Best Drama movies of 2008

Actors : Fabrice Luchini, Joffrey Platel, Romain Duris, Mélanie Laurent,
Directors : Cédric Klapisch,

Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the ...

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 : Damian Lewis, Seu Jorge, Joseph Fiennes, Brian Cox,
Directors : Rupert Wyatt,

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict fourteen years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's ...

Actors : Gina Pareño, Julio Diaz, Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin,
Directors : Brillante Mendoza,

A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their ...

Actors : Lynn Collins, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Assumpta Serna, Olivia Thirlby,

A young couple, in love and facing a life-changing decision, find one seemingly ordinary July 4th cleaved in two by the flip of a coin on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Actors : Mohammad Amir Naji, Maryam Akbari, Kamran Dehghan, Hamid Aghazi,
Directors : Majid Majidi,

When an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes ...

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué, Alex Descas,
Directors : Claire Denis,

The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man.

Actors : Stuart Townsend, Sarah Chalke, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Mortimer,
Directors : Marcos Siega,

The story of an obsessively organized efficiency expert whose life unravels in unexpected ways when fate forces him to explore the serendipitous nature of love and forgiveness.

Actors : David Morse, Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Andre Braugher,
Directors : Rodrigo García,

A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.

Actors : Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins, Elizabeth Acker, Melissa Bisagni,
Directors : Barry Jenkins,

Twenty-four hours in the tentative relationship of two young San Franciscans also dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying city.

Actors : Sean Astin, Gary Cole, Sean Faris, Penn Badgley,
Directors : Ryan Little,

A rugby player is put up in a juvenile detention center. There he plays for the Highland Rugby team and ultimately plays against his father in the National Championships.

Actors : Will Patton, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Jodie Markell,

Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people and a penchant for shocking and insulting ...

Actors : Jesper Christensen, Maria Heiskanen, Callin Öhrvall, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Jan Troell,

In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.

Actors : Gustaf Skarsgård, Torkel Petersson, Amanda Davin, Tom Ljungman,
Directors : Ella Lemhagen,

A Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is an 18-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a 15-year-old homophobic delinquent.

Actors : Shiloh Fernandez, Noel Fisher, Kyle Gallner, Brian Cox,

A reclusive man sets out for justice and redemption when three troublesome teens kill his dog for no good reason.

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Max Färberböck,

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

Actors : Molly Hagan, Michael Peña, Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins,
Directors : Neil Burger,

The story revolves around three soldiers - Colee, TK and Cheever - who return from the war after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an ...

Actors : Ayumi Itô, Nao Ohmori, Ryo Kase, Ayako Fujitani,

A cinematic triptych of three Tokyo-set stories.

Actors : George Lopez, Manolo Cardona, Drew Barrymore, Piper Perabo,
Directors : Raja Gosnell,

While on vacation in Mexico, Chloe, a ritzy Beverly Hills chihuahua, finds herself lost and in need of assistance in order to get back home.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Rawson Marshall Thurber,

Based on Michael Chabon's novel, the film chronicles the defining summer of a recent college graduate who crosses his gangster father and explores love, sexuality, and the enigmas surrounding his life and his city.