Best Drama movies of 2001

Actors : Matthew Modine, James Caan, Joey Lauren Adams, Lillo Brancato,
Directors : Ric Roman Waugh,

A hit man, sent to kill a veteran Hollywood stuntman, falls in love with the target's daughter and decides to become a stunt-man himself.

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

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

Actors : Mr. T, Jessica Steen, Corbin Bernsen, Leigh Lewis,
Directors : André van Heerden,

Mitch Kendrick, a lawyer, is thrown in a faux trial to frame and convict a Christian in a world where followers of Jesus are persecuted and killed.

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 : Leonid Mozgovoy, Mariya Kuznetsova, Sergey Razhuk, Natalya Nikulenko,
Directors : Aleksandr Sokurov,

Joseph Stalin (Sergei Razhuk) visits ailing Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (Leonid Mozgovoy) in 1923.

Actors : Kaim Alizadeh, Rahmatollah Ebrahimi, Hossein Hashemian, Ahmad Mahdavi,
Directors : Abolfazl Jalili,

Acclaimed director Abolfazl Jalili offers a compassionate story of the young Afghan refugee who lives illegally in Iran. 14-year-old Kaim drifts to the Delbaran crossing on the Afghan-Iran ...

Actors : Nathaniel Parker, Kirsten Dunst, Julie Walters, Geraldine James,
Directors : Reverge Anselmo,

A younger boy falls in love with a tragic girl who flirts with, and manipulates, her older suitors in 1800's Russia.

Actors : Jake Busey, Adam Goldberg, Natasha Lyonne, Crispin Glover,
Directors : Salomé Breziner,

This road picture follows a dope fiend named Rick, who believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger, a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick is ...

Actors : Rachel Hayward, Tygh Runyan, Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff, Tom Berenger,
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 : Ricardo Darín, Gerardo Romano, Miguel Ángel Solá, Patricio Contreras,
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 : 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 : 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 : Sanna Hietala, Antti Ikkala, Jyri Ojansivu, Antti Mikkola,
Directors : Jarmo Lampela,

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck ...

Actors : Yûki Amami, Eugene Harada, Shiho Fujimura, Atsuro Watabe,
Directors : Masato Harada,

Akira, the young new schoolteacher in town falls for secretive Miki, an older woman who takes care of her family's urn that supposedly holds a forest wolf-spirit, inugami. People soon start disappearing and the town blames Akira.

Actors : Vladimir Mashkov, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brenda Bakke, Dennis Bendersky,
Directors : Sergei Bodrov,

A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.

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 : Karen McDougal, Lisa Dergan, Olga Sutulova, Yuliya Chicherina,
Directors : Timur Bekmambetov,

In an age of Gladiators, the power that was Rome held its empire together with the might of its armies, the sweat and tears of its conquests, and the cheers and bloodlust of its citizens - ...

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 : Lori Heuring, Barry Newman, Pamela Gidley, Tom Berenger,
Directors : J.S. Cardone,

Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a ...

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.