Best Drama movies of 1990s

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner,
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 : Salma Hayek, Breckin Meyer, Sela Ward, Ryan Phillippe,
Directors : Mark Christopher,

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

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 : William Eadie, Michelle Stewart, Mandy Matthews, 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 : Olivier Gourmet, Anne Yernaux, Fabrizio Rongione, Émilie Dequenne,

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

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.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Angus Macfadyen, Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Mel Gibson,

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.

Actors : Ruth Nelson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Actors : Jean Reno, Timothy Hutton, Kevin Kline, Meg Ryan,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

A woman flies to France to confront her straying fiancé, but gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.

Actors : Denzel Washington, Deborah Kara Unger, Vicellous Shannon, Liev Schreiber,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Actors : Bebe Neuwirth, Gregg Edelman, Andie MacDowell, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A man wanting to stay in the US enters into a marriage of convenience, but it turns into more than that.

Actors : Charlotte Rampling, Linus Roache, Helena Bonham Carter, Alex Jennings,
Directors : Iain Softley,

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

Actors : Khalil Kain, Tupac Shakur, Omar Epps, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins,
Directors : Ernest R. Dickerson,

Four inner-city teenagers get caught up in the pursuit of power and happiness, which they refer to as "the juice".

Actors : Andie MacDowell, Bob Hoskins, William Hurt, John Travolta,
Directors : Nora Ephron,

Two tabloid reporters checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman find that it's true. But that's not the only surprise.

Actors : Evan Adams, Gary Farmer, Irene Bedard, Adam Beach,
Directors : Chris Eyre,

Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by...

Actors : Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Actors : Nick Stahl, Fay Masterson, Mel Gibson, Margaret Whitton,
Directors : Mel Gibson,

Chuck wants to leave home, but can't make the grade for boarding school. Then he finds out the disfigured recluse living nearby, is an ex-teacher.

Actors : Halina Gryglaszewska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Irène Jacob, Kalina Jedrusik,
Directors : Krzysztof Kieslowski,

Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected.

Actors : Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

An imprisoned IRA fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Jennifer Connelly, Omar Epps, Michael Rapaport,
Directors : John Singleton,

People from all different walks of life, encounter racial tension, rape, responsibility, and the meaning of an education on a university campus.