Best Drama movies of 2001

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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Lauri Nurkse, Tommi Mujunen, Elena Leeve, Tarja Heinula,
Directors : Simo Halinen,

C (Lauri Nurkse) and Eetu (Tommi Mujunen) are the best friends. They work together as bike couriers in the center of Helsinki, and training tightly every night to reach success of bicycle ...

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 ...