Best Drama movies of 2000s

Actors : Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck, Raquel Castro, Betty Aberlin,
Directors : Kevin Smith,

After his career is sidelined by an unexpected tragedy and a personal blow-up, a single man must take care of his precocious daughter.

Actors : Daniel Craig, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock,
Directors : Douglas McGrath,

While researching his novel 'In Cold Blood', writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.

Actors : Albert Finney, Marion Cotillard, Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A British investment broker inherits his uncle's chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold.

Actors : Channing Tatum, Richard Jenkins, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.

Actors : Hope Davis, Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Mika Boorem,
Directors : Scott Hicks,

A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.

Actors : Halle Berry, Alison Lohman, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny,
Directors : Susanne Bier,

A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

Actors : Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine,
Directors : Tim McCanlies,

A coming-of-age story about a shy, young boy sent by his irresponsible mother to spend the summer with his wealthy, eccentric uncles in Texas.

Actors : Chutcha Rujinanon, Jinda Duangtoy, Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou,

A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realized she could even see ghosts.

Actors : Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Jon Abrahams, Bryan Greenberg,
Directors : Ben Younger,

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.

Actors : Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright, Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Peter Kosminsky,

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

Actors : Asia Argento, Lukas Haas, Scott Patrick Green, Michael Pitt,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent to those of Kurt Cobain.

Actors : Norah Jones, Chad R. Davis, Jude Law, Natalie Portman,
Directors : Kar-Wai Wong,

A young lonely woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way.

Actors : Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson, Richard Griffiths,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Robert Redford,

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.

Actors : Ed Harris, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Robert Benton,

When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.

Actors : Jude Law, Renée Taylor, Susan Sarandon, Sienna Miller,
Directors : Charles Shyer,

A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.

Actors : Sandra Oh, Raoul Bova, Diane Lane, Lindsay Duncan,
Directors : Audrey Wells,

A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.

Actors : Derek Luke, Tia Texada, William H. Macy, Val Kilmer,
Directors : David Mamet,

The investigation into a kidnapping of the daughter of a high-ranking US government official.

Actors : Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Tom Waits, Shannyn Sossamon,
Directors : Goran Dukic,

A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.

Actors : Julianna Margulies, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Steven Strait,
Directors : Raymond De Felitta,

The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought ...