Best Drama movies of 2009

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm,
Directors : Lars von Trier,

A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Actors : Momo Dione, Derek Luke, Anthony Mackie, Jamal Woolard,
Directors : George Tillman Jr.,

The life and death story of Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.

Actors : Yoav Donat, Michael Moshonov, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen,
Directors : Samuel Maoz,

During the First Lebanon War in 1982, a lone tank and a paratroopers platoon are dispatched to search a hostile town.

Actors : Lars Eidinger, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Nicole Marischka, Birgit Minichmayr,
Directors : Maren Ade,

While on a Mediterranean vacation, a seemingly happy boyfriend and girlfriend find their connection to one another tested as they bond with another couple.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Mia Wasikowska, Ray McKinnon, Walton Goggins,
Directors : Scott Teems,

An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.

Actors : Elia Suleiman, Ali Suliman, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Saleh Bakri,
Directors : Elia Suleiman,

An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

Actors : Anne Consigny, Daniel Brühl, Ulrich Tukur, Steve Buscemi,
Directors : Florian Gallenberger,

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Actors : Dahong Ni, Ni Yan, Xiao Shen-Yang, Honglei Sun,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.

Actors : Ye Liu, Hideo Nakaizumi, Yuanyuan Gao, Wei Fan,
Directors : Chuan Lu,

In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

Actors : Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne,
Directors : Max Mayer,

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

Actors : Soraya Omar-Scego, Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh, Awa Saïd Darar, Roun Daher Aïnan,
Directors : Sherry Hormann,

The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN ...

Actors : Edward Norton, Henry Max Nelson, Lucy DeVito, Keri Russell,
Directors : Tim Blake Nelson,

An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.

Actors : Robin Hill, Robert Hill, Julia Deakin, David Schaal,
Directors : Ben Wheatley,

A crime family looks to unmask the police informant in their midst who threatens to take down their business.

Actors : Sami Bouajila, Sotigui Kouyaté, Brenda Blethyn, Roschdy Zem,
Directors : Rachid Bouchareb,

Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.

Actors : Julie Sokolowski, Karl Sarafidis, Yassine Salime, David Dewaele,
Directors : Bruno Dumont,

The aspirant nun Céline vel Hadewijch is invited to leave the convent where she studies and she returns to the house of her mother in Paris. Céline meets her outcast Muslim teenage friend ...

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Francis Renaud, Sandrine Bonnaire, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Caroline Bottaro,

Middle-aged chambermaid Hélène's newfound obsession with the game of chess leads her to seek the tutelage of a reclusive American expat, transforming both of their ho-hum lives in the ...

Actors : Sasha Grey, Chris Santos, Philip Eytan, Colby Trane,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A drama set in the days leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, and centered on a high-end Manhattan call girl meeting the challenges of her boyfriend, her clients, and her work.

Actors : Kristen Bell, Sam Huntington, Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel,
Directors : Kyle Newman,

Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release.

Actors : Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Kirk Jones,

A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.