Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Richard Jenkins, Pablo Schreiber, Tom Guiry, Emile Hirsch,
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 : Neve Campbell, William H. Macy, John Ritter, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Henry Bromell,

Alex, a hit man, tries to get out of the family business, but his father won't let him do so. While seeking the help of a therapist, he meets a sexually charged 23-year-old woman with whom he falls in love.

Actors : Usher Raymond, Chazz Palminteri, Robert Costanzo, Emmanuelle Chriqui,
Directors : Ron Underwood,

A successful DJ manages to rescue a powerful mobster one night. In order to repay him, the mobster gives him the task of protecting his daughter.

Actors : Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca, Samantha Knigge,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...

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 : Luisa Williams, Josh Philip Weinstein, Gareth Saxe, Nyambi Nyambi,
Directors : Julia Loktev,

A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she ...

Actors : Jay Klaitz, Daniel Yelsky, Brooke Smith, Jenna Fischer,
Directors : Michael J. Weithorn,

A woman gets entangled in a series of bizarre lies in order to take care of herself and her 12 year old son.

Actors : Missy Higgins, Rocky McKenzie, Jessica Mauboy, Ernie Dingo,
Directors : Rachel Perkins,

In the Summer of 1969 a young man is filled with the life of the idyllic old pearling port Broome - fishing, hanging out with his mates and his girl. However his mother returns him to the ...

Actors : Ieroklis Michaelidis, Georges Corraface, Tamer Karadagli, Renia Louizidou,
Directors : Tassos Boulmetis,

"A Touch of Spice" is a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather, a culinary philosopher and mentor,teaches him that both food and life require a ...

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 : Michael Buscemi, Steve Buscemi, Tara Elders, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Steve Buscemi,

After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

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 : Gilbert Melki, Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Isabelle Renauld,
Directors : François Dupeyron,

In Paris, a Turkish shop owner befriends a Jewish boy in his mid-teens.

Actors : Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Sarah Hyland, Ian Holm,
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 : Parviz Parastui, Mohammad Amir Naji, Roya Taymourian, Afarin Obeisi,
Directors : Majid Majidi,

Youssef, a blind university professor, is suddenly diagnosed with a fatal disease and must undergo treatment in France. Back home, will he find the life he had before?

Actors : Rob Brown, Clancy Brown, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Gary Fleder,

A drama based on the life of college football hero Ernie Davis, the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.

Actors : Ryan Robbins, Caroline Dhavernas, Adrien Brody, Adrian G. Griffiths,
Directors : Michael Greenspan,

A man trapped in a car wreck at the bottom of a ravine must overcome incredible odds to survive.

Actors : David Gallagher, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Angarano, Evan Rachel Wood,
Directors : Blair Treu,

Emily Lindstrom, 14, is an aspiring concert violinist; she's spending the summer practicing for a big audition while her girlfriends are at camp. She's also got a thriving neighborhood ...

Actors : Freddie Highmore, Oanh Nguyen, Guy Pearce, Jean-Claude Dreyfus,
Directors : Jean-Jacques Annaud,

Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Virginia Madsen, Billy Bob Thornton, Max Thieriot,
Directors : Michael Polish,

A NASA astronaut (Thornton), forced to retire years earlier so he could save his family farm, has never given up his dream of space travel and looks to build his own rocket, despite the government's threats to stop him.