Best Drama movies of 1996

Actors : Scott Wilson, Bonnie Bartlett, Michael Moriarty, Blake Heron,
Directors : Dale Rosenbloom,

Marty Preston, a small-town Southern boy, must rescue a young beagle from abusive owner and recluse Judd Travers.

Actors : Hetty Baynes, Sharon Angela, Richard Barboza, Charles Gerbel,

A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.

Actors : Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská,
Directors : Jan Svankmajer,

Six outwardly average individuals have elaborate fetishes they indulge with surreptitious care. A mousy letter carrier makes dough balls she grotesquely ingests before bed. A shop clerk ...

Actors : Okan Bayülgen, Savas Ay, Beatriz Rico, Ege Aydan,
Directors : Mustafa Altioklar,

The story takes us back to the 17th century Istanbul, and the powerful times of the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Murad IV. Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, Logari Celebi, Bekri Mustafa and...

Actors : Martin Donovan, Joely Richardson, Ian Hart, Sam Bould,
Directors : Angela Pope,

Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah and her new partner Frank. It is not long...

Actors : Aubert Pallascio, Ian D. Clark, Marcel Sabourin, Jason Cadieux,
Directors : John Greyson,

1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a québécois prison to hear the confession of a boyhood friend jailed for murder 40 years ago. The inmates force the prelate to watch a play depicting what ...

Actors : Anjan Srivastav, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Danny Denzongpa, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Rajkumar Santoshi,

Unable to witness the injustice and brutality inflict on the residents by a tyrannical gangster, Katya, in a small Indian village in India; Kashinath alias Kashi decides to single-handily ...

Actors : Ghalia Lacroix, Madeleine Assas, Vicky Messica, Bérangère Allaux,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

Jean-Luc Godard's densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anouk Grinberg, Mathieu Kassovitz,
Directors : Jacques Audiard,

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he ...

Actors : Tabu, Prabhu, Mohanlal, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses the sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.

Actors : Emilio Estevez, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Emilio Estevez,

Haunted by his experiences in the Vietnam War, a young man returns home and has trouble adjusting back to civilian life, his family and his stern father.

Actors : John Malkovich, Marianne Sägebrecht, Gottfried John, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against the grown-ups. Falsely suspected as child molester, he's recruited as a soldier in the 2nd World War, but very ...

Actors : Pooja Bhatt, Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah, Shah Rukh Khan,
Directors : Mahesh Bhatt,

Street-wise musician Roop Singh Rathod must take his father, Shambunath to Mumbai in order to seek medical treatment for a throat ailment. Once in Mumbai Roop takes up a job as a singer in ...

Actors : Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala, Salman Khan, Seema Biswas,
Directors : Sanjay Leela Bhansali,

Goa based Joseph Braganza and his wife Flavy, devout Catholics, are both deaf and mute. He makes a living selling soap bars door to door. Flavy gets pregnant and gives birth to a daughter ...

Actors : Paul Soter, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme,
Directors : Jay Chandrasekhar,

A student falls in love with a fellow student who is defending his buddies in university court. He "proves his love" (more like his masculinity) to her by playing rugby against her ex-boyfriend.

Actors : Gard B. Eidsvold, Anette Hoff, Ghita Nørby, Max von Sydow,
Directors : Jan Troell,

Norwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during WW2 and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.

Actors : Kevin Corrigan, Adam Trese, Lili Taylor, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : Nick Gomez,

Dante and his girlifrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a ...

Actors : Maria Bonnevie, Lena Endre, Pernilla August, Ulf Friberg,
Directors : Bille August,

The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. While Ingmar is away during the winter, a religious wave spreads in the area. Also Gertrud becomes a ...

Actors : Pete Postlethwaite, Emily Lloyd, Sean Bean, Craig Kelly,
Directors : Maria Giese,

Jimmy Muir is a hard-drinking brewery worker in the city of Sheffield, with an arrogant lack of respect for authority. His entire life has been orientated by football and he possesses the ...

Actors : Rajeshwari, Sonali Bendre, Saeed Jaffrey, Shah Rukh Khan,
Directors : Praveen Nischol,

Vikram Mayur, a wealthy Indian, born and raised in England, returns to his ancestral home in Mumbai, India to look up his late brother's eight-year-old son Nandu raised by his caring aunt ...