Best Drama movies of 1990s

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

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

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 : 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.

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

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

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Nick Nolte,
Directors : Barbra Streisand,

A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.

Actors : Bebe Neuwirth, Ben Foster, Adrien Brody, Joe Mantegna,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

Anti-Semitism, race relations, coming of age, and fathers and sons: in Baltimore from fall, 1954, to fall, 1955. Racial integration comes to the high school, TV is killing burlesque, and ...

Actors : Lane Smith, Heidi Kling, Emilio Estevez, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Stephen Herek,

A self-centered Minnesota lawyer is sentenced to community service coaching a rag tag youth hockey team.

Actors : Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet, Anne Yernaux, Émilie Dequenne,

Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.

Actors : Bruce McGill, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Jon Voight,
Directors : John Singleton,

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community.

Actors : Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

Luke McNamara, a college senior from a working class background joins a secret elitist college fraternity organization called "The Skulls", in hope of gaining acceptance into Harvard Law ...

Actors : Harold Perrineau, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut,
Directors : Malcolm D. Lee,

Harper's autobiographical novel is almost out, his girlfriend Robin desires commitment, and he's best man at the wedding of Lance, a pro athlete. He goes to New York early (Robin will come ...

Actors : Donal Logue, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines, John Harrington Bland,
Directors : Jenniphr Goodman,

Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.

Actors : Mandy Matthews, William Eadie, Michelle Stewart, Tommy Flanagan,
Directors : Lynne Ramsay,

Glasgow, summer, 1973. Dustmen are striking; bags of garbage add to the blight of council flats and a fetid canal. Ryan, who's about 12, drowns during a play fight with his neighbor, the ...

Actors : Dylan Baker, Jane Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jon Lovitz,
Directors : Todd Solondz,

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

Actors : Robert Redford, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Demi Moore,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife.

Actors : Sela Ward, Salma Hayek, Breckin Meyer, Ryan Phillippe,
Directors : Mark Christopher,

The famous 1970s New York City nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee.

Actors : Claire Forlani, Michael Wincott, Jeffrey Wright, Benicio Del Toro,
Directors : Julian Schnabel,

The troubled, brief life of Jean-Michel Basquiat, a world renowned artist struggling with drug addiction and his own identity.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Daniel Day-Lewis, Eric Schweig,
Directors : Michael Mann,

Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.