Best Drama movies of 2001

Actors : Taisaku Akino, Mickey Curtis, Yoshiyuki Daichi, Ken'ichi Endô,
Directors : Takashi Miike,

A fearless Yakuza captain's loyalty is tested as two ambitious underbosses attempt a takeover of both his clan and a rival Yakuza gang.

Actors : Martti Suosalo, Ilkka Koivula, Vexi Salmi, Riitta Salminen,
Directors : Timo Koivusalo,

The life of Irwin Goodman, a Finnish singer.

Actors : Luis Fernando Peña, Maya Zapata, Armando Hernández, Mario Zaragoza,
Directors : Gerardo Tort,

Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.

Actors : Jenna Harrison, Honeysuckle Weeks, Michael Erskine, Ben Whishaw,
Directors : Dom Rotheroe,

A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused ...

Actors : Juni, Rahul Roy, Ranjeet, Ashish Kaul,
Directors : J. Om Prakash,

A devout but a very naive Muslim youth Banne (Ashish Kaul) leaves his home-land to go to the City to live with Shakeel (vikas Anand), and his beautiful daughter Sabha (Juni). He expects to ...

Actors : Mirko Lang, Jana Pallaske, Robert Stadlober, Lena Sabine Berg,
Directors : Vanessa Jopp,

A love story about a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Mervat Amin, Muna Zaki, Mokhles El Behiry,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

The private and public life of Egyptian president Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat.

Actors : Rinke Khanna, Tusshar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Satish Kaushik,

Karan, a small time musician, tries to win over a girl named Pooja.

Actors : Darris Love, Darontay McClendon, Don Cambell, Six Reasons,
Directors : Adam Ripp,

When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.

Actors : Jennifer Esposito, Alyson Hannigan, Steve Harris, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Gigi Gaston,

Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist.

Actors : Eleni Kastani, Akilas Karazisis, Amalia Moutoussi, Emilios Chilakis,
Directors : Constantine Giannaris,

Three couples flee Athens for the summer, and their journeys change their lives forever.

Actors : Benoît Poelvoorde, Etienne Chicot, Yvon Back, Michel Duchaussoy,
Directors : Christian Merret-Palmair,

A young man joins a team of experimented door-to-door salesmen, who teach him how to sell an expensive encyclopedia to modest homes that have no use for it.

Actors : Lisa Ray, Apoorva Agnihotri, Divya Dutta, Sucheta Paushe,
Directors : Vikram Bhatt,

Shekar Saxena is arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Priti Saxena. Shekar strongly contends that he is innocent, and that the murder was committed by someone else. His lawyer,...

Actors : Stepan Nercessian, Reginaldo Faria, Marcos Caruso, Petronio Gontijo,
Directors : André Klotzel,

Free adaptation of Machado de Assis's classic. The narrator is a rich dead man, who tells us about his life and times, making fun of both.

Actors : Meher Afroz Shaon, Mahfuz Ahmed, Riaz, Masud Ali Khan,
Directors : Humayun Ahmed,

The story is centered around a middle class family and their middle class daily life issues, with one exception of inclusion of a mysterious man (Raiz) who does not know where he has come ...

Actors : Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Patricio Contreras, Miguel Ángel Solá,
Directors : Eduardo Mignogna,

In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - ...

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Marcus Thomas, Pete Postlethwaite, Daryl Hannah,
Directors : Xavier Koller,

Two brothers, One is a bull rider, the other a rodeo bullfighter/stock contractor, clash over the love of barrel racer Celia Jones, while each comes into their own in their respective field in the rodeo world.

Actors : Cillian Murphy, Colm Meaney, Kerry Condon, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

This drama is set in rural Ireland. Believing that "a man is measured by his enemies", Harry Maloney ('Colm Meany') sets out to ruin George O'Flaherty - the most powerful man in town, who ...

Actors : Rachel Hayward, Tygh Runyan, Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff,
Directors : George Mihalka,

A brother and sister move to a sleepy Oregon town and are befriended by a stranger with a magnetic personality on a summer sabbatical.

Actors : Sylvie Drapeau, Luc Picard, Frédéric Gilles, Pierre Rivard,
Directors : Pierre Falardeau,

French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.