actors : Louis Gossett Jr., Tracee Ellis Ross, Idris Elba, Gabrielle Union,
Directors : Tyler Perry,

A mechanic (Elba) enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney (Union) while trying to wrest custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boy friend...

Actors : Katie Holmes, Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves,
Directors : Sam Raimi,

A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Actors : Malik Zidi, Anna Levine, Ludivine Sagnier, Bernard Giraudeau,
Directors : François Ozon,

In 1970s Germany, a 50-year-old businessman falls in love with a 20-year-old man.

Actors : Diane Kruger, Natalie Dessay, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet,
Directors : Christian Carion,

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.

Actors : Ellen Page, Zie Souwand, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Ari Cohen,
Directors : Bruce McDonald,

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog.

Actors : Craig T. Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Anne Fletcher,

A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.

Actors : Alice Butaud, Romain Duris, Joana Preiss, Louis Garrel,
Directors : Christophe Honoré,

Anna has just left Paul who, annihilated by the separation, moves back with his father in Paris. His younger brother Jonathan, a casual student, still lives in his father's apartment and ...

Actors : Jeremy Davies, Jimmy Smits, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.

Actors : Amber Tamblyn, Vincent Piazza, Tilda Swinton, Timothy Hutton,
Directors : Hilary Brougher,

Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

Actors : Daryl Hannah, Mary Steenburgen, Lili Taylor, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : John Sayles,

Six American women who planned on travelling to South America to adopt babies are forced, by law, to live there.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Steve Valentine, Colin Firth, Jim Carrey,
Directors : Robert Zemeckis,

An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Yvan Attal, Sergi López, Bernard Blancan,
Directors : Catherine Corsini,

Suzanne is a well married mother, but her bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist by building an office in their backyard. Then Suzanne falls in love with the man hired to build the office.

Actors : Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won,
Directors : Je-kyu Kang,

A drama about the fate of brothers forced to fight in the Korean War.

Actors : Sebastian Koch, Heino Ferch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Nicolette Krebitz,
Directors : Roland Suso Richter,

Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Harry Melchior was a champion East German swimmer at odds with the system under which he has already been imprisoned. ...