Best Drama movies of 2001

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 : Honey Lauren, Glyn Styler, Edge, Hans Lohl,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

Wishman's plot rotates around the maneuverings of a whore who longs for a touch of mink and a seat at the finer tables in life. Blackmail, betrayal, murder and malice are all part of her ...

Actors : Andrew Martin, Steve De Forest, Cynthia Downey, Richard Meese,
Directors : Rocky Costanzo,

A well respected child psychologist finds his life turned upside down when he is accused of sexually molesting a young boy under his care.

Actors : Max Beesley, Ciarán McMenamin, Emily Corrie, Tom Bell,
Directors : Stephen Norrington,

The clock is ticking towards The Last Minute, but no one knows it. No one except Billy Byrne - young, cool and talented, he's the Next Big Thing. At least that's what the London glitterazzi...

Actors : Courtney Love, Mischa Barton, Noah Emmerich, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Bob Gosse,

A woman attempts to realize the dreams she never knew she had.

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 : 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 : Mr. T, Jessica Steen, Leigh Lewis, Corbin Bernsen,
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 : Gheorghe Dinica, Radu Beligan, Ioana Ana Macaria, Coca Bloos,
Directors : Lucian Pintilie,

A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.

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 : Matthew Modine, Joey Lauren Adams, James Caan, 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 : 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 : 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 : Jennifer Esposito, Stephen Lang, William B. Davis, Nick Moran,
Directors : Richard Gale,

An undercover cop needs a female police officer to pretend to be his wife in order to get close to a ruthless crime boss. The boss's attraction to her entangles them in a complex and dangerous triangle.

Actors : William Touil, Pierre-Augustin Crenn, Nils Hugon, Raphaël Fuchs-Willig,
Directors : Olivier Dahan,

Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic ...

Actors : Sunil Shetty, Mahima Chaudhry, Saurabh Shukla, Paresh Rawal,
Directors : Priyadarshan,

In debt; Dayashankar Pandey is forced to go to Bombay to ask his tenants to vacate his house as it is his only means of acquiring money to pay off his loans. But the problem is these people...

Actors : Jordy Benattar, Hart Bochner, William Baldwin, Nastassja Kinski,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

An unfulfilled married woman becomes intrigued by an alluring suitor whose attention soon becomes obsessive.

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 : 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 : 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.