Best Drama movies of 2008

Actors : Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara II, Diego Cataño,
Directors : Fernando Eimbcke,

A story of a teenager and the strange events that take place in his small town.

Actors : Claudia Cantero, César Bordón, Inés Efron, María Onetto,
Directors : Lucrecia Martel,

After running into something with her car, Vero experiences a particular psychological state. She realizes she might have killed someone.

Actors : Villmar Björkman, Linnea Cart-Lamy, Leif Edlund, Sara Eriksson,
Directors : Ruben Östlund,

In several unrelated stories, the consequences of putting ones foot down - or failing to do so - are explored.

Actors : Jamie Starr, Lukas Haas, Kim Basinger, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : Susan Montford,

Della Myers is an overwhelmed upper-middle-class housewife who lives in a large house in the suburbs with her twin children and her abusive husband, Kenneth. Kenneth lets Della know that he...

Actors : Anupam Kher, Jesse Metcalfe, Austin Basis, Sara Foster,
Directors : James Dodson,

An employee at an Indian call-center travels to San Francisco to be with a guy she falls for over the phone.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Holly Weston, Vicky McClure, Eugene Hutz,
Directors : Madonna,

A comedy centered on three flatmates living desperate lives in London.

Actors : Robin Tunney, Adam Scott, Naomie Harris, Josh Hartnett,
Directors : Austin Chick,

August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Actors : Elle Fanning, Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson, Bill Pullman,
Directors : Daniel Barnz,

Confounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a troubled young girl seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher.

Actors : Georgia Groome, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Karen Taylor, Alan Davies,
Directors : Gurinder Chadha,

The story centers on a 14-year-old girl who keeps a diary about the ups and downs of being a teenager, including the things she learns about kissing.

Actors : Marina Cacciotti, Maria Calì, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Valeria De Franciscis,
Directors : Gianni Di Gregorio,

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which they are sinking, are the increasingly...

Actors : Peter Bogdanovich, Jeremy Strong, Vicky Monroe, Fairuza Balk,

A disillusioned medical student is stranded for a summer in a remote community of counterculture pot farmers, the last place in the world he imagined he would discover himself.

Actors : Jiah Khan, Tinnu Anand, Aamir Khan, Asin,
Directors : A.R. Murugadoss,

A short-term memory loss patient sets out on his journey to avenge the death of his beloved girl.

Actors : Adam Scott, Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Landau,
Directors : Nicholas Fackler,

A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.

Actors : Elmar Wepper, Aya Irizuki, Maximilian Brückner, Hannelore Elsner,
Directors : Doris Dörrie,

After Rudi's wife Trudi suddenly dies, he travels to Japan to fulfill her dream of being a Butoh dancer.

Actors : Christophe Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Joseph Duo, Dagbeth Tweh,
Directors : Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire,

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an African country.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Adam Herschman, Sharon Leal, Bernie Mac,
Directors : Malcolm D. Lee,

Though it's been some twenty years since they have spoken with one another, two estranged soul-singing legends agree to participate in a reunion performance at the Apollo Theater to honor their recently deceased band leader.

Actors : Aidan Gould, Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo,
Directors : Erick Zonca,

A woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait.

Actors : Oksana Akinshina, Anton Shagin, Max Matveev, Eugenia Khirivskaya,
Directors : Valeriy Todorovskiy,

Young people struggle to do things their way in the 1950s.

Actors : Ken Bevel, Kirk Cameron, Stephen Dervan, Erin Bethea,
Directors : Alex Kendrick,

In an attempt to save his marriage, a firefighter uses a 40-day experiment known as "The Love Dare".

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, Madeleine Budd, Isabelle Huppert, Adélaïde Leroux,
Directors : Ursula Meier,

Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.