Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Kenya Sawada, Hongbo Jiang, Teruyuki Kagawa, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Wen Jiang,

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time...

Actors : Ólafía Hrönn Jónsdóttir, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson,
Directors : Baltasar Kormákur,

A murder opens up a bleak trail of long buried secrets and small town corruption for a worn out police detective and his squad.

Actors : Kevin McNally, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Irwin Winkler,

Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical, composer Cole Porter reviews his life and career with his wife, Linda.

Actors : Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Huai Dessom, Sirivech Jareonchon,
Directors : Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

A romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.

Actors : Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo, Julia Solomonoff,
Directors : Carlos Sorin,

Three people and a baby set off on separate journeys, along the same road; their disparate dreams and stories intertwine amidst the breathtaking deserted Patagonic route.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Helen Mirren, Gina Gershon, Sergio Peris-Mencheta,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A drama centered around a married couple who opened the first legal brothel in Nevada.

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.

Actors : George Lopez, Manolo Cardona, Piper Perabo, Drew Barrymore,
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 : Kostja Ullmann, Miriam Morgenstern, Jürgen Tonkel, Robert Stadlober,
Directors : Marco Kreuzpaintner,

A close friendship between two crew teammates is tested when one slowly discovers he's gay and attracted to the other.

Actors : Katia Zinbris, Ronit Elkabetz, Dana Ivgy, Meshar Cohen,
Directors : Keren Yedaya,

Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel...

Actors : Leo Minaya, Jessica Morales, Franky G, Manuel Cabral,
Directors : Eric Eason,

Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of the most vibrant, Spanish-speaking ...

Actors : Lucy Gordon, Laetitia Casta, Doug Jones, Eric Elmosnino,
Directors : Joann Sfar,

A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.

Actors : Jamey Sheridan, Steve Buscemi, Aidan Quinn, Mariann Mayberry,
Directors : Bette Gordon,

An ex-Navy man carrying out the last wish of a dying shipmate renews contact with old friends to break the code of silence around a mysterious, long-buried crime.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Maggie Cheung, Jeanne Balibar, Béatrice Dalle,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser...

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Patrice Leconte,

In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.

Actors : Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro,
Directors : Ferzan Ozpetek,

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for the Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her ...

Actors : Susi Sánchez, Efraín Solís, Bárbara Lazón, Magaly Solier,
Directors : Claudia Llosa,

Fausta is suffering from a rare disease called the Milk of Sorrow, which is transmitted through the breast milk of pregnant women who were abused or raped during or soon after pregnancy. ...

Actors : Noah Bernett, Ben Shenkman, Benz Antoine, Tom Cavanagh,
Directors : Laurie Lynd,

The hockey career of former Toronto Maple Leaf Eric McNally, who was known as a tough enforcer, came to an end with a shoulder injury. He is now a sportscaster. Except to his assistant Nula...

Actors : Kaori Momoi, Issei Ogata, Shirô Sano, Robert Dawson,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Molokh (1999) and Telets (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.

Actors : Martín Adjemián, Mercedes Morán, Graciela Borges, Leonora Balcarce,
Directors : Lucrecia Martel,

The life of two women and their families in a small provincial town of Salta, Argentina.