Best Drama movies of 1996

Actors : Rupert Graves, Matthew Walker, Laura Sadler, Julie Walters,
Directors : Philip Goodhew,

Harold Guppy moves into the Beasley household as a lodger. Before long Mrs. Beasley falls for him and eventually ends up in his bed. Her 13-year old daughter Joyce is aware of what is ...

Actors : Laurence Côte, Daniel Auteuil, Benoît Magimel, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : André Téchiné,

In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan's body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother...

Actors : Naim Thomas, Gonzalo Penche, Andy Garcia, Esai Morales,
Directors : Marcos Zurinaga,

A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.

Actors : Chandrachur Singh, Kanwaljit Singh, Tabu, Om Puri,
Directors : Gulzar,

A realistic, hard-hitting portrayal of terrorism and youth in the Punjab after the 1984 riots.

Actors : Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne, Catherine O'Hara,
Directors : David Keating,

It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in...

Actors : Amy Irving, Dennis Hopper, Amy Locane, Julie Harris,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

Joseph Svenden is a middle-aged school-teacher who lives on a farm with his dying mother. In his simple life there are no excitements, even in long-time relationship with a widow. However, ...

Actors : Peter Haber, David Tainton, Lina Englund, Martin Lindqvist,
Directors : Harald Hamrell,

John-John is young and black, growing up with his mother and stepfather in a boring suburb south of Stockholm. On one of the last days of the summer vacation, they rescue 10-year old ...

Actors : Blanca Apilánez, Ariadna Gil, Victoria Abril, Ana Belén,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the ...

Actors : Til Schweiger, Marie Bäumer, Detlev Buck, Leander Haußmann,
Directors : Detlev Buck,

Ein weiteres Highlight am deutschen Kinohimmel. Ein Förderprogramm bringt die beiden Knackis Gerd und Steinbock in die Obhut von Frauen. Dort sollen sie beweisen, dass sie in der Lage sind ...

Actors : Catherine Rich, Philippe Torreton, Samuel Le Bihan, Bernard Le Coq,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

The war exploits of French captain Conan and his men during World War I and during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Hopper, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen,
Directors : Peter Markle,

Small-time hood Frankie the Fly teams with a porn filmmaker and porno actress to try to make a killing by running a high-risk scam of the big boss.

Actors : Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Tabu, Sunny Deol,
Directors : Raj Kanwar,

Tells the story of a feared hit man named Karan, who kills for the mobster Gajraj. On one assignment, Karan meets and falls madly in love with Kajal, the beautiful daughter of an associate....

Actors : Toni Collette, Barry Otto, Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths,
Directors : Mark Joffe,

Lewis is a young Sydney amateur theater director at his first experience: he is offered a job with a Governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney ...

Actors : Khaldoun Elmecky, Margo Dames, Ingeborg Elzevier, Henri Garcin,
Directors : Alex van Warmerdam,

The Dress is a tale filled with sex, violence, comedy and drama as it follows the life of a dress. Conceived under a cloud of frustration and despair, the dress serves as the hub in a great...

Actors : Toshiyuki Nagashima, Miki Mizuno, Tamotsu Ishibashi, Mitsuru Fukikoshi,
Directors : Shûsuke Kaneko,

A meteor shower carries hostile insectoid creatures to Japan, where they rapidly reproduce.

Actors : Patricia Arquette, Matthew Broderick, Peter Riegert, Jeffrey Force,
Directors : Matthew Broderick,

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

Actors : Li Gong, Saifei He, Kevin Lin, Leslie Cheung,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older ...

Actors : Marie Theisen, Sylvia Salvesen, Bjørn Sundquist, Hildegun Riise,
Directors : Berit Nesheim,

The Other Side of Sunday, Also known in Norwegian as "Sndags Engler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight church community. We follow the Preachers Daughter; Maria in her ...

Actors : Hossein Abedini, Hassan Sadeghi, Mohammad Kasebi, Parivash Nazarieh,
Directors : Majid Majidi,

Mehrollah is a 14-year-old boy who is forced to find a job to support his family after his father dies. He travels to the southern parts of Iran, looking for work. Upon his return to his hometown, he notices certain changes in his family.