Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Ayse Altay, Tülin Özen,
Directors : Semih Kaplanoglu,

The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.

Actors : Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Thomas Jane, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Stephen Hopkins,

A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. This will only take ten minutes, they say, but it turns out to be one ...

Actors : Taegu Andy Kang, Bokja Kim, Gina Kim, Jiseon Kim,
Directors : So Yong Kim,

A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.

Actors : Emily Grace, Judith Ivey, Bill Raymond, Jane Lincoln Taylor,
Directors : A. Dean Bell,

A young woman looking to escape her life is rescued on the highway by a friendly couple in an RV. But as the miles pass the couple's motives come into question and a strange mother/daughter relationship evolves.

Actors : Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jim Gaffigan, Olympia Dukakis,
Directors : Danny Leiner,

The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.

Actors : Anne Hathaway, Christopher Gorham, Joe Folau, Nathaniel Lees,
Directors : Mitch Davis,

John Groberg, a farm kid from Idaho Falls, crosses an ocean to become a missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan islands during the 1950s.

Actors : Pilou Asbæk, Dulfi Al-Jabouri, Roland Møller, Jacob Gredsted,

The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward...

Actors : Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton, Dan Mailley,
Directors : Sebastian Gutierrez,

A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly disparate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, etc. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.

Actors : Chris Messina, Summer Bishil, Peter Macdissi, Aaron Eckhart,
Directors : Alan Ball,

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.

Actors : Sabrina Lloyd, Bruno Campos, Rueben Grundy, John Livingston,
Directors : Mark Decena,

A San Franciscan computer programmer falls in love with a schoolteacher in the days after the dot.com boom.

Actors : Wes Bentley, Gavin Rossdale, Jay Rodan, Gerard Butler,
Directors : David Anspaugh,

Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 U.S. soccer team, who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no U.S. team has ever won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.

Actors : Viktor Bychkov, Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Mikhail Korobochkin,
Directors : Aleksandr Rogozhkin,

The beauty of this movie is that you, as the reader of the subtitles, are the only one who knows what is going on. The woman and the two men all speak different languages. It is a comedy of errors up until the end.

Actors : Ezra Miller, Helen Hunt, Carla Gugino, Liev Schreiber,
Directors : Richard Levine,

A comedy about a New York City couple (Schreiber and Hunt) in romantic and family crises.

Actors : Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church,
Directors : Karey Kirkpatrick,

A financial executive who can't stop his career downspiral is invited into his daughter's imaginary world, where solutions to his problems await.

Actors : Karl Urban, Willa O'Neill, Danielle Cormack, Michael Lawrence,
Directors : Harry Sinclair,

New Zealand milk farmer Rob gives his lover Lucinda a ring. Trying to spark up her relationship with Rob, she takes her friend Drosophila's advice and starts to try and make Rob angry. But ...

Actors : Giovanni Ribisi, Piper Perabo, James Marsden, Brad Renfro,
Directors : Bobby Moresco,

A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.

Actors : Kiko Mizuhara, Kengo Kôra, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Rinko Kikuchi,
Directors : Tran Anh Hung,

Toru recalls his life in the 1960s, when his friend Kizuki killed himself and he grew close to Naoko, Kizuki's girlfriend, and another woman, the outgoing, lively Midori.

Actors : Stuart Townsend, Courtney Love, Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron,
Directors : Luis Mandoki,

The Jennings' fight for their daughters life after she is kidnapped by an experienced gang of thieves.

Actors : Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Azita Rayeji, Shahram Vaziri,
Directors : Jafar Panahi,

An Iranian pizza delivery man sees the worst of corruption and social unbalance in his city and is driven to crime.

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

A cinematic triptych of three Tokyo-set stories.