Best Drama movies of 2002

Actors : Anupam Kher, Keira Knightley, Parminder Nagra, Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Directors : Gurinder Chadha,

The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism and joins a football team.

Actors : Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Brett Ratner,

A retired F.B.I. Agent with psychological gifts, is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him, is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.

Actors : Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Sergi López,
Directors : Stephen Frears,

An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Kim Staunton, Ben Affleck,
Directors : Roger Michell,

The story of what happens one day in New York City, when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive, and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott,
Directors : Randall Wallace,

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.

Actors : Deborah Rush, Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mike White,
Directors : Miguel Arteta,

A discount store clerk strikes up an affair with a stock boy who considers himself the incarnation of Holden Caulfield.

Actors : Nicholas Farrell, Tim Pigott-Smith, Allan Gildea, James Nesbitt,
Directors : Paul Greengrass,

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Actors : Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan, Diane Lane, Richard Gere,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

A New York suburban couple's marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling.

Actors : Steve Coogan, Lennie James, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

Actors : Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride, Dan Leis,
Directors : Joe Carnahan,

When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.

Actors : Jeremy Davies, James Spader, Lesley Ann Warren, Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Directors : Steven Shainberg,

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

Actors : Salma Hayek, Geoffrey Rush, Alfred Molina, Mía Maestro,
Directors : Julie Taymor,

A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Actors : Nia Vardalos, Michael Constantine, Christina Eleusiniotis, John Corbett,
Directors : Joel Zwick,

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

Actors : Jay Hernandez, J.D. Evermore, Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths,
Directors : John Lee Hancock,

A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Burr Steers,

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Anjelica Huston, Jeff Daniels, Wanda De Jesus,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

Actors : Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Pavel Ponomaryov, Lyubov Agapova,
Directors : Lukas Moodysson,

Sixteen-year-old Lilja and her only friend, the young boy Volodja, live in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej, who is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.

Actors : Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Malcolm David Kelley, Denzel Washington,
Directors : Denzel Washington,

Antwone Fisher, a young navy man, is forced to see a psychiatrist after a violent outburst against a fellow crewman. During the course of treatment a painful past is revealed and a new hope begins.

Actors : Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Nicolas Cage, Noah Emmerich,
Directors : John Woo,

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher.

Actors : Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Anthony Anderson, Eve,
Directors : Tim Story,

A day in the life of a South Side Chicago barbershop.