Best Drama movies of 2009

Actors : Elina Knihtilä, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Kati Outinen, Antti Reini,
Directors : Mika Kaurismäki,

A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a thirty-something professional couple - Juhani, a family ...

Actors : Hakan Karahan, Ertan Saban, Taner Birsel, Selçuk Yöntem,
Directors : Ümit Ünal,

A barber working in Istanbul longs to be 'both here and far, far away'. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber ...

Actors : Martín Rodríguez, Cecilia Cósero, Gerardo Begérez, Arturo Goetz,
Directors : Enrique Buchichio,

Leo, a young man coming to terms with his own sexuality, runs into Caro, a primary school friend he fancied when they were kids, who's now trying to ward off her own personal demons. This ...

Actors : Atul Kulkarni, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Manoj Bajpayee, Mugdha Godse,
Directors : Madhur Bhandarkar,

Remanded to policy custody, a man reviews his options in an overcrowded jail while awaiting trial.

Actors : Anastasis Kozdine, Titika Sarigouli, Yorgos Souxes, Antonis Kafetzopoulos,
Directors : Filippos Tsitos,

A Greek shopkeeper discovers something about his family's past when his mother embraces an Albanian worker.

Actors : Michael Kelly, Rip Torn, Jicky Schnee, Ana Asensio,

A young couple moves into an old schoolhouse on a desolate stretch of farm country. Hoping for a new beginning, their lives are instead drawn toward dark and unforeseen ends.

Actors : Radhika Apte, Kalyan Ray, Aparna Sen, Rahul Bose,
Directors : Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury,

A story about love, waiting, and loneliness.

Actors : Shriya Saran, Ashish Vidyarthi, Prabhu, Vikram,
Directors : Susi Ganesan,

A CBI officer moonlights as a modern day Robin Hood in the guise of the masked Kanthaswamy, as he helps fight corruption and aid impoverished people.

Actors : Patrick J. Adams, Bob Balaban, Simon Abkarian, Riz Ahmed,
Directors : Sally Potter,

A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone.

Actors : Santhanam, Jiiva, Anuya Bhagwat, Urvashi,
Directors : M. Rajesh,

The movie is about the Blossom of love, fun and lots more between the characters Siva and Sakthi. The 1st half shows the blossom of love in the mind of Siva while we find a new turn during the second half where Sakthi reciprocates it.

Actors : Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Shogen, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Tarô Yamamoto,
Directors : Tôya Satô,

Kaiji, a young gambler who is constantly in debt, enters a deadly gambling competition in order to wipe away his loans.

Actors : Romane Bohringer, Julie Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, Mélanie Doutey,
Directors : Maïwenn,

While shooting a documentary about all kinds of actresses, the director falls for one of them.

Actors : Mammootty, T. Damodaran, Sasi Kalinga, Suresh Krishna,
Directors : Renjith,

A private detective investigates a cold case , which is the first registered murder case in Kerala, after 50 years.

Actors : Tedo Bekhauri, Tamar Meskhi, Archil Tabukashvili, Temo Goginava,
Directors : George Ovashvili,

A young refugee and his mother flee war and ethnic cleansing in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, leaving his father behind. After arriving in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, the ...

Actors : Senay Orak, Muhammed Al, Hakan Karsak, Suzan Ilir,
Directors : Miraz Bezar,

Diyarbakir, in the late nineties: Two young Kurdish children are forced to live on the street after their parents have been murdered by a member of a secret state security force.

Actors : Ellen Woglom, Janel Parrish, Daryl Sabara, Kelly Blatz,
Directors : Andrew Robinson,

A look inside a tragedy through the eyes of a survivor. Based on actual events, April Showers is about picking up the pieces in the direct aftermath of school violence. Set in a middle ...

Actors : Fardeen Khan, Genelia D'Souza, Tusshar Kapoor, Govinda,
Directors : Rumi Jaffery,

Based in Cape Town, specializing in divorces, Jeet Oberoi warns his friends, Karan Malhotra and Bhavesh Patel, about the many disadvantages of being involved in a married relationship. He ...

Actors : Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Vladimir Khotinenko,

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.

Actors : Kristian Halken, Robert Hansen, Rasmus Bjerg, Laura Christensen,
Directors : Nikolaj Steen,

Now in his fifties, Vagn leads a solitary life and plays football with a group of similarly aged men, some even older. After being left behind at a petrol station by his teammates on their ...

Actors : Kôichi Satô, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Koyuki, Kaoru Kobayashi,
Directors : Yôichi Sai,

The adventurous story of a fugitive ninja.