Best Drama movies of 1990s

Actors : Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Actors : Damon Wayans, Michael Rapaport, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith,
Directors : Spike Lee,

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.

Actors : Chris Rock, Allen Payne, Wesley Snipes, Ice-T,
Directors : Mario Van Peebles,

A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.

Actors : Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Janusz Gajos,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.

Actors : Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson,
Directors : Ang Lee,

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.

Actors : Magda Szubanski, Miriam Margolyes, James Cromwell, Christine Cavanaugh,
Directors : Chris Noonan,

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.

Actors : Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, George Clooney,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A career bank robber breaks out of jail, and shares a moment of mutual attraction with a U.S. Marshal he has kidnapped.

Actors : Monica Potter, Daniel London, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Williams,
Directors : Tom Shadyac,

The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.

Actors : Mark Joy, Christina Ricci, Edward Furlong, Bess Armstrong,
Directors : John Waters,

A talented young photographer, who enjoys snapping photos of his satirical, perverted Baltimore neighborhood and his wacky family, gets dragged into a world of pretentious artists from New York City and finds newfound fame.

Actors : Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black, John Cusack,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

Actors : Jeanne Tripplehorn, Stellan Skarsgård, Salma Hayek, Xander Berkeley,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Four frames of simultaneous action that alternately follow a smitten lesbian lover as she obsesses over her partner's dalliances and the tense goings-on of a Hollywood film production company.

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Juliette Lewis, Brad Pitt, Kathy Larson, David Milford,
Directors : Dominic Sena,

A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

Actors : Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.

Actors : Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford, Tom Wood,
Directors : Victor Nunez,

A reclusive beekeeper slowly pulls his dysfunctional family back together, but not without having to fight his son's previous dastardly cohorts.

Actors : Elias Koteas, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn,
Directors : Terrence Malick,

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

Actors : Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Henning Moritzen,
Directors : Thomas Vinterberg,

At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Actors : Nastassja Kinski, Amy Brenneman, Ben Stiller, Aaron Eckhart,
Directors : Neil LaBute,

Unhappy couples fall apart and hop into other beds with other people.

Actors : Ric Young, Yun-Fat Chow, Paul Ben-Victor, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : James Foley,

With the aid from a New York City policeman, a top immigrant cop tries to stop drug-trafficking and corruption by immigrant Chinese Triads, but things get complicated when the Triads try to bribe the policeman.

Actors : Billy Crudup, Robert Michael Kelly, Torben Brooks, Dierdre Lewis,
Directors : Alison Maclean,

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.