Best Drama movies of 2008

Actors : Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill,
Directors : Philippe Claudel,

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Actors : Robert Pattinson, Javier Beltrán, Marina Gatell, Matthew McNulty,
Directors : Paul Morrison,

About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.

Actors : Masahiro Motoki, Ryôko Hirosue, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Yôjirô Takita,

A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

Actors : Debra Messing, Freddy Rodríguez, John Leguizamo, Alfred Molina,
Directors : Alfredo Rodriguez de Villa,

A Puerto Rican family living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago face what may be their last Christmas together.

Actors : Anne Archer, Stephen Dorff, Marisol Nichols, Vincent Miller,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

Actors : Emily Watson, Willem Dafoe, Carrie-Anne Moss, Ryan Reynolds,
Directors : Dennis Lee,

The Taylor family is devastated by an accident that takes place on the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college -- decades after leaving to raise her children.

Actors : Jason Ritter, Marianna Palka, Eric Edelstein, Mark Webber,
Directors : Marianna Palka,

A look at the relationship between a lonely introverted girl and a young video store clerk vying for her attention.

Actors : Anthony LaPaglia, Barry Otto, Geoffrey Rush, Samuel Johnson,
Directors : Tatia Rosenthal,

A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Sydney apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.

Actors : Jason Isaacs, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whittaker, Viggo Mortensen,
Directors : Vicente Amorim,

The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.

Actors : Anna Bonaiuto, Flavio Bucci, Giulio Bosetti, Toni Servillo,
Directors : Paolo Sorrentino,

The story of Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, who has served as Prime Minister of Italy seven times since the restoration of democracy in 1946.

Actors : Emory Cohen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jeremy Allen White, Ezra Miller,
Directors : Antonio Campos,

An Internet-addicted prep-school student captures on video camera the drug overdose of two girls.

Actors : Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal, Yavuz Bingol,
Directors : Nuri Bilge Ceylan,

A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships.

Actors : Ice Cube, Tasha Smith, Keke Palmer, Jill Marie Jones,
Directors : Fred Durst,

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

Actors : You, Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, Kazuya Takahashi,
Directors : Hirokazu Koreeda,

A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

Actors : Jacob Vargas, Metztli Adamina, Leonor Varela, Luis Fernando Peña,
Directors : Alex Rivera,

The near future. Like tomorrow. In a world marked by closed borders, corporate warriors, and a global computer network, three strangers risk their lives to connect, break through the barriers of technology, and unseal their fates.

Actors : Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Zac Efron,
Directors : Kenny Ortega,

As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their experiences, hopes and fears about their future.

Actors : Amparo Noguera, Alfredo Castro, Héctor Morales, Paola Lattus,
Directors : Pablo Larraín,

A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from Saturday Night Fever (1977).

Actors : Jeffrey Zekele, Ronnie Nyakale, Shelley Meskin, Rapulana Seiphemo,
Directors : Ralph Ziman,

A young hoodlum's rise from a small-time criminal to a powerful crime entrepreneur during the turbulent years before and after the fall of apartheid.

Actors : Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper, Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Isabel Coixet,

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Actors : Billy Connolly, David Duchovny, Amanda Peet, Gillian Anderson,
Directors : Chris Carter,

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.