Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Chao Deng, Bingbing Li, Carina Lau, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.

Actors : Eleanor Bron, Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams,
Directors : Thaddeus O'Sullivan,

1930's London. Two sisters - Madeleine and Dinah - One marries Rickie, the other falls in love with him. He begins an affair which is to have repercussions throughout their lives.

Actors : Jacqueline Kim, Eugenia Yuan, Michael Aki, Matt Westmore,
Directors : Eric Byler,

Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young tenant.

Actors : Mark Rendall, Zoe Kazan, Maryann Urbano, Hunter Canning,
Directors : Bradley Rust Gray,

On a summer break from college, a young epileptic woman struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.

Actors : Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay, Brian Cox,
Directors : Michael Cuesta,

A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.

Actors : Timothy Spall, Ruth Sheen, Alison Garland, Lesley Manville,
Directors : Mike Leigh,

In a poor working class London home Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they and their local community are brought together, and they rediscover their love.

Actors : Anne Consigny, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Arnaud Desplechin,

The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.

Actors : Pleuni Touw, Karina Smulders, Anna Drijver, Elise Schaap,
Directors : Ben Sombogaart,

A romantic drama that charts the lives of three women from different backgrounds, forever changed when they emigrate to New Zealand as war brides.

Actors : Michael Kelly, Tess Harper, Adrian Lee, Kip Pardue,
Directors : Tim Kirkman,

Three overlapping stories of estranged families in three regions of North Carolina.

Actors : Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, Jake Weber, Shannon Woodward,
Directors : Mickey Liddell,

A girl with PTSD attempts to refresh her life at a new school, but soon finds it impossible when she's afflicted by not only bullying and bad memories, but also the supernatural.

Actors : Richard Jenkins, Pablo Schreiber, Emile Hirsch, Tom Guiry,
Directors : Michael Burke,

Sensitive, somewhat effeminate farm-boy Duncan Mudge can barely cope with grim, since Ma's death even gloomier father Edgar's manly expectations, and seeks comfort in petting a chicken he ...

Actors : J.K. Simmons, Brittany Snow, Adam Scott, Alex Frost,
Directors : Lee Toland Krieger,

A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.

Actors : Bobote, Antonio Dechent, Orestes Villasan Rodríguez, Antonio Canales,
Directors : Tony Gatlif,

Caco is a proud, handsome man, head of a family, and very powerful in the local community. Yet he has been torn to pieces by the death of his beloved daughter. He constantly visits her ...

Actors : John Malkovich, Emily Blunt, Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks,
Directors : Sean McGinly,

A young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline.

Actors : Maria Schrader, Svea Lohde, Katja Riemann, Jutta Lampe,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

After the death of her father, Hannah becomes concerned with the strange behavior of her mother. As her mother's troubled childhood is revealed, Hannah realizes how little she ever knew.

Actors : Matthew Broderick, Maura Tierney, Brittany Snow, Peter Facinelli,
Directors : Peter Tolan,

A television producer with a penchant for drinking and gambling is sent to Las Vegas to convince his troubled niece to enter rehab.

Actors : Hend El Fahem, Maher Kamoun, Monia Hichri, Hiam Abbass,
Directors : Raja Amari,

After the death of her husband, Lilia's life revolves solely around her teenage daughter, Salma. Whilst looking for Salma late one night, Lilia stumbles upon a belly dance cabaret and ...

Actors : Taraji P. Henson, Morris Chestnut, Maeve Quinlan, Kevin Hart,
Directors : Bill Duke,

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

Actors : Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Ian Holm, Sarah Hyland,
Directors : Stanley Tucci,

Around 1940, The New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character, who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund, and who is writing a...

Actors : Tom Schilling, Jonas Jägermeyr, Devid Striesow, Max Riemelt,
Directors : Dennis Gansel,

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) - high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich ...